Chapter 55: Red Pavilion Stadium
Coming to Hung Hom on Hong Kong Island, the Asian Boxing Championships are held at the Hong Kong Island Coliseum, which is a comprehensive indoor multi-purpose venue on Hong Kong Island, commonly known as the "Red Hall".
The "Red Pavilion" is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, like an inverted triangle shape, or an inverted diamond, and the venue is very large, with 12,500 seats, and has held countless big stars for concerts, international entertainment, and sports competitions.
For Hong Kong Island people, singers who have not held concerts in the "Red Pavilion" are not real big stars, so any singer takes the "Red Pavilion" concert as their goal.
When reporting from the organizing committee, Wang Ben met two former subordinates, Li Qiang and Xiong Chaofeng.
Hehe, it's a bit interesting, these two boys actually came to participate in the Asian Boxing Championships, but yes, they are now playing in the 63.5 kg class, and their weight is still at 60 kg, which is no longer the same level as themselves.
At present, China is not ranked first in the power ranking of boxing in Asian countries.
At the top of the list are Japan and Kazakhstan, then South Korea and Thailand, and of course there is a very strong country such as boxing and fighting is Outer Mongolia, and China is in the third tier of strength.
I have to say that this is a very sad thing, Chinese martial arts have a long history, broad and profound, but there is no achievement in international competitions.
Martial arts are killing techniques! It's not for martial arts fights.
There is nothing wrong with this point of view, but on the other hand, if you can't even win a martial arts competition, can you win by fighting on the battlefield?
Wang Ben remembered that he had watched a lot of movies in the Republic of China in his previous life, and there was a very funny line "invulnerability", and I have to say that people at that time were very ignorant.
Just because of the four words "invulnerability", how many elites in the martial arts world have been killed!
Xiong Chaofeng's strength is very good, but whether he can achieve good results in the Asian Boxing Championships depends on the performance of fighters from other countries. Hong Kong Island hosts the Asian Boxing Championships, which is half of the home stadium, and the referee's decision is very important.
As for Li Qiang's ability to participate in this Asian Boxing Championship, I think he has achieved good results in various domestic events during this time, otherwise he would not be able to get a ticket.
Xiong Chaofeng and Li Qiang have participated in the National Amateur Boxing Championship since November last year, because their age has passed the peak of development, so their weight control is relatively good, both are 59.5kg, and they can only participate in 60kg level competitions, and Wang Ben's current weight is 62.5kg, playing 63.5kg level competition, fortunately Wang Ben has improved a level, otherwise the two of them may not even have the courage to participate in the competition.
Anyone who gets knocked out five times by the other side is sure to be scared.
Wang Ben looked at the list of fights and found that there were no fighters he knew in it.
In the Asian Boxing Championships, it is difficult for Chinese boxers to enter the finals, and they are generally stopping at the qualifiers, while Wang Ben has been fighting in China for the past year and has never fought against foreign masters, so it is normal not to know strong players from other countries.
Especially in the 63.5 kg class, Wang Ben has only been promoted to this level for a few months, and he is not very familiar with several domestic team members.
However, among the boxers at this level, there is a very famous boxer, he is Cao Xingru from Hong Kong Island, it is said that he once defeated a Japanese boxer, Wang Ben knows a little about this Cao Xingru, but he doesn't know it.
When Wang Ben saw the 63.5kg favorite in the list, his breathing was a little unnatural.
Park Hee-hong, damn, turned out to be the champion of the Olympic Games! The South Korean baseman who won the Olympic gold medal by refereeing.
In the 63.5 kg boxing final of the 88 Olympic Games, the biggest scandal was Park Hee-hong against Roy Jones Jr. of the United States, who was only 19 years old and attacked Park Hee-hong violently, through video playback data, Roy Jones Jr. hit the opponent 86 times, while Park Hee-hong only hit 32 times, and Park Hee-hong was twice fucked down to count the seconds, and the scene was almost one-sided.
However, the final result was a big surprise, among the five referees, three of them ruled that Park Hee-hong won, and even the referee on the field felt incredible, but in the end he had no choice but to raise Park Hee-hong's arm to indicate that he had won.
It's a bit of nonsense to talk about, and sometimes, the stick just has no lower limit.
When receiving the award, even Park Hee-hong felt a blush, but Roy Jones Jr. was very Olympic and didn't say anything. Because of this invitation, the International Boxing Association has an Outstanding Fighter Award, which is awarded to outstanding fighters with outstanding performance in the Olympic Games. This year's award went to Roy Jones Jr., who finished runner-up.
Later, after an investigation, the referees off the field were bribed by sticks, but in the end, the investigation was inconclusive.
Therefore, any boxing match with Korean sticks will be very embarrassing, no way, as long as there are Korean stick fighters, no matter how ugly the fight is, the referee will win, I have to say, against the referee, the sticks are very set.
Unless you can knock out your opponent with a heavy punch in the ring and make it impossible for him to get up, the outcome is unpredictable.
Moreover, what is even more embarrassing is that there is no bottom line for sticks, and another bigger scandal in last year's Olympics was that after the stick boxer was sentenced to lose in the ring, the coach of the stick actually came to the stage to beat the referee.
Wang Ben was very disdainful of what the stick boxer did, especially the beating, which made him feel very unhappy.
His grandmother, don't let my brother face this Park Hee-hong, otherwise my brother will make him regret coming to participate in this competition.
However, some things are just so strange that when you don't want to face them, they come to you.
The rules of the Asian Boxing Championships are similar to those of international amateur boxing tournaments, but there are seeded fighters in the middle, and the group draws are held according to the seeded players to avoid the masters meeting in advance.
Wang Ben is very famous in China, but in Asia, almost no one has heard of him, so, unfortunately, he was placed in Park Xihong's group.
However, I don't know if Wang Ben is unlucky or Park Hee-hong is unlucky!
In fact, it's not just that Wang Ben doesn't like sticks, South Korean sticks are notorious in the world boxing world, there is a boxing match in the Olympics, stick boxer Fan Zhongyi against Bulgaria's European champion boxer Alexander Kristov, Fan Zhongyi looks a head shorter than Christophe, although he plays more fiercely, but hits very few effective scoring parts, and fouls in the ring, headbutts the opponent, and was warned several times by the referee Walker on the court and deducted one point.
In the end, the off-field scoring statistics, Christophe won 4:1.
The Korean stick was not happy now, and what chair and stool beckoned to the referee Walker, saying that the referee's decision was wrong. Other people rushed to the rescue and asked the security guards at the scene to protect them.
However, what makes people speechless is that the security guard of the stick not only did not come up to help, but came up and kicked Walker, and even the security captain took off his clothes and chased Walker in the ring.
"I did this out of my patriotic instinct," was the statement given by the security captain later.
And South Korean boxer coach Kim so-young was even more shameless, coming to the stage and slamming referee Walker on the back, knocking Walker to the ground.
The whole farce lasted more than 20 minutes, and finally the referee Walker was frightened by the shameless people, and after being rescued, he hurriedly left Seoul on the first flight.
What's even more shameless is still to come, Fan Zhongyi did not get down in the ring, but sat down or lay down in protest, resulting in the follow-up matches being unable to be carried out and could only be played in another ring.
As a result, Fan Zhongyi also won a world record of staying in the ring for 67 minutes, and the last fighter who couldn't get off the ring was also from the country of sticks.
Therefore, when encountering this kind of shameless and scoundrel boxer, everyone has a headache.