Chapter 568: The First Cushion Match
After Fernando Vargas answered the questions, it was Wang Hao's team's turn to choose reporters.
This time, Wang Hao chose a reporter from Sky Sports UK.
A Sky Sports reporter asked: "What do you think are your strengths and weaknesses in this game, and what are the weaknesses and strengths of your opponent Fernando Vargas?" ”
Wang Hao felt that it was more appropriate for the coaching team to answer this question, so he wanted Sanchez and Paul to make a gesture of please.
Sanchez was told by Fernando Vargas just now, and he also had anger to vent in his heart, he immediately said: "In my opinion, Fernando Vargas has no advantage over Wang Haolai at all, he is shorter, his arm span is shorter, and his skills are useless, Fernando Vargas and his coach are a bunch of fools and garbage, and their skills look like they have been eliminated for a hundred years!" ”
Rise!
Directly called garbage by Sanchez, Fernando Vargas and head coach Smith stood up directly, and Smith, who was sitting next to Sanchez, even wanted to make a move, he reached out to grab Sanchez's collar, but Sanchez dodged it.
Sanchez, Paul, and Wang Hao also stood up immediately, and the on-site hosting team and field affairs immediately rushed to the rostrum to prevent the further development of the situation.
At the press conference between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas, after the two teams and even the coaching team exchanged bad words, everyone on both teams stood up angrily and even started to move.
Fernando Vargas' head coach Smith grabbed Sanchez by the collar, but Sanchez dodged him, and Sanchez was about to punch Smith.
Fernando Vargas also stepped forward immediately, and seemed to attack Sanchez with Smith.
Wang Hao and Paul also moved forward immediately, and the teams of the two sides were about to scuffle together, at this time, the alert host and field attendants immediately rushed to the rostrum and stood in the middle of the two teams, separating the two sides.
However, the fighters and coaches on both sides seem to be not resting on their laurels, pointing at each other, verbally attacking, and looking for opportunities to hit each other.
The scene was very chaotic for a while, but fortunately, under the handling of the on-site host and field affairs, the fighters and coaches on both sides gradually calmed down, and the order of the scene began to be restored.
When the teams of the two sides clashed, the reporters on the scene were happy, and the flash of the camera in their hands kept on and kept shooting.
Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas broke out in a verbal and physical altercation at the pre-match press conference, which is a breaking news that is very attractive to read, as a media person, it is natural not to let go of this news, and the clash just now will appear on the news of their TV station as quickly as possible.
After almost 20 minutes, the teams finally calmed down and the press conference continued.
After the reporters on the scene asked some questions from the two teams, the press conference came to the last part, which was the pre-match weighing.
This is the last weigh-in before the fight, and both fighters must be within the upper welterweight weight limit, and those who exceed their weight will be disqualified from the fight.
During on-site weighing, in order to avoid conflicts between the two teams, the on-site field staff also completely separated the two teams and took turns to weigh.
Wang Hao weighed first, Wang Hao, who was only wearing shorts, stood on the nominal, and the weighing result was 66.4 kilograms, which was more than a pound smaller than the upper limit of 67 kilograms.
Followed by Fernando Vargas's weigh-in, Fernando Vargas is now a super welterweight fighter who hasn't fought in the welterweight division for a long time, this time against Wang Hao, weight loss is also a test for Fernando Vargas, this time the pre-fight weight loss took longer than Fernando Vargas's previous pre-fight weight loss.
The first weigh-in, which Fernando Vargas had not had, was slightly higher than the limit of 67 kilograms.
After a little rest and exercise, Fernando Vargas did a second weigh-in, this time at 67 kilograms, which is just the upper limit of the welterweight weight, and Fernando Vargas barely made it through.
Through the weighing process, all the people present at the scene can see that Wang Hao's natural weight is now welterweight, and even if it is an official competition tomorrow, Wang Hao's weight will not be much more than today's weighing.
Fernando Vargas, on the other hand, has struggled to lose weight to reach the welterweight ceiling, and tomorrow he will be a super welterweight or even a middleweight.
In this game, Fernando Vargas obviously has an advantage over Wang Hao in terms of weight.
After the weigh-in, a number of fan events were organised before both teams left the press conference site to prepare for tomorrow night's game.
Saturday in Las Vegas, although it is not a holiday, is still full of festive atmosphere throughout Las Vegas, with far more crowds than usual and far higher than usual pedestrian sentiments.
Although today is not an official holiday in the United States, just an ordinary Saturday, it is an extraordinary day for all boxing fans, far more important than the average holiday, tonight is the day when super lightweight supremacy Wang Hao and IBF super welterweight champion Fernando "The Mighty" Vargas fight.
The streets of Las Vegas are filled with a huge number of fans, who either flock to the MGM Grand Hotel or walk into the bars on the streets of Las Vegas, and get ready to watch Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas fight tonight.
The start of the fight was 7 p.m., but half an hour before the start of the fight, the venue at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas was already packed with fans.
The MGM Grand Hotel was already densely packed with promotional posters, most of which were portraits of Wang Hao or Fernando Vargas.
Starting at 6 p.m., the big screen at the MGM Grand Hotel has begun to show a video of Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas's past matches.
The TV footage shown was footage of Wang Hao knocking out major opponents in the past, such as Chavez, Yudah, Costazou, and Morales, as well as footage of Fernando Vargas knocking out Campas to win the IBF super welterweight belt, as well as wonderful footage of Fernando Vargas fighting Wright and Kwartet.
While waiting for the bout to start, the highlights of these fights were played on a loop on the big screen over and over again, and the fans watched carefully over and over again, and the emotions were high, and it seemed that they never got tired of watching them.
Time flew by, and at 6:45 p.m., the host of the scene ascended to the center of the ring and began to introduce tonight's fight.
The lights changed, the scene gradually quieted down, and at this time, the host of the scene said: "Ladies! Gentlemen! Welcome to the MGM Grand Las Vegas, where you'll enjoy four incredible boxing bouts, two of which will hold the World Championship! ”
The host continued: "The first bout is a ten-round WBO heavyweight Intercontinental Champion of the Americas belt......
"The second bout will be a twelve-round WBO super bantamweight professional boxing title, in which Italian boxer Rhodes will take on the famous Mexican fighter Barrera, and this is Barrera's fifth defense of the WBO super bantamweight belt."
"The third bout will be a twelve-round WBA super middleweight professional boxing championship bout, with a challenger from Australia taking on defending champion American fighter Aix."
"And the fourth match is actually the match between Mr. Wang Hao, the boxing champion of the four major boxing organizations in the current super lightweight division, and Fernando Vargas, the current IBF super welterweight boxing champion!"
"Although both of them are world professional champions, because the level of competition agreed between the two is welterweight, not the level where the two have the belt, so tonight's main event will not compete for the belt."
"Although there is no fight for the belt, it is not enough to affect the impact of this fight, because the two fighters have huge influence and appeal in the professional boxing field, so tonight's fight is actually far more important than the average boxing championship gold fight, and it is the most anticipated fight of the year."
When the host introduced tonight's game, all the fans on the scene also listened carefully, although they already had some understanding of the arrangements for tonight's games, but with the host's introduction, it meant that these fights were about to be staged, and the fans on the scene were also very excited.
After the on-site host finished the introduction, a black American pop star took the stage to sing a song to kick off tonight's game.
The first bout was the WBO Americas Heavyweight Intercontinental Title fight, and the fighter who defended the gold belt was a white fighter from Texas, USA, while the challenger was a tall black fighter from Tennessee.
The defending white fighter has a career record of 21 wins and three defeats, with 17 knockouts winning the fight, while the challenger black fighter has a professional record of 20 wins, including 15 knockout wins.
In terms of professional record, it seems that the black fighters who are the challengers are stronger.
After the start of the fight, the first round of the two fighters was mainly tentative and played more cautiously.
At the beginning of the second round, the challenger black fighter began to unleash a lot of offense, and it was dominated by heavy punches, as if he wanted to wreak havoc on the defending white fighter in search of a takedown.
However, the defending white fighter also seems to be more technically sophisticated, although he does not have an advantage in the field and spends most of his time fighting back, but relying on effective slapping techniques, he actually does not give many opportunities to black fighters.
In this round, the black fighter dominated the field, but the two fighters did not have much difference in points.
The bout quickly moved into the third round, where the black fighter continued the same style as the previous round, while the white fighter continued to attack and instead focused on defense and counter-attack.
The third round was over quickly, and in this round, the black fighters attacked a lot and threw a lot more punches than the white fighters, but there was still no obvious point advantage.
The bout quickly moved into the fourth round, and in the first half of the round, the black fighter still attacked as he did in the first two rounds, but in the second half of the fourth round, the black fighter seemed to have some physical problems, and the frequency of punches decreased, and the punches seemed to be less powerful than before.
The white boxer, on the other hand, is as forbearant as ever, leaving the initiative to attack to the black boxer, and has been looking for loopholes that are becoming more and more obvious to the black boxer.
Finally, with half a minute left in the fourth round, the white fighter seized on a loophole in the black boxer's punch and landed a deadly backhand blow, both in terms of power and offensive distance, and knocked out the black fighter with one punch.
The knocked black fighter was taken by surprise, and he got back to his feet before he was recovering well, seemingly eager to prove that he could continue to fight.
The referee counted the seconds and the bout continued, and the white fighter began to attack the black fighter like crazy, at this time, the black fighter who had just been knocked out should be good defensive.
But the black fighter seemed unconvinced by the knockout, and instead of defending well, he went against the white fighter.
It was a white fighter's dream opportunity, and the two went into a hard-hitting showdown.
Although the black fighter still landed a few heavy punches with the white fighter, the white fighter relied on better condition and better physical fitness to hit more heavy punches from the black fighter.
The black fighter couldn't withstand the blow and fell to the ground again.
This time, it was only when the black fighter had suffered a heavy blow that the referee was about to finish counting the seconds in the ring that the black fighter stood up.
The fight continued, but the black fighter was not in the same shape as before, and this time he started to defend, and a lot of times, he started to defend with his head, but it was too late.
At this time, the white fighter could easily inflict heavy damage on the black challenger, and after a sharp attack from the white fighter, the black fighter fell to the ground again and was unable to get up.
Tonight's first boxing bout, a ten-round heavyweight bout, ended the bout with a white fighter knocking out a black challenger to defend his Intercontinental Champion Silver Belt.
This was followed by the second super bantamweight bout, which was a WBO World Title defense against the famous Mexican champion Barella, who is known and loved by fans.
Barella has won all 25 of his professional bouts so far, including 23 knockouts, maintaining his impressive professional record.