Chapter 345: The Battle for the Championship Challenge (Part I)
Two days after the national sanda team's trip, the eyes of fans around the world were attracted by a message that had just been released on the official UFC website.
Because due to the much-anticipated "raid" of Georges Saint-Pierre and "Count" Michael Bisping, the match was delayed for various reasons.
UFC officials and Michael Bispin finally decided to fight the title challenge with Robert "Five Star" Vitekel under pressure from all sides.
The event is scheduled for Christmas Night on December 25 at the UFC 234 at Wembley Stadium in London.
As soon as the news came out, fans were extremely sorry and didn't know when they would see the comeback of "The Raid" Georges St. Pierre.
Georges "The Raid" Saint-Pierre, the greatest fighter in the UFC's welterweight division, is as deserving of the absolute king as Anderson "The Spider" Silva ruled the middleweight division.
He has been the reigning UFC welterweight title nine times in a row. After defeating Jonny Hendricks by decision at UFC 167 in November 2013, Georges St. Pierre announced that he was leaving the ring for personal reasons and surrendered his title. However, from beginning to end, he never said the word "retirement", which also left a door for his return.
In the five years since he left the UFC, Saint-Pierre has not only trained at his Tristar gym in Montreal, but has also ventured into the film and television industry, making films such as Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier and Fighter: Revenge. He has become one of the few mixed martial arts fighters who have made great achievements in film and television, and is extremely loved by fans all over the world.
Contrary to fan disappointment, the news has shocked the UFC's top middleweight fighters who finally don't have to fight for the damn interim champion, but at the same time they are not compromising on this title challenge.
The first to stand up was "God Warrior" Yul Romero, who not only directly stated on his "Twitter" that he didn't care who his opponent was, but just hoped to fight for the title at UFC 234.
In addition, he also spoke directly through the media, expressing his extreme desire for the right to challenge for the championship, and the training camp of the top team in the United States also spared no effort to help him build momentum and actively communicate with UFC officials.
Apart from Romero, the one who is most eager for the title challenge is Ronaldo "Crocodile" Sousa. He even went to the UFC's headquarters in Las Vegas with his agent to find Dana White, hoping to get the right to challenge for the title.
Even Luke "The Big Hanger" Luke Lockhold and "Captain America" Chris Weidman, who lost to Xiang Yingying, directly stated on their respective "Twitters" that no matter who their opponents are, they want to participate in the battle for the right to challenge for the championship.
Xiang Yingying communicated with Coach Luo Ann for a long time after learning the news, and expressed his willingness to participate in the championship challenge, because Romero is also a strong contender for the championship challenge, the top team training camp in the United States does not want to have a competition with each other.
But Xiang Yingying's attitude towards winning the right to challenge for the championship is very resolute, and he even does not hesitate to fight with Romero, and Romero also made the same statement on the American side.
For this reason, the top team training camp is very headache, but there is nothing to do, fighters like Romero and Xiang Yingying, who have become the climate, cannot be controlled by them, after all, it is a matter of vital interests.
Therefore, the solution that the top team came up with is not to help each other, and you can toss as much as you like.
Xiang Yingying didn't have any opinion when he knew about it, and he was very uninterested in the statement of the battle of the same door. He has only a short time and no sense of belonging to the top team in the United States, which is just a place for him to train better, just to get what he needs.
However, Xiang Hero is still very grateful to the coaching team composed of Roan, Harris and Davis, these coaches are indeed sparing no effort to cultivate Xiang Hero, so that this period of time has improved very quickly.
But Romero is still very disagreeable about the top team's disagreement, he knows that Xiang Hero has won four consecutive fights, and he is a top 10 fighter, and his own ranking is also fifth, so he can be said to be the undisputed No. 1 fighter in the UFC, and the fighter with the best chance of winning the championship.
According to Romero's thinking, since the training camp supports him to fight for the right to challenge for the championship, then he should not agree to Xiang Ying's request, and two people in a training camp fight for the right to challenge together.
Although Romero expressed his displeasure, the training camp did not change his stance because of this, and Romero lost his temper.
In fact, Romero doesn't care about the so-called battle of the same door at all, but he really doesn't want to fight against Xiang Ying. After all, having trained together, he knows much more about Xiang Yingxing's strength than the outside world, and he really doesn't want to compete with Xiang Yingying unless he has to.
But this time, he knows that the hero of the title challenge is impossible to give up, because he won't give up either. If in the end, the UFC asked him to fight with Xiang Ying for the title challenge for the sake of the gimmick of fighting with the same door, he would admit it, after all, he is not really afraid of Xiang Ying.
Xiang Yingying is not as complicated as Romero thinks, he only has one thought now, that is, to kill God when he encounters God, Buddha blocks and kills Buddha, and he must get the right to challenge for the championship.
So, Xiang Yingying did not go back to the training camp with Coach Luo An, but flew directly to the UFC headquarters in Las Vegas with Tang Mu.
Before leaving the hero camp, Xiang Yingying talked with Qu Tiancheng for a long time, and accompanied Qu Zimo out for a long time.
This is the first time that Xiang Hero has accompanied Qu Zimo to go shopping, Qu Zimo is very happy, he is like a little girl on the road, he touched and looked at it, and bought a lot of things, but they were all bought for Xiang Hero.
Although the two only got along alone for a short half a day, Qu Zimo was very happy, even happier than Xiang Hero winning the game, she thought that Xiang Hero had finally opened his mind.
Xiang Yingying didn't open his mind, and he didn't know it himself, but when he saw Qu Zimo's happy appearance, his heart was satisfied......
After a short time together, Qu Zimo reluctantly sent Xiang Hero on the plane, accompanied by Mike and Xibeier.
The next day, they met Dana White with a wry smile on his face. The heroes knew very well the meaning of their coming, but he couldn't promise Xiang Hero yet.
The intensity of the battle for the right to challenge for the championship this time is somewhat beyond the control of Dana White, and all the fighters who have the opportunity to challenge for the championship are sparing no effort, and through various breakthroughs, they give him a lot of pressure.
No, the Xiang hero who killed his office in front of him is a living example, looking at the momentum, it is completely a posture of not leaving until the goal is reached.