Chapter 486: Press Conference
As the game approached, Xibeier and Mike, as well as Tang Mu and Mitte, also rushed to New York, USA, but Qu Tiancheng did not come this time, but prepared to watch the live broadcast at home with the other members of the hero camp.
In addition, many international celebrities and business elites have also gathered in this international metropolis, ready to witness this super battle with their own eyes.
At 1:30 p.m. on December 29, Xiang Yingying and his entourage, accompanied by UFC staff, arrived at the Madison Square Garden Arena. Get ready for a press conference at two o'clock.
This is a special press conference for Xiang Ying and Jon Jones. Originally, according to the convention, this super battle should be arranged no less than two promotional events, but considering that both of them are hot-tempered characters. Just in case, to ensure that the normal super fight was held as scheduled, all pre-race promotional activities were canceled, and only a press conference and weighing ceremony were retained.
Madison Square Garden is home to teams such as the New York Knicks, New York Rangers, New York Liberty, St. John's University, Red Storm University, and more, as well as large-scale indoor events such as solo concerts and political rallies.
It is not only the NBA's "Arena Mecca", but also the place where Jordan, Reggie Miller, and other superstars have left magical memories, teenage idol Taylor Sift, "King of Pop" Michael Jackson, "Empress" Madonna, "Pop Princess" Britney, "European and American Pop Queen" Lady GaGa, "Dolphin Sound Queen" Mariah Carey, "Pop King" Justin Timberlake, etc. have all held concerts there.
It is the "Mecca of boxing" before Las Vegas, and it is the most active stage of boxing in the past century, hosting historical classics such as the first and second fights between Fraser and Ali, and many boxing matches between Joe Lewis.
And this stadium with a glorious history ushered in the largest press conference in UFC history. The 20,000-capacity stadium welcomed more than 1,000 journalists from more than 400 media outlets, as well as more than 6,000 fans and guests.
Xiang Yingying and Jon Jones came to the arena with their respective teams more than half an hour early, and Dana White personally greeted them separately, reminding them very seriously not to do any drastic behavior, if they are not calm and cause problems in the game, they will be fully responsible for all losses.
However, when Dana Bai left, he instructed that in addition to not hitting people and swearing, they still had to perform, and they had the responsibility and obligation to mobilize the emotions of the fans and reporters.
Xiang Yingying was wearing a dark red suit today, this was the first time he wore a suit of this color, and he was very uncomfortable, but Qu Zimo felt that it was not bad, and praised him as a handsome guy, and Xiang Yingying immediately blossomed.
This suit fits very well, making Xiang Yingying a little less fierce and more elegant, his increasingly mature cheeks are well-defined, his inch-long short hair looks particularly capable, and his tall body looks particularly eye-catching among many guests.
But Xiang Yingying always twisted his body from time to time, compared with the loose and comfortable sweatshirt, the formal suit was too suffocating to wear, and he was uncomfortable up and down.
And today Jon Jones is also dressed very beautifully, with a shiny blue suit, with his slender and tall figure, plus a thick beard, he is particularly stylish.
After the press conference began, Dana White sat in the middle of the podium, while Xiang Yingying and Jon Jones sat on the left and right sides, with UFC middleweight and light heavyweight belts in front of them, respectively. And after this match, Xiang Yingying will lose the gold belt in front of him, because after this super fight, he must give up the middleweight belt regardless of whether he wins or loses, so this match is no way back for Xiang Yingying, either lose everything, start from scratch, or create a new era.
First of all, Dana White began to introduce the relevant background of this super war. Then there was the pre-game declaration between Xiang Hero and Jon Jones, and then there were questions from reporters.
Throughout the press conference, Xiang Yingying and Jon Jones vividly showed their personalities, showing their arrogance and self-confidence. In fact, Xiang Hero and Jon Jones still have a very similar attitude towards the game, both are people who can leave everything behind for the sake of victory, and they are both people who treat their opponents as life and death enemies in the Octagon Cage.
In the face of various inducements and difficult problems from reporters, both men coped with it easily, not only showing their belief in winning this game, but also hitting the momentum of their opponents. Especially when a reporter asked the two what kind of methods they would use to deal with their opponents, the two invariably set off smoke bombs.
The most interesting thing is the last question, which was asked how many rounds the fight will take, Xiang Yingying and Jon Jones did not name the exact number of rounds, only saying that it was a tough fight and they were confident of knocking out their opponent.
In this way, the press conference came to a smooth end. However, Xiang Yingying and Jon Jones' remarks at this press conference still caused a lot of buzz among fans around the world.
And on the night after the press conference, a large-scale war of words began on the Internet, and these fans were even more excited than the fighters they supported.
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After the press conference, Xiang Yingying entered the final stage of preparation and adjustment, and tomorrow he will decide whether he needs to take a sauna before weighing according to his weight.
However, Xiang Yingying is still very confident in himself, although it is difficult and hard, but he can still persevere, at least it is easier than when he was in the middleweight division, because after this weight gain upgrade, his body fat content is slightly more than when he was in the middleweight division, which makes it relatively easy for him to lose weight.
However, it is relatively easy to say, this time the weight gain upgrade of Xiang Hero, it was originally determined that the training weight was about 100 kg is the best, but when it was time to train, it was found that the weight of Xiang Hero reached about 104 kg is the best. As a result, the original pre-competition weight loss of 6 kg became about 10 kg.
Fortunately, Xiang Hero has long had experience in weight loss, and he seems to have the potential to become China's "weight loss brother". After waking up on the morning of December 30, he managed to control his weight below 93.9 kilograms. In other words, through nearly ten days of less salt and water control, coupled with high-science training, he successfully reduced his weight from 104.9 kg in a state of preparation to 93.6 kg, and successfully completed the weight loss task.