After the match between Leonard and Hagler, Wang Lei returned to San Francisco. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The next day, the U.S. media reported on the rematch between Leonard and Hagler, and while celebrating Leonard's undisputed point defeat over Hagler, he also expressed his regret for Hagler.

Almost all the media reporters who watched the match on the spot saw that Hagler's strength was much weaker than when he fought Leonard in April last year, his physical strength dropped so much that he behaved like an old man on the verge of death in the final round, and it was a miracle that he was able to hold on until the end of the match.

On the contrary, Leonard has much more physical strength than last year, and he is still alive and well by the end of the 12 rounds, and he looks completely out of breath at the end of last year's fight with Hagler, as if he is ten years younger.

Probably out of respect for Hagler, none of the media mentioned that Hagler's physical fitness had declined due to his neglect of training for a year, but that he was old.

Hagler was born in 54, two years older than Leonard, who was born in 56, and is now 34 years old.

Before the new century, professional fighters were basically going downhill at the age of thirty, and most of them chose to retire at the age of thirty-four.

Veteran boxers like Archie Moore and George Foreman are just a handful of old boxers in their forties who are still fighting.

And a boxing champion like Robert Duran who chose to retire until he was 51 years old is probably unique.

After the new century, it is estimated that because nutrition and training are becoming more and more scientific, the retirement age of professional boxers is getting later and later, most boxers are still in the fighting year when they are thirty-five or sixteen years old, and there are more and more old fighters like Holyfield and Hopkins who are almost 50 years old and still not retiring.

Wang Lei suspects that if he waits another 50 years, the professional boxer may still be active in the ring at the age of 60.

Hagler was physically strong, but he was clearly not as good as the likes of Foreman and Holyfield when it came to playing against time, and was disheartened after another defeat to Leonard, announcing his retirement within days.

Wang Lei was disappointed to see the news in San Francisco, which meant that he had a fight against all four of the middleweight kings, and his plan to defeat them all went bankrupt.

Unlike Leonard, who keeps retiring and coming back, and even breaking the Guinness Book of Records, Hagler in his previous life has never returned after choosing to retire during the war with Leonard.

In this world, Hagler retired a year late and will certainly not come back. It was impossible for Wang Lei to fight him.

Fortunately, without Hagler, the three kings of Leonard, Hernes and Duran are still around.

Leonard doesn't mention this guy, Duran, the oldest of the four kings, didn't retire until 2002; The youngest king of Hearns fought until 2006, when he moved from welterweight to welterweight and won six divisions of the boxing title.

Wang Lei definitely has a chance to fight with these three!

Aside from Duran and Hearns, Leonard, after defeating Hagler, raised his right fist to Wang Lei in the ring, and the scene of him asking him to fight was captured by a photojournalist at the scene and published in Sports Illustrated, which was published on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

In addition to reporting the news of Leonard's undisputed point defeat to Hagler, the major media newspapers in the United States on the same day also focused on the incident and questioned Wang Lei: Leonard has responded to your challenge, when will you upgrade to middleweight and fight Leonard?

The San Francisco Chronicle, which is completely oriented to Wang Lei, reported on the incident differently from other newspapers, and Simon Neal, who wrote the article, first praised Leonard's wonderful performance in defeating Hagler, and then changed the topic to talk about how powerful Wang Lei was, and said that even Leonard was impressed by Wang Lei's strength, and as soon as he defeated Hagler, he couldn't wait to fight Wang Lei.

At the end of the article, Simon Neill also mentioned Duran, saying that Leonard is more like a warrior than Duran, and Duran chose to avoid Wang Lei's challenge after seeing Wang Lei's strong strength, and Leonard bravely accepted it......

Wang Lei didn't know how Leonard would react when he saw this article, but he was sure that Duran would be angry when he saw it!

Simon Neal's article is purely pulling hatred for him!

Sure enough, the day after Simon Neal's article was published in the San Francisco Chronicle, a reporter interviewed Duran and asked him about it.

It is said that Duran's face was terrifyingly gloomy at that time, and his eyes were even more chilling.

Duran only said one sentence: "Get the Chinese kid ready, I'll fight him after his game with McCollum!" ”

It was a very common sentence, and Duran said it in a calm tone, but the reporter who interviewed him said that he was almost scared to pee.

Less than three days after Duran said this, Don King took the initiative to find Arum, put down his body and discussed the match between Duran and Wang Lei with Arum very kindly, and even behaved a little "low-voiced".

Wang Lei was surprised when he received Arum's call, and soon realized that it was Duran who had given Don King an ultimatum, which forced Don King to bow his head.

Although Don King has taken Tyson as a cash cow, he doesn't want to give up on Duran.

After all, in the small and medium-sized level, the only famous and profitable boxing champion he can control is Duran.

What Wang Lei didn't know was that Don King mainly found out what happened to Peter Gotti and was intimidated and didn't want to offend Wang Lei again, so he agreed to Duran's request and temporarily bowed to his nemesis Arum.

After three days of negotiations, Arum and Don King finally decided on the match between Wang Lei and Duran.

The competition will take place on August 16, before the start of the Seoul Olympics.

Before that, Wang Lei had to play Mike McCollum on May 11, and Duran agreed to fight Wang Lei regardless of the outcome of the game.

However, the venue of the match was arranged at Duran's request in Panamanian capital, Panama City, which is Duran's home country.

In addition, the game was broadcast live on CNN's sports channel and local Panamanian television, and ESPN also won the rights to broadcast it.

In this game, Wang Lei and Duran both set a new high in appearance fees, both of which were 15 million US dollars.

Combined, the two equaled $30 million in appearance fees, which has broken the record for a rematch between Leonard and Hagler.

With such a high appearance fee, Arum and Don King are not worried that they will not be able to return to their original costs, not to mention the live broadcast and broadcast fees of CNN and ESPN TV networks, the ticket revenue alone is enough to pay for the appearance fees of Wang Lei and Duran.

Not to mention Wang Lei's super popularity now, the location of the game in Panama City alone can attract many people to buy tickets to enter the stadium.

After all, Duran is a Panamanian-born person, the pride of Panamanians, Panama City is Duran's home stadium, and there are definitely many Panamanian fans who come to support him.

The venue for Arum and Don Kim to play in Panama City is the National Stadium in Panama City, which is said to have a capacity of 40,000 spectators.

Arum predicts that tickets will sell at least 30,000 or more!

After finalizing the match between Wang Lei and Duran, the two sides did not hold a pre-match press conference, after all, the game between Wang Lei and McCollum had started before that. However, the media reporters with great powers quickly got the news and reported the matter.

So the next day, the American fans were a sensation again!

It's not that Wang Lei and Duran are shocked by the total appearance fee of up to 30 million US dollars, but because Wang Lei has set a record, not only the fastest boxing champion in the small and medium-sized division (the appearance fee exceeded 10 million US dollars after only 10 professional boxing matches), but also the fastest boxing champion who arranged his opponent in advance.

The boxing title fight with Mike McCollum has not yet begun, and the next fight has already been scheduled, and even the opponent for the next fight has been decided.

Because of Leonard's response to the fight, the media and fans can be sure that if Wang Lei defeats Duran, the next opponent will be Leonard.

What's more, if Wang Lei defeats McCollum and Duran in succession, he will become the first boxing champion to unify the 147-pound welterweight division and then the 154-pound super-welterweight division, which is something that no one has ever done.

If he can beat Leonard next year and unify the 160-pound middleweight division, he will be a legend unsurpassed in the history of professional boxing!

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The media in the American sports world talked about it a lot and it was very lively, but Wang Lei did not join in the excitement, and even refused to be interviewed by media reporters, staying in Sadler's boxing gym to concentrate on training.

After watching Leonard's rematch against Hagler, Wang Lei added another key item to his boxing training.

It's footwork!

Ali's "Butterfly Dance Steps".

The so-called "butterfly dance steps" are not very advanced footwork, but simple sliding steps, mainly side and backward sliding.

Ali used the sliding step as chic and elegant as the clouds and water, like a butterfly, which was very ornamental, so this footwork was called "butterfly dance step".

Leonard and Ali were taught by Anjiser Dundee, so he learned Ali's "butterfly dance steps" and used them well.

Leonard was able to fight Hagler for 12 rounds in both matches and beat them on points, thanks to his masterful footwork and perfect jabs.

After watching Leonard's game, Wang Lei knew that his footwork was not as fast as the opponent's, so he decided to practice this butterfly dance step to improve his strength.

It's not hard to learn butterfly dance moves, but it takes talent to use them like Ali and Leonard.

This talent is the mastery of the rhythm.

This rhythm is the rhythm of dance, and if you can control it perfectly, you can become a first-class dancer, not to mention the butterfly dance steps, and Michael Jackson's space steps can be easily learned.

It's a pity that Wang Lei doesn't have this talent.

In his previous life, he had learned Michael Jackson's space walk, but he never learned it.

After practicing for a week, Wang Lei gave up.

He found that he could never use the butterfly dance moves as smoothly and gracefully as Ali and Leonard.

If you really use the butterfly dance to fight Leonard, I'm afraid that you will be miserably abused.

So Wang Lei decided to return to the field he was familiar with and practice his best left and right posture transition steps and sudden progression methods.

Wang Lei's best footwork is to rush in front of the opponent with lightning speed, and hit a heavy punch combination bombing at close range!

It's this spur that has led him to both amateur and professional knockouts.

Wang Lei believes that there is no need to imitate other people's footwork, practicing what he is best at and practicing it to the extreme is the best choice.

Sadler agrees with Wang Lei's choice and is pleased at the same time.

He thinks that Wang Lei has finally grown up!