Chapter 486: Light Night Boxing (9)
After Catherman and de la Hoya finished talking, he turned to Wang Hao.
Katherman smiled and said, "Mr. 'Dragon Fist', you are now one of the most well-known fighters in the world, and you are also the second champion in professional boxing today to dominate a division other than Roy Jones Jr. And you're not an American champion, not even an American or European champion, it's amazing, something that hasn't happened in the history of professional boxing, you've written history, and I'm sure you'll continue to write history. ”
"For American fans, you're definitely a powerful but magical champion at the same time, and everyone is curious about you, can you tell us a little bit about how you got into the sport? There are many famous boxing champions, such as Trinidad, the current super welterweight WBA and WBO boxing champion who is sitting now, his father Trinidad Sr. is his coach, and the current WBO welterweight champion Moseley, his head coach is also his father. In distant China, do you also have a boxer or boxing coach father? ”
Wang Hao said with a smile: "I do have a pair of parents who are engaged in physical education, but they are not engaged in boxing. My parents both teach at the local sports school in my hometown, my father is a soccer teacher and my mother is a volleyball teacher. Although they are good at their respective fields, they don't give me a lot of professional help in boxing. ”
Wang Hao continued: "Actually, I went to our local boxing club by chance, which is the only boxing club in my hometown city, of course, compared to many boxing clubs in the United States, it seems very amateurish, but from there, I fell in love with boxing. ”
In fact, Wang Hao naturally took the initiative to find Taishan Boxing Club to start his boxing career, but as a reborn boxer, these are naturally Wang Hao's own top secrets and will not tell anyone.
"How many years did you train at that boxing club?" Katherman asked.
"I was training at that boxing club until I won the World Junior Boxing Championships." Wang Hao replied.
"It's such an amazing boxing club, can you tell me the name of that boxing club?" "As you can imagine, the coach who trained you at that boxing club must have been great. ”
Wang Hao replied: "Taishan Boxing Club, he is like the majestic Taishan in my hometown in my heart, and his status is very important. I have a lot of good friends at Taishan Boxing Club, we are mentors and friends to each other, and we help each other in training, but my main instructor is not the coach of Taishan Boxing Club. ”
"Can you tell us more about that?" Katherman, a little curious, continued to ask.
As today's top professional boxing champions, they know the importance of coaches, especially when boxers first start practicing boxing, to the boxer's career, and they are also very curious about what kind of coach Wang Hao has, so that he can rise from Asia, a place where professional boxing is not very prosperous, to become an Olympic champion, and even a top world professional boxing champion.
Wang Hao continued: "Actually, my initiation coach was Atoli Lomachenko, and he has been teaching me even after I have achieved some results. ”
"Atoli Lomachenko!" Hearing this name, Catherman, De la Hoya, Trinidad and other boxing champions present were at first a little real-witted, and then a little surprised.
For the name of Atoli Lomachenko, senior boxing practitioners are very familiar, one of the head coaches of the former Soviet Union national boxing team, the master of Soviet-style boxing, has trained many excellent Olympic boxers, including many gold medal fighters.
Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Atoli Lomachenko left the former Soviet national team, but he was still engaged in the folk sports of boxing education, and the boxing school opened by Atoli Lomachenko was famous throughout Europe.
When he heard that the head coach of Wang Hao when he entered boxing was Atoli Lomachenko, Kesserman and these boxing champions who were sitting realized that there are almost no world-class boxing coaches in Asia, and even if there are occasional good boxing seedlings, they are easy to be buried, so when they heard that Wang Hao's early coach was Atoli Lomachenko, Kesserman and several boxing champions understood why Wang Hao had such excellent boxing skills.
Wang Hao's excellent boxing skills need to be trained at a young age, and under the guidance of senior coaches, after years of solid training can be mastered, Atoli Lomachenko is Wang Hao's early coach to make everything easier to understand.
But while the boxing champions of Catherman and de la Hoya were in a trance, they also felt a little puzzled, that is, Wang Hao was an ordinary Chinese teenager, and Atoli Lomachenko was a boxing master in the Soviet Union, and they were able to come together, which surprised everyone.
"Atoli Lomachenko!" "I know the name, a great boxing coach, a master of Soviet-style boxing. But I'm a little curious, how did you meet? ”
Wang Hao naturally did not feel strange at all when Kesselman asked this question, Wang Hao said with a smile: "It was actually a very fortuitous chance, when Atoli Lomachenko, as one of the members of a delegation of the Soviet Union to the Ukrainian republics, came to my hometown of Dongyue City to inspect the development of sports in China. And when I went to the sports school where my father and mother worked, my father was the main person in charge of receiving Atoly Lomachenko and his party, and I had been training boxing for a while, and on the day of Atoli Lomachenko's visit, I had an exhibition match with another fighter, and after the fight I became friends with Atoly Lomachenko. Later, Atoli Lomachenko continued to guide me in training by letter and phone, and when I achieved greater results and was promoted to a higher school, I often went to Atoli Lomachenko's boxing school to train. ”
After listening to Wang Hao's narration, the doubts in Kesserman's heart were also answered, and he nodded: "It must be that some of your shining points in the game deeply attracted Atoli Lomachenko. ”
Several pan-middleweight champions such as De La Hoya and Trinidad here, after hearing Wang Hao's narration, also understood how Wang Hao got acquainted with Atoli Lomachenko, in their opinion, this is a coincidence, but also Wang Hao's luck, if Wang Hao did not know Atoli Lomachenko, he may become a buried genius.
After listening to Catherman's words and seeing the expressions of several boxing champions, Wang Hao also smiled.
Wang Hao's narration, from the perspective of outsiders, is naturally a coincidence, and it is Wang Hao's luck, but Wang Hao knows that in fact, there is not so much luck at all, but Wang Hao knew that Atoly Lomachenko was going to visit Dongyue Sports School, and the special measures taken made Atoly Lomachenko notice him, so that the two became friends in such a short period of time.
"Can you tell us a little bit about how your career developed?" Katherman continued.
Because De La Hoya and Moseley are all American boxing champions, there have been many American media reports on their professional experience, and the majority of American boxing fans, including Katherman, are also more familiar, but for Wang Hao, because Wang Hao is a boxer from China, the American media does not have much contact with Wang Hao, so many fans do not know much about Wang Hao's career development, especially before entering professional boxing and winning the world boxing title, which is also Katherman himself, There are also a lot of topics of interest to American fans. Reading nests
Wang Hao nodded, and said slowly: "I first fought in the country, first won my province, in the United States is the state meaning, a non-governmental, by all the province's boxing clubs to participate in the boxing competition, in that competition, I won the championship of my level, that is a provincial championship, but also the first championship I won." Then I participated in the Chinese National Youth Boxing Championships, and at that competition, I won the National Youth Boxing Championship, which was my first national championship. Soon after, I won the World Junior Boxing Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine, which was my first world title. “
"A few years later!" Wang Hao continued, "At the World Boxing Championships in Hamburg, Germany, I won my first adult world boxing title, which was in the 64kg category. I think you should know that I represented the Chinese national boxing team at the Olympic Games in Atlanta and won the Olympic gold medal in the 64kg category, which was the last amateur boxing competition I participated in and the only time I participated in the Olympic boxing competition. I'm very happy to have won this gold medal. “
Syllable! Syllable! Syllable!
After listening to Wang Hao talk about the development of his amateur boxing, Catherman couldn't help but applaud Wang Hao, and at the same time, many viewers under the ring couldn't help but applaud Wang Hao.
"I remember you were received by President Clinton after the Olympics!" Catherman said.
"Yes!" Wang Hao continued, "I was received by President Clinton at the White House, and it was a very special and unforgettable experience. ”
When they heard that Wang Hao had been received by Clinton at the White House, several boxing champions at the scene cast envious eyes at Wang Hao.
Being received by the President of the United States is a very high honor for American sportsmen, and it is unattainable, and several boxing champions are very envious of Wang Hao, and De La Hoya and Trinidad also applauded Wang Hao.
"We all know your professional record so far, winning all 10 fights and knocking out all of them, which is not a lot of fights, but based on the quality of your opponents, it's a very impressive record. We were very curious, what was the final result of your amateur competition? Katherman continued to ask questions that interested him, and of interest to American fans.
"I've played a total of 167 amateur matches and won them all!" Wang Hao replied slowly.
"One hundred and sixty-seven games won!" Hearing this all-win number, Catherman and several boxing champions on the scene were stunned.
The audience under the ring couldn't help but applaud again.
"That's a staggering number!" Katherman exclaimed.
As a boxing professional, Katherman and several of the champions in the field know all too well how difficult it is to maintain a consistent victory in boxing.
Even though most of the champions in attendance today, such as de la Hoya, Mosley, Trinidad and others, are undefeated in professional boxing, they know it's hard to go undefeated in their careers as they continue to compete and meet a variety of high-level opponents.
Even veterans such as Chavez, Camacho, and "York Boy" Camppass, who once maintained an undefeated streak of more than 50 fights, still lost to new opponents, such as Chavez to de la Hoya, Costa Zu and Wang Hao, while Campas also lost to Trinidad and Fernando Vargas.
An undefeated record is almost impossible for a professional fighter unless he retires after a few fights.
For amateur boxers, because amateur boxing generally has more fights, and the shorter time of the fight, the competition is more accidental, which makes it very difficult for amateur boxers to maintain an undefeated record.
The formidable Barcelona Olympic lightweight boxing champion de la Hoya has a professional record of more than 200 fights and also lost five, and Fernando Vargas has played 100 amateur fights and also lost five.
The other current champions who have competed in amateur competitions have lost more amateur fights.
De la Hoya's amateur boxing results of 223 victories and five defeats are already god-level existence!
And Wang Hao played one hundred and sixty-seven games, and he didn't lose a single one, this result can only be said to be a super-god-like existence!
Although Wang Hao has played fewer matches than de la Hoya, Wang Hao, who also won the Olympic gold medal, has played no less quality than de la Hoya.
Wang Hao's amateur results are so appalling that when Wang Hao said it, Fernando Vargas, who was sitting next to Wang Hao, looked at Wang Hao with a suspicious look, Fernando Vargas obviously didn't believe what Wang Hao said, in Fernando Vargas's opinion, it is impossible for a fighter to fight more than 100 amateur matches without losing, this is simply impossible.
Catherman chatted with Wang Hao for a long time, even longer than with De la Hoya, which made several boxing champions on the scene feel as if Wang Hao was the biggest protagonist today, which made several of them feel a little unhappy.
After chatting with Wang Hao, Catherman, who was very satisfied, turned to Fernando Vargas.