Chapter 207: Going to the Men's Basketball World Championships

Currently, boxing in the world is divided into "professional boxing" and "amateur boxing".

Let's talk about amateur boxing first, the Olympics is the most influential event in amateur boxing, most of the professional boxing champions have played in the Olympics before changing careers, but they are basically about 20 years old, to put it bluntly, they used the Olympics to become famous when they first debuted, and used it as a springboard for playing professionally.

This also means that the level of the athletes in the Olympic boxing competition is bound to be much worse than that of professional boxing, and the excitement will also be reduced.

Then it must be much worse than the current two major professional boxing organizations, WBA and WBC, in terms of influence, which can be seen from the ratings and attention.

Therefore, in the system evaluation, the influence of an Olympic boxing gold medal is far less than winning the gold belt of the two major professional boxing organizations, and the income of winning the Olympic gold medal is naturally not as high as the gold belt of these two major events.

As for professional boxing matches, to put it bluntly, it is commercial boxing - boxers earn appearance fees and fame with competitions, and organizers take profitability as the standard for the success of an event.

At this stage, there are only two professional boxing organizations, namely WBA and WBC, and in 83 there will be the third largest boxing organization, IBF, which will be the three major boxing organizations at that time.

These three boxing organizations all have their own certification systems, and each level has its own "gold belt" fighters, which are often referred to as "boxing kings".

The rules of the three major professional boxing organizations are similar, a boxer who wants to play professionally, must first be at least 18 years old, and then obtain a professional boxing license recognized by the three major boxing organizations, and after success, he can participate in the professional competitions of the three major events.

At this time, professional fighters will arrange their matches through agencies or promoters, starting with the lowest level of competition, and the more victories they get, the more points they will get, and the more points they can get to qualify for high-level opponents, and the appearance fee will become higher and higher with the results.

This promotion will continue until you reach the top 15 of your organization, at which point you will be eligible to challenge for the title.

The three major boxing organizations all have similar rules of challenge in this regard, and each has a gold belt champion.

Normally, the champion is required to defend his title every three months with a free pick.

However, in order to prevent the boxing champion from only picking soft persimmons, the boxing organization will also arrange a mandatory defense of the title every six months, and this match is usually challenged by the high-ranking fighters designated by the organization.

If a boxing champion wants to postpone the challenge, the boxing organization will also postpone it for a certain reason.

But if they refuse to challenge one after another, they will be stripped of the belt by the boxing organization, and the fighters at the top of the organization will fight for it.

Now counting the upcoming IBF, there will be three major professional boxing organizations in the world.

A professional fighter is not limited to one boxing organization, but can compete in three organizations at the same time if his strength allows.

Future super boxing champions such as Tyson, Holyfield, Riddick Bow, Lewis, and Klitschko Jr. have all become "world champions" in two or more organizations, and the middleweight Hopkins has even held the four major organizations of WBA\\WBC\\IBF\\WBO at the same time.

At this time, it is also necessary to mention the boxing promoter, which is an indispensable part of the professional boxing arena, mainly responsible for helping fighters to connect with the competition that is beneficial to them, as well as promoting the competition, expanding the influence of the players and the competition, so as to obtain high benefits for both parties.

This benefit is not a small amount, those boxing champion-level fighters in boxing have always been among the best in all sports in terms of annual income, and it has a lot to do with the promotion of promoters.

In 1974, Ali and Foreman were awarded $5 million each, setting a new record for appearances per game.

In 1988, Tyson set a record of $22 million in appearance fees, becoming the first boxer to earn more than $20 million in a single fight.

Since then, there have been more and more games with an appearance fee of more than 20 million US dollars, and at the end of the 90s, there were already 50 million US dollars in appearance fees, and after the turn of the millennium, they began to move towards 100 million yuan in appearance fees.

Of course, this kind of appearance fee can only be obtained by the top boxing champions, in fact, about half of the tens of thousands of professional boxers in the United States are facing the situation that there is no fight to play, and most of the rest can also get a few hundred dollars in appearance fees, and even have to give promoters money to fight.

This industry is a typical pyramid structure, and about 9 percent of the benefits that all fighters can obtain are taken by the top nearly 100 fighters, and most of these 9 percent benefits are taken by boxing champions at all levels.

This means that you can't become a boxing champion, even if you can become the top 15 fighters in the three major organizations, and each fight is tens of thousands of dollars in appearance fees, which is why so many people are forced to fight underground boxing.

Wu Jie's current plan for Qin Jian is to first fight for the gold medal in the 84 Olympic Games, and then turn into a professional boxer with an Olympic halo.

At that time, Qin Jian had the dual aura of Chinese boxer + Olympic champion, and he could easily be favored by top brokerage companies and promoters in the United States, and the three major boxing organizations, including TV stations, would also focus on his participation.

At that time, no matter which organization Qin Jian chose to carry out his career from, he only needed five or six fights to qualify for the title of boxing, and he didn't have to worry about having no fights at all.

He hopes that Qin Jian can get the gold belts of the three major boxing organizations one by one, at that time, each organization only needs to defend the title two or three times a year, as long as he is undefeated, he can hold the three gold belts for a long time and create an era of his own.

After Wu Jie made Qin Jian's plan for the next two years, his wallet deflated again.

But instead of spending a lot of points, two of the most valuable five-star physical talents and special talents were used.

Now his entire family property only has more than 100,000 Olympic points, which is no longer enough to make another track and field tool man.

So next, he's going to earn points with the tool guys.

This season, Chen Haonan is in La Liga, Lin Yaodong is in Serie A, they can just get the championship and cup rewards of these two leagues, and the points obtained by these tool people will also be collected into his wallet.

This year's five major leagues start at about the same time, basically around mid-August.

Wu Jie began to focus on the game, and of course he would also give interviews to Isabella from time to time on the road.

Bayern had to accept Wu Jie's request to live in a single room when he played away, and Han Qing would not walk with him when he was away, so this was a good opportunity for him to steal food!

Next, the first thing that made him gain again was the men's basketball team.

At the end of August, the second edition of the Club Basketball World Cup ended, and the Bayi team defeated the host Italian club Cantu in the final and successfully defended the Club World Cup title.

Rueda averaged 33 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 4 blocks per game in 6 games, won the Club World Cup MVP again, and was selected for the best team of this Club World Cup.

This achievement has made him well-known all over the world, but unfortunately the influence of basketball and football is still incomparable, and Luda's influence in the world is still far lower than Wu Jie, including the domestic influence is slightly inferior to Chen Haonan, and even has the momentum of being overtaken by Lin Yaodong.

It's really too hard, but the hardest part is volleyball.

This time, the Chinese men's volleyball team won the fourth place in the World Championships, but the domestic media reported it in less than 100 words, and it was simply nonexistent.

The women's volleyball team is not much better, the girls defeated the host country Peru in three straight games in the final, and won the World Women's Volleyball Championship for the first time, but the coverage was a little longer than that of the Bayi men's basketball team.

Now most of the focus of national attention is football, CCTV still did not buy the live broadcast rights this season, but bought the delayed broadcast rights of the three leagues.

This is happy enough for domestic audiences, CCTV is already preparing to set up a sports channel before the start of the Olympics, and it is said that most of the cost will come from the sponsorship of the "China Sports Foundation".

This was ten years earlier than the original plane, and the main reason was naturally the rise of football and basketball.

Now that the three major balls have obviously become world-class, CCTV cannot always use comprehensive channels to broadcast sports games, and can only set up a professional sports TV channel as soon as possible to broadcast sports events and sports reports.

And in September, the Chinese men's basketball team finally had a chance to show itself in front of the people of the whole country.

This year's Men's Basketball World Championships, CCTV has decided to broadcast live, when Chinese fans can see the Chinese men's basketball team playing against the world's strongest teams for the first time.

Wu Jie attaches great importance to this competition, because he has already been given a main quest related to it - "Uncover the veil of mystery!" ”

"Task Requirement (1): Please help the Chinese men's basketball team enter the quarterfinals!"

"Mission Reward: 20,000 Olympic Coins, any Diamond card!"

"Task Requirement (2): Please help the Chinese men's basketball team enter the semifinals!"

"Reward: 50,000 Olympic Coins, any four-star physical talent, any four-star special talent!"

"Task Requirement (3): Please help the Chinese men's basketball team win the championship!"

"Mission Reward: 100,000 Olympic Coins, any legendary card!"

Although this kind of mission reward is a bit worse than the Football World Cup, it is also an income that should not be missed.

"We only finished 11th last time, which is definitely not a ranking that matches our strength, and this time we want to show the best to the world!"

After Ruda led the team to Colombia, he announced in a very high-profile manner in the face of an interview - "We are not here to travel"!