Chapter 119: I can't afford to hire a sparring partner
Wang Ben sat in the audience, looking at Leonard who raised his arms high in celebration, and his heart was inexplicably excited.
Leonard is strong, very strong! His boxing style and control of rhythm have reached the limit, his attack speed is fast, his body swings from side to side and he is aggressive, and his footwork is agile and agile. In particular, his combination punches are even more surprising, fierce and domineering.
Terrible!
Wang Ben exclaimed, a little shocked in his heart.
Especially when Leonard knocked down Duran with an uppercut just now, Wang Ben seemed to feel like he was hit in the jaw.
Oh my god! The power of this punch is not far from my brother's, but the effective punch formed is probably much higher than mine.
And his speed, reflexes, and ability to grasp the rhythm of the ring surpass me!
Shaking his head with a wry smile, although Wang Ben was very confident in himself, he had to admit that he was not Leonard's opponent at this time.
Not to mention Leonard, even Duran, he may not be able to defeat himself.
This has nothing to do with strength, but boxing experience, although he has fought dozens of amateur boxing matches, but compared to these boxing kings, he is still just a rookie who has just stepped into the boxing world.
Wang Ben is not arrogant enough to think that with his experience in a professional boxing match, he can take on the super-middleweight king.
No, you have to continue to train harder, not only to improve your attacks, but also to improve your body's ability to resist blows.
As long as you reach super middleweight, no, you only need to be middleweight to fight Leonard.
Now, I'm only 138.5 pounds, and I'm 160 pounds in the middleweight class, which is equivalent to a weight gain of 20 pounds, and it will take at least two to three years to cross four divisions.
Since what I'm lacking right now is professional boxing experience, I'm going to play with it!
The most important thing at the moment is to accumulate popularity, improve your points, and try to fight in the ranking in the shortest possible time, and make yourself in the top 15 of the challenger rankings in order to qualify for the title challenge.
Thinking of this, Wang Ben's eyes showed a hint of heat.
In fact, the ranking of professional boxing is mainly for challengers, and the first place in the ranking actually means the first challenge order, and the boxing champion is not in this ranking.
The champion has points, but there is no ranking in the organization's division, because the champion belt is in his hand, and he doesn't need this ranking at all.
The four major professional boxing organizations in the world have their own rankings, and the WBA, WBC, WBO, and IBF all have their own boxing champions.
Therefore, it is usually said that the top 15 in the world challenge is not included in the boxing champions, but in many cases, the boxing champions can be seen in the top 15 rankings, and that is because they cross the organization.
For example, the WBC boxing champion goes to fight the WBA boxing championship, and although he has the title of WBC boxing champion, he is only a challenger for the WBA.
In addition, the WBC boxing organization has another rule, which actually exists in the WBA, that is, the mandatory right to challenge!
WBC is known as the world silver belt for the mandatory challenge, and the WBA is the provisional boxing champion, the purpose is to prevent the reigning boxing king from continuing to play after obtaining the boxing champion gold belt, you must know that the boxing king can make a lot of money in various fields, and some boxing champions are not strong and afraid of losing, so after becoming the boxing champion, they are reluctant to come down.
At this time, it will be easy to launch the mandatory challenge right, which means that the boxing champion must fight with the fighter who has the mandatory challenge right to defend the title, and cannot refuse, otherwise it will be regarded as giving up the boxing championship belt.
Of course, the right to challenge has little to do with the world ranking, and it does not mean that having the first ranking necessarily means that you have the right to challenge the force, and sometimes the tenth and fifth places in the world compete for the right to challenge the force.
This situation is actually normal, the rules allow, as long as the boxer's ranking is within the top 15 picks, the schedule allows, and there is money to pay the certification fee, and he wants to challenge the boxing champion, and the agent's strength is strong, he can compete for the mandatory challenge right, and then challenge the boxing champion.
The result of the battle between Leonard and Duran is actually unchanged from Wang Ben's previous life, the only difference is the dislocation of time.
Compared to his previous life, this fight was postponed for a year, but Wang Ben didn't know much about middleweight, and the only thing he could clearly know was heavyweight Tyson.
At present, Tyson is the WBC and WBA heavyweight champion, and has not won the IBF boxing championship belt, which is more than three years out of place compared to his previous life.
I remember that at this time in his previous life, Tyson not only unified the professional boxing heavyweights, integrating the heavyweight belts of the three major boxing organizations, becoming the first boxing hegemon, and then was defeated by Douglas in Japan and lost three belts at the same time.
The current professional boxing world is in an era of scuffles between all parties and strong people.
Suddenly, Wang Ben felt whether his appearance was specially arranged by God.
If you can fight all the way up from super lightweight, across eight divisions, and unify the world's heavyweight divisions, it will become a myth in the boxing world!
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After the battle between Leonard and Duran, Wang Ben left Los Angeles the next day and returned to the Kroenke Boxing Club in Detroit.
After coming back, Wang Ben did not relax, perhaps because he felt the pressure, or perhaps in order to improve his professional boxing experience as soon as possible, he trained more seriously every day.
Wang Ben has always been very conscious in training, and he never needs to worry about Yuan Zhengtu.
However, the only thing that has some regrets is the actual combat training.
In the United States, everything is paid for everything, and no one wants to be a free sparring partner, even if a boxing champion needs actual combat training, he needs to pay for someone to be a sparring partner.
"Coach Yuan, you have a lot of acquaintances, see if you can find a more powerful sparring partner? I want to do a real fight, a real fight in the ring. Finally, after two days of practice, Wang Ben stopped training and found Yuan Zhengtu and asked.
Yuan Zhengtu's face was embarrassed, and he smiled bitterly: "The powerful sparring partner is very expensive, with our current conditions, I can't afford it!" ”
In fact, he understands the importance of sparring better than anyone else, but if you want to find a qualified sparring partner, you must have a strong financial backing.
"Wouldn't it? It's just a sparring partner, at the beginning, it was about 30 yuan an hour to hire a sparring partner in China, and if it was converted to US dollars, it would be about 3 US dollars, so it wouldn't cost much, right? Wang Ben wondered.
Yuan Zhengtu shook his head with a wry smile and said: "In the professional boxing world, if you want to find an ordinary sparring partner, you will need at least one hundred dollars per hour, and a heavyweight sparring partner, you can't find a good one without five hundred dollars." ”
"How much?" Wang Ben was taken aback and said, "A hundred dollars an hour? ”
Yuan Zhengtu smiled bitterly and nodded.
Damn, my brother only costs $2,000 for a boxing match, and it costs $100 an hour to find a sparring partner, is there any reason?
In this case, my brother can simply be a sparring partner by himself!
Oh, my brother can't afford to hire a sparring partner, can't he be a sparring partner himself?
Thinking of this, Wang Ben's eyes lit up.