Chapter 453: All parties prepare for the competition
Time magazine gave Wang Hao a very high rating, and Wang Hao became the first Asian boxer to appear on the cover of Time magazine, and one of the very few athletes in the entire world to appear on this cover.
This undoubtedly proves from the side that Wang Hao's brilliant victory at the Riyadh Stadium has a huge influence, and unconsciously, Wang Hao has become one of the most famous athletes in boxing history and even the most famous in the world because of his special status as an Asian boxer.
In many Asian countries, China, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, and even India, Wang Hao has become a household name.
Many Asian teenagers and boxing enthusiasts regard Wang Hao as their role model and life goal, and under Wang Hao's influence, Asian boxing has at least become more prosperous than before.
After the competition in Riyadh, Wang Hao returned to Berlin, Germany after a short stay in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, taking his parents and Huang Yueying to the Middle East for a few days, and being interviewed by several media outlets.
In Berlin, Wang Hao was interviewed by German national television and Sky Sports in the United Kingdom, and CCTV5 and China Sports News from China also arranged for full-time reporters to come to Germany to interview Wang Hao and produce a special interview program.
After these interviews with Wang Hao were broadcast, they received high ratings in various countries, especially in China, and the ratings were not even lower than those of Wang Hao when he was playing in Riyadh, becoming the highest rated TV program among all the TV programs on the air.
After returning to Berlin after the game in Riyadh, Wang Hao only gave himself three days off, and then devoted himself to intense training.
The match with Costa Zu brought some consumption to Wang Hao's body, but it was not big, Wang Hao could recover from these consumption quickly, and he was 100% committed to training.
While resuming intense training, Wang Hao also set goals for himself in the next stage, and Wang Hao plans to upgrade to welterweight after a few more title defenses in the ultra-lightweight division, to compete for the welterweight gold belt and compete with the four little kings of the middleweight division.
As for whether to give up the ultra-lightweight belt after the upgrade, Wang Hao has not yet decided, and plans to make a decision depending on how much he controls his weight after the upgrade.
Generally speaking, after the fighter is upgraded, he will give up the original level of gold belt, but this thing is not absolute, if the fighter still wants to maintain the original gold belt after upgrading, as long as he can reduce his weight to the level range, he can fight to defend the title.
So, for a fighter, as long as he can control his weight, he can fight in two or even three divisions and keep two or three divisions of gold.
Of course, it's very difficult and requires a lot of weight control.
Wang Hao thinks he can give it a try, but whether he really has to do it when the time comes will depend on whether he can flexibly reduce his weight and compete in the ultra-lightweight division after being promoted to welterweight.
If the weight loss goes well, Wang Hao will try to fight in both the ultra-lightweight and welterweight divisions, if it doesn't go well, or the weight loss will obviously affect his form, Wang Hao will choose to play in the welterweight division and will not return to the super lightweight division.
Wang Hao is also thinking about his fight before he is promoted to welterweight, and at the moment in the super lightweight division, Wang Hao has at least two or three important title defenses to fight, one against Morales, one against Youdah, and possibly with Diaz, and then a rematch with Costa Zu is also very likely.
In addition to these fighters, there are also several boxers who are ranked very high in the ultra-lightweight boxing organization, but are not well-known, they belong to the stronger than famous, if they have the mandatory challenge qualification of the four major boxing organizations, Wang Hao and their fight is also very likely to happen.
Of course, the fight against Morales is not strictly speaking a title defense, because Morales has just been promoted and has not yet played in the super lightweight division, so he is not ranked in the super lightweight division at the moment.
But if Wang Hao and Morales fight, as long as the two teams have a good talk on the distribution of benefits, Wang Hao and Wang Hao's team is willing to give one or two gold belts to Morales to fight for.
Of course, in the end, who Wang Hao will fight with in the next match depends on the negotiation and arrangement between agents, Wang Hao is waiting for the information of the new match while maintaining normal training at the Rhine Boxing Club.
Just when Wang Hao returned to return to training, Wang Hao's powerful potential opponents were also training intensively for the game against Wang Hao.
Wang Hao has become a world-renowned boxing star, so at present, for all ultra-lightweight fighters, the fight with Wang Hao is often their opportunity to gain fame and fortune, and any fighter who can defeat Wang Hao in the ultra-lightweight competition will greatly change his boxing career and destiny.
In a training hall in Texas, USA, Yudach is in the training hall, under the guidance of the coach, doing intense hand target training.
I saw that Yudach moved very quickly, his steps moved as fast as lightning, and his body was as soft as if it was all supported by cartilage, and when he hit the target, Yudach either moved quickly or flexibly made a shaking-avoidance action, even if the action was sometimes too fast, or the amplitude was too large, but Yudach relied on his amazing body flexibility to maintain balance.
And when the target is retracted, Yudach is able to strike quickly, his punch speed is so fast, the traces of the punch have become an incoherent phantom in front of him, Yudah's punch is very fast, the average fighter punches two punches, he can hit three to four punches.
Yudah is training hard and preparing for the next match, as well as the match against Wang Hao, which is sure to happen soon.
For a top-level fighter like Yodah, he's not afraid of any fighter in the ultra-lightweight division, and there's a good chance he could get a win over the likes of Wang Hao and Costa Zu.
Yudah has already set his sights on Wang Hao, and is already letting his agent talk to Wang Hao's agent William about the two-man match, and Yudah plans to play another game and officially challenge Wang Hao.
For Yudah, the match with Wang Hao will be an opportunity to earn a lot of money and become famous in the world, and Yudah will take advantage of it and devote himself to training. Worry-free Chinese network
Today, however, Yudach was waiting for a special visitor, who finally arrived when he was resting after Yodach had finished a set of target training.
That man was Morales.
Morales, along with his coach and assistants, flew from Mexico to Texas to train with Yudach for a while.
Morales's agent is talking to Wang Hao's agent William about the match, Morales is likely to get the first fight in the super lightweight division, and he will have the opportunity to fight with Wang Hao, and in order to increase the attraction of the game, Wang Hao is willing to take out two gold belts for Morales to fight.
Such a claim is also supported by boxing organizations, after all, at featherweight, Morales is also a hot figure in the big four boxing organizations, and although Morales is not ranked in the ultra-lightweight division, no one can deny that Morales has the strength to win the title in the ultra-lightweight division.
Therefore, the boxing organization also supported the match between Wang Hao and Morales, and it also turned into a boxing title defense fight.
Of course, such conditions, for Wang Hao's side, although there are considerations to make the game more significant and more attractive to fans, but the biggest beneficiary of this change is Morales, and the first fight that allowed Morales to land in the super lightweight division has become a title to compete for.
Therefore, while obtaining such excellent conditions, Morales's team also made great concessions to meet the negotiation conditions of Wang Hao's team, so if the match between Wang Hao and Morales can be promoted, for Morales's team, in fact, the monetary benefit is not large, because most of the benefits of the game will be taken by Wang Hao's team, which occupies a strong position.
Morales's team only got the opportunity to challenge for the boxing belt in Wang Hao's hands after giving up a large amount of monetary benefits, and this match, for Morales's team, the honor itself outweighed the benefits.
Morales' team took the initiative to find Yudah's team, wanted to train with Yudach for a while, and the two hit it off against the same strong opponents, so Morales came to Texas to train with Yudach for two weeks.
Both fighters have the strength of top fighters, even the newly promoted Morales has the strength to consistently defeat most fighters in the super lightweight division, as for what can be done against fighters like Wang Hao and Costa Zu, it depends on whether the strategy and preparation of the match are appropriate, and then how far they can play on the field.
Because Morales's team and Yudah's team are both facing the same problem, that is, how to fight when facing Wang Hao, and they both have some experience, so the two can train together to allow the two fighters to communicate with each other and improve together.
Moreover, for the two fighters, they are also good opponents for each other.
After all, there are only so many top fighters in one division, and it is not easy to find a strong combat target, and Morales and Yudach can just meet each other's combat training needs.
The common characteristic of Morales and Yudach is that they are fast, but Yudach is a little faster, especially in movement, much faster than Morales, and Yudah's physical flexibility is much better than Morales, but Morales's characteristics are that his continuous output ability is stronger than that of Yudah, and the striking power of combination punches is significantly stronger than that of Yudah, and Morales has the tenacious will of Mexican boxers, and is a real boxing warrior, while Yudach is more like a ranger in the ring.
These characteristics are very clear in the actual combat of the two.
On the second day of arriving in Texas, after the two did some running-in, Morales and Yudach started their first combat training.
I saw that in the ring, Morales was fighting steadily, his hands were like machine guns, and he kept punching with high frequency, and his fists were densely covered with Yudah.
After playing two or three battles with Morales and suffering losses, Yudach gave up the idea of head-to-head confrontation with Morales, but began to move more around the field, and relied on the fast and changeable pace of his feet to maneuver with Morales, flexibly mastering the rhythm of attack and defense.
For a time, Morales took the initiative to attack and occasionally succeeded, while Yudach was in a defensive position, but the occasional attack and defensive counterattack were also quite effective, the two can be said to be chess opponents, and each other's actual combat training benefited both fighters very much.
While Morales and Yodach were preparing for a common goal and a common opponent, at another boxing club in South Texas, black American fighter Vince Phillips was training in the gym.
Vince Phillips' boxing gym is not a very famous gym, and there are no famous fighters here so far, but recently Vince Phillips has gained some fame, the reason is naturally that Wang Hao defeated Costa Zu strongly in Riyadh, and Vince Phillips happened to be Wang Hao's sparring partner for a long time before Wang Hao and Costa Zu's match.
Wang Hao's shocking victory brought him world fame, and Vince Phillips also gained some fame in the local area by virtue of Wang Hao's former sparring partner.
At this time, Vince Phillips is training in the gym, and he is already ranked well in two ultra-lightweight boxing organizations, and he is trying to qualify for the mandatory challenge for the title as soon as possible.
Vince Phillips, who has fought with Wang Hao many times, knows that he can't defeat Wang Hao, but he can get a high monetary benefit from fighting Wang Hao, far exceeding the income of the ordinary boxing champion challenge, which is Vince Phillips' goal.
"Phillips! Your phone! "While Vince Phillips was training, there was a shout from a corner of the gym.
Vince Phillips walked over and took the phone, and a voice rang on the other end of the phone, asking, "Are you Vince Phillips, who used to be Wang Hao's sparring partner?" ”
"Yes!" Vince Phillips replied, he didn't know why the other party was looking for him, but after hearing Wang Hao's name, Vince Phillips faintly felt that it must be a good thing for the other party to find him.
The voice on the other end of the line rang again.
"My name is Johnny! Former super lightweight IBF and WBC champion Costa Zu's head coach! I'm looking for you today and I'd like to talk to you about some business, and we'd like to ask you to be a sparring partner for Costa Zu for three months! “