Chapter 236: Cross-Level Challenge
Stewart was very good and soon negotiated with Hagler's agent, and finally decided on Wang Ben's cross-two challenge to Hagler.
The contest is four months later.
Until then, Wang Ben has plenty of time to unify the class-crossing divisions over the welterweight division.
And Hagler even said that regardless of whether Wang Ben unifies the super welterweight division, he is willing to fight Wang Ben because he wants to teach Wang Ben a lesson.
The venue for the tournament was finalized at the Caesars Palace Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
The world's leading media outlets have won the rights to broadcast the competition, and even China Central Television has contacted the organizing committee to broadcast Wang Ben's game live.
The impact of this match surpassed any of Wang Ben's previous matches.
Challenge the Four Heavenly Kings across two levels!
This is a milestone in professional boxing, and although it is very difficult, there are still many die-hard fans of Wang Ben who support him.
However, most fans are not optimistic that Wang Ben can win, there is no way, Mavi Hagler is too strong.
Speaking of which, Mavi Hagler has fought against all three of the other four kings of the middleweight division, knocking out Horns in three rounds and winning on points after fifteen rounds of intense combat with Duran. The only Celestial King who lost was Leonard.
And in the battle with Leonard, although he lost on points, Hagler was very unconvinced and felt that the referee was unfair.
In this two-level boxing title fight, Wang Ben and Hagler's appearance fee set a middleweight history, as high as 12 million US dollars, breaking the record that middleweight fighters cannot break 10 million.
Of course, in the 21st century, the highest appearance fees in professional boxing are middleweight boxing champion Mayweather and Asian destroyer Pacquiao, with their combined appearance fee income exceeding 100 million US dollars.
But at this time, it is still a heavyweight world, and in terms of influence, the heavyweight has to throw a few streets away from other levels.
The total appearance fee of the two far exceeded the original battle between Leonard and Duran.
With such a high appearance fee, ticket prices have naturally risen, and the organizers are not worried about losing money in this boxing match at all.
With Wang Ben's current fame, in addition to the sponsorship of TV broadcasts and advertisers, the ticket revenue of this boxing match alone can make the organizers smile.
As one of the four kings of the middleweight division, Hagler has a very large number of die-hard fans, even more than Wang Ben's die-hard fans.
After determining the cross-level battle between Wang Ben and Hagler, Wang Ben began to actively prepare for the war.
Until then, he'll need to unify the super welterweight division, starting with a win over super welterweight BA champion Ike Kwartet.
Next, it is to challenge the BC super welterweight champion Williams, as for the IBF super welterweight title, there is no need to fight, because the IBF boxing champion has just been upgraded, so the current IBF boxing champion is vacant.
Therefore, within four months, Wang Ben will experience three boxing matches.
Each fight is a challenge, and there are no underdogs in the three fights.
After the fight against super welterweight champion Ike Quartet, then Williams, and then Hagler, the four kings of the middleweight division.
If Wang Ben can defeat these three, he will become the only one in history to challenge the three divisions and unify the three divisions of super champions.
It's a feat, and although it hasn't started yet, the media has already gone crazy first!
Unifying the three divisions, and holding three levels of boxing titles at the same time, even Armstrong, the only boxing champion in history, has not been able to challenge continuously across divisions like Wang Ben.
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The global media was discussing the outcome of Wang's three fights, but Wang Ben began to prepare for the fight, refused any media interviews, and trained hard at his home in Los Angeles.
Since seeing Tyson's domineering attack, Wang Ben feels that he can go further.
Explosive!
Bodybuilding is to exercise the thickness of muscles, highlight muscle lines, and need to train around muscles, in addition, the same is true for American E sports, almost all training revolves around muscles, to ensure that the thicker the muscles, the more convex the better.
If you want to have strong explosiveness, muscle strength is key.
Strong muscle groups ensure absolute strength, and explosive power is also built on strong muscles.
Of course, it's not just that strong muscles mean explosiveness, just like bodybuilders, although they look strong when training in the gym, they are not very explosive.
It's about muscle coordination and how quickly the muscles contract instantaneously.
Martial arts in the world, only fast is not broken!
Without speed, it is impossible to form a strong explosive force.
In the next month, Wang Ben continued to improve his explosiveness, and when the intensive training was over, he once again felt that his strength was much stronger than before.
Whether it is the heavy punches or the footwork that moves under the feet, it is faster, more ruthless, and more murderous than before, and it is extraordinary.
Heavy punches are mainly straight and uppercut, and his reflexes are mainly elastic basketball training, at which point his fists are like a sharp big knife, knocking the sandbags to the ground.
After Yuan Zhengtu saw Wang Ben's training results, there was a hint of appreciation on his face.
This kind of boxing power has reached the level of heavyweight fighters, although there is still a gap compared to Tyson, but middleweight fighters are impossible to resist.
As for the tactics on the field, as well as the footwork at the feet.
Wang Ben has been training hard to bagua dragon step, this footwork is all-encompassing, the more you practice to the depths, the more you can feel the extraordinary footwork of this footwork.
In martial arts, footwork is usually matched to boxing, and static braking is emphasized.
Through the training of footwork, you can judge the intention of the opponent's attack and use the footwork to respond.
In Guoshu, it is known to look at the depth of a person's exercises, first of all, to observe whether the footwork is clear, steady and agile, and secondly, to observe the opponent's fists and feet.
The quality of footwork is the primary indicator of the level of a person's skills.
The three major internal boxing methods, Xingyi, Bagua, Tai Chi, as well as Hong boxing and other types of boxing, footwork is very critical, and most of the success is achieved after practicing footwork.
And Wang Ben fused the Bagua You Dragon Step into the boxing footwork, which not only moved faster and more suddenly, but also burst out with a more powerful impact.
Therefore, in previous competitions, once Wang Ben was powerful, he was like a tank, extremely fast and terrifying.
Wallop!
Wang Ben's footwork has a frightening impact, the faster the speed, the stronger the impact, and it is almost difficult for the opponent to dodge.
In ordinary training, due to the lack of a suitable sparring partner, Wang Ben can only practice alone, and when he uses footwork with powerful combination punches, the speed is so fast that Yuan Zhengtu, who is standing on the side, is very surprised.
Of course, fighters above the middleweight level are a lot higher than the welterweight division, both in terms of their ability to resist strikes and the power of their fists.
If Wang Ben wants to form a crushing momentum, he also needs a more fierce attack.
Ike Quatai and Williams are better, but Hagler is not easy to fight, this guy is extremely difficult to mess with with and his heavy punches, very difficult!
If you want to defeat Hagler, the key is the penetration of boxing, you must in the shortest possible time, the dark power of the national art force into the boxing, form a powerful penetrating punch, and you must find the right punch opportunity to knock Hagler down.
The effect of straight punching is very good, but the offensive trend is too obvious, and it is easy to judge the intention of punching in the ring, and the effect is not ideal.
Therefore, Wang Ben thought about it for a long time and felt that he still had to have a lore hook.
Of course, while training heavy punches and footwork, Wang Ben did not give up the "hanging" training method, although few people deliberately trained the chin defense, but Wang Ben in order to prevent himself from losing the ability to resist under the attack of heavy punches, so chin hardness training is necessary.
After a month of hard training, Wang Ben punched faster, more domineering, and his footwork seemed to be rampant, but it looked very sensitive and smooth!
Fast! It's very fast!
If the boxing champion Tyson sees it, he will definitely be very surprised, because when Wang Ben launches a powerful attack, it is a bit similar to Tyson's mode, and it is faster and more fierce!
It's like a mighty Tyrannosaurus rex, sweeping everything!