Chapter 348: Million Dollar Super Wrestling Grand Prix

In the afternoon, Suo Gang went to the hospital for an examination and the results came out, with a slight concussion, and it is estimated that he will have to recuperate for at least a month.

Seeing that Suo Gang didn't have much of a problem, Yi Dun left the training base with confidence.

As soon as I got home, I heard that Tong Yangling had brought good news, and the company had been registered.

The legal person is Tong Yangling himself, with a registered capital of 2 million.

Originally, Tong Yangling wanted Yi Dun to be a lawyer, but Yi Dun himself was a contestant, and if he was a legal person who operated the event company, it was not suitable to look at it.

In addition to Tong Yangling, the legal person, the shareholders also have Xia Jiuli and Wang Yaping, these two people have been running east and west with Yi Dun for so long, Tong Yangling discussed with Yi Dun, and decided to give these two people five points of equity each.

In this way, Yiyang Sports Development Co., Ltd. was officially established.

Yi Dun immediately called Director Jiao and asked him to help find provincial wrestling to assist him.

The rest of the matter is simple, some trivial things such as competition venues and ticketing are directly contracted by the Provincial Wrestling Association.

Then it was inappropriate for the Provincial Wrestling Association to come forward, and Director Jiao came forward to contact the South Korean side and invited the Korean players to come to Jibei to compete.

As for the sponsorship of the competition, this is naturally Xia Jiuli's job.

With the joint efforts of the three parties, the China-South Korea wrestling tournament, which had been interrupted for several years, was reopened.

If there is a competition, then there must be a prize money, otherwise, it is impossible for Koreans to come to the competition.

According to the bonus scheme negotiated by Yi Dun and Director Jiao, there are seven levels for men, but each level is divided into classical and freestyle, which is considered 14 levels.

There is no classical style for women, only freestyle, and there are four levels in total.

Therefore, a total of 18 gold medals will be produced in this China-South Korea competition, and in addition to the two gold medals in the men's 130kg class, there will be 16 gold medalists left, each of whom will receive a bonus of 20,000 US dollars.

Such a prize money seems to be incomparable with the Grand Prix, World Championships and other high-money events, but it is really quite rare for a wrestling event to have a prize money of 20,000 US dollars.

After all, wrestling is not very profitable, how can the organizers give so many bonuses.

Sixteen gold medals are 320,000 US dollars, which is more than 2 million yuan, and the Sino-Korean wrestling match in Huai'an, Jiangsu Province in 04, all the expenditures were added together, and a total of only 1.3 million yuan was spent.

From this, you can see how generous Yi Dun is this time.

It can also be seen how difficult it is for wrestlers to earn high prize money, and in competitions such as the China-South Korea wrestling match, the previous champion is estimated to only get a prize of 10,000 yuan or 20,000 yuan.

The gold medals in Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling in the 130 kg class are a little incomprehensible to Koreans.

Because the prize amount of these two projects is as high as 1 million US dollars!

And it's $1 million per project!

It's definitely the amount of money that drives all wrestlers crazy, considering that athletics has a much bigger impact than wrestling, and the prize money is up to $1 million on the Golden League.

And the $1 million is quite difficult to get, not that you can get it if you win.

Before '02, there were seven tournaments in the Golden League, but it was reduced to six, and if you want to get this million dollars, you must win all six tournaments.

The most important thing is that even if an athlete really wins six in a row with absolute strength, he may not be able to get all the $1 million.

The million-dollar dollar needs to be shared with all the athletes in the same class who have won six in a row, and if only one person completes the six-game winning streak in this Golden League, he will get the full prize money.

However, if there are other players who have also completed a six-game winning streak, then the prize money needs to be split equally.

The scariest thing is that in '02, a total of four players completed a six-game winning streak, so everyone could only get $250,000 in prize money in the end......

Because there are only 10 events in the Golden League, theoretically speaking, the million dollars could be split evenly between 10 people at most.

Since the start of this year, the Golden League has become history and has been changed to the Diamond League.

Although the prize money of the Diamond League has increased to more than 6 million US dollars, there are as many as 32 projects, and due to the change of bonus rules, the number of people who receive the prize has now become an ironclad 32 people, after removing some record-breaking rewards and other miscellaneous bonuses, the champion of each event, which is commonly known as the diamond award, is actually only 80,000 US dollars.

From this, it can be seen how terrifying the prize money of this Sino-Korean wrestling match made by Yi Dun is.

In the 130kg wrestling class, regardless of whether it is Greco-Roman or freestyle, as long as you win the championship, it will be a million dollars immediately!

There's no points-based system, there's no deuce, there's no six-game winning streak to just take home a million-dollar check.

Although the Korean wrestlers can't understand the Chinese tournament organizers, why would they come up with such a high prize money, are they not afraid of losing money?

But even if they can't understand it, it won't stop them from coveting the $1 million.

Wrestlers generally don't earn much, unless they go to a UFC or other event to play professionally, in which case the income will be much higher.

For example, Cuban player Romero, nicknamed "God's Soldier", once won a silver medal at the Sydney Olympics in 00 and won numerous awards in his career, and then in 07, Romero decided to give up freestyle wrestling and enter the UFC to become an MMA fighter.

And entering the UFC also means that Romero will never participate in the Olympics from now on, unless his contract with the UFC expires.

Romero undoubtedly has a relatively perfect wrestling career, and the main reason why he chose to go to the UFC is definitely to make a lot of money.

It's not just Romero, many Olympians have made it to the UFC, including some Olympic gold medalists.

These people have given up the opportunity to participate in major events such as the Olympics in order to make a lot of money.

Some people may wonder why these Olympians have to give up their Olympic qualifications, and can't the Olympics be played together with the UFC?

It really can't, because these fighters will sign an agreement with the UFC before entering the UFC, and they can't participate in any events outside the UFC.

Of course, the Olympics are also included, so as long as you enter the UFC, you definitely don't want to participate in the Olympics.

In addition, professional boxers actually have similar rules, but the nature is different.

Professional boxers are not eligible for the Olympic Games.

In the first Olympic Games, not only professional boxers, but also most professional athletes could not participate, and only amateurs could participate in the Olympics.

For example, in men's basketball, you can't let professional players compete.

Later, after the restructuring, most of the events are allowed to participate in professional athletes, even professional wrestlers, no exception, if the UFC allows, professional wrestlers can also participate in the Olympics.

However, professional boxers are still excluded from the Olympics, and there are many reasons why this happens, but the main reason is that professional boxers are much better than amateur fighters.

This led to an Olympic champion of boxing, which is rarely called a boxing champion......

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I'd rather give up my Olympic qualifications than go to the UFC to make money.

It can be seen that the wrestlers' ability to attract money is indeed a bit poor, so the million-dollar award of Yi Dun directly made the Korean wrestling world boil.

The strength of Korean wrestlers is not particularly strong, at least not as strong as Japanese players, but it is not worse than China.

Seeing that the China-South Korea wrestling match offered such a huge prize money, they were in a dream, thinking that it was an April Fool's joke.

After learning that this was the real thing, the registration situation was enthusiastic, and almost all of the players in Korea came to sign up.

Especially in the 130kg class, some of them are not wrestlers at all, but they still want to try it.

What if the registration is successful? What if you end up winning that million dollars?

Overnight, the topic of wrestling in South Korea skyrocketed, and many athletes in other sports were envious of wrestlers and secretly hated why their sports didn't have such multimillion-dollar Grand Prix.

At the same time, the domestic news about this China-South Korea wrestling match also became popular in an instant.

In addition to the staggering million-dollar prize money, Eden's participation is also the focus of attention of the people of the whole country.

A long time ago, when the CBA was still playing the regular season, Yi Dun released rumors that he would get involved in the field of wrestling.

Not long after the end of the CBA season, there was news that Yi Dun was going to participate in the China-South Korea match, which made people look forward to it.

What kind of strength does Eden have in wrestling? Will you lose to those Koreans?

What programs will Eden sign up for? Will he be able to get the million-dollar jackpot?

These are the questions of the Chinese people, and there is no way to answer these doubts at the moment.

Interested people also noticed this extraordinary million-dollar jackpot, and found out that the organizer of the event was a company called Yiyang Sports Development Co., Ltd., and directly inquired about the company's information on the Internet.

When they saw that the legal person was a child, everyone couldn't help but be happy.

Now everyone knows that Yi Dun and Tong Yangling are two people, and the name of this company is obviously a combination of Yi Dun and Tong Yangling's names, so Yi Dun is actually the organizer of this Sino-Korean wrestling match......

Smart Chinese people can immediately conclude that the wrestling class that Yi Dun participated in is definitely 130 kg, and Yi Dun must still have the unparalleled confidence to win the match.

Otherwise, the event would not have been able to set such a high prize in the 130kg category.

It is equivalent to saying that Yi Dun is using his own money to give himself a bonus in this competition.

If you don't have the confidence to win the game, how can any fool take that risk......