Chapter 200: The Match Between "White Dynamite" and "Red Scythe" (1)
Wang Hao's No. 9 to 12 groups, in addition to Wang Hao and the British fighter who retired early, there is only one Puerto Rican fighter and one New Zealand fighter left.
Puerto Rico and New Zealand are small countries but have a good boxing tradition, and both have some world professional champions.
The Puerto Rican fighter and New Zealander will start their fight soon, and Wang Hao is already ready to watch the two fight on the sidelines.
The winner of this game will be Wang Hao's opponent in the quarterfinals, so Wang Hao will definitely watch this match, and carefully analyze the technical characteristics of the two fighters, especially the winner.
Bite! Bell bell bell!
As the bell rings, the fight between the Puerto Rican and New Zealand fighters officially begins.
Today's referee on the field was a tall, thin middle-aged Soviet man, who waved his hand to signal the official start of the match between the two.
The Puerto Rican fighter is a black man with a tall and thin build, while the New Zealand fighter is a white man who looks a little shorter than the black Puerto Rican boxer, but interestingly, both wear shorts that are quite ethnic.
The Puerto Rican boxer's shorts are lined with Puerto Rican flags on the front, while the New Zealand boxer's shorts are surrounded by a floral stripe.
The dark-skinned Puerto Rican fighter took the lead and landed two straight punches to his left and right hands very quickly, testing the New Zealander.
The New Zealander blocked the Puerto Rican fighter's temptation with gloves while landing a right hook that landed a hook to the Puerto Rican fighter.
The New Zealander's punches weren't fast, but they were powerful, and the Puerto Rican was nimble enough to bounce and dodge.
The New Zealander pressed up and hit the Puerto Rican fighter, who took the opportunity to meet the punch and landed a front hand from the New Zealander.
Next, the two launched frequent offenses and defenses, with the strong New Zealand fighter attacking more, while the Puerto Rican fighter took the initiative to attack less and played more defensive counter-attacks.
Wang Hao also saw the technical style of the two from their performance at the beginning, although the Puerto Rican fighter was playing defensive counterattacks, but he played more calmly and scored more, mainly due to his speed faster than the New Zealand fighter.
The New Zealander doesn't have the speed and shorter arm span than the Puerto Rican fighter, but he seems to be physically stronger, so he can only keep moving forward, putting pressure on the Puerto Rican fighter, looking for opportunities in the attack, and hoping that the constant offensive pressure will make the Puerto Rican fighter make mistakes.
However, the Puerto Rican boxer played very steadily, although the retreating defensive counterattack was the mainstay, but the rhythm was well controlled, and he was able to adapt well to the offensive of the New Zealand boxer, and gave the defuse and counterattack, and the number of hits was obviously more than that of the Puerto Rican boxer.
Wang Hao is estimating the development of the bout, and he thinks the Puerto Rican fighter should get the win of this bout and possibly even knock out the New Zealander.
Because the Puerto Rican boxer's striking is much more effective than the opponent's, through the continuous punching of the New Zealand boxer, Wang Hao feels that the New Zealand boxer may not be able to maintain the current state all the time, once the New Zealand boxer's state declines sharply, Wang Hao believes that the opportunity for the Puerto Rican boxer will come.
Although on the surface, New Zealand fighters are more muscular, and Puerto Rican black fighters may seem a bit skinny compared to them, boxing is not a bodybuilding match with muscle lines.
Wang Hao can see that although the Puerto Rican boxer has an average degree of muscles, he is not worse than the New Zealand boxer in terms of strength, which is why Wang Hao believes that with the deepening of the game, the Puerto Rican boxer may be able to knock out the New Zealand boxer.
The first round of the match, in the two of the two continued high-intensity attack and defense, ended, this round Puerto Rican fighter is a clear point lead, however, although the New Zealand fighter has received a lot of punches, but the state has not declined, showing a good ability to resist the blow.
The second round was the same as the first, but towards the end of the second round, the New Zealander showed some fatigue, and the Puerto Rican fighter didn't have as much pressure on his offense.
When the third round began, the rested New Zealander was quite aggressive for the first half minute, and then quickly began to get into the form before the end of the second round, with fewer punches and fatigue in the attack.
At this time, the Puerto Rican boxer strengthened the rhythm of the attack, played more actively, and gave the New Zealand boxer many heavy blows, and several heavy punches were very clear, which caused the audience to also exclaim.
Wang Hao saw that the Puerto Rican boxer also wanted to end the game in the form of a knockout, but the New Zealand boxer showed a super resistance ability at this time, although he took a lot of heavy punches, but he stood tall, occasionally hitting the Puerto Rican boxer with threatening heavy punches, and more often hugging the Puerto Rican boxer, but they were quickly separated by the referee on the court.
With that, the three-round bout between the two came to an end, and in the end, it was the Puerto Rican fighter who won the bout by a big points victory over the New Zealander.
The Puerto Rican fighter will also be Wang's next opponent.
Wang Hao, who watched the whole game, also looked at the boxing ring, but he was thinking in his heart.
The Puerto Rican fighter is a strong fighter, and this bout showcased solid technical ability, as well as excellent punching speed and striking power.
Wang Hao knew that he had to carefully prepare his strategy for the next fight, otherwise it would not be so easy to win the fight against the Puerto Rican fight.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Hao also went to watch the match between Latiz and Kurishenko, and the two who were in the last quarter group played the first round of knockouts one after another, and both of them successfully won the opponent.
In both fights, both men showed a clear technical style, and Cuban junior champion Latiz played very slippery, like a cheetah in the ring, and his opponent was almost toyed with by him, and was knocked down twice by Latiz throughout the match, but fortunately he had a good ability to resist the punch and held on to the end.
Kulishenko's style of play is somewhat similar to Kamenlev's, the style of play is very standardized, and he attacks continuously, but his opponents are also very skilled, although the overall ability is not as good as Curishenko, but the defense is tight and the technical system is also very solid.
Although Kurishenko won the match in the end, it was not very beautiful to win, and there was no knockdown in the game, and there was no ** fight.
In this way, the first round of the top 16 knockout matches of this World Junior Boxing Championship is over, and among the remaining top eight fighters, the four favorites are all there, and there will be two high-level matches between them in the next round.
They are the All-American Golden Glove Champion Gilvajes against the All-Union Junior Champion Kamenlev, the All-Union Junior Runner-up against the Cuban Junior Champion Latiz, and Wang Hao will also appear in the quarterfinals against the Puerto Rican boxer.
There was a one-day break between the round of 16 and the quarterfinals, during which Wang Hao also carefully planned the competition strategy by observing the technical characteristics of the Puerto Rican fighters.
Time flies quickly, and the quarterfinals will begin immediately, and today's match was held in the largest venue of the National Boxing Sports Center of Ukraine, which shows the importance and excitement of today's match.
The crowd was also at its peak, with nearly 10,000 spectators gathered in the stadium to watch the match, and in addition to the general audience, there were many fighters and coaches from various countries who had finished the fight but had not yet left Kiev.
Today's competition was at its highest level, with the four favourites taking the stage and facing each other off, almost second only to the final, which represents the highest level of youth boxing at the moment.
The first to play was the most watched match between the American Golden Glove champion "White Dynamite" Gilvajes and the Soviet junior champion "Red Scythe" Kamenlev, which was a match between the two champions of the United States and the Soviet Union, the two most powerful countries and the strongest boxing powers.
After the match between the two, there was another fight in the middle, which was the match between Wang Hao and the Puerto Rican boxer, and finally the fourth match was the match between the Cuban champion "Havana ruffian" Latiz and the all-Soviet junior runner-up "Ukrainian Destroyer" Kulishenko.
Although the audience is most looking forward to the previous matches of the four popular fighters, the yellow-skinned Wang Hao has also attracted their great attention, because in international boxing competitions, there are few Asian fighters in the end.
Especially when they learned that Wang Hao was from China, they were even more interested, and they were eager to see how strong the Chinese fighter was.
In all four matches, in addition to Wang Hao's own match, Wang Hao is most concerned about the matches between Latiz and Kulishenko and Gilvajes and Kamenlev, because the winner of Latiz and Kulishenko will be Wang Hao's opponent in the next match, and the winner of Gilvajes and Kamenlev is likely to be Wang Hao's final champion opponent, of course, the premise of everything is that Wang Hao must first win the Puerto Rican boxer in front of him.
In the second game, because the boxer was not the favorite to win the championship, nor was he the opponent Wang Hao would face in the next round, Wang Hao didn't care so much, and just took the opportunity to do some preparatory activities in the second game.
All eight fighters in the competition passed the day's pre-fight weigh-in without any problems, and everyone waited for the start of the fight, with Gilvajes and Kamenlev already preparing for the event, putting on protective gear and gloves.
Today's on-court referees are also the most experienced referees selected by the International Junior Boxing Organization.
The referee motioned for Gilvajes and Kamenlev to get in the ring, and the bout began immediately.
Gilvajes, who was wearing white shorts and a vest, and Kamenlev, who was wearing a red shorts vest, heard the referee's signal and stepped into the ring one after another.
The scene was silent, and all the spectators stared intently at the ring, waiting with anticrative anticipation for the start of the match.
Bite! Bell bell bell!
After the experienced on-field referee briefed the two again on the precautions of the game, as the bell rang, the on-field referee signaled for the game to begin.
The two biggest favorites, the competition of the US-Soviet Youth Championship, has officially begun!
Although the two are very strong, it is not the first time they have participated in international competitions, but it is the first time they have appeared as each other's boxing opponents.
American fighter Gilvajes took the lead and landed a couple of jabs to test Kamenlev.
Kamenlev is physically strong and has strong fighting ability, even Gilvajes' jab is not much of a threat to him, Carmenlev did not make evasive moves, just raised gloves to block Gilvajes's jab.
Boom! Boom!
Gilvajes' jab slammed into Kamenlev's gloves, sending out a clear sound that reverberated through the ring.
Boom!
Kamenlev also landed a left-handed jab to test Gilvajes, who dodged Kamenlev's jab with a swing and landed another jab that was fast, hitting a Kamenlev gap and hitting Kamenlev.
Gilvajes scored first.
Kamenlev, who was not happy to get a jab from Gilvajes, acted as if he didn't get a punch, and he immediately threw a combination punch at Gilvajes.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
At this time, Kamenlev showed the technical system that Kamenlev possessed, and his punches were very standardized and consistent.
Gilvajes, though, was also very physical and flexible, and he dodged several of Kamenlev's combinations with just a step-back.
While this dodge can work for the average fighter, Gilvajes uses a dangerous dodge technique for one of the best fighters in a boxing powerhouse like Kamenlev.
Kamenlev's reaction speed, timing and distance control were all excellent, and after seeing Gilvajes dodge with a backward stance, Kamenlev immediately threw a quick left hook forward and swung Gilvajes after his combination punch.
Gilvajes was also good, he saw that Kamenlev continued to step forward, and Gilvajes quickly hit a meet while his body was still leaning back.
Boom!
Gilvajes landed a bottom-up right hook to meet Kamenlev.
Boom!
Kamenlev's left hook clearly landed on the right side of Gilvajes' face, but Gilvajes' return punch was not on his own, and he missed the air and struck the back of the head through the moving Kamenlev.
Kamenlev pulled back a bit, and the punch was heavier, much heavier than the jab that Gilvajes had hit Kamenlev before.
"Oh!"
Seeing Carmenlev's hook clearly hit Gilvajes, many viewers in the ring exclaimed.
However, Gilvajes was also very quick to react and once again showed his remarkable physical flexibility, relying only on his lower back muscles, his body quickly turned from leaning back to leaning forward, and hugged Kamenlev.
Although this does not mean that Kamenlev has hit Gilvajes hard, but at this distance, the newly successful Kamenlev is bound to launch a close-range onslaught on Gilvajes, and the experienced Gilvajes chose to hug in order to curb Kamenlev's momentum.
Kamenlev threw punches, but he didn't break free from Gilvajes' grip.
The referee shouted and walked up, separating the two while signaling the game to continue.
Wang Hao, who was in the ring, watched the game and also had some thoughts on the characteristics of Kamenlev and Gilvajes in the ring.