Conquer America, Start with a Boxing Champion

After taking a break of more than two hours at noon, Link and Dino played a game of basketball in the gym. At around two o'clock, they came to the game again to watch Mario's final.

In the final, Mario met his opponent who was also a Hispanic boxer, Koosre Arnold, who was lean and muscular, 182 centimeters tall and over 192 centimeters long.

Just looking at his body shape, he is a technical player with flexible movements, and his physical strength and boxing willpower should be good.

"Mario has met a very strong opponent, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to win."

Morales said looking at the ring.

Link nodded. If he encountered this kind of opponent, all he had to do was surpass the opponent in speed and then use heavy punches to implement KO tactics. It would not be difficult to defeat him.

But Mario's speed is his shortcoming, and his physical strength and skills are not necessarily stronger than his opponent's. His only advantage is that he punches a little harder than his opponent.

In amateur competitions, contestants wear protective gear to protect themselves, and punching harder is not an advantage.

After the game started, Mario attacked for a round and punched more than 60 times in a row. Only 3 punches hit the opponent's effective parts, and all the others failed. However, the opponent hit him 7 times in a row and once in the face.

Mario plays very passively.

"Link, do you have any good ideas?"

Coach West asked.

Link looked at the ring and nodded, "I have some ideas, but we have to wait a little longer."

"Why? Why don't you come up with tactics right away?" Dino and Reggie asked curiously.

Link shook his head, "Mario is very poor at executing tactics. It's useless to use it now."

In the first round, Mario was beaten to a pulp. Link asked Reggie to take the gold medal to the ring and tell Mario to persuade him to surrender. He couldn't beat him anyway.

Mario was furious and almost attacked Reggie.

In the second round, Mario continued to attack with force, while his opponent continued to dodge and defend and counterattack.

Mario punched 72 times in this round, only hitting the opponent's effective parts 4 times, and was hit 8 times by the opponent. The score between the two sides was 7:15, a huge deficit.

Link then asked Reggie to show off to Mario, saying that Coach West was going to reward him with a sports car, no worse than the Pontiac GTO.

As soon as Mario heard about the sports car, his eyes suddenly turned red and he shook his fists and roared.

"Link, if you stimulate Mario like this, he can defeat his opponent?"

Dino asked looking at Mario who looked like he was on stimulants.

"It's useless. He will continue to lose this round."

"Then what's the use of doing this?"

"hold on!"

Link watched the competition in the boxing ring and found it very interesting. He used to compete on the stage and be watched by the audience.

Now that he is sitting here, watching other people's matches, he finds that after becoming a bystander, he can more clearly see the moves, tactics, habitual little moves, boxers' personalities, boxing consciousness, etc. of both parties in the match.

At the same time, I thought that when I competed under the gaze of tens of thousands of people, I was actually in the process of showing off my own abilities, personality, and charm. The stronger the opponent, the more exciting the competition, the more fully displayed, and the personal abilities and charm will be stimulated. And amplify, attract and conquer more viewers.

After thinking about this, he began to reflect on past games and found that he did not perform well in previous professional games.

Won too quickly, limited time, failed to show more ability and charm.

Apart from leaving an admirable record in the media, with powerful punches and speed, there is nothing else worth boasting about, it is a bit too big to deserve.

In comparison, although Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Joe Frazier and others did not have so many wins and records in boxing, they left a deeper impression on boxing fans, including their tenacious spirit and tenacity. Willpower, superb technology, never give up fighting spirit, cunning tactics and so on.

In the hearts of boxing fans, such boxers are also more charming and infectious, so boxing fans will still miss him decades after they retire.

Link and the boxers of his generation seemed to have made a mistake. They were too impetuous and focused too much on the results of the game, and could not fully devote themselves to the game and show more things to the audience. It was a bit like fast food.

This may also be one of the reasons for the decline of contemporary boxing.

After understanding this, Link frowned and pondered, how can he perform better in the boxing ring and be more charismatic?

"Link, don't be stunned. The third round is almost over. Mario took 9 punches and only hit his opponent 5 times. He is about to lose. What is your plan?" Dino shouted, holding his arm. .

Link looked at Mario on the ring. He had high fighting spirit in the first three rounds. After losing three rounds in a row, his physical strength and willpower have seriously declined, and he has no fighting spirit. He may have accepted the defeat in his heart.

Link said a few words to Coach West. After hearing this, Coach West thought about it and agreed to his suggestion.

After the third round, Coach West walked over and whispered a few words to Mario.

Mario lowered his head with a gloomy expression and had no reaction to Coach West's words.

After Coach West finished speaking, he said no more and returned to the audience.

"Come on Mario!"

Reggie shouted.

By the fourth round, Mario stopped attacking and retreated while fighting. When his opponent saw that he was sweating, panting, and had no fighting spirit on his face, he tried to launch a counterattack to expand the victory.

The opponent hit him with one punch after another. Mario did not fight back, but just defended passively.

At more than 80 seconds into the fourth round, Mario retreated to a corner and suddenly launched a counterattack against his opponent, hitting him with several heavy punches in a row, forcing him to the corner and blocking his movement route with his sturdy body.

The opponent was caught off guard by him and could only protect his head with his fists and dodge continuously.

Mario swung his fists continuously and hit the opponent's head and face until he was hugged by his opponent. The referee came over to separate the two and the confrontation between the two sides ended.

"Is this your tactic?"

Dino said in surprise.

"It's a little early."

Link shook his head. Just in the game, he noticed that Mario's opponent would pause for a while after being hit, as if he was stunned.

He guessed that the opponent's ability to resist blows was not high enough and his ability to cope with Mario's heavy punches was poor.

Therefore, through Coach West, he persuaded Mario to use the fence tactic to force the opponent to the corner, limit the opponent's speed, and then implement a series of strikes.

Unfortunately, Mario's punches were not strong enough, and his punching speed was not fast enough. If he had been on the field, the head attack just now would have knocked down his opponent directly.

"Link, if you have such a tactic, why didn't you use it earlier?" Dino asked.

"In the first three rounds, the opponent's consumption was not large, and Mario couldn't surround him. In addition, Mario's mentality was problematic. He performed averagely in favorable rounds, but sometimes performed exceptionally well in unfavorable rounds."

Link explained.

With more than 20 seconds left in the fourth round, Mario took advantage of the opponent's lack of recovery and launched another strong attack. This time, the opponent's reaction was slower, and he was hit in the head twice in succession by Mario.

In the fifth round, the opponent began to play passively, circling around Mario, trying to use this method to survive the remaining two minutes.

Mario directly adopted a foul tactic, reaching out to hug the opponent, and took the opportunity to give the opponent two two-punch.

After being separated by the referee, Mario pounced on him again, punched the opponent near the ropes, pressed the opponent with his belly, and took advantage of the opponent's lack of reaction to hit the opponent's head with several swinging punches.

Unfortunately, he still failed to knock down his opponent.

After being separated by the referee, the opponent continued to move, but his movements were much slower than in the previous rounds.

Reggie and Morales shouted sports car! Sports car! Sports car!

Mario seized the opportunity to attack, and in the 86th second, he successfully forced his opponent to the ropes again, and hit his opponent's head with five consecutive punches, and his opponent fell to the ground for the first time.

Seeing Mario knock down his opponent, the audience shouted to cheer, and Reggie and the people in the boxing gym also shouted loudly.

Mario's state improved, and his opponent's state seriously declined.

At 112 seconds, Mario hit his opponent three more punches and wanted to continue attacking, but unfortunately the bell for the end of the game rang.

Ding ding ding!

Because there was only one knockdown, Mario failed to KO his opponent to win. Both sides stood in front of the referee's seat together, and everyone looked at the three referees with expectation to announce the scores.

The final result was 32:31; 30:30; 31:30. Two referees ruled that Mario won, and one ruled it a draw. Mario won by a narrow margin.

"Roar!!!"

After seeing this score, Mario waved his fist and roared to the sky, and also hammered his chest hard in the direction of Link, looking particularly arrogant.

Link smiled indifferently.

The heavyweight competition ended and the award ceremony began immediately. "Unstoppable" was playing on the gymnasium speakers. Link and Mr. John Cardill, vice president of the Amateur Boxing Association, walked onto the boxing ring.

"Link, I won! I won! I am also the champion!"

Mario stood on the podium and shouted at him.

Link clapped his hands gently.

"Haha, Link, you thought I was going to lose just now, what about now? Hahaha, you are wrong, very wrong!"

Mario waved his arms and shouted proudly.

Link nodded, shook hands with the third place, congratulated him, and hung a bronze medal around his neck.

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Mario suddenly widened his eyes, "You, you, you"

Link shook hands with the second place again, said congratulations, and hung the silver medal around his neck.

"You, you present the award?"

Mario asked in shock.

Link smiled lightly, "Am I not qualified to present the award to you?"

He is not only an Olympic champion and world boxing champion, but also was named the best boxing promoter of 08/09 by "Ring" magazine in April, because he promoted boxing matches on many occasions, making boxing attract more attention.

After the news that he came to watch the game was made public by the media, the Boxing Association sent someone to invite him to be the guest of honor, and he could choose any level, saying that if he presented the award, more people would pay attention to this event.

Link did not refuse.

Mario stared at him, and the flesh on his face kept shaking.

Link picked up the gold medal and smiled at him.

Mario gritted his teeth and held on for a few seconds, but had to lower his head.

"Good job! Keep up the good work!"

Link patted him on the shoulder and said.

Mario's mouth twitched fiercely, and he swore that if he had known that Link was the award presenter, he would never have tried so hard to win the game.

After the game, the news that Mario and Reggie won the National Amateur Boxing Championship, the light heavyweight and super middleweight championships were also widely spread by the media.

Because the two were from the same school as Link, and Link's performance in the boxing world was very amazing, the media and the public also paid great attention to the two of them, wondering if they would be as good as Link in the future.

However, the club that benefited the most was West Club, which produced three amateur championship champions in a row. This result was so amazing that Mario complained that Coach West was now grinning like a lunatic every day.