Chapter 3: The Revelation of the Use of Power

Not for you right now!

It's never too late to practice after you graduate from college!

These two sentences echoed in Wang Hao's mind, in his previous life, he temporarily gave up his dream under the persuasion of his parents, and when he picked it up after a few years, he was already in his thirties, and he was quite old!

In the previous life, Wang Hao graduated from college, had a good job, and was not short of money, but always felt that the meaning of life should not be the only way, and when he practiced boxing again, he found that the purest dream in his life, although it was dusty, but it was rooted in the deepest part of his heart, even though it was ravaged in every way, rigid and cracked, but it was tenacious and immortal, waiting for the power of spring to awaken it again.

Reliving his life, Wang Hao will no longer let his ideals sleep, he wants to seize the best opportunity in his life to let his ideals grow and bloom to the fullest.

Boxing must be practiced, but Wang Hao does not plan to make the relationship with his parents too stiff, he intends to make his parents imperceptibly accept the reality of his boxing practice through action.

On the ground, a famous sentence flashed in Wang Hao's mind: You hit yours, I hit mine!

At this time, there is no self-selected supermarket in Dongyue City, the largest shopping center is the people's commercial building, customers can only stand outside the counter to choose goods, if you want to be close to yourself, you can only go to the counter to help the after-sales staff to take it, and large goods are not provided for delivery.

After picking for a while, Wang Lizhi selected a Konka's 21 village color TV, counted the cash to the salesman, and the salesperson in the counter lazily counted the money again, and then asked someone to pick up a piece of goods from the warehouse.

Although Wang Hao's family background is not wealthy, after all, his parents have formal jobs, and he can actually buy TV a few years ago, but he is afraid that Wang Hao will develop the habit of watching TV and delay his studies, so he has not bought it.

If there is any TV program you particularly want to watch, such as the Spring Festival Gala or something, go to Uncle Zhang's house next door to watch it.

Wang Lizhi is a football coach at a sports school and a standard football fan.

This year, the Liaoning team shined in the Asian Club Cup, winning the championship without losing, Wang Lizhi naturally did not pull a game, and went to Uncle Zhang's house to watch it.

I don't count just looking at it, I often bring a few bottles of beer, peanuts or something, and watch it while drinking with Uncle Zhang. In the depths of love, those who shout and scream do not know it.

It affected Uncle Zhang's daughter's study and rest several times, and finally Uncle Zhang's daughter-in-law fought with him, and Wang Lizhi was naturally embarrassed to go again after knowing it.

On the way back, Wang Hao still returned along the same road, this time in the opposite direction, just passing in front of the Taishan Boxing Club.

Strength training equipment, pear balls, hanging sandbags, young boxers fighting fiercely in the ring, Wang Hao slowed down the speed very slowly, appreciated it in detail, felt the ideal agitation, and experienced the hearty feeling of fist to flesh.

He felt that he was one of the fighters who was fighting in the ring, his footwork was flexible and vigorous, his opponent was unpredictable, his punches were fast and powerful, and his opponent was difficult to resist.

Wang Lizhi was immersed in the expectation that he could watch the replay of the last game of the Liaoning team and the Nissan team tonight, and his mood was rippling, and he suddenly felt that the speed of the tricycle had slowed down, and he looked up at Wang Hao.

I saw Wang Hao riding forward at a very slow speed, but his spirit had been projected into the Taishan Boxing Club with his eyes, he just wanted to reprimand two sentences, but suddenly found that Wang Hao's eyes were full of fanaticism, concentration, and an amazing momentum, which made him stagnate slightly.

For some reason, this kind of look suddenly reminded him of Maradona on the football field and Jordan on the basketball court, and at that moment he actually had a trace of awe, which is an emotion that is difficult to appear in his father.

When they got home and had dinner, the father and son couldn't wait to start debugging the TV.

The outdoor antenna has already been set up, and it is all over when it is connected.

At this time, there is no cable TV in Dongyue City, and all TV programs are received through outdoor antennas, which are greatly affected by the weather, and the signal is basically not received when it is windy and rainy.

Even if the weather is good, there are not many TV signals that can be received, and the ones that can be adjusted clearly and can be watched are CCTV Channel 1 and provincial TV stations.

What Wang Lizhi and Wang Hao want to watch is the provincial TV station, because there is a fixed sports program tonight - "Wonderful Competition".

And tonight is going to replay the match between the Liaoning team and the Nissan team, which Wang Lizhi will definitely watch, and what Wang Hao is looking forward to is that "Wonderful Competition" will occasionally play classic boxing match videos.

finally waited until half past eight, and the "Wonderful Competition" program finally began!

The young male host in a crisp gray suit broadcast in a straight voice: "Tonight's "Wonderful Competition" program will first bring you a classic heavyweight professional boxing match in 1974, the jungle battle between former world heavyweight boxing champion Ali and Foreman. Then we will play the final game of this year's Asian Club Cup, Liaoning Dongyao team hosts Nissan team. ”

"Jungle battles will be broadcast tonight!" Wang Hao was overjoyed, "I'm really lucky." ”

The battle in the jungle can be said to be the most important boxing match of Ali's career, he won the "devil" George Foreman without being favored at all before the fight, it can be said that the reason why Ali is great and why he has become the "Ali" who is known and admired all over the world is indispensable.

Ali entered professional boxing in 1960 and in 1964 at the age of 22, he was given the opportunity to challenge Sonny "The Devil" Liston, the heavyweight boxing supremacy of the time. As a fledgling boy, he was generally not favored by the majority of public opinion, and he was a big upset, knocking out the "Demon King" Sonny Liston in seven rounds, successfully challenging and winning the first boxing championship belt. This bout also became the best fight in professional boxing in 1964.

In 1967, Ali was baroked from his boxing license and imprisoned for five years for refusing to serve in the military in Vietnam, and after his comeback in 1971, he challenged then-heavyweight champion Joe Fraser and lost to defeat the heavyweight boxing champion at the time, tasting the first defeat of his career, and his career fell into a low point.

And George Foreman, before the 1974 Jungle Battle, was just the opposite of Ali and was at the peak of his career, winning all 40 fights and knocking out 37 opponents.

Before this jungle battle, Ali's place was widely not favored, in addition to the difference between the two people's competitive status, there is a more important reason, that is, the common reference of the two people's combat power, Joe Frazier.

Ali suffered his first career defeat by losing to Fraser in 1971, without two knockouts from Fraser.

In 1973, Foreman also beat Fraser, and both won both at that time, with Foreman as the challenger and Fraser as the reigning champion.

As a result, Foreman beat Fraser like an adult beat a six-year-old, knocking out Fraser six times in two rounds, so scared that the referee quickly stopped the match.

Therefore, no one saw that Ali could beat Foreman, and if Wang Haosheng was in that era and asked him to bet on the winner or loss of this game, he would also decisively bet on Foreman to win.

But Ali won, and it was the eighth round knockout of Foreman, and that's the magic of Ali and what makes this fight a history classic.

Foreman is arguably the epitome of sheer power, which is well known in the boxing world, and his ability to knock out Fraser six times in two rounds of duels without being unscathed speaks for itself. And Ali's strength is not among the top in weight, but he can knock out Foreman, what is the reason?

Wang Hao thought about it, and he also recalled the question he hadn't figured out yet: for his current self, how should strength be trained, and should he pursue strength?

This game may give itself the answer.

In the previous life, Wang Hao also watched this fight, but he didn't watch it with the purpose of learning skills, he watched it just because this game was exciting enough, because the time of this game was too long, Wang Hao learned techniques from the famous boxer's game videos, mainly watching the middleweight boxing champions from the late 90s to the early 21st century.

"If you have a chance today, you should review this match, study and think about how to better train and apply strength in professional boxing." Wang Hao looked intently at the game that was about to start playing, and said in his heart.

Wang Lizhi also watched this game with great interest, he loves sports, although his favorite is football, but he is not exclusive to other games, because all competitive sports are nothing more than competition strength, speed, endurance, etc., and the spirit of pursuing the limits of the human body is the same.

At the beginning of the game, Ali took the initiative to attack first, dripping jab and backhand fast, and gave Foreman a few blows first, which was to suppress Foreman's momentum and affect the opponent's psychological expectations.

For most of the first round, Ali was actively attacking, with the advantage of speed, frequently hitting Foreman, Foreman was a little slower, but the resistance was super strong, Ali's attack was like a dragonfly in his eyes, he could prevent it, he could dodge, he couldn't put it and he couldn't hide, so he went up to fight.

After a few rounds, although Ali hit a lot, he also received a few heavy punches from Foreman, and in the following small part of the time, Ali still retreated, played defensive counterattacks, and leaned to the edge of the rope several times.

Wang Hao understood that this was Ali who experienced the power of Foreman's heavy punches in the confrontation, and had to retreat, play defensive counterattacks, and put most of his energy on defense.

In the next few rounds, Ali continued this tactic, the enemy advanced and I retreated, and the enemy retreated and I counterattacked, avoiding the enemy's edge and recuperating energy.

Foreman, on the other hand, is a hard attack, he took advantage of the confrontation with Ali, and wanted to eat Ali alive like most of the opponents he faced before.

I have to say that Forman's strength is indeed very strong, and he frequently forced Ali to the edge of the rope to strike, but most of these blows were defused under Ali's light pace, excellent defense and outstanding rope skills.

However, at the end of each round, when Foreman was about to rest after the round, Ali began to counterattack, leaving Foreman in a state of high physical exertion.

Wang Hao understands that this is Ali's tactic, using Forman's psychology based on winning and being overconfident in his own strength, showing weakness at the beginning of the round to attract Foreman to attack, and when Forman's physical strength decreases, he begins to carry out effective counterattacks, so that the opponent has to deal with it positively, and he has not been able to rest.

Finally, in the eighth round, Ali felt that Foreman's punches were weaker than in the previous rounds, and his punches were deformed, and his hands were placed too low, which is a characteristic of physical exertion reaching a limit point.

Ali struck, and he began to fight back by the rope, and several clear punches hit Foreman's defenseless face, breaking free from the rope, and turning back to give Foreman a few more blows to the vertiginous Foreman, who fell to the ground.

After the referee counted eight, Foreman slowly got up from the ground, and his body was not very stable, and the referee decisively terminated the game, Ali won, and the whole audience boiled.

After the game was broadcast, Wang Hao fell into thought, he said to Wang Lizhi, returned to his room, and thought about the enlightenment that this game brought to him.

Foreman is undoubtedly the dominant side in this match, and if he can land Ali with all his strength, he may be able to end the match.

But in the normal game, Ali attached great importance to defense and did not give him a chance, relying on his advantage of moving faster and better technique than his opponent to maneuver with Foreman and avoid falling into a confrontation with Foreman like Fraser.

The tiger also had a nap, like a sandbag, Foreman, who had seven or eight rounds of heavy punches, finally began to exhaust himself, which meant that Ali could let go of his hand to fight against Foreman, Ali struggled with all his strength, and seven or eight heavy punches clearly hit Foreman, ending the game.

In the sport of boxing, strength and movement, speed are the same as the most important basic qualities, strength advantage is a good thing, can allow yourself to have the upper hand in the confrontation with the opponent, but if you rely on your own strength, and rely too much, it will become a bad thing, easy to fall into the enemy's boxing.

Even if one side has an absolute advantage in strength between humans of the same weight, it is difficult to knock each other down without hitting the vital point.

For example, most of Foreman's punches were poured into Ali's clamped arms and gloves, and even if Foreman had a lot of strength, it was impossible to knock Ali out through his arms and gloves.

Thinking of this, Wang Hao already has a clear answer in his heart about how to make good use of his strength advantage in the future, and how to balance strength training and training in other events.

The doubts in Wang Hao's heart were answered, and he was very excited.

"The next step is to start regular physical training first, meet the standard of entering the school's sports specialty, become a sports student, and pave the way for entering the sports school in the future!" He clenched his fists and prepared to attack.