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The scene of the press conference was very lively. The reporters and the audience who bought tickets to attend the press conference arrived at the scene early before the boxers entered the arena.

When the protagonists of today's press conference, that is, the four fighters and their coaches in the match at Madison Square Garden a week later, all entered the arena, the on-site press conference reached its climax, and the conference officially began.

Don King, the famous American boxing agent who contributed to the match between Lewis and Holyfield, and Mark Ratner, an official of the Nevada Boxing Association, also came to the press conference.

Since both Lewis and Holyfield are active heavyweight boxing champions, Lewis has the WBC heavyweight boxing gold belt, while Holyfield has the IBF and WBA heavyweight boxing gold belts, and the two are boxing again. Unified war, so neither of them is a challenger.

This makes it a question of who enters first and who enters later.

Both Lewis and Holyfield wanted to enter the ring later, because in boxing, only the lower challenger side enters the ring first, waiting for the defending champion, while the higher-status defending champion enters the ring last of.

As for the match a week later, since both Lewis and Holyfield are active boxing champions, neither of them will naturally accept that they enter the arena first.

There has to be a solution, and that's what today's press conference was about.

Because of Wang Hao's wonderful performance after entering professional boxing, Lewis and Holyfield naturally knew Wang Hao long ago, and Wang Hao also gave Holyfield and Tyson matches in previous matches, as well as Lewis and McCall's matches. After the first game, the two were very impressed with Wang Hao's performance on the field.

When Wang Hao participated in the annual meeting of the boxing magazine and won the best rookie of the year, he communicated with Lewis and Holyfield. At that time, he and Holyfield were still waiting to receive the award.

Therefore, Wang Hao, Lewis and Holyfield can be said to be familiar with each other.

Lewis and Holyfield were also very happy to see Wang Hao, hugged Wang Hao warmly, and wished Wang Hao a smooth game.

Wang Hao also warmly greeted the two, and said that he was looking forward to their wonderful match.

"The Klitschko brothers of your Rhine Boxing Club have performed very well in the past two years!" During the conversation with Wang Hao, Lewis also patted Wang Hao on the back and mentioned Wladimir Klitschko and Vitali Klitsch. Branch two brothers.

The two brothers are good friends of Wang Hao, and they are also boxers of the Rhine Boxing Club.

Among them, Vitali Klitschko also occupies the heavyweight gold belt of the World Boxing Organization WBO, the only one of the four major heavyweight boxing organizations that is not in the hands of Lewis and Holyfield, and has maintained it for more than two years. Successfully defended many times.

Wladimir Klitschko has only been in professional boxing for a year, and he hasn't played many games, but his performance is also very eye-catching. As the Atlanta Olympic boxing champion, he has quickly ended his opponents so far , becoming a boxing champion challenger is just around the corner.

The rise of the Klitschko brothers has given active heavyweight champions such as Holyfield and Lewis a great sense of crisis, especially Lewis.

As the current heavyweight boxing champion with the strongest comprehensive strength, Lewis is not afraid of Tyson and Holyfield, who are obviously much worse than him in height and wingspan.

Because Lewis is skilled and extremely fast, with a good jab, he can control the distance, leaving Tyson and Holyfield, who are obviously inferior in wingspan and height, at a loss. Even if they can get close, Lewis can also rely on it. The huge body pressed or hugged Tyson and Holyfield.

Therefore, Lewis has a natural advantage against Tyson and Holyfield, but when Lewis faces the Klitschko brothers, the situation is completely different.

The Klitschko brothers are no worse than Lewis in height, wingspan and technique, and their strength is not bad. Vitali Klitschko's ability to fight is far superior to Lewis.

Therefore, with the gradual rise of Klitschko and his growing reputation, the boxing world is waiting for Lewis to face Vitali Klitschko. The voice is getting louder and louder, which makes Lewis feel a lot of pressure.

Lewis specifically mentioned the Klitschko brothers in front of Wang Hao. Wang Hao could clearly feel Lewis' pressure and worry, and Wang Hao, who had experienced the previous life, knew that Lewis only fought Vitali Klitschko once and won. It did not convince the audience, and then retreated bravely.

Wang Hao joked with a smile, and said, "They are all eyeing the WBC heavyweight title in your hand, you have to be careful!"

During the exchange, Holyfield also gave Wang Hao a thumbs up and said, "I heard that you sold more than half of the tickets for the WernerMarch Stadium in your first WBA super lightweight title defense! It's amazing!"

The Werner March Stadium is a super stadium that can accommodate nearly 100,000 people. More than half of the tickets were sold, that is, at least 50,000 tickets. On that day, Wang Hao actually sold 60,000 tickets. This is a market only for world-class boxing stars. Charisma, and Wang Hao has just debuted in professional boxing for more than a year, and it is not easy to have such an ability, which surprised Holyfield and Lewis.

The commercial value of professional boxing, due to the rise of Tyson in the late 1980s and early 1990s, was once concentrated in the heavyweight class, but the appearance of de la Hoya, Trinidad and Wang Hao made Huo Heavyweight boxing champions such as Liefeld and Lewis felt that the pan-middleweight boxing market is no worse than that of heavyweight boxing, and the market appeal of the top pan-middleweight boxing champion even exceeds that of the top heavyweight boxing champion.

After Wang Hao briefly chatted with Lewis and Holyfield for a few days, the press conference officially started.

First, the two heavyweight boxing champions took questions.

The first question from the live media was for Lewis.

A reporter from CNN asked: "Mr. Lewis! I heard that you have been waiting for a long time for the match against Holyfield. ?”

Lewis replied: "In fact, after Holyfield won the game against Muller two years ago, my agent and I formally sent an invitation to Holyfield and his agent to play a game. We also made a lot of concessions at the time, but the game still didn't happen! As for the reason, I think you should ask the guy over there!"

"The guys over there" naturally refers to Holyfield and his team.

But because each media has only one opportunity to ask questions, Lewis didn't answer, so he had to give up.

Immediately after the Showtime reporter asked a question, the question was for Holyfield. The reporter asked, "Is your recent training going well? How sure are you for the game in a week's time?"

Holyfield replied: "Frankly speaking, we encountered a little trouble in this training. We started training more than three months ago, but my shoulder injury recurred once in the middle, which led to the suspension of training! As for the game Be sure, you know Lewis is the strongest and fastest boxer in the heavyweight boxing world, I just want to fight my own game well!"

"I can also answer the question from the CNN reporter just now!" After answering the Showtime reporter's question, Holyfield continued, "After the game between me and Muller, I did receive an invitation from the Lewis team. , but the reason why it was not reached in the end was mainly because the appearance fee did not satisfy me, the appearance fee for that game was even lower than the appearance fee for the match between me and Muller, so I did not agree."

The Showtime reporter also nodded after listening to Holyfield's answer, and sat down.

Wang Hao listened to Holyfield's speech on the stage, and secretly thought that Holyfield was scheming and would not let go of any opportunity to make the game develop in his favor. Holyfield knew that he was at a great disadvantage in the match with Lewis, so he deliberately Showing weakness, saying that he has not trained enough, and old injuries have recurred, to paralyze Lewis and his team, trying to make them careless.

But Wang Hao knew that Holyfield's strategy would fail in the end, because Lewis is obviously not an ordinary boxer. When Lewis fights a boxer like Raman, he may relax his vigilance after a fight, but facing a boxer like Holyfield, It is absolutely not careless.

A few more reporters asked some questions, and then the interviews with the two heavyweight champions ended, and it was Wang Hao and challenger Srku's turn to be interviewed.

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