Chapter 588: Press Conference (2)
In the post-fight press conference, Fernando Vargas' assistant coach said that Wang Hao would wait until next spring to fight Forrester, the current IBF welterweight champion, with a gap of four or five months because Wang Hao was also injured by Fernando Vargas in today's fight.
Fernando Vargas is the side that lost the game, and the loss was relatively bad, in order to save Fernando Vargas's market value, Fernando Vargas's team will naturally come up with various reasons to find excuses for tonight's loss, just said that Fernando Vargas's weight loss seriously affected the state, is a reason, and now Fernando Vargas's assistant coach said that Fernando Vargas also injured Wang Hao in the game, so Wang Hao's next game will not be played until four or five months later, Naturally, it was also to show that Fernando Vargas also made a difference in this match, injuring Wang Hao, and also letting fans know that the rematch between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas is worth looking forward to, and will not simply become a copy of the first fight.
But Fernando Vargas's assistant coach really didn't find a good reason, and it was not as good as the first reason why the weight loss affected Fernando Vargas's condition.
When Fernando Vargas's assistant coach said that Fernando Vargas also injured Wang Hao in the game, there were some boos and discussions at the scene.
Because the media and senior fans at the scene watched the match between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas carefully, they all saw that Fernando Vargas did not hurt Wang Hao, at least he neither knocked Wang Hao down, nor did he seem to have hit Wang Hao hard.
At this time, Wang Hao's head coach Paul also said: "We heard Fernando Vargas's coach tell a funny joke, everyone saw that although Fernando Vargas played okay in some rounds in this game, it was far from the extent of injuring Wang Hao, Fernando Vargas hit Wang Hao's heavy punches not much, even if it was an occasional hit, Wang Hao could completely bear it." ”
Paul continued: "Wang Hao is not injured in this fight at all, we need more than four months before we fight Fernando Vargas, on the one hand, it is normal for a fighter to fight four months apart, on the other hand, before next spring is the Chinese New Year, which is the most important festival for Chinese, Mr. Wang Hao lives and trains in Europe and the United States all year round, but his family is in China, during the Chinese New Year, Mr. Wang Hao will have a long vacation, will return to China, Enjoy his vacation and spend time with his family! ”
Paul continued: "That's why we play Forrester next spring, and Fernando Vargas' team can stop making excuses for their failures, accept them honestly, and analyze the reasons for their failures. ”
At this time, Wang Hao's agent William said: "Let me interrupt, although we are sure to fight the current IBF welterweight champion Forrester next spring, we have never said that we will not fight in between. ”
William continued: "We wanted Mr. Wang Hao to have a longer period of time between his fights with Fernando Vargas and his fight with Forrester to be able to have a pleasant and long enough vacation, but since Mr. Wang Hao is still the boxing champion of the four major ultra-lightweight boxing organizations, and there is a mandatory challenge match for the four major ultra-lightweight boxing organizations, we are also thinking about fighting a super lightweight title defense before the fight against Forrester!" ”
When William mentioned the possibility of arranging for Wang Hao to play a mandatory defense of the ultra-lightweight division before the fight with Forrester, the media at the scene were also a little shocked.
Because for a boxer, it is normal to fight a fight every three or four months, and although the interval between Wang Hao and Forrester is four or five months, a little longer, it is still a normal rhythm of the game.
However, if another match is scheduled between Wang Hao's match and Forrester's match, then Wang Hao will have to play another match at most more than two months apart, and will play another match against Forrester two months later.
The rhythm of such a game is a little too dense, especially the competition of a top fighter like Wang Hao, and the opponents he faces are all top fighters who are at least first-class and quasi-first-class.
Many media people on the scene felt that such a rhythm of the game would bring a lot of pressure to Wang Hao's body.
A media reporter said: "There are still more than four months to go to the game with Forrester, and if there is another game in the middle, will the pace of the game be too fast, which will bring a greater load to Mr. Wang Hao's body, and will affect the state of Mr. Wang Hao and Forrester when they are playing!" ”
Before William could answer, Wang Hao took the lead in replying: "William has already communicated with me about this matter before, and we didn't want to arrange another match before the fight with Forrester, but because I haven't played a super lightweight title defense for almost a year, the four major boxing organizations are urging us to fight, so we have to see the final negotiation results with several major boxing organizations, if the other party is not willing to compromise, we will arrange a match soon." Whether this game will be arranged, there will be a conclusion in a few days! “
Wang continued: "But for me personally, it's no problem to have another super lightweight title defense before the fight with Forrester! Although tonight's fight against Fernando Vargas was the longest fight of my career, it was only eight rounds, and I often fight fifteen rounds at a time in my daily combat training, of course, that requires five sparring rotations, and I really didn't have any injuries in today's fight, so today's fight actually took a very little physical drain on my body, so two months later, or even a month later, it was no problem for me to fight another super lightweight title defense. I'll do what my broker says! ”
After Wang Hao finished speaking, there was a round of applause at the scene, and Fernando Vargas's team felt a little embarrassed, especially Fernando Vargas's assistant coach.
Fernando Vargas's assistant coach just said that Wang Hao was injured by Fernando Vargas in the game, so it will take four or five months to play a game, but Wang Hao and William's statement just now undoubtedly gave Fernando Vargas a resounding slap in the face.
After today's fight, Wang Hao only needs a month or two of rest to defend his title, which fully shows that today's fight really has no impact on Wang Hao.
With the end of the Wang Hao vs. Fernando Vargas bout and some post-fight media activities, it was a great fight that has been deeply rooted in the hearts of fans around the world, and it is conceivable that many years later, there will still be fans who remember this fight and relish.
The day after the game, the world's major newspapers also published the news of Wang Hao's victory over Fernando Vargas.
Major sports newspapers put the results and information of the match between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas on the front page, and the New York Times, Lianhe Zaobao, Yomiuri Shimbun, these influential comprehensive newspapers in the world, also published the news of Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas's match in the most conspicuous position, as well as the high praise of Wang Hao.
After the match, some sales data for the match between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas also came out.
Wang Hao's match with Fernando Vargas was sold in PPV, which was also the first time Wang Hao's game was sold in PPV, and for Fernando Vargas, it was also the first time that PPV was sold in a game.
Generally speaking, only the most significant boxing matches will be sold in PPV, such as the Tyson and Holyfield match, the Lewis and Holyfield match, these World Series, and so on.
Because the sales price of PPV is very good, the price of a boxing match ranges from tens of dollars to hundreds of dollars, which means that if a fan wants to watch a PPV sales match, it needs to cost hundreds or even more than 1,000 yuan, and this price is still not low.
Generally speaking, in the boxing match of PPV sales, it is considered a good result to be able to sell two or three hundred thousand, and if you sell more than one million, you can enter the list of PPV sales history.
And the PPV data of the battle between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas also came out soon, and the PPV sales of Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas sold a total of 1.05 million units, selling more than one million units.
Being able to sell such a result for the first time on PPV proves the strong influence of Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas, and after this match, Wang Hao's influence has been greatly improved, while Fernando Vargas's influence has decreased because of the loss of the game.
Wang Hao's income from this game also created a historical record for Wang Hao's professional boxing match income, Wang Hao's appearance fee in this game was a record 35 million US dollars, and then PPV shares, match tickets, broadcast fees and other income, distributed to Wang Hao's hands, and reached 20 million US dollars.
Wang Hao's total income in this game easily exceeded 50 million US dollars, which was the highest single-game income in Wang Hao's boxing career so far.
As a loser, Fernando Vargas also earned more than $20 million in this game, which was also the highest income in his career.
Therefore, for Fernando Vargas and his team, although they lost the game, they did not lose money, so for them, they really want to fight for the rematch match with Wang Hao, no matter what the result of the rematch, Fernando Vargas and his team can make another profit.
Because Fernando Vargas was previously ranked high in the welterweight division, Wang Hao's ranking in the welterweight division has also risen significantly after fighting Fernando Vargas.
After Wang Hao entered the welterweight division at the beginning of this year, he fought a total of three welterweight matches with Fernando Vargas, including the first fight against former IBF welterweight and IBF super welterweight champion Camppass, which gave Wang Hao a very good ranking in the welterweight division.
After the fight with Kampas, Wang Hao's rankings in the four major welterweight boxing organizations have all risen to about a dozen, including 14th in the WBC welterweight division, 7th in the WBO welterweight division, 11th in the WBA welterweight division, and 12th in the IBF welterweight division.
And Fernando Vargas has a high ranking in the welterweight division, a little higher than Campas, because he played a lot of welterweight matches before entering the super welterweight division, many of which are more important.
So after the fight between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas, the rankings of the major boxing organizations in the welterweight division are a little higher than before.
With the end of the match between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas, the major boxing organizations updated the rankings of welterweight fighters, and Wang Hao's four major boxing organizations in the welterweight division have all entered the top ten, including the World Boxing Council WBC ranked eighth, the World Boxing Organization WBO ranked fourth, the World Boxing Association WBA ranked sixth, and the national boxing organization IBF ranked seventh.
The significant increase in the welterweight ranking has made Wang Hao also qualified to challenge the current boxing champion in several major boxing organizations in the welterweight division.
This leaves the champions of the four major welterweight boxing organizations with no excuse to avoid fighting Wang Hao unless they give up their prized belt.
In fact, the boxing champions of the four major boxing organizations in the former welterweight division have different attitudes towards the fight with Wang Hao, and the current WBC welterweight boxing champion De La Hoya and IBF welterweight boxing champion Forrester are looking forward to the fight with Wang Hao, and Forrester is even pursuing a fight with Wang Hao, so William was the first to facilitate the fight between Wang Hao and Forrester.
Because for Forrester, playing with Wang Hao can be a good way to expand his influence and get a good income from the game.
And for Delahora, he has a lot of influence, and the income from the fight has always been very high, and the reason why he will not shy away from fighting Wang Hao is because this is Delahora's style, Delahobia has never shied away from fighting any fighter, no matter how strong the opponent is, and at the same time, Delahobia has also defeated all the strong opponents he has encountered, and basically won by knockout.
As for a potential match with Wang Hao, De La Hoya also believes that he can win and can beat Wang Hao strongly.
For the current WBO welterweight boxing champion Moseley, he doesn't want to face a fight with Wang Hao, and for WBA boxing champion Quarthai, the fight with Wang Hao will be very difficult for him, but Kwarthai will not shy away from it.