Chapter 408: Phillips and Wang Hao's Thoughts
After Wang Hao has completed two legal title defenses in the WBA and WBO, next, if there is no surprise in his title defense, Wang Hao will fight Costa Zu in the ultra-lightweight unification fight.
This is the most important competition and the strongest fighter Wang Hao has faced since he entered professional boxing.
Costa Zu is a young man born in the former Soviet national team and has won the World Championship boxing championship, with very solid boxing skills and strong punch power, and is a formidable technical heavy gunner.
Costa Zu is in many ways very similar to Wang Hao's favorite middleweight overlord Golovkin in his previous life, both are heavy gunners with technical streams, have a super high knockdown rate, are from the former Soviet Union countries, and their fighting style is like a boxing tank, and, amazingly, Costa Zu and Golovkin are both mixed-race, perhaps because of their complex genes, which gives them a power advantage that is significantly beyond ordinary people.
In Wang Hao's previous life, Costa Zu would be the most dominant boxing champion in the ultra-lightweight division, with few defeats, and now Wang Hao will face Costa Zu, who is also in the middle of his career and is in the sharpest form.
Therefore, the fight against Costa Zu will be the most difficult fight since Wang Hao's professional boxing debut.
Under the guidance of two head coaches, Paul and Sanchez, Wang Hao, who was carefully preparing to fight Costa Zu, remembered another fighter, an American middleweight fighter named Vince Phillips.
Costa Zu has a brilliant career, fighting more than 30 fights throughout his boxing career, dominating the ultra-lightweight division for a long time, and almost never failing, but at the height of his boxing career, he lost to the little-known American fighter Vince Phillips.
In Wang Hao's view, it was the only defeat of Costa Zu's career, even if Costa Zu gave up the game in the middle of the match with Hatton at the end of his career, but in Wang Hao's opinion, if Costa Zu played hard, he would still be the winner of the game.
These were the only two losses on Kosta's career books, and the absolutely undisputed defeat was against Vince Phillips, and it was a technical knockout.
This game also broke out the biggest upset of the year in boxing.
Because before the fight, all the media and fans thought that the strong Costa Zu would finish Vince Phillips with his tough right hand, just like Costa Zu finished his previous opponents, and Vince Phillips was a good but definitely not the best compared to the fighters that Costa Zu had ever finished.
In that match, Vince Phillips wounded Costa Zu with a heavy punch in the 10th round, and seized the opportunity to hit Costa Zu hard in succession, causing the referee on the court to stop the match.
And before Vince Phillips finished Costa Zu, the points score of the two on the court was also tied, so Vince Phillips did not win the game with cold punches, and Vince Phillips won the game with a certain inevitability.
This match was the Waterloo of Kosta Zu's career.
For this game, Wang Hao was also impressed.
The reason why Vince Phillips was able to knock down and finish Costa Zu, in Wang Hao's view, is due to the reason why Costa Zu is underdefeated, and there are also reasons why he is anxious because he is not leading in points, but the biggest reason is that Vince Phillips' technical style can better deal with Costa Zu, and Vince Phillips has a certain ability to resist hitting, and Costa Zu cannot easily knock down Vince Phillips with heavy punches.
Wang Hao remembers that in that fight, Vince Phillips threw a lot of straight punches, both the front hand and the right hand punches, and Vince Phillips' straight punches were fast, accurate, and had good striking power.
And most importantly, Vince Phillips' arm span is longer than that of Kosta Zu, which, combined with Kosta Zu's tank-style play, is why Vince Phillips' fast and accurate straight punches are able to hit Kosta Zu so frequently.
Vince Phillips wounded Costa Zu in round 10, also with a straight right hand.
Kosta Zu's arm span and height are not dominant, and Vince Phillips has fast and precise straight punches, which is why Wang Hao believes that Vince Phillips upset Costa Zu by memory.
Of course, there must be many detailed reasons, Vince Phillips may have intentionally or unintentionally restrained Costa Zu's technical habits in some technical details, and Wang Hao did not remember these so clearly.
Wang Hao is a reborn boxer, after entering the professional boxing arena a little earlier in this life, Wang Hao found that his physical fitness, natural strength and reaction are actually quite strong, and Wang Hao learned the lessons of the previous life, junior high school has not graduated, entered the boxing world as a teenager, and seized the opportunity, when he first entered the boxing world, he was carefully cultivated by a top coach like Atoli Lomachenko.
These are all important factors for Wang Hao to get to where he is now, but for Wang Hao, the most important advantage is that Wang Hao has the memory of his previous life.
Wang Hao knows which unbeatable boxing champions will fight in which fights, which fighters they will lose against, and which boxing professionals or fans will be upset.
For example, Vince Phillips will finish Costa Zu, Vargas will lose to Trinidad and De La Hoa in a row, Trinidad and De La Hoa will be defeated by Hopkins in succession, and Roy Jones Jr. will be upset by Tafel, and so on.
Wang Hao knows the defeat of these legendary fighters, and he also knows that these fighters will not be able to deal with which fighters will be difficult to deal with, which is the biggest advantage that Wang Hao has since his rebirth.
After thinking carefully about Costa Zu's loss to Vince Phillips, Wang Hao had an idea to find Vince Phillips and let him be his sparring partner.
Although Vince Phillips already has a good professional record at this time, he is not a very marketable fighter, and if it weren't for the later win over Costa Zu, Vince Phillips' presence in the boxing world would be very low.
Therefore, Wang Hao felt that it should not be difficult to find Vince Phillips to be a sparring partner for him.
One morning, Wang Hao had already come to the gym to prepare for the activities, and at this time, Wang Hao's coach Sanchez also walked into the gym.
Seeing that Wang Hao was already in the gym one step earlier, Sanchez exclaimed, Wang Hao's success is definitely not accidental, when most fighters and coaches have not gotten up, Wang Hao is already training, and day after day, in Sanchez's opinion, this persistent love and persistence in boxing is the biggest reason for Wang Hao's success.
Sanchez greeted Wang Hao, Wang Hao also smiled and waved in response, and walked towards Sanchez.
Wang Hao said: "I need to add a sparring partner?" ”
"Add a sparring partner?"
"Yes!" Wang Hao continued, "Do you know Vince Phillips? ”