Chapter 423: The First Match
Wang Hao's parents Wang Lizhi and Zhao Jinfeng went abroad for the first time to watch Wang Hao's game, and the young girl who was with them was naturally Huang Yueying, and the other was naturally Wang Hao's quasi-father-in-law and Huang Yueying's father Huang Jianguo.
This is also the first time Huang Jianguo came to the arena to watch Wang Hao's game.
As a domestic sportswear tycoon, Huang Jianguo once objected to his only daughter Huang Yueying getting along with Wang Hao.
But as Wang Hao slowly won the World Championships, Olympic champion, world professional boxing champion, and became the pride of the whole China and even Asian boxing, Huang Jianguo gradually changed his opinion of Wang Hao and gradually accepted Wang Hao.
This time I came to Riyadh with Wang Hao's parents to watch Wang Hao's game, and it was also the first time that the three elders met.
In such a major competition, Wang Lizhi, Zhao Jinfeng, and Huang Yueying came to the scene to watch the game, naturally cheering for Wang Hao, but they were also worried in their hearts.
After all, Wang Hao's opponent today Costa Zu is far from being comparable to Wang Hao's previous opponents, who is also the most dominant boxing champion in this division, also has two boxing belts, and also almost 100% knockout opponent wins, they know that Wang Hao's fight tonight will be extremely difficult.
At seven o'clock in the evening, the lights of the Riyadh Stadium dimmed, and the King of the Desert Boxing Night match was about to begin.
As a world-renowned boxing event, there are five boxing bouts tonight, and each one has a title, two of which have a continental title and three have a world title.
Generally speaking, major boxing matches will be supported by entertainment stars, and tonight is no exception, and the organizers of the tournament arranged two groups of singers to help out before the start of the match.
One group is a famous hip-hop band from Europe and the United States, and the other group is a pop music singer from the Arab world.
At the huge Riyadh Stadium, where the lights dimmed and spotlights hit the ring, the famous hip-hop band from the United Kingdom took the stage first, followed by two Arab singers.
The mood of the audience also improved with the music.
Wang Hao can also hear these singers singing in the lounge.
Wang Hao is already very familiar with the songs sung by the hip-hop band from the United Kingdom and is not very interested, but Wang Hao listens to the singing of the two Arab local singers with relish.
Two Arab singers, the first from Lebanon, sang an extremely beautiful lyrical song, and the other from Saudi Arabia, a well-known singer in Saudi Arabia, sang an Egyptian folk song that he is very good at, which made everyone, including Wang Hao, fascinated by it.
In the studio of CCTV, the host Han Qiaosheng and Bian Fang, Li Da'an and others were also fascinated by it, Han Qiaosheng praised with endless aftertaste: "It's really unexpected, I didn't expect the Arab world to have such beautiful folk songs, thank you for tonight's game, let us enjoy the passionate boxing match when we can also enjoy the fascinating Arabic music." ”
The two groups of singers sang for nearly 20 minutes, and at almost half past seven o'clock local time, the host of Al Jazeera announced the official start of tonight's boxing match and first explained the arrangements for tonight's game.
The first bout of the night is a middleweight bout between a Saudi fighter and a Kazakh fighter who will compete for the World Boxing Organization WBO Middleweight Asian Intercontinental Title.
This bout is also the only one with Middle Eastern fighters participating.
Because boxing in Middle Eastern countries is very underdeveloped, even inferior to East and Central Asia in Asia, boxers of Middle Eastern origin can be said to be very rare.
Although the famous featherweight champion Nassim Hamad is from *** world, he himself is a British citizen, and his hometown is Pakistan, and although Pakistan belongs to *** world, it is not a Middle Eastern country.
Therefore, it is not easy to find an excellent professional boxer from a Middle Eastern country, and this time it is also because it is a competition in Riyadh, so a Saudi fighter is specially arranged to play in the first match.
In fact, according to the ranking of the WBO middleweight division, this Saudi fighter and his Kazakh opponent are still quite different, and there is also a big gap between the real strength of the two.
The second bout is a heavyweight boxing bout in which a two-meter-tall white giant from Poland and a one-meter-ninety-eight black giant from the United States compete for the WBC's Intercontinental Champion of the Americas Silver Belt.
The third match is a match with a world boxing title, Mexico's famous super featherweight boxer, the current WBC super featherweight boxing champion "Babyface" Barrera, defending his WBC super featherweight championship belt, the challenger is from the United Kingdom, is a WBC super featherweight ranking ninth strength fighter.
The fourth bout is a sub-heavyweight division, which is second only to heavyweight, but there are few world-renowned fighters in this division, because the most fans are still focusing on heavyweight and pan-middleweight.
Tonight's welterweight bout is between an American fighter and a British fighter who is both black, with the American defending his IBF World Title belt.
The final match, which is also tonight's main event, will naturally be the long-awaited super lightweight champion unification battle from China, with WBO and WBA super lightweight belt holder Wang Hao from China taking on Soviet IBF and WBC super lightweight belt holder "Aussie Thunder" Kostazu.
It's a game of the kings of the desert in the Middle East!
It's the "Battle of the Red Warriors"!
It's also a "battle for billions of dollars"!
The first game started right away.
The Kazakh fighters were the first to play, while the Saudi homegrown fighters, who were given special care because they were playing at home, came in second.
It was a ten-round WBO middleweight Asian Intercontinental Title bout.
The Kazakh fighters wore blue shorts with ethnic characteristics, while the Saudi fighters wore white shorts.
Seeing the Saudi boxer on stage, the Middle Eastern audience at the scene was also very excited, and they loudly cheered for the Saudi boxer in white shorts.
The Saudi fighter was also very excited, let go of the fight, and was eager to fight the Kazakh fighter at the beginning of the fight, and even had the intention of finishing the opponent in one go.
As a result, the Saudi fighter suffered a heavy blow in the second half of the first round, and was knocked out twice by the Kazakh fighter halfway through the second round.