Hernandez, ranked No. 1 in the 64kg category by the International Boxing Federation, is the king of the 64kg category, and he already has two gold medals in the World Boxing Championships and one Olympic gold medal in boxing, and he aims to win the Olympic gold medal in the second consecutive year.

If Wang Hao wants to win the Atlanta Olympics, he must climb the mountain of Hernandez and become the new king.

Wang Hao clearly knows that he will face many challenges in this Olympic Games, but Hernandez is the biggest one, so when Wang Hao was preparing for the Olympic Games, he also kept learning about Hernandez's information and did a lot of targeted training.

Through the information gathered by Bian Fang, Wang Hao knew that Hernandez's speed and strength were top in the 64kg class, and his technique was very comprehensive and skillful, especially in hand-to-hand grappling, and most of Hernandez's knockout matches were in close-range grappling, finishing opponents by hooking his head and body with hooks.

After knowing the main technical characteristics of Hernandez, Wang Hao also asked Bian Fang to find some video footage of Hernandez's game for research.

Through these game videos, Wang Hao studied the technical details of Hernandez, and improved the weaknesses in his current technology that could be caught by Hernandez.

Wang Hao's technique strengthening and improvement are mainly in two aspects, one is the technique of hand-to-hand grappling and dodging technology, Wang Hao focused on practicing close-range power and fast shaking, and fought some actual combat with boxers with good tight skills of the national boxing team.

At the same time, Wang Hao has also strengthened his long-distance skills, mainly to improve the speed of his jab, as well as the accuracy and strength of his backhand.

Wang Hao's preparation is actually two levels, because Hernandez's hand-to-hand grappling skills are very strong, so Wang Hao naturally will not choose to fight with Hernandez in the first place, the best way is to be able to control Hernandez at a long distance, which is the reason why Wang Hao has strengthened long-distance skills for Hernandez's style.

And strengthening the close-range grappling technique is naturally to deal with Hernandez's technical style, because although Wang Hao's goal is to control Hernandez on the periphery first, but in three rounds of nine-minute matches, there is always a chance that there will be a time to play close-range, and because Hernandez's speed is also very fast, Wang Hao's strategy of controlling Hernandez on the periphery may not be effective.

Of course, because the time is too short, it is difficult for Wang Hao to improve his close-range skills to a level with Hernandez in a short period of time, but at least he can reach the point where he is hit by Hernandez less and can fight for a certain amount of time when there is a close-range grappling.

Of course, Wang Hao has not let go of the training of Gopac dance and Lomachenko's speed ball, and has been doing it as regular training, which has a great effect on Wang Hao's basic qualities of improving his reaction and pace, and it is also the basic training of Wang Hao's wrapping footwork as a killer feature.

In the short six months before the start of the Olympic Games, Wang Hao spent most of his time training in China, and spent a month in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he did some pre-competition preparations under the guidance of Atoli Lomachenko.

Atoli Lomachenko also knows a lot about Hernandez, who has ruled the 64kg division of the International Boxing Federation for a long time, and has provided Wang Hao with a lot of advice and guidance, many of which Wang Hao did not expect, or Wang Hao thought of, but in terms of details, Atoli Lomachenko gave better guidance, so that Wang Hao naturally benefited a lot.

During this time in Kyiv, Wang Hao met the Klitschko brothers several times, on the one hand, they reminisced about the past, and on the other hand, Wang Hao also learned that Vladimir Klitschko was going to represent Ukraine in the Atlanta Olympics in the competition above 91 kilograms.

This reminded Wang Hao of some information from his previous life, where Vladimir Klitschko participated in the Atlanta Olympics and won a gold medal above 91 kilograms.

This makes Wang Hao feel that this trip to the Atlanta Olympics in the United States is becoming more and more lonely, with Jiang Tao of the national boxing team and his old friend Vladimir Klitschko participating together, Wang Hao can find a partner whether it is training, competition or spare time.

While Wang Hao was preparing for the Olympics in full swing, the other participating fighters were not idle, and they went all out to prepare for the Atlanta Olympics.

In the Olympic boxing competition, there are only 32 places in each division, so there are many excellent fighters, especially those from boxing powers, who may not necessarily have the opportunity to participate in the Olympic Games, they need to go through brutal domestic or continental trials to have a chance to participate in the Olympic Games.

But there are also very few fighters who can directly participate in the Olympics without participating in the trials, there are two in the 64kg class, Wang Hao is one, because he is the gold medalist of the last World Championships, and the other is the Cuban king Hernandez, he is the champion of the last 64kg Olympic Games, and he can also directly qualify for the Atlanta Olympics without participating in the trials.

Cuba! Havana! Rafael Treggio Training Camp!

It is one of the meccas of boxing.

In Cuba, boxing has a wide mass base, there are many young people who like boxing, and the talent training echelon is also very complete, coupled with the good management and talent mining mechanism of the Cuban Boxing Association, Cuban boxing masters gather, and the number of medals won in the Olympic boxing event is second only to the United States, which is not easy for a small country with a population of only a few million and is not rich.

Cuban boxing and American professional boxing are both the most representative and flourishing forms of boxing, but the characteristics of the two are very different.

While professional boxing in the United States is full of business and money, Cuban boxing is a pure land of boxing.

In Cuba, although the boxing training facilities here are backward, the participation of the people is high, and boxing is a national sport; Although there are no fancy stadiums, all Cuban citizens can watch boxing matches for free; Although the fighters do not earn much, they are sincerely respected and loved in Cuba.

As the American writer Price put it, "There are no luxury boxes, no exclusive parking spaces, no sponsors, no team members walking around, no tickets sold for the price of a car...... You can enjoy a very pure boxing game in Cuba, and as a fan, I think that's what boxing should be, and it used to be such a sport. Many fighters in Cuba have joined the sport because they love boxing, and this is not often the case anywhere else in the world. ”

At this time, in a low room in Rafael Treggio's training camp, a spirited boxer was looking at the boxing video in front of him on a black-and-white TV, which he had specially found, which was the final of the 64kg class of the last World Boxing Championships, the match between Chinese boxer Wang Hao and Bulgarian boxer Ichkov.

And the boxer who buried his body deep in the sofa in front of the black-and-white TV and was carefully analyzing this boxing match was none other than the leader of Cuban boxing in the 64kg class and the top boxer ranked first in the 64kg class of the International Boxing Federation, Hernandez!

As a multi-time World Championship and Olympic boxing champion, with just two early losses in more than 200 fights in his career, and a dominant fighter in the 64kg class, there's a reason why Hernandez has been able to achieve great results.

He's skilled, thoughtful, hard-working, and never takes any opponent lightly, so he's been able to sweep through every fighter in his division in the last six years without dropping a fight.

The preparation for the Olympic Games this time, Hernandez also paid the same attention and careful preparation as all the previous competitions, and the object of Hernandez's preparation was also focused.

Wang Hao, who rose to prominence at last year's World Championships, was the focus of Hernandez's preparations, and the video of the match that Hernandez was watching was collected by the coach of the Cuban boxing team that he had entrusted to him.

Hernandez carefully watched the video of the game, he found that Wang Hao's skills are comprehensive, fast, and his strength is also extraordinarily strong, Hernandez knows that he needs to prepare for the competition with Wang Hao very seriously, so that he can meet Wang Hao in the Olympic Games and win the game smoothly.

Fortunately, the Cuban boxing team has two fights with Wang Hao in the 64kg class, and can be a sparring partner for Hernandez.

Squeak!

At this time, the old wooden door of the room, which had been closed, opened, and an old black man with a wrinkled forehead and wearing a sportswear walked in.

Hernandez looked back at the person and said, "Coach Taka! ”

The old black man in sportswear named Taka nodded, glanced at the TV and said: "I have watched this video five or six times, this Chinese boxer named Wang Hao is not simple, he is even more threatening to you in this Olympics than Kamenlev, Ichkov, and David Diaz, Jill Reachers and Yudach of the United States."

Hernandez nodded and said, "I can also see that he has some unique features compared to several other fighters, and I am studying it!" “

Taka nodded, Hernandez is his fighter, Taka knows Hernandez very well, most people think that Hernandez can dominate the 64kg class for so long because of good boxing talent, but Taka knows that talent for Hernandez is just a kind of icing on the well, the reason why Hernandez has gone so far is that the attitude of hard training and meticulous spirit is the biggest reliance.

Taka believes that although Wang Hao's strength is good and he is a new young opponent for Hernandez, as long as Hernandez takes it seriously, coupled with Tacka's own boxing experience, Wang Hao will not be a substantial challenge to Hernandez.

Russia! Moscow!

The former Soviet Union, as a boxing power that can go hand in hand with the United States and Cuba, also left two major boxing legacies after its disintegration, one is Russian boxing and the other is Ukrainian boxing.

The boxers cultivated by these two will have the strength to dominate one side in the future, whether in amateur boxing or professional boxing.

In a boxing gym in Russia, Kamenlev, the former Soviet Union national junior boxing champion, the former World Junior Boxing Championship runner-up, and the former World Championships boxing runner-up, is training hard in the gym, and his coach is drinking vodka next to him, while giving Kamenlev guidance on what needs to be improved technically.

Kamenlev has been preparing for the Olympics very hard, training in the gym for more than ten hours every day for most of the year.

Kamenlev's goal is also very clear, to win the gold medal in the 64kg boxing class at the Atlanta Olympics, to make up for his lack of gold medals in the World Championships and the Olympic Games in international competitions.

Now Kamenlev relied on his good performance in adult amateur boxing to win the silver medal at the previous World Boxing Championships, and has only lost to Hernandez in adult amateur boxing so far, so he can currently rank second in the International Boxing Federation 64kg division.

In order to prepare for the Olympics, Kamenlev even gave up participating in the last World Boxing Championships, that is, at the World Championships when Kamenlev gave up participating in the championship, Wang Hao won the championship.

Kamenlev also soon learned the news that Wang Hao won the World Championships, and Wang Hao, who could win the gold medal in the World Championships for the first time, made Kamenlev, who had not won the gold medal in the adult World Championships or the Olympic Games, very envious and jealous.

And Kamenlev also remembered his defeat in the final of the World Junior Boxing Championships by Wang Hao, which made Kamenlev more energetic to prepare for the Olympics.

Kamenlev vowed to win the Olympic gold medal in the hands of Hernandez and Wang Hao.

Cuba's Hernandez, Russia's Kamenlev, China's Wang Hao and Bulgaria's Ichkov all have the ability to compete for gold and silver at the Olympics, but the strongest team is the United States at the Olympic level.

The U.S. boxing team has a lavish lineup at the Games, and with home advantage, they are looking to win as many boxing gold medals as possible at the Games.

In the 64kg class alone, the U.S. team has three fighters ranked in the top 10 of the International Boxing Federation, making it the team with the most International Boxing Federation masters.

The three American fighters in the 64kg division are David Diaz, Jill Varjes, and Yudah, all of whom are ranked in the top 10 of the International Boxing Federation, with David Diaz currently ranked fifth, behind Hernandez, Kamenlev, Wang Hao, and Ichkov.

Jill Varjes, who lost to Wang Hao in the semi-finals at the last World Championships, is seventh.