Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 387 American Music Awards

After the two talked, Ivaca returned to New York to sit down, where it was more convenient to handle work.

Before leaving, Ivaca said that if he couldn't go back to New York during the next weekends and holidays, she would fly to Los Angeles to be with him. Link wanted to say no, because she wouldn't sleep with her when she came, and it would make no difference whether she came or not.

At the same time, he was also a little strange about Ivaca's request to go to bed only after marriage.

Logically speaking, the United States and even China and South Korea, which have relatively conservative ideas, don’t care much about whether the marriage partner has a few men.

Why would Ivaca use this as an excuse? Or maybe what she said was true and she had never slept with a man before?

Every time he thought about this incident, he was a little entangled. After talking to Taylor last time, he originally planned to end this awkward relationship with Ivaca and become a **** completely. But after hearing about this incident, he A bit reluctant to let go.

Although there are many beauties in the world, women who are capable in all aspects like Ivaca are rare. If you give up Ivaca, it seems that no one you choose next can be as good as her.

  After struggling for a few days, Link had to think that Ivaca was a very good fisher. Ever since he founded Link Music with her, he had not only been hooked by her, but also tightly entangled in her fishing net.

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  "The Suicide Squad" was released in its third week and took in another US$12.75 million at the box office. During the same period, it fell to third place at the box office, with a cumulative box office of US$74.47 million in North America.

 As of this week, "The Suicide Squad" has been released simultaneously in more than 30 countries overseas, with a cumulative box office of US$104 million.

 It is expected that the global box office will be more than 300 million US dollars.

Although the box office performance is not as good as that of "Inception", "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1" and "Toy Story 3" released earlier, it is still a movie with a relatively bright box office performance at the end of the year.

Also because the action scenes in this movie are very cool, and Link’s character in the movie is very charming, the movie has been favored by many fans after it was released overseas.

Chris Liu, Nozomi Sasaki, and Yui-chan even called specifically to say that his performance in the movie was so cool. He was a handsome, capable and playful man who acted in his true colors.

 Well, this is teasing him.

 “cut!”

 “Next game!”

 After the crew of "Captain America" ​​moved to Los Angeles, the filming work gradually became smoother, but also became boring.

An eight-hour working day, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and he goes to work on time and leaves on time. It’s not that he doesn’t want to work overtime, but the overtime pay in Hollywood is too high and the crew is unwilling to increase expenses.

With free time, he spends most of his time on boxing training, making his muscles stronger and stronger, and his weight has reached 181 pounds. In addition to filming needs, he is also preparing for next year's light heavyweight competition.

 After increasing the muscles, the coordination, movement and reaction speed of the body's muscle groups will also face a certain degree of degradation.

He needs to adapt to the current muscles and punch weight before the competition, and try to increase his speed. If he can still maintain the speed of the super middleweight in the light heavyweight competition, this will undoubtedly be a great advantage for him. .

The only martial arts in the world is fast, and it also applies to boxing.

 In addition, after gaining weight, he tested the weight of his fists.

 The maximum weight for the right fist is 1650 pounds and the maximum weight for the left fist is 1500 pounds.

 About twenty pounds heavier than when tested in April and May.

 This is good news for him and makes him more confident about winning the game.

 The only person dissatisfied with his weight gain is probably De La Hoya.

There will be a match next month. Since the two are not boxers in the same weight class, the match itself is an unequal challenge.

 The weight requirements for both parties during the competition are not so strict, so both players can gain weight before the competition.

De La Hoya is 182 centimeters tall. He tried to gain ten pounds before the competition. He originally wanted to be equal to his weight, but after he gained weight, his muscles became stronger and fuller. There was no dead muscle at all. He looked just like him. Very strong.

Every time De La Hoya saw him, he would complain that he was afraid of losing, so he would secretly gain muscle before the game.

 In mid-November, the American Music Awards came, and Link took the time to attend the ceremony at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. The venue was the same as the MTV Recording Awards, and the singers participating in this award ceremony were also the same.

Since the American Music Awards' evaluation criteria are based on comprehensive statistics from Billboard magazine and Billboard website, including album and digital single sales, radio on-demand volume, online traffic, social media activity and tour box office.

  Simply put, it means that it is more popular than the United States, compared to album sales, compared to Internet popularity, and compared to concert box office.

 In terms of the above points, no matter which aspect you compare, Link deserves to be the first.

The current third album "The Woman I Love" has sold 4.68 million copies in the United States and about 20.5 million copies globally. It is also the only album in 2010 to have sales exceeding 4 million in the United States and more than 20 million worldwide.

 In second place is Taylor's "Last Kiss", with sales of 3.85 million copies in the United States and approximately 9.5 million copies worldwide.

 Third place, Eminem's "Recovery", sold 3.23 million copies in the United States.

 Fourth place, “NeedYouNow” by Goddess Antebellum, with 3.02 million copies.

 Fifth place, Justin Bieber’s “MyWorld2.0” with 2.32 million copies

 Sixth place, British singer Susan's album "The Gift", sold 1.72 million copies in the United States.

 Seventh place, LadyGaGa’s “TheFame” with 1.59 million copies.

 Eighth place, Aubrey Drake’s “Thank Me Later” with 1.21 million copies.

 Ninth place, Wiz Khalifa’s “DealOrNoDeal” with 1.19 million copies.

Among the singers ranked 11 to 20, Qian Po Kesha’s “Animal” with 1.14 million, soul singer Sade’s “Soldier of Love”, Usher’s “Raymond vs. Raymond”, and Katy Perry’s released in September "Teenage Dream", Miley Cyrus's "Can't Be Tamed", and Selena's "One Year Without Rain" all sold more than 800,000 copies in the United States during the year.

Because Link’s third album is so far ahead of his peers, its popularity in the media and on the Internet is unmatched.

At the American Music Awards, he also won four awards with a huge advantage, including Artist of the Year, Male Pop Vocalist of the Year, Pop Album of the Year, and Adult Era Vocalist of the Year. The biggest winner.

Eminem won Best Rap Artist and Best Rap Album for "Recovery".

 Usher also won two, best R&B album and best artist.

 Lady Gaga only won one award for Best Female Pop Vocalist, while Taylor, Carrie Underwood, and Lady Antebellum shared three awards in the country music category, Best Female Vocalist, Best Album, and Best Group.

Justin Bieber won Breakthrough Artist of the Year.

 Wiz Khalifa, Selena, Lana Del Rey, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars and others were nominated, but the competition was too great and they failed to win the award.

After the American Music Awards, Link returned to the set and continued filming.

 In mid-November, I followed the crew of "Captain America" ​​to the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway and other places for filming.

　　It has been busy for more than two months, and the main scenes of Captain America have been filmed. The remaining post-production will be completed in the Los Angeles studio, and there are about ten days left for the scenes.

By December, he returned to the United States to participate in a boxing match with De La Hoya at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

This fight was officially announced at the beginning of the year. After a year of publicity and promotion, almost everyone is aware of it, and it has successfully aroused the expectations of boxing fans.

In order to add excitement to the game, he and De La Hoya sang two songs to warm up the game before the game, and the game only started after the singing.

The match between the two lasted for three rounds in total. The reason why it took three rounds to knock out De La Hoya was not because he deliberately let the opponent down, but because De La Hoya played very cunningly in the match.

  With his lightweight speed, extremely superb boxing skills, and high-frequency fast punch harassment tactics, it is very troublesome to fight.

In the end, Link took advantage of De La Hoya's weakened physical strength to trap him in the corner and hit him in the face with two consecutive punches before successfully KOing him and winning the game.

 Because of the good publicity and promotion, the cable TV paid PPV sales of this game reached 125 million US dollars, ranking second in the "Forbes" boxing PPV revenue rankings.

 The first place is De La Hoya VS. Mayweather in May 2007, with PPV sales of US$136 million.

 Third place, June 8, 2002, Lennox VS. Tyson, PPV sales US$112 million

 Fourth place, June 28, 1997, Mike Tyson VS. Holyfield, PPV sales $100.2 million (World War II)

 Fifth place, August 19, 1995, Mike Tyson VS. Peter McNealy, PPV sales $96 million

 Sixth place, April 19, 1991, Holyfield vs. George Foreman - PPV sales $80 million

 Seventh place, November 9, 1996, Mike Tyson VS. Holyfield, PPV sales of US$77.9 million (fight)

Although the PPV revenue of this game is high, it does not exceed that of De La Hoya and Mayweather.

 When "Boxing Ring" magazine commented on the match afterwards, the reason given was that the two were famous enough and the match was exciting enough, but the suspense was not enough.

Link is so powerful that he is invincible in the super middleweight field. He is strong, fast and technically skilled. He is currently the most famous and strongest boxer in the boxing world.

Although his opponent De La Hoya is also a top boxer, he is older and cannot compare to Link in height, weight, punching weight, etc. In addition, he has fought three times in the past three years and lost two times. Boxing fans have no confidence in him. Seriously inadequate.

 The odds given by the bookmaker are 65 to 1 for De La Hoya to win, which is higher than the match between Tyson and Douglas.

 Many people could guess the result before the game, which also led to a decrease in boxing fans’ desire to pay to watch the game. In the end, the PPV revenue was only US$125 million.

However, this game was played well on video websites such as YouTube, with 1.85 million netizens choosing to pay to watch it, which also brought about more than 20 million US dollars in revenue sharing to Link and De La Hoya.

Including ticket and other items, Link and Dynasty Sports earned a total of 72 million U.S. dollars in this game, and De La Hoya and Golden Boy's promotion income was about 38 million U.S. dollars. The total prize money of this event reached 110 million U.S. dollars, becoming Link's first A tournament that earned over 70 million.

 His income from boxing events this year also exceeded 200 million US dollars.

 After the boxing match, Link led the tour team to continue to hold concerts in Europe.

  52 concerts were held in more than two months.

By February, he returned to North America with his tour team, playing 16 consecutive shows in the United States, Canada and other regions, and finally ended successfully at a concert in Times Square, New York.

This tour started in October 2009 and lasted for 18 months, with a total of 166 concerts held in 82 countries and regions around the world.

Sold 4.43 million tickets worldwide, with an average of 26,000 people per show. He is also the singer who has sold the most tickets during his global tour in the past ten years.

It is better than the concert data of top singers and bands such as Superboy, Backstreet Boys, Madonna, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, etc. It also surpasses MJ's "Danger Tour" concert and sets a new Guinness World Record. .

 The "Danger Tour" global tour was held in 1993, with a total of 69 shows and 3.5 million tickets sold, an average of 50,000 people per show.

Link's record is to hold 166 global tours in 18 months and sell 4.43 million tickets, surpassing MJ in terms of number of regions and total ticket sales.

· Afterwards, the media called him a 'model worker' and ridiculed him for holding concerts frequently and at a fast pace. He was said to be tireless in holding concerts, one after another, sometimes four in a row in a week.

　　Although he performs concerts at a fast pace, he performs steadily in every performance, without lip-synching, broken notes, out-of-tune, or perfunctory fans.

His performance has also attracted praise from the media and fans. Many singers have publicly stated that they want to learn from him and get in shape first before holding a global tour.

 (End of this chapter)