Chapter 518: Boxing Magazine Annual Meeting (2)
Supporter Michael Buffay first handed the microphone to De La Hoya, who won the Boxing Match of the Year award.
Although de la Hoya has won many accolades since his professional boxing debut, honors such as Boxing Magazine's Boxing Tournament of the Year are still very rare and precious awards for de la Hoya.
De la Hoya was in a very good mood today, and he took the microphone from the host Michael Bufffield and said, "Thank you very much to Boxing Magazine, and thank you Mr. Hagler for giving me this award for Boxing Magazine's best fight of the year. It's a testament to my achievements last year, although I personally think I could have played a little better with Virtak. But I'm still very grateful that Boxing Magazine was able to present me with this honor of the best boxing tournament of the year. Thank you! Thank you! ”
Following de la Hoya's speech, Hagler, an American boxer who was one of the famous middleweight four kings of the former eighties, also took the microphone and began to speak.
"First of all, it's a great honour to present this award today to De La Hoya, who won this year's Boxing Magazine Best Fight Award," Hagler said. It's been a long time since I've been out of the boxing world, but I don't pay attention to what's going on in the world at all times. From the arrival of U.S. Olympic champions like de la Hoya into professional boxing, to the rise of the new four kings such as Mosley, Fernando Vargas, and Trinidad alongside de de la Hoya. I saw the arrival of a new spring in the middleweight division after the 80s, and this spring was even more exciting than the middleweight division in the 80s. ”
As he spoke, Hagler's eyes lit up, too, and he was clearly pleased with the positive changes in the middleweight division in today's professional boxing world.
At this time, the host Michael Buffay also smiled and said: "Yes! And now the pan-middleweight division can be said to be a cloud of masters, in addition to De La Joya, Moseley, Fernando Vargas and Trinidad are the four small kings of the middleweight division, many pan middleweight fighters also have the strength to become top fighters. For example, 'Sweet Pea' Virtak, 'Blue Collar Boxing Champion' Wright, 'Viper' Forrester, 'Bazooka' Quatai, and so on. ”
"Yes!" Hagler continued, "And Spinks, David Red, Gatti and Campas are also very good fighters. ”
"These fighters, including the four little kings led by de la Hoya, have the strength to become multiple boxing organizations, or even unify one division, but these fighters are now together, which is really amazing! These years will be the most competitive years in the pan-middleweight division! Hagler continued to exclaim.
"When it comes to pan-middleweight, it should also be counted as a first-time middleweight!" Host Michael Buffay reminded.
The first middleweight is also known as ultra-lightweight, which is the level where Wang Hao is located, but because this level is on the edge of the pan-middleweight division, it can be said to be lightweight, so what everyone often says about pan-middleweight refers more to welterweight to middleweight.
But strictly speaking, the first middleweight, that is, ultra-lightweight, can also be considered a pan-middleweight class.
"Yes!" Hagler also smiled and said, "I forgot about the first middleweight, but the pattern of the first middleweight division is too obvious, our young Asian champion has completely dominated this division, even if there are many excellent new and old strong fighters in this division, but it is difficult to shake Wang Hao's status." ”
Hagler said as he looked at Wang Hao, who was sitting in the first two rows of the crowd near the podium.
Wang Hao's Asian appearance and yellow skin are very conspicuous in this group of professional boxing celebrities who are mainly black and white. Pen in Chinese
When the host Michael Buffae mentioned the first middleweight division and Hagler also looked at Wang Hao, many boxers at the scene also looked at Wang Hao while applauding.
Wang Hao also smiled and clapped his palms, and nodded to the Weiwei crowd.
Speaking of Wang Haolai, many boxers at the scene were naturally full of admiration in their hearts, on the one hand, it was naturally because of Wang Hao's identity as a yellow boxing champion, and it was not easy to achieve today's results.
On the other hand, Wang Hao's dominance in the ultra-lightweight division has made these champions, famous fighters and boxing coaches feel admired.
You know, it's not easy to unify a professional boxing class, and it's even harder to firmly dominate a boxing class, and it's been many years since there has been a boxing champion in a class like ultra-lightweight that can unify the four major boxing organizations.
And Wang Hao has not only unified the four major boxing organizations in the ultra-lightweight division, but also thwarted the promoted Mexican rising Morales and the ultra-lightweight division's most promising young fighters Yudach and Diaz.
Moreover, Wang Hao's three title defenses were all won by knockouts, and none of them played four rounds, and Wang Hao's dominance in the ultra-lightweight division is terrifying.
This is also the main reason why the boxing people at the scene recognized Wang Hao so much.
Host Michael Buffae also turned to De La Hoya and continued to ask: "I heard that Wang Hao is about to be promoted to welterweight and will play Fernando Vargas first, what do you think of Wang Hao's promotion and the fight with Fernando Vargas?" ”
When host Michael Buffel asked this question, many of the boxers at the scene also laughed heartily.
On the one hand, because of the well-known clash between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas over HBO's night boxing, and on the other hand, De La Hoya is now the current WBC welterweight champion, and Wang Hao's promotion to welterweight is obviously not just for a fight with Fernando Vargas.
Wang Hao has already defeated all the strong opponents in the super lightweight division, and except for the second battle with Costa Zu, there are almost no big fights to fight, so Wang Hao has been upgraded to welterweight this time, and it is likely that he will not be relegated back.
Wang Hao is bound to attack the welterweight throne, so the current champions of the welterweight division are all potential opponents of Wang Hao.
So the host Michael Buffaffy asked de la Hoya what he thought, and the subtext was also to ask de la Hoya if he was ready to face Wang Hao's challenge, so many people at the scene also laughed knowingly.
Of course, a fighter like this de la Hoya likes difficult fights, and he is not afraid of any fighter's challenge, although he thinks that the host Michael Buffard's question is a bit strange, but de la Hoya also began to answer without hesitation.