Chapter 183: Kiev History and Chance Encounter with Golovkin

Wang Hao and the Chinese training team have finished a month-long training camp in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and are ready to go to Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, to participate in the Asian selection of this year's World Junior Boxing Championships.

The day before the departure, brothers Atoli Lomachenko and Klitschko, as hosts, invited Wang Hao to visit Kiev for a day and visit some of Kiev's famous attractions.

Geographically an Eastern European city, located in the middle reaches of the Dnieper River, Kiev is the oldest city founded by the Slavs and has a history of fifteen centuries.

Early Ukraine, centered in Kiev, called Kievan Rus, was once a European power in the Middle Ages, far more influential than the other Slavic state, Muscovy.

However, in the 13th century, the Mongol invasion and massacre destroyed the Kievan Rus' civilization, which led to the rise of Muscovy as the most powerful country in Slavic civilization.

Although the Kievan Rus' civilization is no longer glorious, it still has many traces of civilization in Kiev, and Kiev is much stronger than Moscow in terms of the legacy of the Middle Ages and previous civilizations.

In the morning, brothers Atoli Lomachenko and Klitschko first took Wang Hao to Kinmen.

Atoli Lomachenko introduced Wang Hao: "The Golden Gate was built in the 11th century and was the main gate of the medieval city of Kiev, with a height of 12 meters and a width of 6.4 meters. ”

Wang Hao was also in a very good mood today to visit Kiev in the company of the brothers Atoli Lomachenko and Klitschko, and he listened to Atoly Lomachenko's explanation and stood at the foot of the Golden Gate and looked up.

The architectural style of the city gate of Kievan Rus' is completely different from the architectural style of the ancient Chinese city gate, although it is also very tall and majestic, but compared with the city walls of ancient Chinese cities, it is still much shorter, and a lot of gilded copper foil is used to decorate, which is the reason for the name of the Golden Gate.

Both the door leaf and the dome on the gatehouse are decorated with gilded copper foil.

Now the Golden Gate has been renovated and turned into a museum, open to tourists, and brothers Atoli Lomachenko and Klitschko took Wang Hao into the Golden Gate Museum to see many ancient Kiev cultural relics.

Immediately afterwards, the brothers Atoli Lomachenko and Klitschko took Wang Hao to the Pychersky Monastery, which was also built in the 11th century and was protected from war for religious reasons, and is the most famous monument in Kiev.

The Pichersky Monastery consists of several parts: the Church of the Nativity, the Church of the Assumption, the Cave Church and the Bell Tower.

Before the Mongols came, it was the religious and cultural center of Eastern Europe, and the bell tower in the monastery is 96.5 meters high, the largest in Europe.

Wang Hao stood under the bell tower and looked up, only to see that it was nearly 30 meters in diameter, with a total of four floors, also a golden roof, and a huge cross at the top.

The monastery's museum displays artifacts from Egypt, Cyprus and the Holy Land of Jerusalem, as well as historic paintings, as well as paintings and sculptures by modern masters such as Picasso and DalΓ­.

Wang Hao also admired these works of art with great interest.

"It was also once the place where the Russian Tsars of the 18th century imprisoned political prisoners." Atoli Lomachenko continued to introduce Wang Hao, "In the first half of the thirteenth century, when the Mongols invaded, it was also a refuge for the citizens of Kiev. ”

"In the thirteenth century, the Mongol conquest of Batu brought great trauma to the civilization of Ukraine, almost destroying the once glorious civilization of Kievan Rus, and the people were massacred." Speaking of these histories, Atoly Lomachenko is also sad and sad.

Wang Hao was also quite touched when he heard Atoli Lomachenko's story.

Indeed, in the thirteenth century, Genghis Khan, as well as his so-called Golden Family, launched a war of conquest against the entire Eurasian continent, which can be described as a nightmare for all civilizations in Eurasia at that time, who were the butchers of humanity and whose hands were stained with the blood of the peoples of Eurasia.

Not only the Kiev civilization, but also the rich Song Dynasty in China, but also after decades of fierce war with the Mongols, although there were mobile defense masters like Meng Hui who thwarted the crazy invasion of the early Mongols and killed Meng Ge, but thirty years after Meng Hui's death, Huaxia still died at the hands of Kublai Khan's Mongols and traitors.

After thousands of years of evolution, the Chinese civilization was created in the era of the Zhao and Song dynasties, and due to the elimination of good money by bad money, it temporarily drew a break in Yashan.

As a modern person, Wang Hao deeply understands that if a country that has existed for decades is in turmoil, the people will suffer great misfortune.

And like the Song Dynasty, the dynasty that lasted for more than 300 years in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, when she was shattered, how much pain it brought to the people was unimaginable.

And a small civilization like Kievan Rus's that was once glorious can no longer be revived after it was destroyed.

Wang Hao vaguely remembers that in the second decade of the 21st century, Ukraine also proposed compensation to Mongolia for the damage caused by the 13th century's expedition to the west, and it is obvious that these historical pains are also deeply imprinted in the hearts of Ukrainian people like Atoli Lomachenko.

The monastery also houses a library, built at the beginning of the twelfth century and known for its rich collections.

In the morning, they visited the Golden Gate and the Pichelsky Monastery, and in the afternoon, Atoli Lomachenko also took Wang Hao to visit the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev.

St. Sophia's Cathedral was also built in the 11th century as the religious, political and cultural center of Kievan Rus', where the Grand Duke of Kiev met with foreign envoys, signed treaties, and established the first library of the Slavs.

Wang Hao, accompanied by brothers Atoli Lomachenko and Klitschko, spent a day in Kiev and was very happy.

The next day, Wang Hao and most of the members of the training team flew to the capital of Kazakhstan to participate in the Asian selection of the World Youth Boxing Championships held there.

After the Asian selection of the World Junior Boxing Championships, Wang Hao will also come to Kyiv in the second half of the year to participate in the final competition of the World Junior Boxing Championships held here.

After a few hours of flying, Wang Hao and other Chinese team members who will participate in the Asian selection competition came to Almaty International Airport in Kazakhstan.

Almaty is the capital of the Soviet Union Republic of Kazakhstan, located in the southeast of Kazakhstan, it is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the scenery is unique, the population is more than one million, and it is also the largest city in Kazakhstan.

Wang Hao, who got off the plane, because he came to a new city, the scenery here is completely different from Kyiv on the East European Plain, Wang Hao feels very good, and this is the hometown of Golovkin, the favorite middleweight hegemon of world professional boxing in Wang Hao's previous life, Wang Hao's mood is even more surging.

At this time, Golovkin should have just been ten years old!

Wang Hao thought, because Golovkin was born in the early eighties Kazakh half-blood, at this time he was about ten years old, and Golovkin blocked and killed Buddha in the world's middleweight professional boxing arena, and the time for God to block and kill God was the second decade of the 21st century, during which there were six or seven years, Golovkin knocked out all his challengers and defended the middleweight belt 20 times, which is the same as another middleweight legend "Executioner" Hopkins.

"The Executioner" Hopkins, who knocked out Trinidad and De La Hoya, has also defended the middleweight belt 20 times.

You know, Trinidad and De La Hoya are both middleweight kings, and they may have lost fights before they met Hopkins, but they never won by a knockout, but Hopkins did it, hence the nickname "The Executioner".

In terms of the time spent dominating the middleweight division, Golovkin and Hopkins are the same, and those years were also the years when Golovkin dominated the p4p king of boxing.

The difference, though, is that almost all of Golovkin's twenty title defenses have been won by KO.

At that time, Kuto and Alvarez, who were also world boxing stars, walked around Golovkin and did not dare to fight Golovkin.

Thinking about coming to Golovkin's hometown, Wang Hao was a little excited, Wang Hao knew that Golovkin, who was in elementary school, was often taken to the streets by his brothers to fight with adults, perhaps this was one of the reasons why Golovkin grew up to be violent.

Golovkin's father is Kazakh, his mother is Korean, and he has four brothers, two of whom are older and one brother.

Golovkin is also a national hero and national pride of Kazakhstan.

Will you meet Golovkina who fights in the streets of Almaty?

Wang Hao thought that although Wang Hao would be very happy if he could meet the young Golovkin in Almaty, Wang Hao knew that this probability was relatively low.

Wang Hao, together with more than a dozen boxers who participated in the Asian trials, under the leadership of Sun Zeyong, took the bus to the hotel where he was going to stay.

Wang Hao found a place by the window with a good view, and he kept looking out the window, hoping to find something.

With a population of more than one million, Almaty is the size of a second- or third-tier city in China, and there are not many high-rise buildings.

Suddenly, when passing by a stone bridge, Wang Hao's eyes lit up.

"Driver! Stop the car! Wang Hao shouted, "I have something urgent to go down!" ”

Hearing Wang Hao's shout, Sun Zeyong hurriedly asked the driver to pull over.

Sun Zeyong thought that Wang Hao was in an internal emergency, but when he asked, he knew that it was not.

Wang Hao smiled and said: "I have some things, I have to get off the car first, I'll go to the hotel later!" ”

Seeing Wang Hao's serious and urgent appearance, Sun Zeyong didn't ask much, so he let Wang Hao get out of the car, just told him to pay attention to safety, and asked a local guide to accompany Wang Hao, and left Wang Hao the address of the hotel.

Wang Hao got out of the car and hurriedly walked to the opposite side of the stone bridge with the local guide, where Wang Hao had already seen a still young, but very familiar face.

A child about ten years old, surrounded by five or six ten-year-old youths, was boxing with a young man who was also ten years old.

The boy was not very tall, even a little thin, with long hair like a watermelon head, and although he looked immature on the surface, he was very fierce in his fists.

Wang Hao saw a photo of Golovkin when he was a child on the Internet in his last life, and now when he sees this teenager, Wang Hao knows very well that the boy who is boxing in front of him is Golovkin.

At this age, Golovkin has already shown good boxing skills and confrontation ability.

He didn't fall behind in the fight with the ten-year-old boy opposite, Golovkin could withstand the strength of the ten-year-old boy, and although he was only ten years old, his fists were also very powerful when he hit the other party, and the young man on the opposite side didn't dare to resist casually.

Among the surrounding youths, there were two slightly older ones, shouting: "Golovkin hit him, pay attention to move!" ”

Wang Hao looked at the two young men, their appearance was somewhat similar to Golovkin, obviously it should be Golovkin's elder brother Sergei and Vatim.

Wang Hao learned some information from his previous life, Sergey and Vatim love boxing, Golovkin has been taught boxing by them since kindergarten, and the two often go to the streets, picking adults to fight Golovkin, who is in primary and secondary school.

Wang Hao looked at the real scene in front of him and knew that the information in the legends of the previous life was true.

Golovkin, as the god of war of the king of the world professional boxing P4P, has a lot of talents, and he must have a lot of advantages, he can fight with adults at the age of ten, and it is unimaginable to be other ten-year-olds, but Golovkin can indeed do it.

The fight between the two men lasted three minutes and then separated, and the match was evenly matched from the perspective of the field.

The surrounding youths watched the end of the match between the two with calm expressions, obviously accustomed to Golovkin's perverted performance.

One of the oldest young men took ten rubles from an iron bowl on the ground, handed it to Golovkin, and said: "Golovkin wins this game, and ten rubles go to Golovkin!" ”

Wang Hao nodded, it turned out that this game also had a lottery.

Immediately afterwards, two more youths came out to fight, and one of them took out five rubles and put them in an iron bowl, and it was clear that whoever won would take the rubles from the iron bowl.

Wang Hao walked towards Golovkin.

Golovkin was very polite, showing the gentlemanly demeanor that he had since childhood, and when he saw an East Asian teenager walking up to him, Golovkin greeted Wang Hao and said, "Hello! ”

"Hello! Golovkin! Wang Hao also said under the translation of the Kazakh guide, and at the same time stretched out his right hand and shook it with Golovkin.

Reborn once, he met the young god of war Golovkin, Wang Hao shook hands with Golovkin, and he also had a different feeling in his heart.

The two chatted again, and Golovkin's two elder brothers, Sergey and Vatim, were also very interested in Wang Hao, an East Asian teenager, because their mother was East Asian.

At this time, the two youths who had just fought had finished fighting, and one of the young men in black won the game and took away ten rubles.

A young man in a yellow T-shirt in the crowd saw Wang Hao, became interested, and shouted: "That East Asian boy, are you interested in fighting with me!" ”