Chapter 355: Super Lightweight Dream Night Begins
Madison Square Garden is located in Midtown Manhattan, New York, New York, USA, it is located on Pennsylvania Station, one of the largest train stations in the United States.
The ultra-lightweight fantasy night has begun, and Madison Square Garden is packed with 50,000 or 60,000 fans from around the world who will enjoy four exciting professional boxing bouts tonight.
All four professional boxing bouts were ultra-lightweight bouts, two of which were intercontinental title bouts, and the last two, and the most high-profiled, were World Title bouts.
In the world ultra-lightweight boxing world, the four most watched fighters at present, Wang Hao, Costa Zu, Chavez and Camacho, will all take the stage, and the two World Boxing Championship matches involve three boxing organizations, the World Boxing Council WBC, the International Boxing Association IBF, and the World Boxing Organization WBO boxing title.
It's not often that a boxing match involves so many titles in one division, so tonight's fight is called Super Lightweight Dream Night, and the crowd is looking forward to it, waiting for the excitement to begin.
First up were two fights for the Intercontinental Championship titles, the first was the WBA Intercontinental Championship of the Americas bout, which was played between a black fighter from Costa Rica and a white fighter from Canada,
In the introduction of the two fighters by the host of the scene, the Costa Rican challenger in gray shorts and the Canadian WBA intercontinental boxing champion in blue shorts took the stage one after another.
The two fighters are about the same height, but the Intercontinental Champion from Costa Rica is slender and looks a little thin, while the WBA Intercontinental Champion from Canada is more sturdy and looks a little more powerful.
Both fighters also have very good professional records, black fighters from Costa Rica, 17 professional records, 16 wins, one defeat, 14 of which are knockout wins, a fighter with a very high knockout rate, obviously this fighter has good strength, even if his figure does not look so strong.
The white fighter from Canada, the current WBA Intercontinental Champion of the Americas, has 22 career fights, 20 of which have won and two defeats, and 13 of those victories have been won by knockout.
Obviously, in terms of knockout rate, the current Canadian Intercontinental Champion has no higher knockout rate than the challenger from Costa Rica, and the Canadian Intercontinental Champion has won more fights by points.
In addition to the host of the event, two of the American fighters in the eighties middleweight four-day king, Hagler and Leonard, were invited to provide live commentary for tonight's match.
Hagler has an impressive professional record, playing 67 fights and winning 62 of them, winning 57 knockouts and losing only three.
As you can see from Hagler's professional record, Hagler is a powerful fighter with a lot of power and fierce attacks, often knocking out opponents in the first half of the fight, and his failed fights are basically lost by points, and it is difficult for opponents to knock him out in the matchup.
Leonard is also an Afro-American fighter who, like Hagler, was a four-time middleweight king in the eighties.
Leonard's professional record is to play forty fights, with 36 victories and three defeats, with 25 of the remaining fights coming by knockout.
Hagler and Leonard are also old rivals, with Hagler losing one of his three defeats to Leonard on disputed points.
The organizers of today's event also consulted two of them to serve as the commentators, which undoubtedly aroused the emotions and interest of the fans at the scene and the interest in tonight's fight.
After all, the ultra-lightweight fantasy night match, narrated by the veteran middleweight four-heavenly king, can make fans' blood boil just by imagination.
The first WBA Intercontinental Championship of the Americas was a ten-round match.
At the beginning of the fight, the Canadian fighter was more cautious, while the Costa Rican seemed to be quite confident and played very aggressively from the start, throwing a lot of punches.
However, in general, the first three rounds of the two fought calmly, there were no fierce confrontation scenes, and the points were basically evenly divided.
However, from the fourth round, the Canadian who holds the WBA Intercontinental Champion title began to step up his attack and knocked out the Costa Rican fighter with a cold right uppercut.
However, it was a knockout, but it didn't hit the Costa Rican harder, and the Costa Rican got back up and launched a more fierce attack on the Canadian.
But overall, the Canadian fighter still had the advantage with a knockdown in this round, and gained a point advantage.
Rounds five and six took a few more turns, with the black challenger from Costa Rica playing more aggressively, striking sharper, and attacking at a faster pace in both rounds, and at one point grabbed several holes in the Canadian fighter's defense, knocking out the Canadian fighter once in the fifth and sixth rounds.
However, the Canadian fighter is also very experienced in the competition, and after he was knocked out by the Costa Rican fighter, he was able to get back up and continue to defend well, without giving the Costa Rican fighter a chance to continue to finish him.
After three rounds of fierce battles in the fourth, fifth, and sixth rounds, from the seventh round, both fighters seemed to enter a period of exhaustion, and the pace of the attack slowed down again.
The seventh, eighth, and ninth rendezvous were all relatively uneventful, but the 10th round, because it was the last round of the match, felt that the two fighters who had a chance to win the match set off a fierce battle again in the 10th round.
Although both fighters were very aggressive and full of firepower, no fighter fell to the ground in this round, and the two fighters fought for ten rounds and entered the judges' judgment stage.
In the end, one of the three off-court judges ruled that the current WBA continental boxing champion Canadian boxer won and two ruled that the challenger Costa Rican won the boxer.
In this way, the black Costa Rican boxer, who was the challenger, won the match by a divided score advantage and became the new WBA American Intercontinental Boxing Champion.
The second bout is the WBC Intercontinental Continental Boxing Championship Silver Belt match, which will be between two American fighters who will compete for the vacant WBC Intercontinental Boxing Championship title.
Both American fighters are black and undefeated, with one tall fighter wearing gold shorts and a career record of winning all 13 fights and 11 knockouts.
Another shorter black fighter, dressed in white shorts, won all 15 of his career fights, including 11 knockouts.
Judging from the records of the two fighters after entering professional boxing, there is not much difference in their records, the number of fights is similar, and the knockdown rate is also very similar.
In the first half of the first round, after the two tested each other, they both increased their offensive rhythm and played more actively.
When the tall golden-shorts fighter attacks, the shorter white-shorts fighter will step back to defend, and when the taller gold-short-pants boxer's attack rhythm slows down, the shorter white-shorts boxer starts to increase the pace of the attack again, pressing the tall boxer to fight.
Both fighters are very strong in their defensive skills and resistance to strikes, and both seem to lack the power to make the final move, so while both men have landed a lot of heavy punches, neither has the ability to knock each other down until the end of the fight.
In this way, the two fighters fought for ten rounds, and the result of the fight turned out to be a draw, with one of the three off-court judges ruling that the tall gold-short-pants fighter would win, the shorter white-short-pants boxer winning, and the remaining boxer awarding both of them to win five rounds each, and the two were tied.
The embarrassing thing is that no one has been able to get this vacant WBC Intercontinental Boxing Championship Silver Belt, and they still need to fight one more time to really decide the winner, and they are also the owners of the WBC Intercontinental Intercontinental Boxing Championship Silver Belt.
After a two-time Intercontinental Title bout, it's finally time for the biggest fight of tonight's super lightweight fantasy night.
If the first two games were appetizers for the audience, then the next match between Wang Hao and Camacho, who is now the first person in the WBO, is the first main course of the evening.
Because Wang Hao's fight with Camacho only involves one WBO super lightweight title, while Chavez's fight with Costa Zu involves two WBC super lightweight and IBF super lightweight titles.
So tonight's event organizers put the match between Wang Hao and Camacho in the first place.
And the order of appearance of Wang Hao and Camacho, the event organizer also let Camacho play first, and Wang Hao played later, although Camacho ranked first in the ultra-lightweight division of the WBO, Wang Hao ranked second, but because Wang Hao has a WBA world boxing title, the event organizers gave Wang Hao the treatment of appearance.
In the boxing title challenge, the first to appear is generally the challenger, and the last to appear is the boxing champion, so whether to appear first or last is not only a question of the order of appearance, but also the status of the fighter.
Although Wang Hao did not defend the title tonight, the organizers made Wang Hao appear after comprehensive consideration, which actually recognized Wang Hao's status in the current super lightweight boxing arena, which is stronger than Camacho.
Before Wang Hao and Camacho appeared, the atmosphere of the game scene gradually entered a climax, and many spectators at the scene had begun to stand up impatiently, and some viewers even shook and danced, waiting for Wang Hao and Camacho's appearance.
At this time, the host of the scene, who was also about to start the match between Wang Hao and Camacho, chatted with the two commentators, Hagler and Leonard.
The host first said: "Mr. Hagler, what do you think of the upcoming WBO boxing title match between Wang Hao and Camacho?" Who do you think will win this game? ”
Hagler didn't think much about it and replied: "The match between Wang Hao and Camacho is actually a match of spear and shield. Wang Hao is young and sharp, and all of the five fights he's fought so far have come by knockout, and even Chavez has only lasted four rounds under his punches. Although Wang Hao is an Asian boxer, his figure does not look very athletic, but his striking power is very much like me when I was younger.
"On the other hand, although Camacho's defensive skills are very advanced, I think as time goes by, Camacho's shield has begun to rust, I don't think he can resist Wang Hao's attack, I think Wang Hao can win this game."
After listening to Hagler's answer, the host nodded, turned to Leonard again, and asked, "Mr. Leonard, what do you think of this match between Wang Hao and Camacho?" ”
Leonard and Hagler are old rivals, and they are both former middleweight 4 kings, but the two have very different fighting styles and technical styles, Hagler relies more on his strength and physical advantages to destroy opponents, while Leonard relies more on technique, which can be seen from the difference in knockdown rate between the two, Hagler obviously has a higher knockdown rate.
Leonard also had a completely different view of the match, replying: "I don't agree with Hagler, but I admit it's a real spear and shield match, but the key to who wins this game is how well the shield counter-attacks. If Camacho's counterattack can make Wang Hao dare not attack recklessly, then Camacho still has a good chance to win this game, but I also think that Camacho is difficult to knock down Wang Hao, and Wang Hao's resistance ability has been tested in the previous games, and it is difficult to destroy a fighter like Wang Hao with ordinary heavy punches. So, I think it's quite possible that Camacho will win this game by points. ”
After the two commentators answered the host's questions, the atmosphere of the scene changed again.
The overall lighting of the scene dimmed, only two beams hit the entrance of the boxer, noisy heavy metal music sounded, and the host also said in a timely manner: "Okay!" Thank you to the two guests for their professional commentary, let's welcome the two fighters Wang Hao and Camacho tonight, first of all, Puerto Rican boxer, Camacho, who is now ranked No. 1 in the WBO. ”
In the boxer's entry lane, Camacho wore a white cape and white shorts, and slowly appeared on the stage with a slight jump.
Now there are a lot of Puerto Rican fans, who see Camacho in the field, they wave the Borocan flags and cheer loudly.
"Camacho is now five years old Chinese New Year's Eve and has a professional record of 59 professional fights, 54 wins, three defeats and two draws, 31 of which are knockout wins."
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