Chapter 593: IBF & WBC Super Lightweight Title Defense (1)
Time flies, two months have passed since the match between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas, and it is the end of January of the new year, and the Chinese New Year is getting closer and closer.
In the past two months, Wang Hao has carefully prepared for the fight with the current IBF welterweight champion Forrester, as well as the current IBF and WBC super lightweight title challenger Qia Geoff, of which the fight with Forrester took most of Wang Hao's time.
In terms of the game strategy with Forrester, Wang Hao thought about learning from the previous Forest's two losses to the Nicaraguan madman Mayorga, and at the same time prepared for the game according to the guidance of Sanchez and Paul.
The match between Wang Hao and Forrester is the first time that Wang Hao challenges the second level of boxing title, which is very important for Wang Hao, Sanchez and Paul also devote almost all their time to assisting Wang Hao in preparing for the competition, studying Forrester's skills, pointing out Forrester's weaknesses to Wang Hao, and focusing on grasping them in training, aiming at Forrester's weaknesses, strengthening Wang Hao's technical adjustment and preparation training.
As for the game with Qiajief, although Wang Hao did not invest as much time in the game as against Forrester, Wang Hao only invested a small part of the time in the preparation for the game in the past two months to prepare for the game with Qiajiefu, but Wang Hao did not attach much importance to the game of Qiajieff.
And from the era of amateur boxing to the era of professional boxing, Jeff has never been knocked down by other fighters, and his ability to resist hitting is super strong, and he was given a nickname "Rock" by everyone, so the pressure that Wang Hao faces in this title defense is whether he can successfully knock out Jeff Qia to win, if Wang Hao can only win by points in the match with Jeff, it will be a game for Wang Hao that will make fans lose, after all, although Jeff is a legal challenger and his strength is not bad, he is not a star boxer.
Therefore, in the process of preparing for the competition, although Wang Hao spent not much time studying the skills of the game and making technical preparations for the competition with the game, he spent some extra time on improving his strength.
Most of these strength gains come from Wang Hao's weight gain, because Wang Hao is going to enter the welterweight division, so Wang Hao is continuing to gain weight, and some of the strength gains come from some additional strength training in the past two months.
For the match with Jeff Cha, Wang Hao's goal is still to knock out Jeff Cha to win the match.
In the past two months, Wang Hao and his team have been waiting for the release of this year's Boxing Magazine's annual annual awards, after Wang Hao was nominated as one of the candidates for the Fighter of the Year award because Wang Hao won the boxing fight with Fernando Vargas beautifully at the end of last year, and the match between Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas was also nominated for one of the competitions for the Boxing Tournament of the Year award.
According to industry estimates, Wang Hao could win at least one of the two awards with his strong performance against Fernando Vargas, with the most likely being the best boxing match of the year.
But I don't know why, this year's boxing magazine is released very late, in previous years, in early January of the new year, it was able to release the best of last year's boxing magazine, but this year it has arrived in late January and still has not been released.
However, Wang Hao is not in a hurry, because for Wang Hao, he has won two boxing magazine of the year, namely the best newcomer of the year in boxing magazine, and the best KO of the year in boxing magazine, so for Wang Hao, winning the best boxing magazine of the year, especially the two most important, and Wang Hao has not yet won the boxing magazine of the year boxer of the year and boxing magazine of the year, although it is still very worth looking forward to, but this expectation is not extremely eager.
Wang Hao kept a normal heart, waiting for the results of the annual evaluation of boxing magazines, and in his usual training, he was so committed that he didn't even think about it often.
Compared with Wang Hao's calmness, Wang Hao's head coaches Sanchez and Paul are more looking forward to whether Wang Hao can win the boxing magazine's boxer of the year or boxing magazine's boxing match of the year, and have been paying attention to the information in boxing magazine.
On the last Saturday night of January in Munich, Germany, Wang Hao's defense of the IBF and WBC super lightweight titles will finally be staged at the Olympic Stadium in Munich, which is also the first time that Wang Hao has defended the super lightweight gold belt after nearly a year.
In the past year, because Wang Hao has fought three welterweight fights, he has postponed the title defense of several major boxing organizations in the ultra-lightweight division, and tonight is Wang Hao's sixteenth professional fight, and it is also Wang Hao's eighth defense of the super lightweight boxing championship belt.
At six o'clock in the evening, fans watching Wang Hao's title defense tonight flocked to the Olympic Stadium in Munich from all directions.
Although the first mat match did not start until 7 o'clock, by 6:30 the room was almost full, and 80,000 spectators filled the Olympic Stadium in Munich, excitedly awaiting the start of tonight's game.
There are a total of four bouts tonight, in addition to the main bout between Wang Hao and challenger Qia Jeff, there are also three cushion bouts, including an eight-round heavyweight exhibition bout, a welterweight IBF European Intercontinental Champion Silver Belt challenge, and a flyweight WBC World Champion gold defense bout.
The first eight-round heavyweight exhibition bout was between a young native German fighter and a veteran British heavyweight.
The second ten-round bout of the IBF welterweight European Continental Champion bout was between a defending French welterweight fighter and a challenger from the United States.
Among them, the French welterweight European Intercontinental Champion is the third time to defend the IBF welterweight Intercontinental Champion Silver Belt, and he already has the mandatory qualification to challenge for the IBF welterweight title, if he can successfully defend the title tonight, he can challenge the IBF welterweight World Champion in the next match, so this match is very important for the French IBF welterweight Intercontinental Champion, and he himself is very important.
The third WBC flyweight world professional boxing championship match, is tonight in addition to Wang Hao and Qiajieff's fight, the only match with the title of world professional boxing, the defending champion is from Latin America, and the challenger is from southern Europe, is a white boxer, although the weight class of this fight is low, but because the technical level of both fighters is very high, they are the most powerful fighters in the flyweight division, so the audience is also more interested in this match.
Due to the extremely hot ticket sales for tonight's match, it took only a few days for the 80,000 tickets at the Munich Olympic Stadium to be snapped up by fans around the world from the announcement of the venue and time of the event.
On the big screen in the ring, a middle-aged male black fan with an excited and smiling face first appeared as he was being interviewed by the host.
The host said, "Hello! I would like to ask you which country are you from? ”
The black fan bared his white teeth and smiled, "I'm from South Africa!" ”
The host said: "It's a far away place, I thought you were from France or England, did you come all this way to Munich just to watch tonight's game?" ”
The black fan continued: "Yes! I've actually been to the continent many times, but this time, I really came just to see tonight's boxing match, and I saw that it was already full of passionate fans, and I was lucky enough to grab a ticket! ”
The host continued: "Can you tell us which fighter you came here to support? ”
The black boxer fan hugged the black female companion beside him and said happily: "Of course it's Wang Hao!" I am a loyal fan of Wang Hao, and I think most of the fans at the scene should be there to watch Wang Hao's fight, right? ”
The black fan continued to laugh and say, "Who else but Wang Hao can sell out tickets for a stadium as big as the Olympic Stadium in Munich?" I like Wang Hao, I have liked it since he won his first world boxing title, and it is a pity that Wang Hao and Fernando Vargas fought in Las Vegas, I did not grab the live ticket, but being able to come to the scene tonight to watch Mr. Wang Hao's boxing title defense can be said to make up for some of my regrets! ”
The host went to another audience and interviewed a fan who looked like he was from the Middle East, and the host asked, "If I'm not mistaken, you're from the Middle East, right?" ”
The fan said, "Yes! You're right, I'm from Iran! ”
"Welcome! Can you tell us which fighter you're rooting for tonight? The moderator continued.
The Middle East fan smiled and said, "Wang Hao! Wang Hao, of course! After Wang Hao played the super lightweight unification battle in the Middle East, he had a lot of fans in the Middle East, and I was one of them, and I really wanted to watch Wang Hao's games live, but Wang Hao's last few matches were played in the United States, you know, the relationship between our country and the United States is not good, so I can't get a visa for the United States. ”
The Middle East fan continued: "Fortunately, tonight's fight was held in Germany, and I was able to watch the fight live, so I grabbed the ticket as soon as possible, and I brought my son here today, and I hope my son can become a great athlete like Wang Hao!" ”
As he spoke, the Middle Eastern fans also pointed to a teenager sitting next to him.