Chapter 188: Grouping
Listening to Sun Zeyong's introduction, Wang Hao also carefully looked at this team of American and British boxers, and his eyes stayed on the face of American Golden Glove Champion Gil Wajes for a few more seconds.
Gilvajes has short blond hair, is a standard white man, has a very handsome face, and has a two-point ruffian, and has a strong body, and in terms of appearance alone, if the perfect score is 100, Gilvajes can score 90.
Wang Hao looked behind Gil Watters, who was followed by several American young fighters, one of whom looked very similar to Gil Wattess, a little conspicuous, and seemed to have a bit of a blood relationship with Gil Wattess.
Then there were the coaching team and a few British fighters, three or four boxers from the United Kingdom, wearing similar jackets, with long blonde or black hair, combed into strange hairstyles, and permed, which didn't look like boxers as they should be, but more like European and American pop singers.
This group of people, talking and laughing, waited behind Wang Hao and others to check in, Wang Hao is to remember Gilvajes, after all, Wang Hao wants to win the championship of this World Junior Boxing Championship, Gilvajes is one of the biggest challenges, Wang Hao will take time to watch Gilvajes's game.
On the third day after staying at the hotel, Wang Hao and the other three Chinese boxers who participated in the competition came to the largest training hall of the Ukrainian National Boxing Sports Center to participate in the pre-competition weighing and drawing.
This training hall is very large and can also be used as a competition venue, which can accommodate two or three hundred people training at the same time, and can accommodate several thousand spectators.
The world's youth boxing competitions, unlike adult boxing competitions, are divided into three divisions, lightweight, light middleweight and middleweight.
The weight range of the middleweight class is 63.5 kg to 69.85 kg, the weight range of the light and middleweight class is 63.5 kg to 58.97 kg, and the weight of the lightweight class is under 58.97 kg.
Among them, Wang Hao's lightweight division is the lightest, and the age of the fighters is generally younger.
The world's best young boxers who participated in the three levels of competition gathered in the training hall, all of which numbered about 200 fighters, and together with the coaching team, there were nearly 1,000 people gathered on the scene, all with different mentalities, waiting to be weighed and grouped.
Weighing and grouping has a special meaning for the game, for boxing matches, boxers like to control the weight of the competition at the upper limit of the competition, which is the most beneficial for the game, but this control is very skillful, a little careless, it is possible to fail to weigh.
If the weigh-in fails, there will be a second chance to weigh in, and if the weigh-in fails again, the fighter will be disqualified.
Grouping is also very important for this kind of amateur match that plays several matches in a row, because if the boxer is unlucky and encounters a strong fighter too early, even if he can pass the level, the consumption in the game will bring difficulties to the later matches.
Therefore, as a boxer, there is a lot of attention to weighing and grouping.
Wang Hao's control of body weight is very good, today's weighing is also a pass, after the introduction of weighing, Wang Hao also came to the lottery area in time to draw his own group.
In this year's World Junior Boxing Championships, there are 64 fighters in the lightweight division, and due to the large number of fighters, the event is carried out in the form of group stage and knockout round.
The 64 fighters were divided into 16 groups, each with four fighters, and the fighters faced off in pairs, and after two rounds, the winner of the group entered the round of 16.
Then the top 16 boxers will conduct a knockout round of 16 into 8 and 8 into 4, and finally determine the champion and runner-up of this World Youth Boxing Championship.
Wang Hao went to draw lots, and a number was written on a blue ball.
Wang Hao looked down and saw that it was "Eleven".
That is, Wang Hao was divided into the eleventh of the sixteen groups, and there will be three other boxers who will also draw out the "eleven" and compete for the only place in the group to enter the top 16 with Wang Hao.
The four fighters in the same group will then be drawn in the second round to determine the order of the fight.
Wang Hao took the blue ball numbered "Eleven" and walked towards the position of the second draw of the eleven group.
Since it was not until all four fighters in the group arrived that the second round of the group draw began, there was already a fighter waiting here when Wang Hao arrived.
And this boxer, Wang Hao actually knew, it was a few months ago, when Wang Hao was also training at the Ukrainian Boxing Training Center, he fought with Wang Hao's South Korean boxer Kim Sung-gwang.
Kim Sung-gwang is the South Korean youth champion, but in the previous actual battle with Wang Hao, he was strongly destroyed by Wang Hao and was beaten so that he couldn't hold his head up.
Jin Chengguang was the first to draw the "No. 11" ball, he waited anxiously here, and when he saw Wang Hao walking towards this side, Jin Chengguang's face changed instantly.
"It can't be his group!"
Jin Chengguang muttered, he was a little anxious, because he was suddenly too nervous, he almost couldn't control it, and he was almost about to pee.
The match with Wang Hao was the most painful memory of Kim Sung-kwang's career, and he will never forget the night when the Chinese and South Korean teams, who were training in the same training gym, clashed.
The two teams, who looked down on each other, decided to settle their grievances through competition, and the South Korean team, which thought it was stronger than the Chinese team, sent three of the strongest fighters, originally wanting to teach the Chinese fighters a good lesson.
Unexpectedly, Wang Hao, who was drawn to the first stage, won three yuan in a row, and destroyed South Korea's No. 3 strong player and No. 2 strong player, Jin Chengguang, as the strongest boxer in South Korea, although he was pinned on by the Korean team, but he was also knocked down by Wang Hao three times in one round and lost miserably.
Seeing Wang Hao, Jin Chengguang remembered the humiliating memory again, and he couldn't wait to hide, but he didn't dare to look directly at Wang Hao, he prayed in his heart that he would wait for the group to draw lots and not meet Wang Hao.
Wang Hao observed Jin Chengguang's abnormality, he ignored it, and stood down in front of the No. 11 group draw, waiting for the other two fighters.
After a while, the other two junior fighters who drew the "Eleven" blue ball also came over.
The two fighters, one black and the other white, one as black as a carbon block and the other as white as a snowflake, walked one after the other, and the contrast was very strong.
Wang Hao also looked over, the black man in front of him looked rough-skinned, and the clothes on his body were a little shabby, not like a boxer from an economically developed country, Wang Hao felt that it should be a boxer from some Central American countries.
And the latter white man, Wang Hao actually saw, is Wang Hao just came to Kiev to check in at the hotel, standing behind Gil Vajes, looking seven or eight points similar to Gil Vajes, white American teenager boxer.