The development and popularization of judo in North America is still very good, many free fighting athletes and even American wrestlers have a certain foundation in judo, and in terms of official events, the overall strength of the United States and the Maple Leaf Country is good, compared with the first echelon of neon, France and today's Huaxia is a lot worse, but compared with the second echelon countries such as Tsarist Russia, it is not much worse, and it often wins in world-class events.

In addition to the points and high prize money, the Shirou North American Invitational Tournament held in LA this time also has an attractive attraction of a high appearance fee, and even if you don't take a noun, you can get the top eight bonuses to catch up with other invitational tournaments or Grand Prix.

This has a lot to do with the commercialization of the event in LA, and it can't compare to the European League, which boasts of doing an excellent job in the commercialization of judo, of course, this is mainly because of the LA Invitational Tournament. In addition to the LA Invitational Tournament, other events in North America are still not as good as the Europa League.

Because of the high prize money and the high appearance fee, and the good treatment in all aspects, the North American Invitational Tournament can invite judoka athletes with a high level of competition and ranking every time, even higher than some Masters stations.

Meng Fan is not here for the prize money and the level of the event, mainly because of the arrangement of the weightlifting and wrestling center, he doesn't care about the prize money, and he doesn't care about the level of the event, after all, whether the level of the event is top depends mainly on whether he participates or not.

In addition, Meng Fan was also going to visit and visit Pixar by the way, but not only did he come, but Shanhai Animation Studio also organized a group to come over a little later on another flight, and go to Pixar together after Meng Fan finished the game.

When the Huaxia judo team led by Meng Fan arrived at LA, they were warmly welcomed by the local Chinese at the airport, and the reception at the airport was quite spectacular, compared to any Chinese star who came to LA.

Nowadays, the Huaxia judo team has been among the ranks of the Chinese sports team, and in terms of results, it is temporarily at the bottom of the ranks of the heavenly group, after all, it will take less than a year to really exert its strength, but in terms of popularity, it does not belong to the top heavenly groups such as table tennis teams and women's volleyball teams.

Not only the local Chinese came, but also the local media, the Olympic hardware king and the latest Laureus Award winner, such an identity is enough to make the media crazy, not to mention that Meng Fan is also a handsome man who is crazy and known as the strongest man in the world.

Finally squeezed out of the crowd, the Huaxia judo team got on the bus and arrived at the hotel, and after checking in, they took the bus together to familiarize themselves with the competition venue.

The North American Rou Federation has put a lot of effort into the promotion of this event, and the focus of the publicity must be on Meng Fan's body, on the bus, you can see from a distance that there are many large posters of participating athletes hanging on the outer wall of the gymnasium, and the heroic Meng Fan is particularly prominent.

The publicity was successful, or Meng Fan's appeal was really strong, and the 12,000-person gymnasium has ushered in the first ticket sold out since its establishment, and a lot of them have been sold, and many seats have been added. This is not only the Chinese in the United States rushing tickets, many local audiences in North America are also participating in the crazy robbery, and a large part of them are not judo fans at all, and incomplete statistics show that female audiences account for a considerable proportion.

The Chinese team also received very thoughtful guidance to the gymnasium, and it was also enough time and venue to be familiar with the training arrangements of the venue, and there were also media reporters in the stadium who the athletes did not particularly like to see before the game, and there were quite a few of them.

"The organizers arranged a press conference before the game. ”

The leader of the Huaxia judo team told Meng Fan and others that they needed to attend the press conference after completing the familiarization of the venue, especially the athletes with world championship titles, including Meng Fan.

"Lao Tie!"

Teddy Rainer, who was training and playing in Huaxia, had already been taught badly by the Huaxia players, and after arriving with the French team, he greeted Meng Fan from afar, and when he shouted, he spoke in Huaxia language, with a clear and northeastern accent.

After the greetings, Teddy Rena called Meng Fan aside with a sneaky look as if he was going to do something bad, and said softly: "You have to be mentally prepared, someone wants to mess with you." ”

Meng Fan looked puzzled: "What is it?"

Teddy Ryaner told Meng Fan everything he knew: "I have a friend who is in the UFC league, and he also heard from others, saying that the UFC management is going to trouble you, I guess it should be related to your failure to deal with the UFC ring before." “

UFC, or Mixed Martial Arts Championship, is currently the world's top and largest professional MMA event.

Meng Fan thought about it, but he was a little impressed.

At first, he was famous for his brother-in-law Wu Ji being beaten in the Neon Martial Arts Gym and beating up many players by a crowd, and then he singled out the entire South Korean martial arts community, which also had an episode. When Meng Fan swept the major gyms in South Korea, the UFC had the intention of holding a ring match for Meng Fan and the leading figure Kim Hyun to fight, the purpose was of course to gain popularity and expand the UFC's influence in Asia and earn ratings and tickets, but Meng Fan didn't care at all, and continued to play in the gym.

After that, Meng Fan went further and further in the lifting and wrestling triathlon, especially in wrestling and judo, and the first in Asia slowly transitioned to the world's first power, and stood firm.

As we all know, UFC is the highest level of mixed martial arts, and mixed martial arts is equivalent to the extreme sport of human fighting under the regular competition system, so there has always been dissatisfaction with Meng Fan with the title of the world's strongest and the world's first fighter, and many UFC fighters have expressed dissatisfaction and disdain on the Internet.

It's just that after all, there is still a difference between Olympic sports and professional sports, and most people don't pay too much attention to it.

If it used to be said that such a large-scale and top-level event as the UFC deliberately and unreasonably found fault, it would not be reasonable, but now Meng Fan is in full swing in the global sports world, if it is really possible to say that the UFC deliberately "touches porcelain", after all, the most important income of UFC events is the ratings of the event and the sale of broadcast rights, and the influence of this piece is now comparable to Meng Fan There are really few people in the world.

Therefore, if Teddy Rena didn't have anything at all, Meng Fan believed most of it.

"Well, I'll take notice. “

"How do I have the feeling that you don't want to pay attention at all?"

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After getting familiar with the venue, the well-known athletes, coaches and team leaders who participated in the competition gathered together, and the media reporters also gathered together to start the pre-competition press conference.

All kinds of questions and answers soon came to Meng Fan's body.

Without Meng Fan's eyelids jumping, a reporter with beautiful and generous lips who was particularly troublesome at a glance stood up and asked: "Hello Huaxia Meng, what do you think of the title of the world's No. 1? Do you know that there is also a fighter with this title in the UFC?"