Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 565 Heavyweight Boxing Champion (Thanks to the book friend Mi Chong who repeated the grade for rewarding the leader)

 In addition to "Divergent", the commercial films released by Lionsgate this summer include "Neighbors", "So You Think You Can Dance 5", "Dark Lady 4" and "John Wick".

Judging from the number of films released, Lionsgate's films are no less than those of the Six Major Movies. How much box office they can get depends on the attitude of the audience.

In May, Link received an invitation from the organizers of the 67th Cannes Film Festival to join the jury as an actor and become a member of the film festival jury.

Link happened to have time and did not refuse. In early May, he took his three little ones and a team of nannies and bodyguards to fly to the small town of Cannes on a private plane and stayed in a sea-view villa that he had booked in advance for vacation.

After he arrived, Marion Cotillard also brought little Cassel over to let the four little guys play together. Among the four little guys, Alexander and Cynthia were the oldest, Cassel was the second, and little Margo Rita is the younger sister.

When they first met, the three little guys were a little unfamiliar with Kassel, but after playing for a long time, they became familiar with it and wanted to go together wherever they went.

Marion Cotillard still had work on hand and spent two days in Cannes to return to the set for filming.

While Link was in Cannes, he spent half a day every day watching participating films, and the rest of the time traveled around with his four little ones.

During this period, Monica Bellucci also came here. She got divorced from Vincent Cassel last year and became a single mother. Because she had physical needs, she approached Link for help. Link looked at her friend's wishes. For my sake, I helped a few times.

Monica is older, but she is more considerate and puts no limits on him when communicating in depth.

There are 1,208 films participating in this year's Cannes Film Festival, which is slightly less than last year. Chinese films mainly include "The Wheel" directed by John Woo, "Return" directed by Zhang Damou, "One Step Away" by Jiang Wen, and the Sino-French co-production "Wolf" Totem" etc.

After a week of exhibition and selection, 17 films were shortlisted for the main competition, 20 films were shortlisted for the ‘Un Certain Regard’, and six films were shortlisted for the special film festival.

Films directed by Zhang and Jiang Wen entered the non-competition film festival.

In the end, the Turkish film "Hibernation" won the Palme d'Or for Best Picture, the Italian film "Miracle" won the Jury Prize, the French film "Goodbye to Language" won the Jury Prize, and Lionsgate's "Breaking Bad" won the Best Director Award.

The Russian film "Mommy" won the screenwriting award, Canadian actor Julianne Moore won the best actress for "Map to the Stars", and British actor Timothy Spall won the best actor for "Mr. Turner."

Compared with last year, this year's Cannes Film Festival was relatively quiet. Except for the big star Link who came to serve as a judge, there was almost no big news worth reporting.

After the Cannes Film Festival, Link first sent little Cassel back to Paris, and then returned to the United States with his three children. When he left, he saw little Cassel's reluctant expression, and he couldn't bear it.

After returning to Los Angeles, Link continued to train boxing. At the end of May, he flew to Berlin, Europe, to participate in a championship challenge with WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin.

Alexander Povetkin was born in 1979. He is 35 years old this year. He is 188 cm tall, has a wingspan of 191 cm and weighs 225 pounds.

In 2003, he won the super heavyweight championship of the World Boxing Championships in Bangkok, Thailand, and in 2004, he won the gold medal in the 91kg and above category at the Athens Olympics.

He is also an all-around martial artist and has systematically studied martial arts, karate, close combat and taekwondo.

He won the World Youth Fighting Championship in 1997, the Baltic Cup Kickboxing Championship in 1998, and the WAKO World Boxing Championship in 1999.

He is the first athlete in history to combine the titles of free fighting champion, Olympic champion, world championship champion, and professional boxing champion (WBA heavyweight boxing champion).

Combat power Max.

Povetkin entered professional boxing in 2005 and has a current record of 27 wins in 27 fights. His defeated opponents include Chris Bird, Mark Huck, Hasim Rahman and other heavyweight boxers with boxing titles.

In the 2011 WBA World Boxing Championship, Alexander defeated Uzbekistan boxing champion Ruslan Chagaev and won the WBA heavyweight ordinary boxing title.

He has successfully defended his WBA gold belt four times in the past three years and is considered one of the strongest boxers in the heavyweight field today.

Alexander's boxing skills are excellent, his fists are lethal, his ability to resist punches is average, his defense ability is average, his speed is average, and his footwork is average. He is a typical power boxer.

Since Link recently defeated the undefeated boxing champion Deontay and now challenges WBA boxing champion Alexander Povetkin, this match has also attracted the attention of boxing fans around the world.

Out of confidence in Link, before this game, the media believed that Link had a greater chance of winning, and the odds given by the bookmaker were also very attractive. Link lost the game at 28-for-1.

If Link loses in an upset, the person betting on Link's loss can make a fortune.

However, Link did not intend to give them this opportunity. After the game started, Link took the lead in launching an attack, taking advantage of his wingspan and speed to bombard his opponent's defense with swift jabs, trying to find flaws and injure his opponent to the maximum extent.

Alexander is also a very good boxer. Good here mainly refers to skills, pure Russian boxing skills, flexible and changeable footsteps, accurate and powerful fists, and his strong fighting ability, which is very easy to deal with. Disaster.

In the first round, Link punched 134 times, hitting his opponent 18 times in the chest and abdomen and 4 times in the head.

The opponent punched 155 times, hitting Link 12 times in the chest and abdomen, and once in the head.

Link failed to knock out his opponent on the first turn.

In the second round, Link once again used fast punches to attack the opponent's defense. In this round, his fists hit the opponent's head five times, causing the opponent to fall to the ground once, with his left eyebrow bone red and swollen, and his nostril bleeding.

The opponent also hit Link's jaw once. Fortunately, he dodged quickly and quickly fell back when the opponent's fist hit him, otherwise his jaw would have been shattered by the opponent's punch.

Although he avoided it, this punch was the most seriously injured since his debut.

In the third round, Link quickly adjusted his state and continued to attack his opponent's defense with jabs, hitting up and down, left and right. At the 96th second of the third round, he hit his opponent's forehead and left eyebrow bone with three consecutive punches. .

Once again, the opponent fell to the ground, with blood flowing from his eyebrow bone.

The referee squatted on the ground and counted to 6. The opponent grabbed the rope and stood up to continue the game.

Seeing that the third round was coming to an end, Link didn't want to give the opponent a chance to recover. Taking advantage of the injury to the opponent's brow bone, blood flowing to his eyes, and blurred vision, he launched an attack from the right, trying to hit the opponent's wound.

At the 109th second, he hit the opponent's forehead with a heavy punch again, causing the opponent to lie on the ground.

Alexander Povetkin is very tough and has a strong ability to withstand blows. After falling to the ground for seven seconds, he stood up and continued the fight.

The two sides fought several times, but due to Povetkin's constant avoidance, Link failed to knock down his opponent before the end of the round.

The third round is over.

Link and Povetkin return to the corner to tend to their wounds.

After the start of the fourth round, Link took advantage of the victory and risked being hit by the opponent. He traded punches for punches and hit the opponent's forehead again with a precise and fierce jab.

Povetkin suffered many heavy blows to his brow bone, and the wounds became larger. Half of his face was covered in blood mixed with sweat, flowing from his face to his chest. His face was hideous, and his vision was seriously disturbed.

Link activated the violent storm mode, forced the opponent to the corner, and then used the rope-circling tactics to hit the opponent's abdomen with five consecutive punches, and hit the opponent's forehead and side with three punches. Blood spattered. Povetkin's eyes became trance-like, and his body Start shaking.

Before Link could continue to take action, the referee rushed over, covered Povetkin's head with both hands, and announced that the game was suspended.

Link held up his fists and backed away.

After checking Povetkin's injury, the referee believed that his condition was not suitable to continue the match. In addition, he had been knocked down three times by Link in this match. He was seriously injured and his strength was inferior to Link. There was no point in continuing the fight. significance.

After consulting with Coach Povetkin, the referee immediately stopped the game and declared Link the winner. "How does it feel?"

In the front row of the audience, Klitschko withdrew his gaze and looked at his younger brother Vladimir Klitschko beside him.

Klitschko looked at Link in the boxing ring, "He is a very powerful guy with good skills. He is faster than the top middleweight boxers and his reaction speed is extremely fast. If he hadn't taken the initiative to switch punches with Alexander , Alexander can hardly hit his head, and his punch weight is also among the top among heavyweight boxing champions.”

At this point, Klitschko paused, shook his head and sighed, "The overall strength is very strong, and he is a difficult opponent."

Klitschko nodded. He first heard about Link in 2008, when Link was still the Golden Gloves Championship champion, and he made an appointment to fight with their brothers.

Just seeing that Link was a super middleweight, he didn't pay much attention.

Later, Link entered the professional boxing world and brought the game into the 'second era', causing a huge sensation in the boxing ring. It was impossible for him not to notice this very capable colleague.

In the following years, Link was like a rising star. From the super middleweight boxing champion, to dominating the super middleweight, to dominating the light heavyweight, and his status as a music superstar, the world Titles of top playboys, names of billionaires, Olympic champions, Hollywood superstars and more.

News related to Link never stops, even if he lives in Wu Kelan, he often sees news about Link.

In the past, he only regarded Link as a colleague, not as an opponent, and he did not think that Link, a super middleweight boxer, had a chance to fight him.

After Link was promoted to heavyweight last year, he realized that the probability of meeting Link was gradually increasing.

At this time, he, his brother Klitschko, and the coaching team began to study Link seriously and discuss how to defeat Link.

After in-depth research, he had to admit that, apart from being a bit exaggerated and public, Link was indeed a very powerful boxer, with good skills, strength, speed, defense, and tactics.

For their brothers, Link has almost no shortcomings except his height and wingspan.

After watching the match between Link and Povetkin live, I am even more convinced of my previous judgment.

Link was not only powerful, he was also very cruel. When he hit someone, he would hit the opponent's wound specifically, causing blood to splatter. It was completely unlike what the rumors said: Link was a gentleman who had never experienced big scenes and was afraid of seeing blood.

Against such a strong opponent with a stable mentality, Klitschko knew that even if their brothers could defeat Link, it would probably be a miserable victory.

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In the boxing ring, Link looked at Povetkin being helped off the stage by his assistant, and let out a breath. In the past, when he competed with his opponents, he would make them lie down and unable to get up for 10 seconds at the end of the fight. He used this seemingly violent but harmless technique. way to end the game.

But after reaching the heavyweight class, as the opponent's ability to resist punches increased and the height gap increased, he could no longer use his punching weight advantage to knock out his opponent.

During the game, he needs to attack the opponent's head more times, causing injuries to the opponent, weakening the opponent's combat effectiveness, and then finding a way to kill the game.

Just like Deontay in the last fight, he hit the opponent's chin multiple times, causing the opponent to be injured and comatose. This time against Povetkin, the opponent has a stronger ability to resist blows and has a kind of bravery that is not afraid of death.

When facing this kind of opponent, Link needs to go head-to-head and show greater courage and boldness, technology, and ring tactics in order to gradually expand the results and defeat the opponent.

If he was afraid, afraid of getting hurt and slapped in the face, and lacked the courage to draw chestnuts from the fire, even if he could win this game, he wouldn't be able to win it so cleanly.

Also because he was not afraid of being hit, he was hit several times in the head and face by the other party just now, and suffered serious injuries.

Because the fight was too fierce, the two sides got angry. At the end of the game, he could hardly hold back his fists and almost seriously injured his opponent.

He had not experienced this feeling of losing control for many years.

"I declare that the winner of this WBA heavyweight title challenge is Link Baker!"

The referee raised Link's fist.

Link's war song "Legends Never Die" sounded at the scene. The impassioned song resounded throughout the audience. Fireworks were lit over the Berlin Olympic Stadium, and the night sky became dazzling.

"Link, the champion!!"

In the audience, many boxing fans shouted loudly.

Link raised his fist and waved at the audience. Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowelet and WBA World Boxing Association President Gilberto Mendoza got on the ring together to congratulate him on winning the game and at the same time put the WBA weight The gold medal belt was handed to him.

Link shook hands with the two men and once again raised the heavyweight gold belt. He also became the first boxer in the world of boxing to hold the WBA super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight gold belts successively.

Professional record: 38 fights, 38 wins, and 38 KO wins.

This time, the referee stopped the game. In boxing, it is called a technical TKO. The opponent wins, and it also falls into the category of KO.

After the game, Link held a press conference at the scene to answer relevant questions from journalists from all over the world. He also announced that he would give up all light heavyweight gold belts and focus his time and energy on winning the remaining three heavyweight gold belts.

After defeating Deontay and Povetkin, there are still many strong fighters in the heavyweight class, and two of them cannot escape.

It is the current WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, who is also a big boxer.

After the opponent became the WBC heavyweight champion in 2004, he successfully defended the title eight times. He has strong fighting ability. He can speak five foreign languages, has a doctorate in sports science, and has an IQ as high as 160. He is nicknamed 'Dr. Iron Fist'.

There is also his younger brother, ‘Dr. Steel Hammer’ Wladimir Klitschko, the current WBO-IBF world boxing champion.

He has held the WBO heavyweight boxing title since 2002, and later won the WBA-IBF world boxing title.

Since he is five years younger than Dake, "Boxing Ring" magazine believes that he is stronger than Dake.

The two brothers have defeated many heavyweight boxing champions, including Chris Bird, Samuel Pitt, Tony Thompson, Hasim Rahman, David Haye, Chagaev, Shanon Briggs, etc. wait.

Both of them were also defeated.

Dak has lost to Chris Bird and Lennox Lewis.

Xiao Ke has never been defeated by a top boxer, but he has been knocked out three times by second- and third-rate boxers, including Sanders, Bravest, and Priti.

But until now, no one has ever been able to defeat both brothers at the same time.

It is said that they often practice boxing together and study their opponents together. After Xiao Ke is defeated, he and Dake study the opponent.

They are a pair of very difficult brothers, even more difficult than Povetkin.

Link still needs to keep working hard if he wants to defeat them.

(End of chapter)