Chapter 492: The effect of the show and the start of a new competition
Wang Hao and several other pan-middleweight champions were soon on the HBO network.
This show has attracted much attention because it is all the boxing champions from ultra-lightweight to middleweight, including welterweight and super welterweight, and Wang Hao, the boxing champion of the four major ultra-lightweight boxing organizations, and Fernando Vargas, the IBF super welterweight boxing champion, clashed on the scene of the show, and even made a move, which made this episode of the show extremely popular.
This episode of the Night Boxing show set a record for the highest viewership of a Night Boxing show on HBO.
The popularity of this episode of the show has also made Wang Hao's popularity in the United States skyrocket, and many American viewers who were not too familiar with Wang Hao before now know and remember Wang Hao.
The United States is the mecca of professional boxing, and it is the largest developed country in the world, with a population of more than 300 million and the largest number of fans in the developed world.
Because the United States is the mecca of professional boxing, professional boxers are the most active, and there are countless excellent professional boxers that have emerged, so a considerable number of American viewers are only familiar with the best boxers in their own country, and most boxers from the United Kingdom and Mexico also have a bit of a market in the United States.
However, it is difficult for professional boxers who are not American and do not fight in the United States to have a large market in the United States.
However, Wang Hao is an exception, because the sensational effect of the world war between Wang Hao and Costa Zu in the Middle East has made Wang Hao quite famous in the American boxing world.
It's just that Wang Hao's popularity in the United States is not comparable to that of the middleweight four little kings.
However, through this episode of the light night boxing show, Wang Hao's popularity in the United States has been greatly increased, although it is not as good as the middleweight four kings, but at least it can be compared to Wright, Kwartet, Forrester and other slightly less well-known American professional boxing champions.
Thousands of U.S. viewers who watched this episode called or wrote to HBO to ask when the match between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas would be played.
Because the two clashed on HBO's light night boxing show, these American fans are very interested in this fight between the two, and they are looking forward to the fierce Asian boxing champion with the super lightweight four gold belts and the bravest of the middleweight four kings, Fernando Vargas, who will make good on their promise on the show and fight in the welterweight division.
Many fans said that regardless of whether Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas have a title or not, they will buy tickets to watch the fight live, but hope that the fight will start sooner.
This is the first time that HBO has received so many calls and letters from fans asking about the two fighters' bouts since the show began.
This surprised HBO and realized the huge commercial potential of Wang Hao in the United States, and they even planned to hold a special show of light night boxing for Wang Hao or Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas, and were negotiating with their agents.
As Wang Hao's agent, William has naturally been paying attention to the development of Wang Hao's influence in the United States after participating in the HBO program, and Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas clashed on the show, which was beyond William's expectations.
William, who originally arranged for Wang Hao to participate in the HBO program, mainly wanted to expand Wang Hao's influence in the United States, and after the conflict between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas on the show, William was worried that this matter would not play a good role in Wang Hao's influence, but would backfire, because American fans are still relatively xenophobic.
Wang Hao's conflict with Fernando Vargas on the show may lead to some fans who like Fernando Vargas and reject Wang Hao.
However, in the end, it turned out that William was wrong, Wang Hao's influence in the United States has been greatly improved after the show was broadcast, and even many famous stadiums in the United States are asking William and the Rheinland Boxing Club if there is any plan to arrange for Wang Hao to play a match in the United States, and they can give William preferential conditions for the use of the venue.
Especially the match between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas, on the show, Wang Hao said that the match between the two will happen next year, although this is only a preliminary commitment between the two fighters, but these American stadiums that are connected with William are already working hard with William, and the match between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas will be arranged in their own stadiums.
After HBO's episode of the Night Boxing special aired, the sensation caused by it has already made these famous stadiums in the United States predict that the match between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas will be an extremely profitable match, so they are all working hard to fight for it.
For the game between the two that has not yet been completed, there is such a high heat, which naturally makes William, as Wang Hao's agent, feel very happy, and he realizes that it is extremely wise to arrange Wang Hao to participate in this episode of HBO this time.
In order to allow Wang Hao's influence in the American boxing world to continue to improve, William plans to let Wang Hao participate if there are other major publicity opportunities in the United States.
Of course, this is on the premise that Wang Hao is also willing to participate, and it does not affect Wang Hao's training and competition.
However, as Wang Hao's closest partner, Sanchez and Paul, as Wang Hao's head coach, naturally look at the problem from different angles with William.
Because Wang Hao has only fought in the professional boxing division of ultra-lightweight so far, and Wang Hao has never fought above the 64kg level in the amateur boxing era.
Therefore, Sanchez and Paul are still a little worried that Wang Hao will first face a high-level top fighter like Fernando Vargas after he is promoted, and Fernando Vargas is still a typical super welterweight fighter.
Although Wang Hao's height is not shorter than Fernando Vargas, because Wang Hao has been playing at a lower level for a long time, his muscle abundance has naturally not been better than Fernando Vargas, who is two levels higher.
Sanchez and Paolo are worried that Wang Hao will suffer when he goes against Fernando Vargas.
And Fernando Vargas is also a well-known confrontational fighter, even among the middleweight four kings, Fernando Vargas is the best fighter to fight.
And although Wang Hao can play in all kinds of styles, he still likes to fight against opponents most of the time, so although the two will fight in the welterweight division, the difference in the weight class between the two has an impact on this match for a long time.
In Sanchez and Paul's vision, if Wang Hao must fight an opponent like the middleweight four, Moseley will be the most suitable first fighter for Wang Hao. Battle
However, for Sanchez and Paul's worries, Wang Hao naturally knows that although they are all thinking about themselves, their worries are actually a bit redundant, because although they are experienced, it will not be so easy to find that Fernando Vargas is actually the weakest one among the middleweight four kings, because at this time, the middleweight four kings have not fought with each other, and only relying on the opponents he has fought before as a reference, Fernando Vargas will definitely not be worse than other middleweight four kings.
And among the middleweight four kings, although at least Trinidad and De La Hoa are also fighting in the same confrontational game as Fernando Vargas.
However, there is no doubt that Fernando Vargas has been the fastest to destroy his opponent in previous fights, and Fernando Vargas is also a former winner of the American Boxing Golden Glove Award and the champion of the World Junior Boxing Championship, plus he can defeat a super technical professional fighter like Wright, it can be said that Fernando Vargas is a super punch with both technique and confrontation
So, at this time, there is no indication that Wang Hao is a wise choice to beat Fernando Vargas.
In the eyes of Sanchez and Paul, Wang Hao chose the sharpest and youngest one, even if he did not choose the strongest of the four middleweight kings, and Wang Hao was taking a risk.
In this regard, Wang Hao naturally told Sanchez and Paul not to worry too much, and he would not fight Fernando Vargas in the first match of the welterweight division, but at least find a good fighter to practice before he would fight Fernando Vargas.
Wang Hao also made it clear that he still has a lot of confidence in the game with Fernando Vargas, and asked Sanchez and Paul to do their jobs and assist Wang Hao in training.
Sanchez and Paul expressed their opinions, and once again felt Wang Hao's confidence, Sanchez and Paul did not say more, they trusted Wang Hao very much, since Wang Hao also knew these risks, but still made a decision, as coaches, they can do their job well.
Moreover, Sanchez and Paul also know that after Wang Hao landed in the welterweight division, although it was a big danger to face Fernando Vargas very early, there was also a lot of victory, after all, Wang Hao's strength is here, even if he just landed in the welterweight division, Wang Hao is also one of the most powerful killers in the welterweight division.
While Wang Hao was preparing for a match against Yodach in Big Bear Mountain, Sanchez and Paul began to plan for Wang Hao's promotion to welterweight, and began to study Fernando Vargas's technique in depth in order to give Wang Hao more guidance on technical details.
Wang Hao and Yodhah ended up playing at Wembley Stadium in London, England, a famous stadium with a capacity of 90,000 spectators.
Wang Hao once again sold out all 90,000 tickets without pressure.
More than 40 percent of the ticket buyers came from Europe, including the United Kingdom, and 30 percent from the United States, while the rest of the world's fans, mainly Asian fans from the Middle East and East Asia, bought up the remaining 20 percent.
Under Sanchez's tutelage, Wang spent two months in Big Bear Mountain preparing for his fight against Yudach before returning to the Rheinland Boxing Club in Berlin, Germany.
And continued to train at the Rhine Boxing Club for two weeks, with Paul and Sanchez correcting some technical details for Wang Hao, and finding some fast ultra-lightweight sparring partners to fight with Wang Hao for a few fights.
Then Wang Hao flew to London with the team.
After arriving in London, after a simple adaptation, the match between Wang Hao and Youdach was finally officially staged at Wembley Stadium on Saturday night that week.
Tonight, at Wembley Stadium, there are four boxing bouts, the first of which is a six-round bout between two heavyweight European homegrown fighters without titles.
The second bout was a European continental boxing champion silver belt bout of the super middleweight IBF.
Race 3 and Game 4 will be followed by tonight's lead card and main event.
The two fighters in the lead card, one from the United Kingdom, is the famous British WBO and WBC featherweight champion Nassim Hamed, and he will face a good featherweight fighter from the United States named Soto, who will defend the WBO and WBC featherweight belts.
Wang Hao and Yodach will naturally be the finale of tonight's main event, and Wang Hao will meet Yudah's challenge and defend his WBC super lightweight, IBF super lightweight and WBA super lightweight three boxing titles.
This is also the reason why Wang Hao is defending three boxing belts at the same time, and being able to qualify for mandatory challenges from all three boxing organizations at the same time, and also proves that Yodhah is strong in the ultra-lightweight division.
Prior to tonight's bout with Wang, Yodah had won 14 fights, including 12 knockouts, and was ranked third in the World Boxing Council (WBC) ultra-lightweight division, second in the International Boxing Federation (IBF) ultra-lightweight division, and second in the World Boxing Association (WBA).
Yodach is already recognized as the strongest fighter in the ultra-lightweight division, along with Wang Hao and Costa Zu.
It's just that Kosta Zu, whose most notable features are his consistent offensive and precise distance control, has proven that he can't defeat Wang Hao, and whether a speed-flow fighter like Yodah can pose a threat to Wang Hao and win the fight against Wang Hao, all fans and boxers who follow this match are waiting to see the results tonight.
Nassim Hamed, who holds two featherweight titles in the WBO and WBC, was a little unhappy with the organizers' arrangement for him to fight Wang Hao's lead card.
Because Nassim Hamad considers himself a homegrown British champion and is by far the most successful featherweight champion in British history, with global influence, Nassim Hamed believes he should not give Wang Hao a lead card on British soil.
But when the organizers told Nassim Hamad that if there were only Nassim Hamed's games, they would only be able to sell 50% to 60% of Wembley Stadium tickets, and Wang Hao himself could at least sell more than 80% of Wembley Stadium tickets when Nassim Hamad did not need to play the mat game.
Nassim Hamed, who heard the feedback from the organizers, stopped talking and accepted the arrangement of playing a mat match for Wang Hao with peace of mind.
By 8 p.m., all the fans were in attendance, Wembley Stadium was packed, and tonight's opening bout, a six-round heavyweight bout, kicked off first.