Chapter 371: The smell of gunpowder at the press conference
Willem scheduled Wang Hao's first title defense in Germany, at the famous Olympic Stadium in Berlin, also known as the Werner March Stadium.
The WernerMarch Stadium is world-famous and is ranked in the top 10 stadiums in the world.
Built at the beginning of the 20th century, the Werner March Stadium hosted the famous 1936 Olympic Games and was designed by the Maher family.
This stadium, which can accommodate 98,000 spectators, is a great honor for any boxer to be able to compete on stage in such a stadium.
When Wang Hao was playing in the Amateur Boxing World Championships in Hamburg, he came to the WernerMarch Stadium to watch the Vitaly Klitschko and Hebby Hyde WBO World Heavyweight Championship Challenge.
It was Vitaly Klitschko's first World Title challenge since he entered the professional boxing world, and Hebby Hyde was the WBO World Heavyweight Champion at the time.
Vitaly Klitschko played so well that he knocked out Herbie Hyde to claim the WBO World Heavyweight Title.
That bout was also the beginning of the Klinkchenko brothers' dominance of the world heavyweight professional boxing scene.
Wang Hao had not yet entered the professional boxing world at that time, and Wang Hao was also very envious to see Vitaly Klitschko compete in a world-famous stadium like the Werner March Stadium.
However, in a few years, Wang Hao can also play professional boxing matches at WernerMarch Stadium, and this time, Wang Hao is also the protagonist of the boxing match at WernerMarch Stadium.
After William and Wang Hao set the time for the fight with Hernandez, they immediately began to prepare intensively, because the time was too tight, and a month was too intense for any agent and fighter to prepare for a grand boxing match.
However, William deserves to be the best agent in Europe, he completed the task brilliantly, and soon planned the game for Wang Hao.
Because before, Wang Hao had not served as the No. 1 boxer in the boxing tournament alone, at most he only participated in the competition with other fighters as the main boxer of the boxing match, so although Wang Hao already has considerable fame and market appeal, William is still a little worried that these fame and appeal will not necessarily be implemented into real tickets and game broadcasts.
So William originally wanted to put Wang Hao's fight with other boxing champions' fights together, so as to gather more spectators, but after doing a small survey, William was surprised to find that there were already quite a lot of spectators in Europe who were willing to pay for tickets to watch Wang Hao's fight.
This made William a little surprised, but also knew that Wang Hao's current fame could be converted into real competition income, and there were quite a lot of viewers who spent money to watch Wang Hao's game.
In the end, Willian made Wang Hao's match the main event, and it was the only World Title bout of the night, and the venue was the Werner March Stadium, which can accommodate 98,000 people.
The stadium with a capacity of nearly 100,000 spectators is a top-level arrangement for a boxing match, and generally only a world-class famous boxing champion dares to fight in a stadium of this scale.
However, the sales of tickets for the final match were also better than Willian's expectations, and the match between Wang Hao and Hernandez sold half of the seats in the Werner March Stadium, that is, nearly 50,000 tickets were sold.
This is already a very remarkable achievement, after all, on the night of the boxing match, only Wang Hao and Hernandez had the title of world boxing champion in this match.
In contrast, when Wang Hao was playing in the Amateur Boxing World Championships in Hamburg, the Vitaly Klitschko and Hebby Hyde WBO World Heavyweight Challenge that only sold half of the tickets at the WernerMarch Stadium, and there were also featherweight titles between Nassim Hamad and Kevin Kelly.
Wang Hao's market appeal is already equivalent to that of a star boxer, which is naturally because there are too many halos on Wang Hao's body.
Olympic Boxing Champion! World Championship Boxing Champion! WBA Super Lightweight World Professional Boxing Champion! WBO super lightweight world professional boxing champion! Boxing Magazine's Best New Talent of the Year!
100 percent win rate, 100 percent knockout rate, plus the identity of an Asian fighter.
These have become the help of Wang Hao's strong market appeal.
William also defined this night's match as "Asian Storm", which means that Wang Hao is a fighter who has set off an Asian storm in the professional boxing world.
After learning that William had arranged the match with Hernandez in Berlin, Germany, Wang Hao also immediately set off from the United States to return to the Rhine Boxing Club to continue training, and Paul and Sanchez naturally accompanied Wang Hao.
Wang Hao is also very satisfied with William's arrangement, after all, for Wang Hao, who signed with the Rheinland Boxing Club, Berlin is also a home field.
A week before the game, Willian was also at the Berlin Exhibition Center, planning a pre-match press conference for the match between Wang Hao and Hernandez.
The press conference attracted more than two dozen media outlets, mostly sports media from continental Europe and the United Kingdom, but also some from the Americas and Asia.
In addition to attending the pre-fight press conference, the participating media will also be reporting and broadcasting the Asian Storm boxing night fight.
At the pre-fight press conference, counting the media and some fans who bought tickets, there were nearly 300 people gathered at the scene, which is not a small scale for a pre-fight press conference of a boxing match.
A reporter from the German national television sports channel in Germany first asked the question.
The tall male reporter's first question was to Wang Hao, "Mr. Wang Hao!" This is your first title defense against Hernandez, a former Olympic and World Champion boxing champion, what can you expect from this fight? ”
Wang Hao replied: "Yes! Not only is Hernandez an Olympic and World Champion boxer, but he's also an old rival of mine, and the first time we met was in the final of the Olympic 64kg category, when I knocked out Hernandez! I want to tell everyone that this fight will make no difference, and I will knock out Hernandez so that he will never dare to meet me in the ring again! ”
Because of the unpleasantness that happened in the timing of the game, Wang Hao did not have a good impression of Hernandez, and he naturally would not speak politely at this time.
A question from the German national television sports channel was followed by a female reporter from Sky Sports UK, whose question was addressed to challenger Hernandez, who asked: "I would like to ask, as a challenger, what do you expect from this fight?" ”
Because he lost to Wang Hao in the Olympic finals before, it was Hernandez's most painful defeat, so Hernandez couldn't let go for a long time, his heart was depressed a lot, ready to vent from this game, and although the pre-game press conference was not the scene of the game, it was also an opportunity to vent, so Hernandez said viciously: "My goal is to beat Wang Hao to death in the ring!" ”