Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 547 Battle with Lao Huo

 Bang bang bang!

Since there is still a boxing match in October, during this time Link, in addition to taking care of his children and spending time with the women at home, is also seizing time to train. He practices at the Muscle Beach Club for five or six hours a day to improve his strength.

After unremitting training, his strength, speed, endurance, and explosive power have all been significantly improved.

The maximum punch weight of the right fist is 1,720 pounds, and the average punch weight of the ten punches is 1,620 pounds, an increase of nearly 40 pounds from the test at the end of last year.

The maximum punch weight of the left fist is 1,680 pounds, and the average punch weight is 1,500 pounds, an increase of 35 pounds from the end of last year.

In terms of speed, with a weight of 50 pounds, the 100-meter speed was 11.6 seconds, and the 400-meter weight-bearing run was about 45.1 seconds. There was also significant improvement in the 10-kilometer test.

In the reaction speed test, through the touch cursor test, the reaction speed of ordinary people is 0.2-0.4 seconds, while his reaction speed is 0.106-0.139 seconds, which is superhuman level.

If we continue to improve at the current rate, in two years the weight of the right fist is expected to exceed 1,800 pounds, and the weight of the left fist will exceed 1,700 pounds. The speed will be faster and the endurance will be longer.

At the end of October, he led the team to Las Vegas to participate in a heavyweight boxing match. His opponent was veteran Evander Holyfield.

Lao Huo is 51 years old and is the oldest boxer in the boxing world today.

He originally planned to retire from boxing this year, but after receiving a match invitation arranged by Dynasty Sports, he decisively agreed, even though his appearance fee for this match was only US$1 million.

Lao Huo is 18cm tall and 19cm long. He debuted in 1984 and has a career record of 57 fights, 10 losses and 2 draws.

He defeated Carlos De Tieng in 1988 and became the world boxing champion of the three major heavyweight organizations. In October 1990, he defeated American boxer James Douglas and became the world boxing champion of the three major heavyweight organizations.

In the following twenty years, he won the WBA heavyweight championship four times and the IBF heavyweight championship three times, setting many records.

In his career, he has defeated boxing stars such as George Foreman, Mike Tyson, Larry Holmes, John Ruiz, etc., and is also considered to be one of the most skilled heavyweight boxers in the boxing world.

Since this is Holyfield's last fight in the boxing world, and his opponent is Link, the big boss in the boxing world, this game has also attracted the attention of many boxing fans.

On the day of the game, the MGM Grand Hotel Plaza was packed with about 18,000 people, including more than 200 boxing stars, including Mike Tyson, George Foreman, Hasim Rahman, Mayweather, and Kris Bo De, Hopkins, De La Hoya, Shaquille O'Neal, Michael Jordan, etc.

The on-site cameras scanned around the auditorium, all of which were strong professional boxers.

"Link is so cunning. After he was promoted to heavyweight, he specifically sought out the old man to fight."

Hoya crossed his arms and looked at the young and strong Link on the ring and Lao Huo opposite him. He curled his lips and felt that even if Link defeated Lao Huo, he would still be defeated.

"You'd better be careful what you say, who is the old man?"

James Tony said unhappily.

"Although Evander is older, his fists are still very hard. It will not be easy for Link to defeat him."

Bernard Hopkins said.

"How difficult is it? If Link wants to fight quickly, he can basically resolve the battle within three rounds. If he fights slower, he can exhaust Lao Huo to death in ten rounds. It's not that difficult."

Hoya said.

"Link, come on!"

From the front row of the audience, Mario pumped his fist and shouted.

"Don't shout so loud, Link doesn't need to cheer for this game."

said Dino Dewar, who has 'Lard Rice' tattooed on his arm.

"Link is really promising. After sweeping all the masters in the super middleweight division, he then swept the light heavyweight division, and now he has jumped to the heavyweight division. It would be great if I were as good as him."

Mario bulged his thick arms and said with regret.

Dino Duva glanced at him and felt very regretful. He originally thought that Mario and Link were boxers from the same boxing gym. Even if there was some gap, it wouldn't be too big. This was why he signed Mario and served as him. Broker's reasons.

But it turns out he was wrong. Sometimes the gap between two boxers is wider than the gap between a kangaroo and a mouse.

Link's current professional record is 35 wins in 35 fights, a Grand Slam from the four major organizations in the super middleweight class, and a Grand Slam from the four major organizations in the light heavyweight class.

His achievements in boxing are unprecedented and unprecedented.

Mario's current record is 7 losses in 15 fights, and he has retreated from cruiserweight to light heavyweight, but the result is the same loss.

It’s not that he doesn’t train hard, the main reason is his talent, physical strength, reaction speed, tactics, mentality, etc. These talents cannot reach the level of a first-class boxer, and no matter how serious he practices, he will not be able to gain a foothold in the boxing world.

Mario also lost too much, and after two years of receiving the bonus from Link's "senior brother", he became an ordinary boxer again. The appearance fee also increased from more than 100,000 US dollars in 10 years to several thousand dollars now.

And Link's appearance fee increased from several million to more than 100 million.

The gap between the two is too big.

"Boxing!"

The game on the ring began. After two tests, Link took the lead in attacking. Holyfield raised his fists, preparing to use superb defensive skills to delay the game and even find a chance to defeat Link.

After Link started to attack, he did not immediately use "heavy punches". He used superb combination punches to attack Holyfield's defense line, preparing to compete with him in skills.

After Holyfield understood his intentions, he gradually relaxed his defense and used his superb skills to compete with Link.

"Evander was fooled."

James Tony slapped his knees and shouted, "Link is very cunning. He often deliberately uses false moves to set up traps for others during matches. When the opponent falls into the trap, he will immediately take action and catch the opponent off guard." . Evander is too careless and will suffer a big loss this round.”

When he competed with Link last time, he prepared to defend tightly, but he didn't expect that Link would use the tactic of attacking in the east and attacking in the west. He first hit his defense on the left side hard, and when he shifted the focus of defense to the left side, Link suddenly changed from Onslaught from the right.

At that time, he was staggered by the beating, and then he retreated steadily. If he hadn't been fooled that time, he didn't believe that he wouldn't have been able to last for three rounds. "Eh~"

James Tony watched for a while and found that Link had no intention of cheating Holyfield. He was seriously competing with Lao Huo in boxing skills. There were several times when Lao Huo was too slow and couldn't defend as well, revealing a big flaw. Link also He didn't take advantage of the situation and kill Lao Huo with one punch.

"Haha, are you stupid? Link now likes to be a boxing coach for people. Before the game, he said that he would defeat Evander with pure skills. In this way, he wanted to show everyone the subtleties of boxing. Doing boxing promotion.”

Hoya grinned.

James Tony frowned, "Why didn't you play like this when you competed with me last time?"

"No need to ask, he must think your skills are too rough."

"Fart! I defeated Evander in 2003. It was all about technique."

James Tony curled his thick lips and said dissatisfiedly.

In October 2003, he fought against Lao Huo and won by technical knockout in the ninth round.

"What's the use of saying all this? I wasn't knocked unconscious by Link in the end."

Hoya smiled.

"It's as if you didn't. I remember that time you were beaten to the ground by Link and couldn't get up."

"Shut up!"

Hoya darkened his face and stopped talking.

After the first round of the match in the boxing ring, take a short break and continue with the second round.

In this round, the two sides still competed technically, punching back and forth, and the fight was very intense. Although Holyfield was older, he had a strong body, long arms, and rich competition experience.

He often uses tricky combination punches to cause trouble for Link.

In this round, Lao Huo punched 122 times, hitting Link's body 9 times and hitting Link's head 0 times.

Link punched 143 times, hitting Lao Huo's head 6 times, causing Lao Huo to be knocked down once.

In this round, Lao Huo punched more times, and Link took the lead and ran around. After the second round, Lao Huo was panting like an ox, and his dark skin was covered with shiny sweat.

"Evander is still getting old."

Mike Tyson sighed.

"You may not be able to play well when you are young. Link's skills are very comprehensive. I have watched all his game videos and I can't find his weak point."

'Big' George Foreman marveled.

"Can anyone in boxing beat Link?"

Shaquille O'Neal looked at the black boxers around him and asked.

People around him hesitated and said that the Klitschko brothers should be able to defeat Link.

O'Neal was not satisfied with this answer because the Klitschko brothers are also white.

He asked if any black boxer could beat Link, because everyone knew that black boxers were the best in boxing and had dominated the heavyweight class for decades.

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The surrounding black boxers fell silent. After thinking for a while, they could only say helplessly that in the current super middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight, and heavyweight fields, black boxers have no advantage. If Link fights light weight, In terms of weight, Mayweather should be able to beat him.

"Why is this happening? Don't black people practice boxing now?"

O'Neill asked.

"Of course I'm practicing, but Link is too powerful and no one is his opponent."

Hopkins spread his hands and said.

"Is Link that powerful? I think I can defeat him if I go up."

O'Neal said, holding a fist as big as a sandbag.

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The game continued in the boxing ring. In the third round, Holyfield consumed too much and his movements became slower and full of flaws.

Link had no intention of continuing to compete with his opponent's skills, and continued to throw heavy punches. He knocked down Holyfield twice at 27 seconds and 54 seconds. The second time he was knocked down, Holyfield failed to get up within seconds.

Link won the game easily.

His total income for this game was US$85 million, of which 2.63 million PPV copies were sold, which was slightly less than the previous game.

But the impact of this game was greater than the last.

This is Holyfield's final battle, the veteran's curtain call, announcing the end of an era, which is nostalgic.

In addition, in this game, Link and Holyfield showed superb offensive and defensive skills. It was also called a classic fight by "The Ring". The game video has also become a material for many boxers to study and learn boxing techniques. .

(End of chapter)