Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 66: Encouraging Generals

 “Boxing!”

 The referee came over and waved his arm.

 The game continued. Link raised his fists and moved forward, approaching Aragorn little by little without fear.

And Aragorn crossed his arms, moved his shoulders up and down, and kept changing the position of his feet.

Link saw his opponent's posture and knew that the opponent was more cautious and would work harder on defense. It would be more difficult to use the "injury for injury" move against the opponent again.

However, in a boxing match, another meaning of focusing on defense is ‘the style of play tends to be conservative’, at least it will be more conservative than in the first 100 seconds.

The opponent is preparing to strengthen their defense. Link's approach is to continue the attack, bombard the opponent's defense line with heavy punches, and then try to find a fighter opportunity.

　　He hit Aragorn on the head with a straight right fist. Aragorn leaned back to avoid his fist, and at the same time, he struck Link's face with a left swinging fist from left to right.

Link ignored the opponent's left fist and almost simultaneously swung his right uppercut, lifting Aragorn's chin.

 The power of the swing fist mainly relies on the chest muscles, scapular muscles, and inner arm muscles. It uses more muscle groups, has greater strength, and causes greater damage, but the attack distance is longer and the speed is slower.

 The main parts of the uppercut are the waist and biceps. It requires less muscle groups and is less powerful, but the attack distance is short and the speed is fast.

If the uppercut and swing are launched at the same time, the uppercut can often hit the target first.

At this time, Link's uppercut was launched slightly slower than the opponent's swinging fist. Whether it could come later or not before hitting the target, he had no idea, but if they met on a narrow road, he might as well give it a try.

 “Look!”

 “They’re going to change their punches again!”

 The audience exclaimed loudly.

Just when everyone thought the two were about to collide fiercely, Aragorn suddenly took a step back, retracted his left fist, and avoided his uppercut, choosing a more conservative approach.

The audience hissed in disappointment.

Link looked at Aragorn opposite and smiled softly. Boxing is called the 'sport of the brave', but Aragorn actually backed down at the critical moment, which showed that the opponent had scruples and did not dare to go all out.

 This is a good phenomenon.

Link raised his fist and took the initiative to approach Aragorn, seeking a close combat.

 Dang Dang Dang!

 The first round is over.

Link returned to the red team resting area. In this round, the two sides fought indirectly dozens of times. During the fight, both sides had to concentrate. Both mentally and physically, they were in a state of extreme tension. After a game, the muscles all over the body trembled.

When the first round was over, Link sat down on a round stool and received services from Morales and Andrzej, including massage, water feeding, and wiping sweat. However, the two big men were clumsy and not very good at serving. people.

 "Well done, Link, just do it like this, fight slowly, don't be too impatient."

Although Coach Ed has led the team to participate in many boxing matches, he has rarely encountered boxers at the level of Link and Aragorn. The two are equally matched in terms of skills and other aspects, so Coach Ed I don’t know how to give guidance, so I can only say some words of encouragement to cheer Link up.

Link nodded and looked at Aragorn at the opposite corner. Champion coach Felix was saying something to Aragorn with a solemn expression. No matter what he said, I'm afraid it would not relieve the pressure on Aragorn's body and heart.

Although Aragon said he wasn't nervous before the game, he was visibly nervous during the game.

 Not decisive enough when attacking, hesitant when retreating, and his style of play is not as flexible as before.

Link believes that at the end of the game, if Aragorn fails to win, he will become more nervous. What Link needs to do is to disrupt his rhythm and find opportunities to hit him hard and make him more nervous. After all, his goal is KO. He wins, rather than simply defeats him.

The time is short and the difficulty is high. Link can only work step by step, increasing his own advantages little by little and amplifying the opponent's disadvantages little by little.

 Dang Dang Dang!

 The second round begins.

 “Come on Link!”

 “Link will win!”

James on the second floor led people to shout hard to come on.

 Reggie and several apprentices in the boxing gym were also shouting, and their voices broke through the Cuban audience and reached the ring. Link waved his fist, walked to the middle of the ring, and looked at Aragorn, who was walking towards him. Aragorn's expression was much calmer than before. It should be that Savon's ideological work had an effect.

“Link, you must be very nervous at this time, right?”

Aragorn suddenly said coldly, his dark face making it difficult to see his mental activities at this time.

Link thought to himself in an amused tone, "Why am I nervous?"

"Your goal is to KO all your opponents and enter the Olympics. For boxers at our level, failure to achieve the goal means failure. It is absolutely impossible for a proud person like you to accept failure, but now we have reached the second place. In the round, you tried your best but only hit me once, and you couldn't knock me down. Shouldn't you be nervous? "

Aragorn bared his white teeth and said.

"It makes sense, but what does it matter? My failure only affects me, and you failed. You let an American take away a victory on Cuban soil. This is not only a shame for you, but also for Cuba." Shame on you, you will be hated by the Cuban people, Aragón, are you nervous?”

 “I won’t lose!”

Aragorn clenched his fists and stared at him coldly.

"Aragorn, if I were you, I would fight him to the death. I would rather die heroically in the boxing ring than watch the enemy win. But are you afraid of death?"

Link looked into the other person's eyes and said seriously.

 Aragorn bit his braces and his arms trembled slightly.

 The referee walked between the two men.

 “Boxing!”

Link glanced at Aragorn, shouted angrily, and raised his fist to hit the opponent on the head.

Aragorn had a sullen face and blocked his straight punch with his left arm. He swung his fist with his right hand and punched Link fiercely. Almost at the same time, Link fired up his biceps and forearm muscles and made a simple and direct left uppercut. The fist stabbed Aragorn's chin from bottom to top.

 The situation this time is similar to last time. Last time Aragorn gave in, but what about this time?

 “Look!”

The audience’s eyes widened.

　　Bang!

Link and Aragorn were punched almost at the same time. Link was hit by Aragorn's swinging fist. His body quickly staggered two steps to the left and fell against the rope.

 His left hook also came first and hit Aragorn **** the chin.

This punch had more than 1,000 pounds of power. Even with the double protection of protective gear and gloves, the impact on Aragorn's chin was more than 200 pounds. His body couldn't help but lift up a little, and then he took four or five steps back and hit hard Hit the corner post.

"Wow!"

 There was an exclamation from the audience.

No one expected that the two would exchange punches again. The method was so simple and crude. It didn't look like two boxing masters competing at all. It was more like a gangster fight. You punch me for one punch, and the punches hit the flesh.

 “This is almost a dead end play, why do they do this?”

Host Steve looked at the boxing ring in surprise and said.

Raphael Varane shook his head and said: "The two of them are about the same overall strength. If they play in the usual way, no one can defeat the other within four rounds, and they are both eager to win the championship. At this point, the two of them can only trade injuries to see who can hold on longer.”

 “This is crazy, how are they going to compete in the Olympics if they get injured?”

“When the fight reaches this level, they can’t care so much. They just want to knock down their opponents and win the game. They are fighting for honor. They are all real fighters!”

Rafael Varane shouted, pumping his fist.

 “Raphael, who do you think will win?”

 Steve asked, holding the microphone.

 Raphael looked at the boxing ring and shook his head, "Masters compete with each other, and the outcome is often between one or two punches. It's too early to say who will win at this time."

 (End of this chapter)