Chapter 416: Costa Zu's Preparation and Wang Hao's New Sparring Partner (1)

The sport of boxing in Australia is also quite well-developed, with the occasional very high-profile white fighter popping up, mainly in the middle and big divisions.

The reason why Australia, which has a small population, has a good strength in boxing is because the English-speaking countries of the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and Canada have developed boxing well, and there are still some very good coaches in Australia.

Johnny is one of them, he started as an amateur boxing coach and then turned to professional boxing, and has already produced two world champions before, although they are only short-lived world champions, lucky enough to win a world championship title, and not capable of defending the title for a long time, but this is enough to prove Johnny's ability.

And being able to unearth Costa Zu is even more proof of Johnny's ability, after all, knowing people and discovering the potential of fighters is a very important quality of coaches, and Johnny undoubtedly surpasses the vast majority of boxing coaches at this point, when Johnny first saw Costa Zu's match at the Amateur Boxing World Championships, Johnny recognized Costa Zu's unlimited potential.

Later, Johnny paid a lot of money, taking advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union to bring Costa Zu into Australia and become a professional fighter.

At that time, it was still rare to find a professional boxer with a Soviet-style style from a former Soviet Union country like Russia to enter the professional boxing scene in Europe and the United States, but Johnny did it without hesitation, and Johnny firmly believed that he and Costa Zu could achieve each other, and Costa Zu was also one of the most talented fighters Johnny had ever seen.

Solid boxing fundamentals, agile pace in and out, incredible distance and control, devastating right-handed punches and exuberant physicality that far exceed the average athlete – when all of these things come together in the same fighter, it will do wonders in the boxing world.

In Johnny's opinion, Costa Zu is such a fighter, and Kosta Zu's performance after entering the professional boxing world also proves Johnny's conjecture.

After fifteen fights in professional boxing, the knockout rate is almost 100 percent, and in just three or four years, he has won two boxing championship belts in the ultra-lightweight IBF and WBC, and the opponents he has defeated are all ultra-lightweight masters, and even the top fighters in the ultra-lightweight division like Chavez have also fallen under the fists of Costa Zu.

At the time of Kosta's rise, two other top talents in the ultra-lightweight division, De La Hoya and Moseley, were promoted to welterweight, which made Johnny think that Costa Zu could rule the ultra-lightweight division for a long time.

It wasn't until Wang Hao knocked out Chavez and Camacho that Johnny knew he was wrong.

In fact, Johnny, who pays more attention to both professional and amateur boxing, has long known that China in Asia has produced a boxer like Wang Hao, who has won the World Championships boxing gold medal and the Olympic boxing gold medal, creating history.

But professional boxing is not the same as amateur boxing, and, in Johnny's eyes, Wang Hao walked too fast, even faster than Costa Zu, which made Johnny think that Wang Hao would suffer setbacks in the early days of entering professional boxing.

But I didn't expect that although Wang Hao entered the professional boxing competition, he faced some veterans in the professional boxing world, including young and strong undefeated boxers, as well as cunning veterans, but Wang Hao successfully defeated these opponents.

Not a single fighter fought the whole court in front of Wang Hao, and not even a single fighter made it to the fifth round.

Costa Zu once knocked out Chavez to win, which is Costa Zu's proudest record, but what Costa Zu did, Wang Hao also did, Wang Hao knocked out Chavez in Mexico City and won the WBA super lightweight gold belt in Chavez's hands.

Wang Hao has only been in the professional boxing world for less than two years, and has only played eight fights, only half of Kosta Zu's professional fights, but Wang Hao, who is already the WBA and WBO super lightweight champion, has achieved almost the same results as Costa Zu.

"Come on!" Johnny walked into the arena and not only put on a target in his right hand, but also took a small half of a hard rubber rod in his left hand, and put on a head guard and chest guard.

The hand target is naturally used for Costa Zu's striking training, and Johnny brings a head guard and chest guard, which is also to allow Costa Zu to play more freely, not just to do hand target hitting, when he has a better feeling, he can punch Johnny's head and body.

And Johnny held a small half of a hard rubber rod in his hand to simulate Wang Hao's arm length.

Although Wang Hao is an ultra-lightweight boxer, according to his natural weight, Wang Hao should actually be at the level of welterweight or even super welterweight, but Wang Hao has always maintained his body shape very well, and with the weight loss before the game, he has always controlled his weight at the ultra-lightweight class of 64 kg.

Costa Zu is different, Costa Zu is a few centimeters lower than Wang Hao, he is a natural ultra-lightweight fighter, and Costa Zu's height and arm span are comparable, but Wang Hao's arm span is a little longer than his height, which causes Wang Hao's arm span to be at least ten centimeters longer than Costa Zu.

That's why Johnny held a small half of a hard rubber rod in his hand, simulating Wang Hao's arm span and making Costa Zu's preparation more felt.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Johnny's target stretched out, and Costa Zu slammed into Johnny's target in a dull sound that reverberated through the ring.

Rumble!

Johnny's right hand with the target suddenly retracted, and then immediately unleashed a straight right hand that Johnny threw quickly, but Costa Zu also immediately made a calm but very quick slide to dodge Johnny's straight right hand.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Immediately after, Johnny unleashed a series of left-handed jabs that were just as fast, and the hard rubber rod Johnny was holding almost poked Kosta Zu in the face.

But Kosta was very nimble and quick on his feet, and he quickly slid back and then went fast again, not only dodging Johnny's fast and dominantly long left jab, but also cutting forward quickly between Johnny's punches and hitting Johnny's face with a succession of straight punches.

Of course, when Costa Zu punches, he is restrained, otherwise even Johnny with a head protector will be easily hit by Costa Zu's strong strength.

Johnny continued to press Kosta Zu and landed a lot of left jabs, complemented by occasional straight right backhand punches.

Johnny is simulating Wang Hao's style of play in the previous games, that is, the oppressive style of play taught to Wang Hao by Sanchez, which is also the style of play that Golovkin became famous for in later generations, relying on rock-solid pace and penetrating heavy jabs, sticking and consuming opponents, seizing opportunities, continuous left-hand combination punches, knocking down and ending opponents.