Chapter 837: The World Audience's Competition
All over the United States, as long as the media can be called, almost all come to Los Angeles.
That afternoon, boxing champion Mike traveled from Lasswell to Los Angeles, and when he appeared at the airport, hundreds of reporters were waiting to interview Mike.
As a boxing champion in the new era, Mike does not get as much attention as Tyson and other legendary boxing champions of the older generation, and many boxing champions are produced every year.
Mike is one of the most watched heavyweight champions in recent years, and the reason for this is because of the establishment of the current Wushu Alliance, as well as Mike's challenge to the Wushu Federation, of course, the most important thing is that the Wushu Federation has accepted the challenge head-on and will compete in the ring in front of many media.
It has attracted the attention of the American people, who have recently been immersed in grief.
Therefore, many media outlets across the United States have spared no effort to report on it to get more viewers and divert people's attention.
In this regard, even the current US government has no choice, thinking that it does not want the martial arts alliance to make a big noise, and on the other hand, it wants the people to divert their attention and no longer stay on the New York incident.
Obviously, you can't have it both ways.
At the Los Angeles airport, Mike faced hundreds of reporters and loudly declared to the world: "I will defeat all opponents, my idols are Ali and Tyson, and I can knock down any kung fu with one punch." ”
The next day, on the front page of the Los Angeles Times, Mike raised his hands in front of the reporters and looked arrogant, with the headline: Boxing champion Mike will beat all kung fu.
Here, Kung Fu became synonymous. On behalf of all Chinese warriors.
In the hotel, Chen Xiaoling looked at the information in the newspaper, shook her head slightly, threw it aside, picked up a boxing book and looked at it carefully, this is a manuscript boxing book of Li Laoneng, the master of Xingyi mythology, which Wang Hengxiao collected some time ago, and after reading it, he gave it to Chen Xiaoling and asked Chen Xiaoling to study it carefully.
Recent. Chen Xiaoling is reading this boxing book. I've watched it back and forth four or five times.
"Senior, do you need to go to the scene for instructions?"
Li Zekai came to Chen Xiaoling's room and asked in a low voice.
A press conference will be held shortly. The first of the week-long challenge held by the American Wushu Federation is also about to begin. The first fight was the ring stopper between He Wen and boxing champion Mike. The location, which is at the famous Staples Arena in the world, may be the most known stadium by the Chinese. Because this is the home arena of the NBA Lakers and the home arena of the Clippers.
Today, it's not about basketball, it's about the home of the American Martial Arts League.
Li Zekai spent a lot of money to charter the four Pusi centers for seven days, and there will be a Lakers' home court on the fourth day, so there is a gap of one day, but it does not affect the plans of the Wushu League.
Chen Xiaoling thought about it, originally she didn't want to go, because the martial arts alliance has been officially established, and now it has entered the operation stage, and it is up to the alliance to take care of itself.
But thinking about it, Chen Xiaoling was still afraid of accidents, so she stood up, put the boxing book in her hand into her pocket, and said, "Let's go, I'll go and see it too, I'll keep a low profile, you don't have to worry about me, just do it according to your plan." ”
Li Zekai nodded, followed behind Chen Xiaoling, and said: "Senior, don't worry, you're ready, the key is to look at your strength, after all, it's a ring match." Strength is everything, our strength is so strong, and we don't have to worry about the deliberate suppression of the U.S. government, we don't need to worry about it at all. ”
"That's what the U.S. government will do, none of us know, let's go."
Chen Xiaoling said lightly.
In New York, the U.S. government was forced to kill Wang Hengxiao and others completely, but bombers were triggered to bomb the city of New York, and warships launched missiles for carpet bombing. In the New York incident, the United States estimated that more than 1 million people died, but in fact the number of people who died was more than 3 million, of which 90 percent were killed by the Americans themselves.
Who knows if the United States will come to Los Angeles like this again?
If Wang Hengxiao was here, it would not be impossible for such a thing to happen.
Chen Xiaoling followed Li Zekai downstairs and got into a business car, and drove directly to the Staples Center with the team.
At this time, the Staples Center was already full, and this stadium was originally booked by several singers to hold a concert, but Li Zekai used a money offensive to beat him away. Tickets for today's ring match were only sold last night, but they were sold out in the morning.
Nineteen thousand seats, full, full.
Li Zekai smiled bitterly in his heart, in order to disgust those Americans fiercely, he specially set the tickets to the lowest rear row ordinary ticket of 5,000 US dollars for each show, and the highest VIP ticket and front row were 20,000 US dollars.
The average ticket price is over 9,000 US dollars!
It can be said that it has set a new high for tickets to American stadiums, and the highest ticket for an NBA arena is only when Jordan made his second comeback that year, and the average ticket price reached nearly $1,000.
But that's a lot different from the $9,000 average ticket to the four Pulp centers.
In a week's time to charter the entire Stamp Center, Li Zekai spent 150 million US dollars, an average of more than 20 million US dollars per day, and today alone, the first day of ticket revenue of 170 million US dollars, has already recovered the cost, and has made a profit of more than 20 million US dollars.
Unfortunately, after the New York incident, the value of the dollar is no longer as good as before, and it has been depreciating for more than three years.
However, nearly $200 million in ticket revenue a day has shaken the entire United States.
When Li Zekai and others came to the Staples Center, hundreds of media outlets who had been waiting here for a long time surrounded them.
"Mr. Lee, you chartered the entire Staples Center, and the ticket revenue on the first day reached $170 million, which is more than your rent for seven days. You hyped it up before, and set up such a ring competition, did you just want to make a fortune here? ”
A young reporter hurriedly handed over the microphone and asked.
Li Zekai with his own team. As well as the master of the martial arts hall, as he walked, he said: "I can only say that you don't know my net worth and the influence of my company, as long as I want, I will earn more than $100 million a day." The reason why I set such a high ticket is to try the spending power of Los Angeles, and in the future, our martial arts federation will also hold various ring competitions in the United States, and we will also sell tickets, which will help our marketing plan. ”
"I didn't expect to book such a high ticket on the first day. All tickets will still be sold. I would say that Los Angeles is rich, America is rich. ”
I heard the Chinese boast that they are rich and that they are among the richest people in Asia. The American reporters present were all happy. They all laughed.
But. Laugh to laugh, happy to be happy, what should be asked is still to be asked. What should be difficult is still difficult.
"Mr. Li, there have been nearly a dozen professional boxers who have expressed interest in your challenge, and they said what would be the benefit if they beat you? In their opinion, it is a shame to run so far to defeat a fancy Chinese. ”
Another reporter hurriedly asked aloud.
Suddenly, Li Zekai and his entourage stopped one after another and looked at this reporter, who suddenly felt a lot of pressure, and it was difficult for him to breathe under the suppression of a powerful breath, especially the group of Chinese behind Li Zekai, he felt that everyone's breath was ringing in his ears.
"I'm now announcing that if anyone wins a fight from our Wushu Federation in a one-week challenge, and they can take a million dollars in cash on the spot, I'm going to have people prepare cash right now. If Mike can win this one today, he can take a million dollars in cash on the spot. ”
Li Zekai said lightly.
Then, he turned and walked away, ignoring the reporters.
However, these reporters were excited, because they had already gotten what they wanted, and after some of the live broadcasts broadcast the screen, the ratings instantly increased a lot.
A lot of people are stimulated.
Winning a game and taking away a million dollars in cash is really too much of a temptation for those professional boxers.
Even new heavyweight champion Mike was thrilled to hear the news, thinking that he would be able to get a million dollars in cash.
Now it is not as popular as the boxers of Tyson's era, Tyson was able to get tens of millions of dollars in honorarity for a game that year, and was the most profitable athlete in the world, and one game only lasted a few dozen seconds, and received a reward of 20 million dollars, and Tyson was called a money printing machine by the American media.
And today's boxers, even heavyweight boxing champions like Mike, earn about 10 million dollars a year, and the highest is about two or three million dollars per game.
Now you can get a million dollars in cash just by winning a fight, which definitely stimulates many professional boxers, and a million dollars a fight is not the highest pay, and it needs to win the opponent to get it.
However, the opponent is Chinese!
This is what many boxers are most happy about, and in their opinion, this is what the martial arts league is trying to discredit themselves, give money, or do whatever it takes to promote themselves, even if it is a fool.
It's just that when the time comes, will they continue to lose too much?
I'm afraid I won't have my share, so I'm going to hurry.
A lot of professional boxers are heading to Los Angeles. Previous boxing champions have also said that they will challenge the Wushu League and will immediately rush to Los Angeles to challenge the Wushu Federation.
For a while, the boxing champions of the previous few years, who rarely appeared in the previous years, appeared in the major TV media in the United States, and they expressed their arrogant thoughts and challenges to the martial arts alliance in front of the camera.
"My fist is already hungry and thirsty."
"Knocking down the Chinese is the easiest task for me, maybe when we get in the ring, they run away on their own, because I stand still, and they have to jump up to hit my head."
"Dear fellow Americans, do you want to see us beat up the Chinese? I've decided to head to Los Angeles. ”
One by one, the pictures were transmitted to the whole world through satellite television, and the governments of various European countries also relaxed their restrictions on this, and major television stations broadcast them one after another.
Meanwhile. The Imperial Court TV sports channel in Chinese mainland also reported on this, as well as Phoenix TV and some TV stations on Hong Kong Island, and even sent reporters to Los Angeles to follow up the whole process.
The eyes of the whole world are focused on Los Angeles, the Staples Center in the United States.
Li Zekai took all the players of the Wushu Federation and collectively showed a portrait to the media, so that everyone officially walked to the front desk, and the reporters' cameras and cameras kept taking pictures and asking all kinds of questions, Li Zekai and others were silent and did not speak to the reporters' questions.
Enter the venue. The whole hall was in full swing. Nearly 20,000 people shouted slogans.
"Hit the Chinese."
"Funny Chinese Kung Fu."
"Bullying children."
Huge slogan banners and so on abound in the audience.
He Wen and other young generation players looked at such a scene, they were all angry in their hearts, and their eyes looked at it angrily, but they didn't speak. can enter the realm of masters at such an age. The realm of the heart is not low. Knowing when to calm down.
At this time, the best response is to slap Chi Guoguo in the face in the ring.
And in the audience. There is no shortage of Hollywood stars familiar to the American public, and in order to please the American audience, these stars are also wearing their own clothes. Or maybe there are some letters written on the hat on the head, and the meaning is naturally biased towards American boxers.
In fact, in the whole United States, everyone does not believe that those fancy martial arts can defeat the American heavyweight boxing champion, although Mike is not as powerful as the legendary boxing champion in history, but he is also a professional boxing champion, not everyone can compare.
In particular, the audience at the scene saw the twenty young people behind Li Zekai, the tallest was only 1.8 meters, and the lowest was only about 1.65 meters tall, and none of them were big men with muscles.
Many viewers pointed at this group of people and laughed.
The media who broadcast the live broadcast smiled excitedly at the camera: "I'm at the Staples Center now, and the players from the Wushu League walk in behind, including the fighters who will face the heavyweight boxing champion Mike today, looking at their size, I want to say, Asians, you should have a good development." ”
On the other side of the field, Mike and his party had already stood up, as a party to Mike, as soon as he stood up, he was 1.85 meters tall, and the strong muscles of his upper body trembled, which made the audience scream one after another, and many blonde women shook their heads and called loudly when they saw Mike's strong body and arrogant face and smile.
Li Zekai's face was calm, although he also filled with a lot of anger in his heart, but he knew what to do now, this is Los Angeles, 19,000 people came, 18,000 people were Americans, and only about 1,000 people were Chinese, and these Chinese people were a little afraid when they saw the Americans around them so arrogant and excited, and they all held up the placards and other things they brought, and they didn't dare to shout loudly.
Today's ring match is a global live broadcast, and the live broadcast rights have been sold to more than 30 media outlets around the world, and the live broadcast fee is more than 10 million US dollars.
However, China's major TV stations did not give money, and only symbolically signed a written contract with the Wushu Alliance.
"It's so good, the audience here today is very excited."
Li Zekai personally presided over the stage, holding the microphone, facing the 20,000 people present, fearless, his eyes swept around, looking at the group of people on Mike's side, and the ring built in the middle, the ring is the kind with an iron cage, showing the cruelty of the ring game. In the future, the ring of the martial arts alliance was also built, and the iron cage was enclosed.
Of course, the Wushu League is like this, not to show the cruelty of the competition, but to prevent the aftermath of the competition of Lei Tian players from hurting the audience.
The audience was slightly quiet.
Li Zekai is very sure of what he is doing, and he is sure that he knows that from today on, the rise of the martial arts alliance will be unstoppable in the world.
Wushu will spread all over the world, and he will be one of the founders, and he will also be one of the helmsmen of the future martial arts alliance!
"The Wushu Alliance was officially established, not to mention much, because it is a martial arts sports league, so everything is in the ring to speak with strength."
Li Zekai said loudly: "After the game, we will have a formal press conference. Now, there are two players invited to the ring. ”
Li Zekai nodded at He Wen, and He Wen, under the impetus of many younger companions, ran out, wearing very loose practice clothes, and trotted to the ring, without any fancy clothes, just ordinary.
Mike, on the other hand, came to the entrance, jumped up directly, grabbed the guardrail with both hands and got in, causing the audience to scream.
All, the referee locked the entrance to the iron cage, and the referee is a Chinese master, which is the referee system of the Wushu Federation.
"There are no gloves in our martial arts league competitions, and the only rule is that you can't bite people with your mouth, you can't kill people, you can't mutilate, as long as you can knock down your opponent, you can use any other means."
Li Zekai explained to everyone.
The audience was relieved to see that He Wen was not wearing boxing gloves, and then Ha Lu Ha Da laughed.
Because the audience saw Mike and He Wen standing face to face, Mike was 1.85 meters tall, and He Wen was only about 1.7 meters tall, like a child in front of Mike's strong figure.
Mike made a very helpless expression, shrugged his shoulders, threw away the boxing gloves in his hands, squeezed his fists, clicked, looked at He Wen, and grinned: "Boy, you are very unlucky!" ”
"No, it's you who are unlucky, as the first opponent, you are destined to be tragic."
He Wen shook his head and said to Mike with a smile. (To be continued......)