The press conference was a lively scene, with reporters and spectators who had bought tickets to attend the press conference arrive early before several fighters entered.

When the protagonists of today's press conference, the four fighters and their coaches from the Madison Square Garden game a week later, entered the scene, and the press conference officially began.

Don King, the famous American boxing agent who facilitated the match between Lewis and Holyfield, and Mark Ratna, an official of the Nevada Boxing Sports Association, were also present at the press conference.

Since Lewis and Holyfield are both active heavyweight champions, Lewis holds the WBC heavyweight belt, while Holyfield has the IBF and WBA heavyweight belt, and the two are fighting a champion unification fight, so neither is a challenger.

This also makes it a question of who enters first and who enters later.

Both Lewis and Holyfield want to be the last to enter, as in boxing, only the lower-status challenger will enter first to wait for the reigning champion, while the higher-ranking defending champion will enter later.

And a week later, since Lewis and Holyfield are both active champions, neither of them will accept that they will enter first.

There has to be a solution to this, and that's what needs to be addressed at today's press conference.

Because of Wang Hao's wonderful performance after entering professional boxing, Lewis and Holyfield naturally knew Wang Hao for a long time, and Wang Hao also played a mat match for Holyfield and Tyson, as well as Lewis and McCall in the previous game, and the two were deeply impressed by Wang Hao's performance in the arena.

When Wang Hao attended the annual meeting of boxing magazines and won the best newcomer of the year, he had communication with Lewis and Holyfield, and was still waiting with Holyfield to receive the award.

Therefore, Wang Hao and Lewis and Holyfield can be said to be acquainted.

Lewis and Holyfield were also very happy to see Wang Hao, hugged Wang Hao warmly, and wished Wang Hao a smooth game.

Wang Hao also greeted the two warmly, and said that he was looking forward to the wonderful game between the two.

"Your Klitschko brothers of the Rhine Boxing Club have performed very well in the past two years!" In the conversation with Wang Hao, Lewis also patted Wang Hao on the back and mentioned the two brothers, Vladimir Klitschko and Vitaly Klitschko.

Both brothers are good friends of Wang Hao, and they are also fighters at the Rhine Boxing Club, among which Vitaly Klitschko also occupies the only heavyweight boxing organization WBO heavyweight championship belt that is not in the hands of Lewis and Holyfield, and has maintained it for more than two years and successfully defended the title many times.

Vladimir Klitschko has only been boxing professionally for a year, and he hasn't had many fights, but his performances are just as impressive, and as the Atlanta Olympic boxing champion, he has finished his opponents so far and is close to becoming a challenger.

The rise of the Klitschko brothers has given the current heavyweight champions such as Holyfield and Lewis a great sense of crisis, especially Lewis.

As the most comprehensive champion in the active heavyweight division, Lewis is not afraid of Tyson and Holyfield, who are significantly worse in height and arm span than him.

Because Lewis is skilled and extremely fast, with a precise jab, he can control the distance, leaving Tyson and Holyfield, who are obviously inferior in arm span and height, at a loss, and even if he can get close, Lewis can rely on his huge body to hold down or hold Tyson and Holyfield.

So, Lewis has a natural advantage over Tyson and Holyfield, but when Lewis faces the Klitschko brothers, the situation is completely different.

The Klitschko brothers are no worse than Lewis in height, reach and technique, and they are not bad in strength, and Vitaly Klitschko's ability to resist striking is far superior to Lewis.

Therefore, with Klitschko's gradual rise and fame, the boxing world is waiting for Lewis to face off against Vitali Klitschko, which makes Lewis also feel a lot of pressure.

Lewis specifically mentioned the Klitschko brothers in front of Wang Hao, Wang Hao could clearly feel Lewis's pressure and worry, and Wang Hao, who had experienced the previous life, knew that Lewis had only fought Vitaly Klitschko once later, and winning was not convincing to the audience, and then he retreated bravely.

Wang Hao smiled and joked, "They are all staring at your WBC heavyweight title, you have to be careful!" ”

During the exchange, Holyfield also extended a thumbs up to Wang Hao and said: "I heard that your first WBA super lightweight title defense has sold more than half of the tickets to WernerMarch Stadium!" That's amazing! ”

WernerMarch Stadium is a super stadium that can accommodate nearly 100,000 people, and more than half of the tickets sold are at least 50,000, and Wang Hao actually sold 60,000 tickets that day, which is the market appeal that only a world-class boxing star has, and Wang Hao has just debuted in professional boxing for more than a year, and he has such an ability, which is not simple, which makes Holyfield and Lewis amazed.

The commercial value of professional boxing, due to the rise of Tyson in the late eighties and early nineties, was once concentrated in the heavyweight division, but the emergence of people such as de la Hoya, Trinidad and Wang Hao made heavyweight boxing champions such as Holyfield and Lewis feel that now the pan-middleweight boxing market is no worse than the heavyweight boxing class, and the market appeal of the top pan-middleweight boxing champions even exceeds that of the top heavyweight boxing champions.

After Wang Hao chatted briefly with Lewis and Holyfield, the press conference officially began.

First of all, the two heavyweight champions were asked questions.

The first question from the live media was for Lewis.

A CNN reporter asked, "Mr. Lewis! I've heard you've been waiting a long time for your match against Holyfield, right? And what is the reason for this game to wait so long? ”

Lewis replied: "Actually, after Holyfield won the match against Muller two years ago, my agent and I officially extended an invitation to Holyfield and his agent to play a game, and we made a big concession at that time, but the game still didn't happen!" As for the reason, I guess you should ask the guys over there! “

"The guy over there" naturally refers to Holyfield and his team.

But because each media outlet only had one chance to ask questions, Lewis didn't answer and had to give up.

Followed by a question from a reporter from Showtime, the question was asked to Holyfield, who asked, "Has your training been going well lately?" How confident are you about the race in a week's time? ”

Holyfield replied: "Frankly, we had a little trouble with this training, we started training more than three months ago, but in the middle of it I had a shoulder injury that recurred, which caused the training to be interrupted! As for the certainty of the fight, knowing that Lewis is the toughest and fastest fighter in the heavyweight division of recent times, I just want to play my own fight! ”

"I can also add to the question of the CNN reporter just now!" After answering the questions of the Showtime reporter, Holyfield continued, "After the game between me and Muller, I did receive an invitation to play for the Lewis team, but the reason why it was not met in the end was that the appearance fee for that game was not satisfactory to me, and the appearance fee for that game was even lower than the appearance fee for my match with Muller, so I did not agree. ”

The reporter from Showtime, after listening to Holyfield's answer, also nodded and sat down.

Wang Hao listened to Holyfield's speech on the stage, and also secretly said that Holyfield was scheming and did not miss any opportunity to make the game develop in his favor, Holyfield knew that his game with Lewis was at a great disadvantage, so he deliberately showed weakness, saying that he had not trained enough and the old injury had recurred, to paralyze Lewis and his team, trying to make them careless.

But Wang Hao knew that Holyfield's strategy would ultimately fail, because Lewis was obviously not an ordinary boxer, and when Lewis fought a fighter like Raman, he might let his guard down in a fight, but in the face of a fighter like Holyfield, he would never be careless.

A few more reporters asked some questions, and then the interviews with the two heavyweight champions ended, and it was the turn of Wang Hao and challenger Srku to be interviewed.