Chapter 136: Rising Popularity
High popularity means that the appearance fee is high!
And more importantly, many top-ranked boxers are willing to fight with Wang Ben, no way, professional boxing is like this, everything depends on whether the audience buys it.
In this way, Wang Ben began to frantically brush points.
After three fights a month, after five consecutive months, Wang Ben entered the 23rd place in the super lightweight rankings.
At this time, Wang's professional record reached a staggering 18 fights of 18 wins and 0 losses, with 18 knockouts.
This kind of record is actually normal for the American professional boxing world, and it is not uncommon, and many excellent fighters can generally achieve good results before they really enter the boxing championship.
However, after eighteen consecutive professional boxing matches, Wang Ben's strength is getting stronger and stronger, and he has fully adapted to the rhythm of professional boxing.
In the ring, almost no one can fight him for four rounds.
The next boxing match is scheduled for 10 days later in Las Vegas, a casino in the western part of the United States. The opponent is super lightweight world No. 8 Harram Kane.
Harram Kane is a strong man with a stellar record, having challenged for the WBC super lightweight title, and although he lost on the last point, no one doubted his strength.
To Wang Ben's delight, Kane has a high number of points, and if he beats him, he will enter the top 18 in the WBC super lightweight world rankings.
There is another thing that Wang Ben is very satisfied with, and that is his current appearance fee.
After nearly half a year of fighting, his current appearance fee is as high as 300,000 US dollars, from an appearance fee of 2,000 US dollars, to an appearance fee of 300,000 US dollars, which is all exchanged for sweat in the ring.
Of course, in fact, his current appearance fee, the most important thing is because of the tiger fight incident half a year ago, his popularity is high, and there is no way.
Don't look at Kane's world ranking of eighth, which is much higher than Wang Ben's ranking, but Kane's appearance fee is only 100,000 US dollars.
In this regard, Kane and his agent group have no opinions, and there is no way to do it, professional boxing is like this, the audience likes to watch Wang Ben boxing, and Kane can get an appearance fee of 100,000 yuan, and he also has a little bit of Wang Ben's light, otherwise I am afraid that he will not even have 100,000 US dollars.
In professional boxing, the appearance fee of a fighter needs to be negotiated and determined by the agents of both parties and the organizer, not that the higher the strength, the higher the appearance fee that can be obtained.
To be honest, with Wang Ben's identity as a Chinese and the matter of fighting tiger heroes, the appearance fee of 300,000 US dollars is very low, you know, in the professional boxing world, the appearance fee obtained by the more famous boxers is calculated according to millions of US dollars, and even the heavyweight boxing championship competition, the appearance fee of the boxer can exceed 10 million US dollars.
In Wang Ben's memory, it seems that after Tyson became the hegemon of the boxing world, his appearance fee reached 30 million US dollars.
Of course, with the development of time, there are higher appearance fee records later, such as the battle between Mayweather and Mouth Cannon, which set a new record for a boxer's single appearance fee exceeding 100 million US dollars, but now it is the early 90s, and it cannot be that high.
However, Wang Ben also knows that although many viewers like their own boxing style, after all, they have not competed with real masters, and if they want to get a higher appearance fee, they must enter the top 15 in the world rankings, and then challenge the boxing champion, then his appearance fee will skyrocket.
Speaking of which, Wang Ben is now a rich man, and he has earned millions of dollars in the past six months, which does not include the profits of a new generation of domestic companies.
This game, although it is still a mat match for the boxing championship, the treatment is completely different.
In the cheers of the audience, Hallam Kane was not Wang Ben's opponent at all, and was pressed and beaten by Wang Ben.
Three rounds!
Wang Ben ended the fight with a heavy punch, earned his 19th professional victory, and entered the WBC World Super Lightweight World Ranking Ranking of 18th.
Next, he only needs one more fight to make it to the top 15 in the world rankings and qualify for a fight with the champion.
Of course, with his current fame, I believe that any boxing champion would be willing to fight him.
The current ultra-lightweight champion is Cesa Chavez, and after half a year of professional boxing, Wang Ben is already very familiar with the professional boxing world.
Chavez is very powerful, but how strong it is, you have to fight to know, Wang Ben is very confident in himself.
When the fight ended, Stewart held a press conference to announce an important news, and Wang Ben was very surprised to hear it.
Lennox Lewis!
At this time, the super heavyweight super boxing champion officially joined Stewart's Kroenke club and became a boxer under Stewart, and Wang Ben is the same door.
However, Lewis at this time was not so famous, and his fame was not even as good as Wang Ben.
When Wang Ben shook hands with Lewis, he was still shocked.
Nima, this guy was born to be a boxing champion, and his arms are so long, it's really terrifying.
Lewis is 196cm tall, but he has an arm span of 213cm, and his hair is characteristic, looking like an African lion.
In fact, Lewis was even more surprised, and looked at Wang Ben, he really couldn't understand how Wang Ben's thin body could defeat two tigers with his bare hands.
He knew very well in his heart that even if he faced a tiger, he was afraid that he would be killed in seconds, and the tiger was not something that humans could defeat with their bare hands, but the news report would never be wrong, and the photos were very clear and could not be faked, so he was a little incredulous.
In Wang Ben's memory, Lewis rose to prominence after Tyson was imprisoned, and then began to dominate the professional boxing heavyweight division and became the heavyweight king.
But now Tyson has just dominated the world heavyweight boxing world, several years later than in his previous life, if nothing else, within four years, professional boxing will be Tyson's world, and no one can shake his throne.
Thinking of this, Wang Ben was very excited!
Now the heavyweight division can be described as a storm, and the kings are competing for supremacy!
In the heavyweight division, there are Tyson, Lewis, Holyfield, and Riddick Bow, and to be honest, Wang Ben would love to see who is the strongest in the peak of these super bulls.
From the bottom of his heart, Wang Ben feels that the current Lewis is definitely not Tyson's opponent.
You know, in his previous life, Lewis was knocked out by a challenger in two rounds after Tyson was imprisoned, and he lost the WBC heavyweight boxing belt.
And that challenger's name is Oliver McCall, and he used to be Tyson's sparring partner.
It's conceivable that Tyson's sparring partners can knock out Lewis in two rounds, and if Tyson is in his prime, how can Lewis be Tyson's opponent?
However, considering Lewis's height and long arms, as well as his weighty left hook and right hand, the result will be unknown until you have fought it.
Wang Ben tried to think about whether he could beat Lewis if he reached the heavyweight division.
It shouldn't be difficult!
This is the conclusion reached by Wang Ben.
But then he shook his head with a wry smile, he was only super lightweight now, and it was too far away to think about it.
Although Lewis's current strength is average, he was a great god at his peak, and he was invincible all over the world, and it is really hard to say whether he can defeat him.
Perhaps it was because of Lewis's joining that Wang Ben felt a little pressure.
After returning to Detroit from Las Vegas, Wang Ben trained harder, and now his height has reached 184cm, his weight is 63.5kg, and his height development is close to the peak.
Once the body starts to grow sideways, it will be difficult to control the weight, and it will not be good for the body.
The next boxing match was scheduled for a month later, and just then, Wang Ben received a phone call.
A call from Moscow!