Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

 Chapter 119 Drinking Party

 For Link, the biggest reward from defeating Tyson is not getting a large prize money, but the experience of competing against a heavyweight boxer.

 After competing with Tyson, he also knows what his strengths and weaknesses are compared with heavyweight boxers, and he will be more confident when encountering higher-weight opponents in the future.

 In addition, Tyson is a legendary boxer and the spokesperson of the boxing field. It is every boxer's wish to compete on the same stage with him.

Link also thought about fighting Tyson in the past, but Tyson was already over 50 years old when he debuted, and the two were at different levels.

Now I have the opportunity to fight Tyson and beat him while he is still fighting. It feels very good.

 “Link, what are you doing here?”

 In the hotel lobby, Ivaca walked through the crowd wearing a burgundy off-the-shoulder dress.

She has long golden hair, fair skin glowing with cold light, and a string of colored gemstone necklaces hanging from her slender swan neck. Below are two full curves. Although she is perfectly wrapped by the chest, the exposed outline will make people unbearable. Stay and take a few more looks.

The hem of the skirt is slit higher than the knees, revealing her slender and straight legs when walking. They are close to 1.1 meters by visual inspection. They are on par with Taylor. The difference is that Taylor's is fairer and slender, while Evaka's is rounder and looks more beautiful. Flexible.

Link looked at it with admiration, then turned his attention to Ivaca's exquisite makeup.

 “I just had a few drinks and came here to listen to music.”

 “Stop here, you’re the life of the party and a lot of people want to talk to you.”

Ivaca pointed to the lively crowd next to her and said.

Link was a little helpless.

After the boxing match, Mr. Thompson held a grand celebration party in the hotel, inviting hundreds of distinguished guests to attend. On the surface, it looked like he was celebrating his victory, but in fact, it was more like an investment promotion meeting for the Thompson Group.

Link had no interest in this kind of party. After dealing with a few people, he went to the piano stand alone to watch the band perform.

 “If you don’t wait any longer, your father seems to be delivering an important speech.”

Link looked at Mr. Thompson who was talking loudly in the crowd and smiled.

 “Leave him alone, by the time he’s finished, the party will be over.”

Ivaca said helplessly.

Link smiled lightly and agreed with Ivaca's words. Mr. Thompson is a social terrorist. As long as he is given an audience, he can talk all day and all night.

Ivaca brushed her blond hair around her ears and said as she walked: "Link, you are now a socialite, a multi-millionaire, and a member of the upper class. You should learn the communication methods here, such as when attending parties, try your best to Maybe get to know more people around you and get their business cards.

 Because most of the people who are qualified to come here have a distinguished status and hold some resources. If you get to know these people, you will have the opportunity to get their help when necessary in the future. This is a network. "

Link nodded. He understood what Iwaka meant and the importance of connections.

 It’s just that he has his own channels for making money, so he doesn’t value these connections very much, and he doesn’t want to disguise himself and look like a member of the upper class.

“Eva, we are partners. I am responsible for music creation and you are responsible for social management. How about it?”

“But you can’t stand here either, it will look very cold and no one will dare to come up and talk to you.”

Regardless of whether he wanted to or not, Ivaca took his arm and walked into the crowd, realizing that she had introduced a lot of acquaintances to him.

There are New Jersey congressmen, New Jersey real estate tycoons, Atlantic City casino owners, Atlantic Records presidents, Fox TV executives, etc. They are either billionaires, political figures, or executives of Fortune 500 groups.

  —

At first, Link thought that Ivaca brought him here to help him expand his network of contacts, until he saw several sons and grandsons of tycoons, looking at him with hostility. He suddenly understood that he seemed to be a shield.

 “Remember to treat me to dinner another day.”

 In the middle of the crowd, Link lowered his head and said to Ivaca.

"Why?"

Ivaca kept her smile unchanged and asked in a voice that only two people could hear.

Link glanced around and said with a smile: "Look at their eyes. If eyes could kill, I would already be riddled with holes."

Ivaca noticed his gaze, looked at the corner of her lips and said: "You are a boxing champion, why are you afraid of men like these gays?"

"Of course I'm not afraid, that's why I want you to treat me to dinner, instead of running away without you."

Link suddenly reached out and put his arm around Ivaca's waist. His palm accidentally slipped down a little and landed in a more dangerous place.

The eyes of those people suddenly became sharper, and the looks they looked at him became more and more unkind.

Ivaca's body tensed up for a moment, then became soft again. She pursed her lips and said, "Don't go too far. If they want to beat you, I will never help."

 “Wouldn’t this help you more?”

 “You are acting like a hooligan.”

Ivaca pinched the flesh on his waist, looking for a piece of fat, but couldn't find it, so she had to pinch his skin and asked coldly, "How does it feel?"

Link took back his palm and praised: "First class!"

"snort!"

Ivaca pinched him hard before letting go and looking at a few middle-aged women chatting in the crowd.

"The woman in the pink suit in front is Murdoch's wife. Don't you know Chinese? Go talk to her. Maybe she will like you. Next to her is a member of the board of directors of Hearst Newspaper Group. She’s a widow, so you can try her hand.”

 “No chance, your father is here.”

Link looked into the crowd and saw Mr. Thompson, with a dark face and strange steps, walking toward the two of them. His blond hair was flowing, like an old but ambitious lion.

 “He’s so annoying.”

 Eva Casson released Link and took the initiative to greet him.

 The father and daughter walked aside and communicated quietly, seemingly unhappy. Link had no intention of getting involved in the other party's family dispute. When he saw Director Woody Allen coming, he took the initiative to greet him.

  —

 “Hey, Link, are you dating Miss Tomp?”

 Director Woody Allen came over and asked.

He is accompanied by director Martin Scorsese.

Director Martin is also a famous Hollywood director, with representative works such as "Taxi Driver", "The King of Comedy", "Cape Fear", "The Departed", "The Aviator", "Gangs of New York" and so on.

  He has won the Best Director Award at three major European film festivals, the American Film and Television Golden Globe Award, and the Oscar for Best Director Award. He is almost a Grand Slam director.

Different from the casual dressing style of director Woody Allen, he wears a straight suit and tie, with a full head of black hair and thick and dark eyebrows. He does not look like a man in his sixties.

Link said hello to the two directors, "Don't get me wrong, Miss Thompson and I are partners, and we founded a record company."

“Is that so? Everyone at the party was talking about when you will get married? They are all very envious of you.” Director Woody Allen winked and joked.

“Haha, I’m going to disappoint everyone, we don’t have that kind of relationship.”

Link said while holding up his wine glass.

“Link, Director Allen said you are interested in acting?” Director Scorsese said.

 “Haha, this guy said he wants to be an Oscar winner.”

Director Woody Allen laughed so much that he coughed several times.

 Director Scorsese also looked at him with surprise. A boxing champion wants to become an actor? This is an attempt to scorn professional actors across industries, unless they have god-level acting skills.

Link shrugged and said with a smile: "I like to do challenging things, such as boxing, singing, and acting. If I can become a professional actor, then an Oscar is my goal."

 “It’s a good thing for young people to have goals.”

Director Scorsese smiled and exchanged contact information with him.

The two directors were older, so they left early after chatting for a while and went back to the hotel to rest.

Link saw them off and returned to the party, where he met Holyfield, De La Hoya, and Larry Holmes who came up to say hello.

Holyfield is a main event boxer and the two have met in the ring.

 Larry Holmes is a New Yorker. After retiring, he was hired by major events to become a part-time boxing coach. Link also chatted with him several times.

 Only De La Hoya is meeting him for the first time.

This man is 35 years old, short, light-skinned, Latino, and handsome. He has won six levels of world championship titles. He is currently one of the boxers with the highest appearance fees in the boxing world. He is known as the 'Golden Boy' in the boxing world. .

He is not only a boxer, but also an entrepreneur. He owns a Golden Boy promotion company, a casual clothing company, a real estate company, a Spanish-language boxing channel on HBO cable TV, and the distribution rights of four major boxing magazines.

 With a net worth of hundreds of millions, he can be regarded as a successful example of a boxer.

"Link, are you interested in coming to Golden Boy Promotion? I heard that you made a condition with Franco before. If you want 100 million U.S. dollars, I will give you 50 million, as well as Golden Boy Promotion shares worth no less than 50 million. How about it?"

De La Hoya was wearing a suit and tie, with his hair slicked back, looking like a successful man.

Link was a little surprised that the other party would dig him out at this time. He thought about it for a moment, but still refused.

Golden Boy Promotions was founded in 2004 and is mainly responsible for De La Hoya’s boxing events. It has also signed several boxers in the past two years and is developing well. In the future, it will also sign boxing champions such as Alvarez and Golovkin. Become one of the top five promotion companies in the boxing industry.

If it was before Dynasty Promotion, he would consider joining Golden Boy Promotion, but now that he is the world boxing champion, Dynasty Promotion's treatment is also good, and after becoming the boss, De La Hoya has also become a capitalist and has arrears of boxers' share. case.

  He doesn’t believe De La Hoya will offer a better revenue share for the fight than Dynasty Promotions.

"Link, can I give you 70% of the competition revenue?" De La Hoya further said.

“90% I can think about it.” Link smiled.

 Hoya thought for a moment and shook his head. With a 9:1 share, the promotion company made no profit at all.

“Link, let’s have a fight if we have a chance to see which one of us has better skills.”

"you sure?"

De La Hoya was pretty good when he was young. He once won an Olympic gold medal, a Golden Gloves Championship, and a U.S. National Boxing Championship. His amateur record was 223 wins and 5 losses. In terms of amateur results, few people in the boxing world can match him.

After changing his career in 1992, he successively won the world boxing titles in six levels: flyweight, lightweight, super lightweight, welterweight, super welterweight and middleweight. Austria's idol.

However, after being promoted to the super welterweight and middleweight classes in recent years, his strength has declined a lot, and he has lost to Bernard Hopkins, Mayweather, and Pacquiao.

 Fighting against him, Link doesn't think the opponent has much chance of winning.

“I think the income from our competition will be considerable.”

Hoya smiled meaningfully.

Link thought for a moment and somewhat understood what the other party was thinking.

After losing to Pacquiao, there were rumors that De La Hoya was preparing to retire. However, he is currently one of the boxers with the highest appearance fees in the boxing world, so it is not cost-effective to retire directly.

The opponent probably wants to make another fortune before retiring. Based on their skin color, appearance, skills, and fame, if done properly, this match will not receive less attention than De La Hoya vs. Pacquiao.

 The competition prize money may exceed 100 million US dollars.

Thinking of this, Link thought it would be a good idea to play an exhibition match with the opponent.

 (End of this chapter)