Chapter 182: Wang Lei VS Abraham (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
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According to Forbes' list of athletes' income, Wang Lei, who has no advertising endorsement, received an appearance fee of $80 million even after excluding taxes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The second-highest paid fighter is still a professional fighter, and he has played two fights, the second of which was lost to Leonard of Wang Lei, who lost to Wang Lei in December for $20 million, plus the $20 million win over Park Jong-pa in South Korea in June, for a total of $40 million, but this is before taxes.
In third place is Tyson, a former heavyweight boxing champion who only fought two fights last year, and even if he loses again to Foreman in his second fight, he still earns $37 million before taxes.
In fourth place is a professional football player who won the Super Bowl, Abraham Ali is fifth, and Michael Jordan of the NBA is sixth with an annual salary plus advertising revenue, with only $14.7 million.
From the ranking of professional athletes' income released by Forbes, it can be seen that Wang Lei's annual boxing income is higher, which is higher than the total income of the last two combined.
The important thing is that Forbes only announced Wang Lei's appearance fee income as a professional boxer, and did not include his income from screenwriting, novel sales, and investment in movies and American dramas.
If Wang Lei's income from screenwriting, novel sales, and investment in movies and American dramas last year is also counted, I am afraid that the annual income of the 100 professional athletes behind him will not be comparable to him.
You must know that Wang Lei was able to bring him more than $300 million in income last year just by one "The Sixth Sense".
Last year's total income could already make Wang Lei's net worth rank in the top 30 of the Forbes rich list.
In January this year, Wang Lei may earn $70 million again, once again ranking first in the Forbes athletes' annual earnings list.
This terrible speed of making money is enough to make everyone blush!
And if Abraham Ali is knocked out by Wang Lei in three rounds, he will only get 15 million US dollars in appearance fees, no share!
It sounds like this deal is very beneficial to Wang Lei, but it is actually forcing Abraham Ali to fight hard, because if Abraham Ali defeats Wang Lei and even knocks out Wang Lei in three rounds, he will also get a total of 60 million US dollars.
That's more than he's played in the last 23 games combined!
Just for such a huge profit, Abraham Ali will definitely do his best to knock down Wang Lei!
At the pre-match weighing ceremony and press conference, Abraham Ali, who has always been reticent, finally made a "bold statement" to the media.
He's going to knock out Wang Lei in two rounds!
One less round than Wang Lei's "bold words"!
It seems that Abraham Ali is desperate!
The weighing ceremony was unexpected, and Wang Lei's weight only increased by two pounds, reaching 170 pounds, which is equal to 77 kilograms, which is the standard for playing in the light heavyweight division.
And Abraham Ali also weighed just 175 pounds, only five pounds heavier than Wang Lei.
However, what is surprising is that Wang Lei's height has grown by three centimeters, becoming 1.86 meters.
Standing with the height of 1.86 meters and Abraham Ali's height of 1.95 meters, it seems that the difference is not too big!
Because this match is Wang Lei's upgrade to light heavyweight to challenge triple crown champion Abraham Ali, even if he already has 12 belts in four divisions, he still plays first according to the rules.
Probably knowing Abraham Ali's depressed personality, Wang Lei didn't make much of a show at the appearance ceremony, but invited the lion dance and dragon dance teams as usual, wearing a golden robe and playing in the gong and drum.
He didn't sing or dance anymore, much to the disappointment of many viewers who wanted to listen to the dance music that Mr. Wang sang when he played Leonard last month.
What disappointed the audience even more was Abraham Ali's appearance ceremony, which seemed to be so unchanged forever.
The black robe, with an expressionless face, made the black strong man who was followed by his three gold belts high, quiet and solemn, as if he was going out of the funeral ceremony.
The appearance of not approaching people makes the audience feel a little untouched!
However, what made the audience feel even more amazing was the family of three sitting in the front row, all wearing black mourning clothes.
This is Chen Jun's parents and sister!
Chen Jun is completely brain dead and can't wake up. A week ago, Chen's parents were finally persuaded by doctors to remove the life-sustaining equipment that kept Chen's breathing and heartbeat alive and let him go safely.
Chen Jun has been cremated, and according to Chinese funeral customs, today it is Chen Jun's first seven.
However, Chen Jun's parents and sister came to watch Wang Lei and Abraham Ali's match in black mourning clothes, and let Chen Jun's sister hold Chen Jun's urn.
Mr. Chen's parents and sister made the spectators sitting around them feel uncomfortable, as if they were staying at a funeral parlor watching a boxing match.
However, the seat tickets they bought at a high price could not be exchanged, and the 25,000 seats at the boxing scene were already full, and these spectators had only two choices, either to leave or to endure.
These spectators who can buy tickets for front-row seats are naturally pure fans, and it is impossible to give up watching the fight between Wang Lei and Abraham Ali live, so they can only endure it.
As a result, there was a very strange scene in the audience.
The 25,000-person audience was filled with cheers and discussions, but in the place where Chen Jun's family was sitting, the audience was surprisingly quiet, as if they were afraid of startling Chen Jun's dead soul lying in the urn.
Abraham Ali's father, boxing champion Ali, also came to the scene to cheer for his son, and he naturally saw Chen Jun's parents and sister, but he just frowned and didn't say anything.
Abraham Ali was apparently unaffected by this scene, and his face remained expressionless from the moment he passed by Chen's parents and sister to the ring, as if Chen's parents and sister were strangers who had nothing to do with him.
However, when it came time to face Wang Lei in the ring, Abraham asked: "Wang, did you invite Chen's family?" Do you think you're going to influence me and make me play badly? ”
Wang Lei glanced at Chen Jun's parents and sister in the audience, and said indifferently: "I didn't know that they were also here, and I wouldn't arrange this kind of thing to affect you!" Actually, I don't need to be able to defeat you at all, because you're not as strong as the fans think you are, and I can knock you out in under three rounds by sheer strength! ”
Abraham's eyes were cold, and he said coldly, "Yes, then wait and see!" ”
The host of the boxing scene originally wanted to hand over the microphone and let Wang Lei and Abraham say a few words, but when he saw the appearance of the confrontation between the two, he didn't know why he suddenly felt a chill rising from behind, and after instinctively shivering, he immediately dispelled his thoughts, and after saying a few encouraging words to the audience, he handed over the boxing ring to the law enforcement referee and hurriedly stepped off the stage.
Mom, Abraham's eyes are too scary, just staring at his eyes, there is a chilling feeling, and his legs will tremble uncontrollably. I've hosted several of his fights, but every time I see him, it feels the same.
I really admire the Chinese boy, looking at him so kindly, he is unusually calm, as if Abraham is an ordinary person!
Also undeterred by Abraham's terrifying eyes was the referee, who calmly emphasized the main points of the boxing rules before letting the two men hammer each other's gloves.
Wang Lei stretched out his fists first, and after Abraham glanced at it, he slammed it down!
There was a "bang", and Wang Lei's fists were still raised in front of his chest, like steel pillars!
Abraham's gaze finally changed, and after glancing at Wang Lei in surprise, he retreated to his position.
Wang Lei also retreated to his position.
The "dong" game bell rang, and after the referee summoned Wang Lei and Abraham again, he slammed his palms to indicate the start of the game.
As if suddenly stimulated by his prey, Abraham's eyes showed a bloodthirsty light like a beast, let out a low roar, and suddenly rushed towards Wang Lei.
The shot is a powerful left straight punch!
"Bang"!
But it was not Wang Lei's punch, but Abraham's punch!
It turned out that Wang Lei calmly approached sideways at the moment of Abraham's punch, and also hit a left straight punch at the same time.
Wang Lei's straight left fist passed through Abraham's arm and smashed firmly into Abraham's face!
And Abraham's left straight punch to Wang Lei missed!
"Punching, seeing punching, the Chinese kid hit Abraham at the beginning!"
The commentator invited for this match is Wang Lei's acquaintance, former middleweight champion Mitchell Griffiths, who once served as Wang Lei's sparring partner.
Griffiths was later voted one of the 10 greatest middleweight champions in boxing history, his heavy punches are not strong, but his skills are super high, and he is also good at and admire the punching boxing, which requires high reaction speed and technical requirements.
So when I saw that Wang Lei played a "welcome punch" as soon as he came, and successfully hit Abraham, I immediately became excited.
After the excitement, Griffith continued to explain: "It seems that Abraham is a bit aggressive, the Chinese kid can't be compared with his previous opponent, if he wants to knock out the Chinese kid in one round like the opponent before the KO, I'm afraid he will suffer, maybe he will really be knocked out by the Chinese kid within three rounds......
Griffith's commentary took the fans out of the crowd.
Fortunately, although Wang Lei's "welcome punch" hit Abraham, Abraham did not fall, did not even take a step back, just shook his head and attacked Wang Lei again.
Obviously, Wang Lei's punch caused very little damage to Abraham!
Abraham apparently didn't listen to Griffith's explanation, and when he attacked Wang Lei again, he was still fierce and abnormal, like a psychotic madman, roaring in a low voice, and his fists were frantically punching Wang Lei.
Left hook, right hook, left hook, right hook......
Abraham's left-right combination of heavy punching and bombing skills was not under Wang Lei, and Wang Lei was so bombarded by him that he had to step backwards.
However, even if Wang Lei was retreating, his eyes were still calm and abnormal, and his eyelids stared at Abraham in front of him without blinking, waiting for him to attack and stop.
. (To be continued.) )