Wang Hao and Costa Zu won knockout of the year, a second only to the best of the year in the boxing category.

In the expectation of William and others, Wang Hao's victory over Costa Zu would have been expected to win the best boxing match of the year, or even the best boxing fight of the year and the knockout of the year together.

But there are too many boxing matches in a year, just a game that can be called a boxing battle, there are more than a dozen in a year, and the world boxing title is at least dozens of games a year, and the annual awards of boxing magazines are just a few, and it is difficult for a fighter or a game to win two boxing magazines of the year awards at the same time.

Wang Hao is content to win the best knockout award of the year, because for Wang Hao, the most important goal is to become a middleweight hegemon, step by step from a unified super lightweight, to a unified welterweight, a unified super middleweight, a unified middleweight, a unified middleweight, win every boxing championship belt, and fight every boxing championship challenge and title defense.

Therefore, Wang Hao's main goal is to be on the gold belt of the four major boxing organizations, which is also the highest honor for a boxer, as for the annual selection of boxing magazines, it is the icing on the cake for Wang Hao, there is naturally the best, and without Wang Hao, he will not waste time to fight for it.

William, Sanchez and Paul were a little upset about Wang Hao after knowing the results, they thought that the match between Wang Hao and Costa Zu was enough to win the best boxing match of the year, and Wang Hao himself actually had a good chance of becoming the best fighter of the year, and boxing magazine finally gave Wang Hao the best knockout award to Wang Hao, which was a combination of comprehensive considerations in addition to the competition itself.

This year's Boxing Magazine's Fight of the Year award went to De La Hoya and American "Sweet Pea" Virtak, a match that lasted twelve rounds and De La Hoa won the bout by a points advantage.

Although it was a point victory, this match was still very exciting because of De La Hoya as the protagonist, and De La Hoya's opponent American "Virtek" is also a very sharp boxing champion, who was undefeated in more than 30 fights before the fight with De La Hoya, and won the championship belt in the lightweight, super lightweight, and welterweight divisions.

And very similar to De La Hoya, Virtek has not only won the title of boxing champion in multiple divisions of lightweight, ultra-lightweight and welterweight, but Virtak is also a former Olympic boxing champion, which is almost the same as De La Hoa, who won the championship in multiple divisions and also had the aura of an Olympic champion in the amateur era.

It can be said that Virtek is almost similar to Delahobaya in all other aspects, except that his style of play is not as offensive as Delahora's and his knockout rate is not as high as Delahora's, which is equivalent to a Delahobea's entry into the professional boxing world nearly a decade earlier.

Therefore, William and Sanchez and others analyzed that the match between De La Hoya and Vitak was not won by knockout, and the excitement of the game was not particularly high, but the reason why they were able to win the award of the best boxing match of the year was mainly due to the influence of De La Hoa and Vitak, especially in the American boxing world, and the technical content of this game was very high.

Fernando Vargas, another of the four middleweight kings who fought Wang Hao in the welterweight division, won the Boxing Magazine Fighter of the Year award for defeating former IBF welterweight champion Campas, Wright, and former IBF middleweight champion Marquis this year.

Although Fernando Vargas has performed very well this year, the likes of William, Sanchez and Paul did not expect Fernando Vargas to be the best fighter of the year, and there are still a few well-known fighters who have performed as well as Fernando Vargas in professional boxing this year.

For Fernando Vargas to win this year's Boxing Magazine Fighter of the Year, William, Sanchez and Paulo should be the same as Fernando Vargas This year's boxers who are competitive for Boxing Magazine's Boxer of the Year should have won the Best Fighter or Best New Talent of the Year award in previous years, so this time the best fighter of the year was given to Fernando Vargas.

William, Sanchez and Paul naturally held grievances for Wang Hao again, feeling that if Wang Hao hadn't won the award for the best new talent of the year last year, he might have squeezed out Fernando Vargas this year and won the title of best fighter of the year.

After all, although from the perspective of this year's professional record, Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas have achieved relatively significant victories, among which Wang Hao has defeated Costa Zu, Morales and Youdach, and Fernando Vargas has defeated Campass, Wright and Marquis, and the quality of the opponents defeated by the two is also about the same, but Wang Hao's victory over Costa Zu is a unified super-lightweight game after all, while in contrast, Fernando Vargas defeated Campas and only won the title of IBF super welterweight boxing champion.

Wang Hao's victory, on the whole, should be slightly higher than Fernando Vargas, but because Wang Hao just won the best new fighter of the year in boxing magazine last year, so when boxing magazine evaluated, Wang Hao did not pay special attention to Wang Hao in the award of best boxer of the year.

Wang Hao also learned that Fernando Vargas won the boxer of the year, although Wang Hao didn't pay attention to the fact that he didn't win the best boxing match of the year, but Wang Hao still felt a little unhappy about Fernando Vargas winning the best boxer of the year.

However, Wang Hao was quickly relieved, thinking that he was going to fight Fernando Vargas in the welterweight division in the second half of this year, and before that, Fernando Vargas won the boxer of the year in boxing magazine, so when Wang Hao defeated Fernando Vargas and won the match, Wang Hao's victory would be even more remarkable.

After all, a victory over a new Fighter of the Year is much more important than a victory over a fighter who doesn't have one such title, and when Wang Hao defeats Fernando Vargas, all the honors and titles won by Fernando Vargas will become an even better foil for Wang Hao.

And if Wang Hao can defeat Fernando Vargas strongly, presumably boxing magazine will not hesitate to award the best fighter in boxing magazine for the new year to Wang Hao.

Thinking of this, the little unhappiness in Wang Hao's heart completely dissipated, and became a greater motivation for Wang Hao to defeat Fernando Vargas.

When Wang Hao finished training and was about to go to the United States to make final pre-match preparations with Diaz, Wang Hao and Trinidad trained together were almost arranged.

When Wang Hao defeated Costa Zu and unified the super lightweight division, Trinidad contacted Wang Hao because he wanted to go to Wang Hao's training ground to train for a while.

But this time, with the assistance of Sanchez and William, the final result of the negotiation between the two sides was that Wang Hao went to the Trinidad training venue for about a month.

Wang Hao went to Trinidad's training ground, instead of Trinidad coming to Wang Hao's field, which will undoubtedly let Wang Hao know more about Trinidad's training, rather than letting Trinidad know more about Wang Hao's training, which is beneficial to Wang Hao's side.

Wang Hao and Trinidad train together after Wang Hao returns from China for the Lunar New Year, and Wang Hao will also take Sanchez and an assistant with him for this training.

With a week left before the start of the match against Diaz, Wang Hao flew to the United States with Sanchez and Paul, first did the final pre-game acclimatization training at Big Bear Mountain, and arrived at San Francisco, the venue of the game, two days before the game.

San Francisco is a relatively old stadium, built in 1941, is the former San Francisco Warriors NBA professional basketball pairs, the venue often hosts basketball games, ice hockey games, boxing games, concerts, exhibitions and other activities, can accommodate 20,000 spectators, is the most influential boxing venue on the West Coast of the United States. Good Chinese

The bout was scheduled to take place on Friday night local time, and in the first month before the start of the bout, large promotional posters of Wang Hao and Diaz were hung on the scene, in which Wang Hao, who is the champion of the four major ultra-lightweight boxing organizations, was naturally the focus of the publicity.

And because of Wang Hao's strong appeal, the tickets for the competition were sold out more than a month before the start of the competition.

The match was played on Friday night local time, and Wang Hao, as usual in the game, came to the Niugong Gymnasium early before the first game even started.

The Cow Palace Stadium for tonight's game is smaller than the Werner March Stadium in Germany, the Manchester Stadium in the United Kingdom, and the Riyadh Stadium in Saudi Arabia where Wang Hao once played.

This is the first time Wang Hao has played in such a relatively small venue, because the venue is small, which makes the audience seem closer to the ring, which makes Wang Hao also have a different game experience, which is not bad.

In fact, the match between Wang Hao and Diaz can be held in larger stadiums in the United States, such as the Ford Center in Detroit, the Madison Garden Plaza in New York, where Wang Hao once played, and even the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.

And the reason why these venues are so enthusiastic is naturally that Wang Hao's influence can ensure their profitability.

Although Diaz also has a certain reputation in the American boxing industry, it is very difficult to rely on Diaz to prop up stadiums such as MGM Resort, Madison Square Garden in New York, and even Diaz has some difficulty supporting Cow Palace Stadium on his own.

Wang Hao is different, although Wang Hao's influence in the American market has not yet reached the level of De La Hoya, but Wang Hao has a wider world influence, Wang Hao can not only attract American audiences, but also attract a considerable number of European, Asian, and even Mexican audiences to watch the game live.

So Wang Hao can easily sell out the tickets to Cow Palace Stadium, and even sell out the MGM Grand Hotel and Madison Square Garden.

On a local Friday night in San Francisco, the Cow Palace Arena was full, and the game started at eight o'clock, but most of the spectators arrived at the stadium at half past seven to wait.

And thousands of local Chinese viewers in the United States came to the scene, they held high the flag, waving at the scene, which said "Come on Wang Hao", "Dragon Fist is invincible", "San Francisco Chinese welcome world boxing champion Wang Hao" and so on.

There are four matches in total tonight, and the match between Wang Hao and Diaz is naturally the finale, and Wang Hao will meet Diaz's challenge and defend the WBO super lightweight gold belt.

Before the match between Wang Hao and Diaz, there were three mat matches.

The first and second mat matches are between two American fighters, and do not involve world champions or continental titles, but are purely ranked matches organized by boxing.

The first bout is a middleweight bout featuring a white fighter from New York State and a black fighter from Washington State fighting an eight-round no-title bout.

The second bout was a heavyweight bout between two black American fighters, one from Tennessee and one from California.

The third bout is a contest with an interstate silver belt between a Mexican fighter and an American fighter who challenges the Mexican fighter for the lightweight WBA interstate silver belt in the Mexican fight, which is customary for ten rounds.

After this WBA lightweight interstate title defense, it is the most anticipated match between Wang Hao and Diaz by the audience.

Tonight's game scene also invited the current WBO welterweight boxing champion American famous black boxer, and one of the four middleweight kings "Sugar Cube" Moseley as a guest at the scene.

Moseley and the host of the scene sat in the commentary seat closest to the ring, and not far from the first-class seat, there were many celebrities from the American sports and entertainment circles who came to watch the game.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the first game officially began.

It was an eight-round middleweight bout between a white fighter from New York State and a black fighter from Washington State.

Black fighters are slightly taller than white fighters, but white fighters look slightly stronger than black fighters.

The level of the two fighters is not much different, and the technical level is not very high, at the beginning of the fight, the two fighters are entangled together, although the number of punches is a lot, but the quality is not high.

The first round of the two's fight ended in a head-to-head affair, but neither knocked anyone down.

In the second to seventh rounds, the two fighters continued to grapple, sometimes the black fighter took the initiative, sometimes the white fighter took the initiative, but neither fighter was capable of knocking out the opponent.

By the eighth round, both fighters had fitness issues, with the black fighter knocking out the white fighter first, but the white fighter knocking out the black fighter one more time before the bout was over.

The contest went to a points decision, with three off-court judges giving one 75-75 and two 76-74, with the white fighter winning the bout by a narrow margin.