The martial arts tournament is officially opened!

When Wang Ben came to the venue of the martial arts conference, he couldn't help but be surprised when he saw the scale of the martial arts conference.

Day!

Is this a martial arts tournament organized by the International Martial Arts Federation? Why are the specifications so high?

What the hell is going on?

All the media in the United States were present, and it attracted a large number of fans to watch the scene, and even many senior officials of the US government came to the scene to support.

The martial arts tournament was held at San Francisco's stadium, and the crowd was much larger than Wang Ben's crossover battle with Mavi Hagler.

Since the ticket price of the martial arts tournament is less than one-third of that of the professional boxing world, it attracts a lot of working-class people to watch the scene, and it is normal for the number of people to be large.

Wang Ben estimated it and found that at least 80,000 people gathered in the entire San Francisco stadium to watch the scene.

There are a lot of media who came to the scene, and even European, Asian, South American, Japanese, South Korean and other media came to the scene, and even domestic sports channel reporters came to the scene to broadcast live.

To be honest, Wang Ben didn't understand why a martial arts alliance would have so much energy to raise this martial arts conference to this scale.

During this time, he had been practicing at Zuma Beach and had not paid much attention to the affairs of the martial arts conference, so he was very shocked to suddenly see the scale of the martial arts conference so grand.

"Damn, it seems that there are capable people in the Martial Arts Alliance!"

Wang Ben muttered to himself, and at the same time felt a little glad that he was able to come here, and almost missed the grand martial arts conference.

Luckily, the San Francisco Coliseum is big enough, otherwise it would have been hard for so many people to come in and watch.

It is said that it is a martial arts conference, but in fact, it is a competition between the various kung fu schools around the world that selects masters to compete in martial arts.

Similar to the K1 Top Kickboxing Tournament held by the Japanese, this martial arts tournament adopts no rules and restrictions, and the most important point is that the rules of the martial arts tournament are no turns, and the fight is fought until the opponent admits defeat or the referee terminates the match!

"Damn, is the UFC MMA tournament ahead of schedule? It can't be, it's a bit similar, but it's definitely not a UFC mixed martial arts tournament. ”

After Wang Ben heard the rules of the martial arts conference, he was extremely surprised in his heart.

The martial arts conference is a total of 32 people selected by various kung fu schools in the world for on-site competition, there is no preliminary competition, but can be selected to compete in the martial arts conference, they are all evaluated fighting masters, it is difficult to fish in troubled waters.

In other words, if you want to win the first martial arts tournament, you must fight all five matches and win all of them.

When Wang Ben saw the list of thirty-two martial arts conference players, his heart was shocked.

His sister, all the top masters in his previous life came to participate in the martial arts conference?

Is there any mistake? Is it so high?

Dutch Tyrant – Peter Az!

The Gracie Family in Brazil – Hoyce Gracie!

Muay Thai middleweight Muay Thai champion - "Heavenly Knee" Decilian - Thuna Sugan!

U.S. Karate Champion – Bangladesh!

E Wrestling Heavyweight Champion – Rick Fryer!

Disciple of the Japanese Extreme Vacuum Hand Hall - Chiba Maei!

Former professional boxing heavyweight fighter – Ron Stendl!

American Cai Li Buddha Boxing Gym - Chen Zhendong!

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Wang Ben really can't imagine that these people are all top masters outside of professional boxing, and the standard of this martial arts tournament is higher than that of the K1 top free fighting tournament held by the Japanese.

Probably because of the prize money, the prize money for the champion of this martial arts tournament is as high as $5 million, and all the fighters who participate in the tournament will receive a prize of 100,000 dollars. And you can get $1 million for reaching the semifinals.

"Which local tyrant sponsored the martial arts tournament?"

Wang Ben smiled bitterly, in fact, for him, this money is really not much, with his appearance fee, there will be a boxing match.

But for a fight outside of professional boxing, being able to sponsor tens of millions of dollars is a big deal.

The game lasts for nine days, which means that five games are played in nine days, and after one game each day, you need to take a day off, and the real game time is five days.

The competition adopts an elimination system, and once you lose, you lose the opportunity to continue.

In addition, there are no seeded players in the martial arts tournament, and the battle is in the form of a draw, so if you are unlucky, you can only count yourself unlucky if you draw a strong opponent in the first round.

In fact, luck is also one of the conditions for success.

Wang Ben is a special guest of the International Martial Arts Federation, in addition, he is not the only special guest, when he saw the other special guests, Wang Ben frowned slightly.

The first is Li Junjiu, who has twice been selected as the "Black Belt Hall of Heroes" and is famous for teaching taekwondo and self-defense to members of the United States Congress, and is the top leader in the American martial arts taekwondo world, and is known as the "father of American taekwondo". The representative of Taekwondo this time is named Kang Shin-chul.

Kang Shin Chul is also a legend of Korean taekwondo, and he is the president of the taekwondo master association, and his strength is very high.

The second is the Japanese Valkyrie Oyama-Beida, a well-known international karate practitioner in Japan, and the founder and first director of the Gokushin Kaikan.

He is known as the "King of Karate".

The representative contestant of Gokuku Jarate this time is Chiba Mahide, who is also a disciple of Oyama-Beda and won the championship in Japan's first K1 Top Kickboxing Competition.

The third is former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, a three-time heavyweight boxing champion in the world and one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century.

The fourth is the famous American martial artist Chuck Lorres, a world-famous karate superstar and a very famous kung fu movie star, who has been selected as a "Black Belt Hall of Heroes" four times and has been named "World's Outstanding Martial Artist" many times.

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There were more than a dozen guests, all of whom were world-renowned martial artists, and when Wang Ben sat with these martial artists, he was very surprised.

Among these guests, he was the youngest, so Wang Ben felt a little awkward and very surprised.

The draw ceremony is very fair, and there is no need to cheat in the first round, anyway, you can get a reward of 100,000 US dollars for participating in the martial arts conference, and only if you enter the top four can you get a 1 million US dollar reward.

What surprised Wang Ben was the publicity specifications of this martial arts conference, and several major TV stations in the United States broadcast the whole process, and the broadcast rights did not seem to be cheap.

Although the ticket price is cheaper than the professional boxing championship, there are many people, and the total ticket revenue is not lower than that of the boxing championship.

The live host is a well-known host on American National Television named David.

After introducing all the guests and contestants, the atmosphere of the whole scene was completely ignited, and even the audience felt that the standard of the martial arts conference was really high, which was not inferior to the professional boxing world.

Next is the match referee, which includes well-known referees in professional boxing and senior referees from the American Karate Association, a total of five on-site referees.

Wang Ben even found out that the professional boxing referee had officiated his own matches.

"Damn, that's weird? What is the origin of the organizers of this martial arts tournament? Compared to the UFC mixed martial arts, which is much more pressing, is it a new fighting event? ”

Wang Ben had to be surprised, to be honest, he had never heard of such a high-level fighting competition in his previous life.

The draw ended quickly, and Wang Ben paid special attention to it, because Chen Zhendong was going to fight in the martial arts conference.

The draw results showed that Chen Zhendong's opponent was a fighter named Kert.

Originally from the Netherlands, Kert is about the same size as Chen Zhendong and is a "kickboxing" master.

The origin of kickboxing was that in the 50s in Japan, some actual karate martial artists watched Muay Thai matches and thought that Muay Thai was very good. I wanted to introduce this style of competition to karate, and I came up with kickboxing.

The rules of kickboxing in early Japan were almost identical to those of Muay Thai (elbows were allowed); But then it didn't catch on until K-1 was founded.

Kickboxing is both a form of competition and a school of martial arts – it's just that there was one form of fighting and then one of them.

To put it simply, kickboxing is a universal fighting technique with no fixed moves and no national restrictions, there are no routines in training, and it is based on the common techniques that are practical in kickboxing, and any technique that is effective in kickboxing can be included in it - however, in all techniques, the core technique of kickboxing is still dominated by boxing.

Compared with Muay Thai or karate, kickboxing is much better in boxing, focusing on the combination of punches and legs, and lacking significant features.

"Dutch kickboxing" was brought back to the Netherlands by the Dutch in Japan and improved through their own continuous understanding, forming a unique Dutch kickboxing technique.

In fact, strictly speaking, "Dutch-style Muay Thai" is not rigorous, close to non-existent; Just like everyone basically doesn't say that people who practice Muay Thai in China (the coach is a disciple who learns Muay Thai) practice "Chinese-style Muay Thai".

Japan has been able to become a world martial arts power, and this is really good, and Japan has never minded foreigners learning their own martial arts skills, and at the same time, it does not mind learning foreign martial arts skills, and this kind of open-mindedness is the key reason why Japan has become a martial arts power.

Judo, karate, kickboxing, aikido, etc., these very practical fighting skills have spread all over the world, although many fighting skills have been improved by other countries to form unique fighting skills, but the origin of the word is - Japan.