Chapter 320: UFC China debut
Qu Tiancheng looked at his daughter who was a little excited, and he glared at his daughter with a pretended to be unhappy, and said: "Before I say anything, you started to complain about this kid, so if I really say anything about this kid in the future, you don't have to worry about me!" ”
"Dad! What are you talking about! Qu Zimo glared at Qu Tiancheng with a crimson cheek.
"Haha! Forget it, I won't tease you. I don't know if you've noticed it, the hero guy is lazy, and he has never been willing to use his brains to solve everything that can be solved with his fists. You look at the time of these games, when he has executed the tactics that you have laid out before the game. This kid's last few games have completely relied on his physical condition and strong attack power to crush the opponent hard, and he didn't use his brain at all. ”
Luo An and they thought about it carefully, it is indeed like Qu Tiancheng said, Xiang Yingying's favorite thing is to fight with his opponent hard, and rarely use any strategy and tactics in the game.
Thinking of this, Luo An subconsciously asked, "Then how to deal with it?" ”
"It's not a big problem, we don't have to deal with it. This kid isn't really stupid, he's just too lazy to use his brain. "When this kid really encounters an opponent who can't be crushed physically, he will naturally use his brain." Qu Tiancheng said confidently.
"I'm afraid that this kid won't use his brain for a long time, and he won't be able to move at a critical time, so it's bad." Qu Zimo said with some concern.
When Qu Tiancheng heard this, he said with a smile: "Then limit the conditions in the usual actual combat training, so that he has to use his brains to win." Or often fight with heavyweight masters, let him feel some weight of those monsters in advance. ”
"That's a good note, I'll try it when I get back to the U.S., and Mark Hunter will be preparing for the training camp next month, and then I'll have the hero be his sparring partner." Luo An said with a grin.
"Mark Hunter? Is it the shortest fighter Mark Hunter who won the K-1GP championship in 2001? Tang Mu asked in surprise.
"That's right! That's him. Luo An replied with a smile.
"I heard he's Samoan?" Tang Mu asked.
"That's right! Hunt is Samoan. Roan said.
"Samoans! This famous family is very interesting, they are both men and women, most of them are, with large faces, broad chins, no necks, big shoulders and round waists, and thick bodies. ”
Luo An nodded when he heard this, and said with some sighs: "Mr. Qu is right, most of them are this body type. Countless martial arts facts have proven that people of this size are the best for fighting. The big face + wide chin + no neck make them super resistant to hits, the size of the refrigerator makes them stable, and the big shoulders and round waist give them huge hitting power. ”
"The Samoan race, which has a total of only a few hundred thousand, has produced so many world-class martial arts masters, and most of them are KO-type fierce men. Moreover, American Samoa's adult males are a resource for the best soldiers in the U.S. military. If a hero trains with such an opponent, I find it interesting just thinking about it. ”
Xiang Yingying, who was immersed in training, had no idea how wonderful his next days in the United States would be in these three words.
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As the fight approaches, the media coverage is becoming more and more frequent, and almost all the Chinese media are overwhelmingly promoting the upcoming UFC debut, hoping that Xiang Hero will play at home and defeat the formidable opponent of Luke Lockhold.
On September 30, Xiang Yingying led a large force of this heroic battalion to Shanghai. On October 1, the day of the National Day, the weighing ceremony was successfully completed.
At the weighing ceremony, when Xiang Yingying and Luke Lockhold confronted each other, it was extremely hot, and if it wasn't for Dana Bai himself, he might have staged a big battle in advance.
This made the media extremely excited, which signaled that the anger of the two men was on the verge of exploding, and also marked that tomorrow's game will be extremely hot.
At half past four o'clock in the afternoon of October 2, the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai was already full.
The Mercedes-Benz Arena is located in the core area of the Expo between the two bridges and on the south bank of the Pujiang River, across the river from the World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center in the north and the Expo Public Activity Center in the west.
On the northwest side of the center, the Lupu Bridge is used as the background background, with a centralized layout, and the soft architectural form is integrated into the green space of the riverside park.
The overall shape of the center is in the shape of a flying saucer, which will take on different shapes at different angles and at different times.
In the daytime, it is like "time and space shuttle" and "art sea shell"; At night, it is dreamy and misty, like a "floating city".
During the World Expo, the center is a multi-functional performing arts venue for all kinds of variety performances, celebrations, art exchanges, academic research, leisure and entertainment, and tourism and appreciation.
As the first large-scale indoor venue with variable capacity in China, it is divided into a venue with 18,000 seats according to the needs of this competition. The 18,000 tickets sold out in just three days, and even some of the worst tickets were five times the price of the ticket, but they were still hard to find.
Especially for infield tickets, many celebrities, whether they like MMA or not, have tried their best to get one at a high price to join in the fun.
But the happiest are the Shanghai fans, who can finally watch the world's hottest MMA event on their doorstep, but the most important thing is that normal matches are the main event of the brightest star in Chinese martial arts, Xiang Hero.
Think about the past few years, when Japanese and Korean fighters have repeatedly achieved success in the UFC arena, and Chinese fighters have only "Steppenwolf" Zhang Tiequan fighting alone in the UFC.
In February 2012, Zhang Tiequan went to Japan alone to face Kazusei Tamura of Japan. For him, this fight is crucial, not only for himself, but also to prove that Chinese can also fight mixed martial arts.
However, due to the strong strength of the opponent, Zhang Tiequan's performance was relatively average. In this match, he was knocked out and even fainted. What's even more worrying is that at that time, he went to Japan alone to chase his dreams, with no sponsors and no support group. After the end of the first leg, Zhang Tiequan squatted alone in the halftime area, his eyes were blank, and the audience was cheering for Tamura Kazusheng at home.
That night, almost all Chinese MMA-loving fans were heartbroken......
In the next few years, with the development of the domestic mixed martial arts career, more and more young fighters have entered the octagon, but the results are not too good, and none of them can squeeze into the top 10 of the division, let alone become the main event.
But today, in the 134th episode of UFC Fight Night at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, China, there is an eighth-ranked Chinese fighter who will make history as the headliner.
He is the hero of "Fighting Tyrant" Xiang......