Almighty Coach

Taylor stood on the scale, staring at the numbers on it intently.

"How did I lose so much weight in such a short period of time? Could it be that I was sick? Didn't I just have a physical examination two months ago, and the report showed that I was very healthy. Could it be that the scale is broken." Taylor He couldn't help staring at the weighing scale suspiciously.

"Why, do you think the scale is broken?" Dai Li's voice sounded from the side, and Taylor turned his head to look at Dai Li with an expression that seemed to say: How do you know what I'm thinking.

Taylor's expression made Dai Li feel very helpless in his heart. The so-called thirty-year-old, Taylor is thirty-two years old, but mentally, he doesn't look thirty-two years old at all. It can even be said that he has no city at all. What's on your mind, it's immediately shown on your face.

"No wonder this guy was robbed of 500 million U.S. dollars by the agent, like a child who hasn't grown up, and he has to count the money when he is sold by others!"

While thinking about it, Dai Li said, "Don't worry, this scale is good. You really lost so much weight."

"I've never tried to lose so much weight in such a short period of time," Taylor said.

"Do you think it's amazing?" Dai Li smiled, and continued, "So you should have confidence in me. Although I'm not a professional boxing coach, I don't know how to train other than boxing skills. Worse than any boxing coach. As for boxing skills, I think you should be the best in the world, right?"

After all, Taylor has been a professional boxer for thirteen years, and he has stood at the top of the world boxing circle and won several heavyweight boxing gold belts. In terms of boxing skills, he is absolutely incomparable to any boxer. Bad coach. Moreover, Taylor's style of play tends to be "one wave". As long as he has practiced his "Cheng Yaojin Three Swords", other skills are not very important, and they may not be useful in the game anyway.

"I have confidence in you. But I have no confidence in myself." Taylor said in a low voice.

"You have lost more than ten pounds in such a short period of time, and you are almost reaching the goal of 20 pounds we set at the beginning. This is a good start. You should have confidence in yourself." Li Dai encouraged.

Taylor nodded, but there was still no confidence in his eyes. He hesitated for a few seconds, and then said: "Actually, I can feel that my physical function has really degraded a lot compared to when I was young. I think My muscles are not as vigorous as when I was young, although my state is slowly coming back, but the speed of state recovery is very slow."

As Taylor said, he punched a few times in the air, and then shook his head: "I'm weaker, much weaker than before, I don't have the explosive power I had when I was young, and my combined punches don't have the same punch as when I was young. Power, and more importantly, my physical fitness, is no longer as good as it used to be."

"Leave the physical training to me. Don't forget that I am the physical fitness coach. Physical training is my specialty." Dai Li said confidently.

"I don't mean that, I mean, the problem of my upper limit of physical fitness, if the upper limit of physical fitness is lowered, it cannot be solved through training."

Taylor lowered his voice, and continued: "Actually, even in my early twenties, the most glorious years, my physical fitness could not support the full twelve rounds. At that time, I played about ten rounds. , I have already lost the ability to attack. The fight I lost back then was also delayed until after ten rounds. Don’t you think it’s ridiculous? A heavyweight champion with several gold belts in his hand is not physically strong enough Twelve rounds?"

"It's beyond my expectation." Dai Li nodded.

As a professional boxer, his physical fitness is not enough to fight the whole game. This sounds really funny, not to mention that Taylor is still a top boxing champion in the world.

However, in the boxing world, Taylor is really an outlier. He always knocks out his opponents in the first three rounds. For him, it is too far away to hit twelve rounds.

Taylor on the opposite side continued: "I know that the peak age of a boxer should be between 25 and 30 years old, but at that stage, I was in prison. After I got out of prison, I was 30 years old. At that time, I was already in prison. It’s not as good as it used to be, I’m not at the top anymore.”

"I remember that after you got out of prison, it only took you half a year to win the WBA gold belt." Dai Li said.

"Yeah, but in fact, at that time, my physical fitness dropped to the point where I couldn't last ten rounds. At that time, my physical fitness could only allow me to play seven or eight rounds. The game where I won the WBA gold belt was also in the third round. Knocked down the opponent." Taylor sighed, and said with some shame: "You should know, the game where I bit Highfield's ear, right?"

Dai Li nodded. He knew that the match could be described as "disgraceful" to Taylor. At that time, the ear-biting match attracted worldwide attention. Taylor was not only sentenced to lose, but also suspended for two years. , even lost the dignity of boxing champion, and became the object of ridicule.

Dai Li didn't know if that match would stimulate Taylor, so he never mentioned that match, but now Taylor himself talked about the match that made him a laughing stock.

I only heard Taylor say: "Actually, at that time, I thought I would win. I thought I just needed to keep attacking, and Highfield would be knocked down by me very quickly. At that time, most people also thought that, The probability of my winning will be higher, which can be seen from the odds offered by the bookmaker.”

"However, the fact is not what I imagined. Highfield is very cunning. He knows that my physical fitness will not last long, so he has been avoiding me and not making direct contact with me. If it is unavoidable, he will would come up and hug me, and the referee would separate us."

"What makes me even more angry is that he always uses some insidious tricks. He is taller than me, so he will always secretly head butt my face. Well, in fact, this is also a kind of trick in boxing. It’s a very common trick that many people use, but before that, my opponent never had a chance to use it, and I knocked him down.”

"Thinking about it now, he was actually provoking me on purpose. He was seducing me to attack, trying to drain my energy faster, and I really fell for it. I hit more and more urgently, and as time passed As time goes on, my physical strength is exhausted faster and faster, I know that if I continue, my physical strength will be exhausted and I will lose the game!"

"I was eager to attack, but he started to frequently use hugging methods to stop my attack, which made me very impatient. During one of the attacks, while he was hugging me, he secretly hit my brow bone with his head , It hurt me very much, it really hurt! The pain was completely different from being hit in the face by a boxing glove. At that moment, I lost my mind and bit his ear directly."

Dai Li nodded suddenly: "It turned out that the situation was like this back then. It seems that Highfield is also an old fox!"

"He is a well-known old fox in the boxing world. He is very good at using all kinds of tricks, and he is also very good at deceiving referees. What I mean by deceiving referees is using some tricks that referees can't see. This is exactly what I call him. Not good at it." Taylor smiled wryly.

Dai Li could feel Taylor's helplessness in his heart. It's normal for a simple-minded and impulsive athlete like Taylor to be played around by an old fox like Highfield.

Taylor went on to say: "At that time, I was 30 years old, and my physical fitness could only support seven or eight rounds of the game. Now I am 32 years old, and my physical degradation is more serious. I don't know if I can survive it." 5 rounds! And my fist is not as strong as before, I am not sure that I can knock down my opponent within three rounds like before."

"Physical problems, is that why you don't have confidence in yourself?" Dai Li asked.

Taylor on the opposite side nodded, and then fell into silence.

Dai Li finally understood that the reason why Taylor lost confidence was due to his understanding of his own physical condition. On the surface, he seemed to be a simple-minded person, but in fact, his judgment of himself was very accurate. He was not He doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, on the contrary, when it comes to boxing, he is more self-aware than anyone else.

Dai Li suddenly remembered that sentence: God closes a door for you, but also opens a window for you. Taylor is probably such a person. He is an idiot in terms of finances. He has no sense of financial management. He was tricked by his agent and lost 500 million in just a few years. However, in terms of boxing, he is a real genius!

"If you were twenty-six or seventeen, you should be able to play twelve rounds, right? You should be at your peak at that time." Dai Li asked.

"I don't know." Taylor shook his head: "I was in jail at that time."

"Didn't you try to continue practicing boxing when you were in prison?" Dai Li asked.

"It's a bit embarrassing to say. When I was in prison, I was beaten." Taylor smiled bitterly again, and then said: "I was locked in a prison in Indianapolis at the time. That day, all the mortals in the prison were cheering, they were not welcoming me, they had found a new opponent, and they couldn't wait to kick my ass and gain fame."

"Is there such a thing?" Dai Li asked curiously.

"Yeah, I can feel hostility from all directions in any corner of the prison. I know that everyone around me is very eager to flatten me." Taylor replied.

"You said you were beaten by someone. You can't beat them, right?" Dai Li asked cautiously.

"I also thought that I could knock them down with one punch, but I didn't expect that the prison was really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and there was a famous boxer in the black market who once kicked his opponent to death on the black market boxing ring; There is also a karate champion on the west coast; in addition, there are many people who are keen on boxing. The prisoners usually have nothing to do, so there is also a gym in the prison, just for those muscular prisoners to vent Their energy!" Taylor said.

"In this regard, our country is much better. The prisoners in our country are very busy while serving their sentences. They have to participate in labor reform, study politics, and improve their ideological awareness. Of course, they also have time to exercise, but they will not have nowhere to vent their emotions. Energy." Dai Li said with a smile.

"Yeah, it's not a good thing that the prisoners serving their sentences have too much energy. I'm used to dominating the boxing ring, so I didn't take those prisoners seriously at all. I thought they were just street gangsters, but in the end I almost suffered a loss. I saw a big prisoner and a prison bully have an argument, and then the big guy was beaten to the ground, and when the prison guards arrived, he was already out of breath." Taylor said.

"If you kill people in prison, the prison bully won't have any good fruits, right?" Dai Li asked.

"Indiana has abolished the death penalty, and the prison bully's cumulative sentence has reached 85 years. He can't get out of his life, so it doesn't matter to him to kill another person. At most, he will be locked up in the recidivism zone. And in that prison, small conflicts like broken skin and broken bones happen almost every day."

Taylor's tone seemed helpless, and he continued: "I'm not a desperado, I still want to come out and enjoy life, so I have been very careful to deal with all kinds of provocations, I dare not practice boxing, because I am worried that it will be regarded as To show off, I don't even dare to go to the gym, every time I pass by the gym, I will see the prisoners hitting the sandbags crazy to show off to me, I don't even dare to do squat exercises."

"That is to say, during those five years, you didn't practice boxing at all?" Dai Li didn't expect it to be like this at all. He originally thought that if someone like Taylor went to prison, he would definitely dominate and no one would dare to mess with him. , but did not expect that Taylor was completely a coward in prison.

Then, Dai Li realized another problem, and he said, "You haven't practiced boxing for five years, but it took you only half a year to regain the WBA gold belt after you got out of prison. In terms of boxing, you What a genius!"

"It's not that I haven't practiced boxing at all. In fact, I have resumed training in the last two years of being imprisoned." Tyson pointed to a scar on his head, and then said: "Remember the one I said about kicking people to death?" The black market boxing champion? This is what he left on me. My nose was broken by him, and three ribs were broken by him. I was sent directly to the hospital and lay in bed for a month."

"Is there really anyone who can beat you?" Dai Li was a little surprised.

"He is a master who has experienced life and death. I have never seen such a powerful person." Taylor seemed unwilling to mention the black market boxing champion who injured him, and he continued: "Come back from the hospital, my agent I gave that black market boxing champion a sum of money, and obtained his understanding, which can be regarded as paying protection money to let him cover me. Then my manager hired a group of prisoners to be my bodyguards, and at the same time paid back I rented a single room in the prison. I don't know how much he hacked me in the process, but at least my safety is guaranteed, and I can also train. During that time, I also soaked in a Female prison guard! He is not beautiful, he is old, he is not in good shape, and even has a lot of fat, but you know that in prison, as long as she is a woman, she will become a man's desire!"

Speaking of women, Taylor beamed again, obviously showing off.

Dai Li, on the other hand, had a dumbfounding expression: "Is that topic off topic? What I want to know now is, how strong are you at the age of twenty-six or seventeen?"

"Is this important?" Taylor asked.

"It's very important!" Dai Li continued, "Or you can just tell me directly, if you have been practicing boxing instead of going to prison, when do you think your body is at its peak?"