Conquer America, Start with a Boxing Champion

After the two talked, Evaka returned to New York to take charge, where it was more convenient to handle work.

Before leaving, Evaka said that if he couldn't go back to New York on weekends and holidays, she would fly to Los Angeles to accompany him. Link wanted to say no, because she wouldn't sleep with him even if she came, so it didn't matter whether she came or not.

At the same time, he was a little surprised by Evaka's requirement to sleep with him only after marriage.

Logically speaking, in the United States, even in China and South Korea, where the concept is more conservative, people don't care much about whether the marriage partner has several men.

Why did Evaka use this as an excuse? Or was she telling the truth and had never slept with a man before?

Every time he thought of this, he was a little entangled. After talking to Taylor last time, he originally planned to end this awkward relationship with Evaka and become a playboy completely, but after hearing about this, he was a little reluctant to let go.

Although there are many beauties in the world, women like Evaka who are very capable in all aspects are rare. If he gave up Evaka, it seemed that no one he chose next would be better than her.

After struggling for a few days, Link had to believe that Eva Ka was a very good fisherman. Since he founded Link Music with her, he was not only hooked by her mouth, but also entangled in her fishing net.

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In the third week of its release, "The Expendables" earned another $12.75 million in box office, and its box office fell to third place during the same period, with a cumulative box office of $74.47 million in North America.

As of this week, "The Expendables" has been released simultaneously in more than 30 countries overseas, with a cumulative box office of $104 million.

It is expected that the global box office will be more than $300 million.

Although the box office results are not as good as the previous "Inception", "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1" and "Toy Story 3", it is also a relatively bright movie at the end of the year.

Also because the action scenes in this movie are very cool and Link's character in the film is very attractive, the movie has been sought after by many fans after its release overseas.

Chris Liu, Nozomi Sasaki, and Yui-chan even called him to say that his performance in the movie was so cool, a handsome, capable, and philandering man, completely true to himself.

Well, this is teasing him.

"Cut!"

"Next scene!"

After the crew of "Captain America" ​​moved to Los Angeles, the filming work gradually became smoother, but also boring.

Eight-hour work day, from 9 am to 4 pm, on time to work and off time, not that he doesn't want to work overtime, but the overtime pay in Hollywood is too high, and the crew is unwilling to increase the cost.

With free time, he spent most of his time on boxing training, making his muscles stronger and stronger, and his weight reached 181 pounds. In addition to the needs of filming, he is also preparing for next year's light heavyweight competition.

After the increase in muscle, the coordination, movement and reaction speed of the body's muscle groups will also face a certain degree of degradation.

He needs to adapt to the current muscle and fist weight before the game, and try to increase the speed. If he can still maintain the speed of the super middleweight in the light heavyweight competition, it will undoubtedly be a great advantage for him.

The only martial arts in the world that cannot be defeated is speed, and it also applies to boxing.

In addition, after gaining weight, he also tested the weight of both fists.

The maximum right fist is 1650 pounds, and the maximum left fist is 1500 pounds.

It is about 20 pounds heavier than the test in April and May.

This is good news for him, which makes him more confident in winning the game.

The only one who is dissatisfied with his weight gain is probably De La Hoya.

The game will be held next month. Since the two are not boxers of the same weight class, this game itself is an unequal challenge.

The weight requirements for both sides during the game are not so strict, so both can gain weight before the game.

De La Hoya is 182 cm tall. He tried to gain 10 pounds before the game. He originally wanted to equalize his weight with him, but after he gained weight, his muscles became more solid and full, without any dead muscles, and he looked very strong.

Every time De La Hoya saw him, he would complain that he was afraid of losing, so he secretly gained muscle before the game.

In mid-November, the American Music Awards came, and Link took time to attend the ceremony at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. The venue was the same as the MTV Recording Awards, and the singers attending this awards ceremony were similar.

Because the American Music Awards' award criteria are based on comprehensive data from Billboard magazine and Billboard website, including album and digital single sales, radio on-demand volume, network traffic, social media activity, and tour box office.

In simple terms, it is compared with popularity in the United States, album sales, network popularity, and concert box office.

No matter from which aspect, Link is well-deserved to be the first.

The current third album "The Woman I Love" has sold 4.68 million copies in the United States and about 20.5 million copies worldwide. It is also the only album in 2010 with sales of more than four million in the United States and more than 20 million worldwide.

Ranked second is Taylor's "Last Kiss", with sales of 3.85 million copies in the United States and about 9.5 million copies worldwide.

Third place, Eminem's "Recovery", with sales of 3.23 million copies in the United States.

Fourth place, Goddess Antebellum's "Need You Now", with sales of 3.02 million copies.

Fifth place, Justin Bieber's "My World 2.0", with sales of 2.32 million copies in the United States

Sixth place, British singer Susan Boyle's album "The Gift", with sales of 1.72 million copies in the United States.

Seventh place, Lady GaGa's "The Fame" 1.59 million copies.

Eighth place, Aubrey Drake's "Thank Me Later" 1.21 million copies.

Ninth place, Wiz Khalifa's "Deal Or No Deal" 1.19 million copies.

Tenth place, Kesha's "Animal" 1.14 million copies

Among the singers ranked 11 to 20, soul singer Sade's "Soldier of Love", Usher's "Raymond vs. Raymond", Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" released in September, Miley Cyrus' "Can't Be Tamed", Selena's "A Year Without Rain" all sold more than 800,000 copies in the United States this year.

Because Link's third album is far ahead of its peers, its popularity in the media and on the Internet is unmatched.

At the American Music Awards, he also won four awards with a huge advantage, including Artist of the Year, Male Pop Vocalist of the Year, Pop Album of the Year, and Adult Contemporary Vocalist of the Year, becoming the biggest winner of the American Music Awards.

Eminem won Best Rap Singer and Best Rap Album for "Recovery".

Usher also won two awards, Best R\u0026B Album and Singer.

Lady Gaga only won the Best Female Pop Vocalist Award, while Taylor, Carrie Underwood, and the band Antebellum shared the country music category, Best Female Vocalist, Best Album, and Best Group awards.

Justin Bieber won the Best Breakthrough Artist of the Year.

Wiz Khalifa, Selena, Lana Del Rey, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars and others were nominated, but the competition was too great and they failed to win the award.

After the American Music Awards, Link returned to the crew to continue filming.

In mid-November, he followed the crew of "Captain America" ​​to the UK, Sweden, Norway and other places for filming.

After more than two months of busy work, the main scenes of Captain America were filmed. The remaining post-production will be completed in the Los Angeles studio, and there are about ten days of scenes left.

In December, he returned to the United States and participated in a boxing match with De La Hoya at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.

This match was officially announced at the beginning of the year. After a year of publicity and promotion, it is almost known to everyone and has successfully aroused the expectations of boxing fans.

In order to add highlights to this match, he and De La Hoya sang two songs to warm up before the match, and the match started after the singing.

The match between the two lasted for three rounds. The reason why it took three rounds to knock down De La Hoya was not that he deliberately let him go, but that De La Hoya played very cunningly in the match.

With lightweight speed, extremely superb boxing skills, and high-frequency fast punch harassment tactics, it was very troublesome to fight.

In the end, Link took advantage of De La Hoya's declining physical strength and trapped him in the corner. He hit him in the face with two consecutive punches before successfully KOing him and winning the match.

Because of the good publicity and promotion, the cable TV PPV sales of this match reached 125 million US dollars, ranking second in the Forbes boxing PPV revenue list.

The first place was May 2007 De La Hoya vs. Mayweather, with PPV sales of 136 million US dollars.

The third place, June 8, 2002, Lennox vs. Tyson, PPV sales of 112 million US dollars

The fourth place, 1997 Tyson vs. Holyfield, PPV sales of 100.2 million US dollars (World War II)

The fifth place, August 1995 1 Tyson vs. Peter McNeely, PPV sales of 96 million US dollars

The sixth place, April 19, 1991, Holyfield vs. George Foreman-PPV sales of 80 million US dollars

The seventh place, 1 Tyson vs. Holyfield, PPV sales of 77.9 million US dollars (World War I)

Although the PPV revenue of this match is high, it does not exceed that of De La Hoya and Mayweather.

Afterwards, when commenting on this match, "Ring" magazine gave the reason that the two were famous enough and the match was exciting enough, but there was not enough suspense.

Link is too strong, invincible in the super middleweight field, strong, fast, and skilled. He is the most famous and strongest boxer in the current boxing world.

Although his opponent De La Hoya is also a top boxer, he is older, and his height, weight, and punch weight are not as good as Link. In addition, he has fought three times in the past three years and lost two games. Boxing fans have a serious lack of confidence in him.

The odds given by the bookmaker are 1 to 65 for De La Hoya to win, which is higher than the match between Tyson and Douglas that year.

Many people can guess the result before the game, which also leads to a decrease in the desire of boxing fans to pay to watch the game. In the end, the PPV revenue was only 125 million US dollars.

However, the number of views of this game on video websites such as YouTube is good, and 1.85 million netizens have chosen to pay to watch it, which also brought Link and De La Hoya about more than 20 million US dollars in income sharing.

Including ticket sales and other revenue, Link and Dynasty Sports earned a total of $72 million from the match, while De La Hoya and Golden Boy Promotions earned about $38 million. The total prize money for the match reached $110 million, making it Link's first match to earn more than $70 million.

His boxing revenue this year also exceeded $200 million.

After the boxing match, Link led his tour team to continue to hold concerts in Europe.

He held 52 concerts in more than two months.

In February, he returned to North America with his tour team, held 16 concerts in the United States, Canada and other regions, and finally ended successfully at the concert in Times Square, New York.

This tour started in October 2009 and lasted for 18 months, with a total of 166 concerts in 82 countries and regions around the world.

He sold 4.43 million tickets worldwide, with an average of 26,000 people per show, and he is also the singer who sold the most tickets in the global tour in the past decade.

The concert data is better than that of top singers and bands such as N'Sync, Backstreet Boys, Madonna, Britney Spears, and Lady Gaga, and it also exceeds MJ's "Dangerous Tour" concert, setting a new Guinness World Record.

The "Dangerous Tour" global tour was held in 1993, with a total of 69 shows, selling 3.5 million tickets, with an average of 50,000 people per show.

Link's record is to hold 166 global tours in 18 months, selling 4.43 million tickets, surpassing MJ in terms of the number of regions and the total number of tickets.

Afterwards, the media called him a "model worker", teasing him for his high frequency and speed of holding concerts, saying that he was tireless when holding concerts, one after another, and sometimes held four consecutive concerts in a week.

Although he held concerts at a fast speed, he performed stably in every concert, without lip-syncing, broken voice, out of tune, and perfunctory fans.

His performance also attracted praise from the media and fans. Many singers publicly expressed that they wanted to learn from him and train their bodies first before holding global tours.