Chapter 417: Costa Zu's Preparation and Wang Hao's New Sparring Partner (2)

As the most formidable opponent Kosta Zu has faced so far in his career, in order to ensure that Kosta Zu can win the match against Wang Hao, Johnny has studied Wang Hao very carefully.

Johnny knows that if Costa Zu can unify the ultra-lightweight division and achieve sustained success in the professional boxing world, the match with Wang Hao will be the most crucial match.

If Costa Zu can win against Wang Hao in the Middle East in five months, or even knock Wang Hao out of the boxing ring, then Costa Zu can dominate the super lightweight division, and conversely, if Costa Zu loses, although he has a chance to fight, Costa Zu's professional future will be discounted.

Moreover, because of the crazy $110 million bet between Sahamed Mohammed and Alderman Abdul, the chips in this match are much heavier.

Whoever wins this game, Wang Hao and Costa Zu, will go to heaven in one step, and the loser is undoubtedly equivalent to being sent to hell.

Therefore, as a stakeholder in this match and the coach of Costa Zu, Johnny also did his best to help Costa Zu prepare for the game.

In fact, Johnny and Costa's preparation for this fateful fight with Wang Hao began when Wang Hao defeated Camacho to win the WBO super lightweight championship belt on the super lightweight dream night in Las Vegas, and Costa Zu knocked out Chavez to win the WBC super lightweight gold belt.

Johnny not only watched it himself, but also carefully studied all the matches after Wang Hao entered the professional boxing world, and also invited his industry peers with whom he has a good relationship to give advice together to help Costa Zu prepare for the match and match strategy against Wang Hao.

As the World Championships and Olympic boxing champion, Wang Hao's basic boxing skills are very solid, and it is also the technical system of Soviet-style boxing, and Wang Hao's reaction and strength are very good, not even worse than Costa Zu's talent in these two points.

In terms of specific playing styles, Johnny found that Wang Hao is best at two types of fighting, one is a crushing style controlled by heavy jabs, and the other is a style of play that uses a peculiar wrapping footwork.

These are the two styles that Johnny found that Wang Hao is best at and most commonly used, and they are mainly based on the first crushing style controlled by heavy jabs.

Therefore, Johnny and Costa Zu also focused on Wang Hao's two styles of play and conducted preparation training.

After careful study of Wang Hao's wrapping step, Johnny and Costa Zu were also a little surprised, because this seemingly strange step contains strange boxing technology innovation, and there is no way to innovate such a style of play if it is not a senior coach with decades of deep skills.

Moreover, this peculiar circumambulation of footwork reminds Costa Zu of a peculiar dance in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine.

As for how Wang Hao mastered this peculiar pace, Johnny and Costa Zu did an in-depth investigation, and found that Wang Hao had been coached by the Soviet-style boxing master Atoli Lomachenko in the early and middle stages of amateur boxing.

Among the republics of the former Soviet Union, there are many member states with strong boxing skills, such as the Republic of Russia, the Republic of Ukraine, the Republic of Kazakhstan, etc., and Kosta Zu knows that the strongest of them is actually the Republic of Ukraine, even stronger than the most populous Russian Republic.

And Atoli Lomachenko is one of the strongest boxing coaches in the Ukrainian republics.

Costa Zu did not expect that Atoli Lomachenko would actually coach Wang Hao, which explained the origin of Wang Hao's peculiar boxing pace, and also made Costa Zu understand why Wang Hao, who came from China, could have such good Soviet-style boxing skills.

After learning that Atoli Lomachenko was once Wang Hao's long-term coach, Johnny and Costa Zu attached 200% importance to the ultra-lightweight unification fight with Wang Hao.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In the ring, Johnny hit a continuous left-handed jab, imitating Wang Hao's attack and striking distance, and even his power skills, and the degree of imitation was even a little vivid.

Kosta Zu, on the other hand, is still what he does best, which is the sliding step in and out of his feet, which may seem a bit clumsy, but is actually very fast and effective.

Johnny's offense was mostly empty, and he was hit by Kosta Zu with a lot of straight punches.

Johnny threw punches while marveling at Kosta Zu's talent.

With an arm span of more than ten centimeters, and all of them are straight punches in the middle, Costa Zu can still fast in and out, and accurately control the rhythm of entry and exit, so that Johnny can't hit himself, but his punches can hit Johnny well.

Johnny knows that Kosta Zu is able to do this kind of super-high level of movement and striking in the middle, not only because Kosta Zu is too quick to react and move, but also because Kosta Zu has the sense of distance that only the best fighters have.

It is with this sense of distance that Kosta Zu is able to advance and retreat freely, retreating just enough to make his opponent's strikes nowhere to exert force, and even more so that his punches can be accurately hit.

Johnny marveled that almost all of Kosta Zu's physical conditions were born for the sport of boxing.

As the preparation deepened, Johnny became more and more confident in the match between Costa Zu and Wang Hao, and even believed that Costa Zu would be able to hit and knock out Wang Hao in the match.

Johnny simulated Wang Hao's first style of play, and after half an hour of fighting with Costa Zu, he switched his style of play and began to simulate Wang Hao's circling step technique to put offensive pressure on Costa Zu.

Before Johnny simulated Wang Hao's wraparound technique and hit Costa Zu, Johnny said: "Let me tell you something new about Wang Hao, I heard that Wang Haoxin hired a sparring partner, who turned out to be an American black American boxing style, and this sparring partner was not recommended by Sanchez and Paul, but was requested by Wang Hao himself." When this round of simulation is over, I'll give you a detailed explanation. ”

In order to ensure that Costa Zu can win the match against Wang Hao, Johnny has not only carefully studied all of Wang's previous performances, but also has been following the recent movements of Wang Hao and his coach.

At the beginning, Johnny learned that Sanchez and Paul had found two sparring partners for Wang Hao, one of whom was an excellent boxer in Soviet-style boxing from the former Soviet Union, which made Johnny think that Wang Hao's team was also on the right path.

However, then it came that Wang Hao didn't like the sparring arranged by Sanchez and Paul very much, and didn't spend much time on it, but instead appointed an American fighter named Vince Phillips to be his sparring partner.

Johnny learned that this Vince Phillips is a typical black American boxer, playing American boxing skills, and has little knowledge and attainment in Soviet-style boxing, and Sanchez and Paul do not recommend Vince Phillips to Wang Hao as a sparring partner.

This made Johnny's heart bloom after knowing the information, and Johnny felt that Wang Hao was starting to deviate from the road.

"Found a black American boxing sparring partner?" Hearing this information, Costa Zu also felt that Wang Hao's preparation ideas were a bit unbelievable and counterintuitive, and seemed to have taken a fork in the road, but Costa Zu didn't have time to think about it, because Johnny's punch had already hit.

Johnny was a boxer for a few years before he became a boxing coach, but he wasn't very successful, but Johnny's body was very flexible and his steps were still there.

Although Wang Hao's circling step is difficult for all newcomers, Johnny still barely achieved a simple step similarity through several months of hard work, but the rhythm and accuracy are much worse than Wang Hao's circling step.

However, there is no way to do it at the moment, because Johnny understands that Atoly Lomachenko has only taught this magical step to two fighters, one is Wang Hao, and the other is Atoly Lomachenko's own son Vasily Lomachenko, who is only a few years old.

Obviously, it is impossible for Johnny to find a second fighter who can circle around to be a sparring partner for Costa Zu, and Johnny can only do it himself.

Syllable! Syllable!

Johnny landed two quick jabs after two shots from Zu, but was dodged by Zu's deft step.

But just as Costa Zu quickly stepped back to dodge Johnny's jab and quickly cut in again, Johnny moved to his left, to the right side of Kosta Zu.

Johnny narrowly dodged a straight left hand from Costa Zu as he cut in, moved to Kosta Zu's right, and quickly swung out his right hand with the target.