Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 12 The game begins

 After deciding to participate in the Golden Gloves Championship, Link devoted more time to training.

 The Golden Gloves Championship is a good publicity platform. During the competition, major boxing promotion companies will also focus on the competition and select potential newcomers for training, similar to a talent show and beauty pageant.

Link not only wants to get good results in the competition, but also wants to show his strong potential and let several major promotion companies wave checks to him for cooperation.

 The better his performance, the more signing bonus he will get, and he wants to give it a try.

During the training period, the Miami International Beach Music Festival was held at the Hard Rock Stadium. During the five days before and after the music festival, country music singers from the United States, Canada, and European countries performed at the music festival.

According to the "Miami Herald" report, a total of 214 singers signed up for this year's Beach Music Festival, attracting a total of 1.241 million visitors, making the scene very lively.

 After training every day, Link would go to several branch venues to listen to live performances by singers and watch them play guitar.

 Sometimes I would meet Taylor, but she was too busy with performances, and Mrs. Andrea intentionally or unintentionally isolated the two of them, so the two met very rarely during the music festival.

　　When they were walking on the road together a few days ago, he thought the two were in love. After not seeing each other for a few days, the two seemed to have returned to being ordinary friends.

After James heard about it, he laughed three times and said that he had expected it and that the two of them were not the same people at all.

Link couldn't care less about being depressed. The Golden Gloves Championship was about to begin. If he wanted to gain a foothold in the American boxing world full of talents, he must show enough eye-catching strength.

 Bang, bang, bang!

Link clenched his fists and hit the rubber boxing target hard. He only wore hand bandages on his hands. After practicing for two hours, his T-shirt was soaked with sweat and clung to his strong back, with clearly defined blocks.

After training in the boxing gym for more than ten days, the muscles on his body became stronger and stronger. His pectoralis major, scapular muscles, biceps, and abdominal muscles were all bulging and had clear lines, as if they were made of iron.

Mario often advised him to eat more meat, keep more fat, and have a thicker waist. A boxer is not a bodybuilder, and a good figure is of no use. The opponent of a boxer is a man, not a woman.

Link naturally wouldn’t listen to him.

 This is the Internet age. A boxer with a handsome appearance, a strong and **** body can definitely attract more attention and traffic, and can also earn more tickets, ratings and competition bonuses.

 So for boxers, handsome appearance and strong body are also a kind of soft power.

 “Link, take a rest, we will die from exhaustion if we continue.”

 Mario sat on the ground, panting heavily and sweating all over the floor.

“Yeah, Link, the competition is about to start, don’t try too hard, be careful of getting hurt.”

Reggie was also wiping sweat, his arms resting on the ground and shaking.

“You guys take a rest and practice for a while.”

Link continued punching.

"Link, you can't be like this. You are so powerful and you are still training hard. How can we rest? If West sees it, he will call us slackers at the top of his lungs."

 Mario said with a grimace.

Reggie nodded wildly.

When Link didn't come, everyone trained for three or four hours a day, which was enough. After each training, everyone went to the bar to pick up girls and go to the beach to play in the water. Every day was fulfilling and satisfying.

 The atmosphere in the museum is also very harmonious.

 After Link joined the boxing gym, the atmosphere of the boxing gym completely changed.

 Link trains for more than six hours a day, which is more than double the amount of training everyone does. Everyone sees that Link, who weighs 1,400 pounds, is still training hard. Who can rest peacefully?

Now everyone trains with Link every day. He practices for six hours, and everyone practices for six hours. If you practice for an hour less, you will feel panicked and feel degraded.

But practicing for six hours a day is too intense. When I get home after training every day, my back is sore and my legs are cramped. I don’t want to do anything else except sleep, and I don’t even have the energy to pick up girls.

This life is too hard.

 Mario gritted his teeth and persisted for a week, feeling that life would be worse than death.

 But he couldn't stop.

Link A man with the appearance of a boxing champion is training hard. He is so much worse than him but he is lying on the ground to rest. How is that any different from surrendering?

 Mario now faces a dilemma, persist? He couldn't hold on and his body couldn't bear it; give up? He was unwilling to give in and his soul was restless.

With body on one side and soul on the other, he didn’t know what to do. He could only find a way to solve the problem to the person who caused the problem, that is, Link.

“Hey, Link, if you want to pick up girls, how about I introduce you to some hot girls, I guarantee you a hot body.”

Mario bared his white teeth and smiled evilly. Reggie the Golden Retriever also nodded in agreement, "Link, it's true. Although Mario looks scary, he is very good at playing. He has the contact information of many hot girls on his phone. What kind of girl do you like?" There are people with white skin, dark skin, and red skin. If you name them, he can find them.”

 “What do you mean I look scary? We Mexicans all look like this.”

Mario raised his big nose and said dissatisfiedly with a fierce face.

 “Ahem!”

 West came over and glared at the two of them, "You two can go stay outside if you don't want to train. You can go shopping or clubbing. Don't disturb Link's training here."

Mario and Reggie looked at each other, curled their lips, and continued to punch despite the pain. It wasn't that they didn't want to go shopping, but considering that Link was still training, shopping was meaningless.

“Link, there is a competition tomorrow, so I will train for two less hours today and pay more attention to rest.”

West said in a gentle voice.

He is very satisfied with Link. Link is not only talented, smart, and down-to-earth, but also very diligent. After he came, the boxers and apprentices in the boxing gym did not need to be supervised and would train on their own. These days were the easiest time for him since he started working in the industry. period of time.

 “Okay, I’ll pay attention.”

Link nodded.

 After West left, Link continued training.

 “Hey, Link, you just said you wanted to rest, why are you still training?”

 Mario said angrily, clenching his fists.

 “I’m not tired, why should I rest?”

Link looked at him strangely. Compared with pushing carts in the mines and working hard in underground casinos, the training now is not too easy.

 He ​​felt his strength and speed quietly increasing every day during training. It felt so fulfilling that he couldn't stop at all.

　　Bang bang! Link continued training.

 Mario is going crazy.

Is this guy a human?

“Mario, stop talking, as long as you can’t die by practicing, practice until you die.”

Reggie roared, clenched his fists, and fired frantically at the sandbag.

 Mario sighed softly and could only endure the pain and continued to hit the stiff target with his fists.

 What is the end of this day?

On June 3, the regional competition of the Golden Gloves Championship opened. This year, a total of 112 boxers signed up for the competition in Miami. Link weighed 77.5 kilograms and applied for the super middleweight competition. There are 15 people in the super middleweight class, which is not difficult.

The game took place in a small stadium at the Heat's American Airlines Arena. There were no other spectators except the referee. The game process was very simple. It was a two-on-two fight. The No. 15 pick automatically advanced to the next round.

Link was lucky. He got the 15th pick in the first round and automatically advanced.

  Winning the No. 1 lottery in the second round, he fought his opponent for one round and knocked down his opponent three times in a row. In amateur matches, both sides wore protective gear, so the damage after being knocked down was not great.

However, according to the regulations of amateur competition, being knocked down three times in a row means that the strength gap between the two sides is relatively large. The referee will interrupt the game and rule that the downed side loses the game.

Link easily makes it to the third round.

 In the third round, there were four people left, fighting each other. Link knocked down his opponent three times in one round and advanced to the next round.

He continued to work hard in the fourth round, knocking down his opponent three times in one round and easily qualifying for the state championship.

 It’s just that his performance in the game was too terrifying, killing the game in one round.

Someone took a photo of him and sent it to a boxing fan chat group, asking everyone to be careful about him, saying that he is a cold-blooded and terrifying heavy gunner with extremely heavy fists, and no one can last a round in his hands.

 This news was supported by several victims. They discussed heatedly in the group, what should they do next time they meet him? The result of the discussion was that there was no way. Not only did he have heavy fists, he was also very fast, and he also defended very well. It was simply unsolvable.

 The super middleweight colleagues were wailing. It was really unfortunate to meet such a powerful colleague.

 Link’s amateur competition results: 3 fights, 3 wins, 3 KOs

 (End of this chapter)