Chapter 291: The Olympic Journey (14)
On the evening of the fourth day, the 75-81kg boxing quarterfinals will be preceded by the men's 200m medley final, a long-awaited match for Chinese audiences, as Qin Jian is finally set to make his debut.
Today, Qin Jian's opponent is New Zealand's young rookie Kevin Barry, who has no record as a professional fighter and is best known for beating Holyfield in the Olympic semifinals.
But it's not glorious history, as it was a controversial victory typical of Olympic boxing history.
Of course, he did make some name for himself after retiring, having coached famous boxing champions such as David Tua and Joseph Parker.
But as a boxer, he really didn't look good enough in front of Qin Jian.
Although Kevin Barry is 188cm tall and weighs 80kg, his arm span is only 189cm, and his offensive skills and pace are not top-notch.
So I don't know if he suffered a big loss on Kevin Barry in his rookie period, which made Holyfield enlightened, because this style of play is always used by him on those evenly matched opponents, such as Tyson, who was angry with him with this style of play!
Qin Jian still refused to wear a head guard before the match, and in the face of this opponent who was three years older than him, he took the initiative to attack after the start of the match, and quickly took the initiative on the court with his sharp forehand jab and uppercut.
Kevin Barry had almost no power to fight back against Qin Jian, who crushed him in all directions, and was forced to use hugging tactics frequently at the first time, and would use foul tactics such as hitting the back of the head to provoke after hugging.
Of course, Qin Jian will not be affected by this tactic, but unlike the match between Holyfield and Barry, where the referee deducted points twice when the warning was unsuccessful, Barry's foul actions in this game will rarely be warned by the referee, and even if he is warned, he will not be deducted points.
But these are all within Qin Jian's expectations, once the Americans find that things are not under their control, they are afraid that when they change their faces, they will not even be able to reach the speed of the aurora.
Such a small double standard is actually nothing at all.
Qin Jian knew very well that if he couldn't knock Barry down, then it was very possible to lose the match in an advantageous situation.
So after the first minute of temptation, he launched a stormy attack.
If it is still possible to lose the game in the presence of the advantage, then he will let himself have the advantage and just see how shameless the Americans can be?
Barry knew very well that Qin Jian's continuous attack would definitely expose flaws in defense.
But it's one thing to understand, it's another thing to find flaws; I even saw the flaws, and whether I could target it is another matter.
What embarrassed Barry now was that he didn't even enter the stage of finding the flaw, in the face of Qin Jian's stormy attack, he felt like a small leaf exposed to the wind at first, but soon found out that he was actually a broken flower, and every punch of Qin Jian would make his petals fall by one, and if he continued like this, he would be completely destroyed sooner or later.
But the most desperate thing is knowing the outcome, but not being able to change one's fate.
At this time, his only means were to hug, at most, when the hug was successful, he would immediately use his chin to hit Qin Jian's face, or take the opportunity to sneak Qin Jian's head twice.
The Chinese audience is naturally furious, this New Zealander is too playful, if he can't fight, he will only hug him, and the key is a special work, every time he hugs, he always takes the opportunity to sneak attack Qin Jian.
Qin Jian seemed very calm, the only thing he was unhappy about was that this fist was too thick, he hit Barry in the head at least a dozen times in the first round, and hit the torso more times, and successfully knocked Barry down once.
But despite so many blows, Barry still survived the first round.
However, at this time, Qin Jian didn't think that he would be judged to lose, because this Barry hadn't hit him a few times at all, and he was even deducted points once because of too many small actions.
The referee and judges, while clearly biased in favor of Barry, could not ignore all the fouls.
In this case, if Qin Jian is still sentenced to lose in the end, it will be more than just shady, it is estimated that there is no need to hold Olympic boxing in the future, and who is the champion American will not be over.
So at this time, Qin Jian changed his mind instead, doesn't this Barry like to hug and make small moves?
Then he will give the other party a little more time to perform, and by the way, vent the negative emotions in his heart!
After the start of the second round, the live camera first gave each of them a close-up.
I saw that Qin Jian, a guy without a head guard, didn't see any damage on his face, and he really didn't even scratch his skin a bit.
But looking at Kevin Barry again, the man's entire face was already swollen in three places, and the injury to his left eye was the most obvious, not only began to swell, but also was accompanied by an obvious bleeding wound.
As for the dark wounds on the torso, I don't know how many.
Qin Jian changed his style of play in the second round, and instead of using his previously breathless streak of attacks, he used his pace, reach, and technique to gain an advantage in terms of pace, reach, and technique, and began to control the distance and attack the injured opponent with his forehand jab and straight punches, while gaining more crushing points.
This kind of control style of play makes Barry even more uncomfortable, because Qin Jian's pace is much more flexible than him, coupled with his arm span and technical advantages, Qin Jian can completely maintain a situation that can always hit Barry, but Barry can't hit his one-sided suppression.
At this time, Barry must desperately stick it to play close combat, otherwise he will be controlled by Qin Jian throughout the game, and in the end, he may not hit Qin Jian a few times when he loses the game.
But the problem is that the first round of the match proved that he could only survive in a rogue way of hugging in close combat, and this was when Qin Jian took the initiative to press the attack.
If Qin Jian took the initiative to control the distance, and then let Barry take the initiative to press the attack, then it is estimated that he would be hit by Qin Jian's heavy punch before he got close.
But if you don't press it, you won't be hit with a heavy punch?
Although Qin Jian used a control style in the second round, it doesn't mean that he won't suddenly change his tempo and press the attack.
What sets him apart in the second round is that he likes to hit his opponent with a flank attack after a succession of lateral moves, and he doesn't cut directly through the middle.
In addition to being more concealed and sudden, this punch is also to prevent the opponent from continuing to use the hug to stop the loss.
Barry's attack on this unorthodox angle was indeed difficult to judge the direction of Qin Jian's incoming punch, and he was constantly hit in the face and torso by uppercuts that flickered left and right, and he was really about to be beaten stupid.
With 1 minute and 25 seconds left in the second round, Qin Jian suddenly unleashed a series of heavy hooks from the side after moving sideways continuously, and the first punch was even a jumping heavy hook.
Barry had no idea that there would be such an attack, and he was hit the right side of the head, and his whole brain suddenly crashed for a moment.
Qin Jian's second punch was picked up in an instant, and Barry was almost completely killed by Qin Jian's three consecutive heavy hooks in a short moment when his brain was stuck.
"Grass, that coward hasn't fallen yet, why don't you let it be beaten?"
"The referee is pulling a bias, it's definitely shady!"
"Foreign devils are all raccoon dogs!"
“……”
The Chinese audience still expressed strong dissatisfaction at this moment, because the referee actually rushed forward and pushed Qin Jian away before he threw the fourth punch.
Qin Jian was also very dissatisfied after being pushed away, and the referee was actually suspected of violating the rules by doing so.
If his fourth hook just now had been thrown out and hit his opponent's chin, it would have been over for all.
But even so, Kevin Barry, who almost took a break, didn't stand up until the last second of the referee's countdown.
At this moment, Kevin Barry had more than three wounds on his face, and the left eye, which was the most seriously injured, had already bulged into a large bag, and the blood on his eyebrow bone kept seeping down.
But now not only is his left eye seriously injured, but his right eyebrow bone has also been wounded, and the surrounding area has obviously begun to swell.
In addition, both cheekbones and nose bones were also purple and swollen, blood kept oozing from the purple center, and the floor of the ring was covered with horrific blood.
However, these were still not all injuries, Qin Jian had been hitting Barry's torso, especially the core parts such as the waist, ribs, and abdomen.
Don't underestimate these blows, a boxer's strength comes mainly from these core parts of the torso, and it is from these core parts that most boxing techniques need to be launched in order to perform most boxing techniques.
If you can damage these core muscles of the opponent, it is equivalent to destroying the opponent's strength base, at least the opponent's punch strength and speed will be reduced, and at the worst the opponent will not be able to make technical movements at all, then it will naturally be invincible.
As a result, several key points on Barry's torso have already been damaged to varying degrees, the speed and strength of his punches have dropped by nearly half, and his body's movement and reflexes have also dropped significantly.
In fact, it was impossible for Barry to hit Qin Jian at this time, and even if he did, it would not be lethal.
So after the game restarted, Qin Jian continued to hit the opponent's currently intact part, the right waist hurt your left waist, the left rib hurt your right rib, in short, you can't find a good part of your body in the end.
Kevin Barry will be like a humanoid sandbag, facing Qin Jian can only be beaten passively, without a trace of counterattack ability at all.
However, although this guy has a dirty fighting style, he has kept the bottom line as a boxer, and he has obviously lost the ability to turn defeat into victory, even if he does not surrender in life or death, it is like he is playing Rocky.
But don't really say it, this will make the Western audience really regard Barry as a decent character like Rocky, Qin Jian is naturally the hateful black boxing champion, who should kill a thousand knives with a wicked person!
However, movies are movies after all, and reality is not so artistic.
Although Kevin Barry miraculously survived the second round with Qin's style of play, there was no place left in his upper body.
At this time, the live TV broadcast focused on the scarred Barry, and saw that his entire face was no longer a problem with a few injuries, but the whole face was swollen, both eye sockets were cracked, and the inner whites of his right eye were almost all blood red.
"Give up, you've done your best!"
"Kevin, it's over, we're proud of you!"
"Kevin, you're the hero of this ring!"
"Dirty Chinese, have you seen what a truly respectable fighter looks like?"
“……”
During the pause after the end of the second round, the Western audience in the entire boxing ring naturally regarded Kevin Barry as a hero, although these voices made Qin Jian very unhappy, and at the same time, he also did not understand, how could such a fighter who could only hug and make small movements become a hero?
But the support of the crowd gave Barry a step down the stage, and just as the final round was about to start, Barry said he couldn't straighten his waist.
At this time, the referee naturally could not let the game continue, and after confirming that Barry could not continue the game, he could only announce that the game ended early.
Naturally, Qin Jian successfully advanced to the semifinals by knocking out his opponent, but in the background, when the referee raised his arm to announce the victory, thousands of Western spectators collectively booed and cursed at him!
At this moment, Qin Jian's face didn't have much expression, he had long understood that a yellow person stood out in today's world, and what he gained was not only isolation and hostility, but also amazement and envy would be another knife.
But so what, as long as the motherland has a mushroom egg in his hand that can level the world, he is not afraid to straighten his waist and tell the world that the most powerful person in the world is the one who is isolated.
Qin Jian's match was only in the quarterfinals, and he had to win two more games to get that gold medal.
However, since his debut, Qin Jian, who has won all 7 fights by knockout, and no one can stand to end the match with him, has actually become the top seed to win the championship.
At this time, the three major professional boxing organizations all paid attention to the strength shown by Qin Jian, because various talented athletes have emerged in China in the past two years, especially after Qin Jian, a genius who looks like a boxing potential stock, was born, and the whole world knows that the talent of Chinese in boxing is probably also very high.
So further deduction, China is likely to emerge more talented boxers in the future, and "Chinese boxing" is likely to occupy an important position in the world boxing arena in the future.
This will make the world's three major professional boxing organizations fight each other, and they all hope to win over China, which has great potential.
But they didn't know that Qin Jian didn't just want to be the face of a certain organization, he wanted to fight all three of them again!
He wanted all three belts!
At this moment, in another venue, Shen Lang, who was also amazing, or frightened the world, had already undergone a routine urine test and was ready to attack his fifth gold medal.
The attention of this game can be guessed from the number of media on the scene, almost all developed countries, including half of the developing countries, have paid great attention to this game, and they naturally sent reporters to the scene to record the new record that is about to be born tonight.
Shen Lang himself may not have an accurate understanding of the stormy waves he is setting off now, "swimming" has a very high degree of attention in Western developed countries, and it has always been the limit of the human body after "track and field", and an Asian can break the world record in a certain short-distance swimming event, which is enough to become a big news.
But he has now won four gold medals in swimming in a row, and all of them have broken world records!
This impact on the world is more sensational than the achievements of Phelps in Athens and Beijing, because he is a Chinese who has never achieved results in swimming.
Tonight's "200-meter medley" is also a big event in the swimming competition, if Shen Lang can still win gold and break the record with an absolute advantage, it is equivalent to a Chinese winning all the championships in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters of track and field, and his name will definitely be recorded in the first few lines of the first page of Olympic history.
The Americans actually didn't want to check it before the game, except that the guy was definitely fine, and the news of several tabloids today even exposed the length of Shen Lang.
But they didn't know which supervisor broke the news, because the number of people who had served as Shen Lang's supervisor had reached 9, and they couldn't find out who was so big-mouthed.
In addition to the staggering number of news media personnel from various countries on the scene today, the most painful thing is that there are shameless American bitches who are starting to hold up their phone numbers.
This makes the white old men very angry, can't Nigo satisfy you, and have to do another "Yellowed" series???