Chapter 110: Wang Lei and Foreman's Simulated Combat Training
Wang Lei's speech at the pre-match press conference caused controversy again after it was reported. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Of course, the dispute is over the outcome of the battle between Foreman and Tyson, and no one disputes the outcome of the match between Ray Wang and Roy Jones Jr.
Even Ben Wilson, a reporter for the New York Times who had the most trouble with Wang Lei, was not embarrassed to post an article in support of Roy Jones Jr., thinking that he could defeat Wang Lei.
As Roy Jones Jr.'s father, Roy Jones, said, Wang Lei is a two-division triple crown champion after all, both amateur and professional records are all knockout opponents, and nearly half of his opponents are powerful and popular super-top fighters.
Roy Jones Jr. is just a rookie who has just entered the professional circle and has not fought in the first battle. What's more, he was once knocked out by Wang Lei in his amateur years.
Even if he doesn't have eyesight, people who don't know boxing don't think that Roy Jones Jr. can beat Wang Lei.
Everyone was attracted to Wang Lei's theory of bullishness Foreman defeating Tyson at the press conference.
Those theories do sound plausible, and Foreman's comeback record is indeed fierce, not much worse than Tyson's.
In the '70s, George "The Devil" Foreman was technically as terrifying as Mike "The Beast" Tyson today, and he was extremely devastating in the ring.
Although Foreman has returned after ten years of retirement, after rigorous training by his first coach Sadler, it seems that his strength has fully recovered and is not weaker than back then.
With such a Foreman, can Tyson easily defeat him?
You must know that there is one theory put forward by Wang Lei that all boxing experts agree with: Tyson is a copy of Joe Fraser.
Regardless of height and style of play, Tyson is very similar to the Fraser back then, but a little more fierce than the Fraser, which can be said to be an enhanced version of the Fraser.
Although Fraser was able to fight with Ali inextricably, he also won one of the three matches against Ali, and the other two persevered until the end, so that Ali was injured and hospitalized. But in the first of the two fights with Foreman, he was knocked down six times in two rounds by Foreman and almost died. In the second fight, he was knocked out twice by Foreman after only five rounds, and he was powerless.
Foreman back then seemed to be really Fraser's nemesis.
Although Foreman is older now, his strength does not seem to be much weaker, Tyson may be stronger than Fraser back then, but it may not be much stronger, can he beat Foreman?
What's more, Wang Lei is also right: Tyson is indeed troubled by personal matters at this time, and his wife Givens is divorcing him. Givens not only revealed to the media that Tyson abused her, but also openly said on TV that Tyson was a manic depressive patient, which made Tyson anxious, and I am afraid that it will be really difficult to put 100% energy into next year's competition.
After several days of analysis and discussion of the battle between Foreman and Tyson, one of the largest gambling companies in Las Vegas finally opened the initial odds for the "new and old heavy artillery king battle".
Tyson is priced at 1.75 to win and Foreman is priced at 2.25 to 1.
Obviously, despite Wang Lei's several theories about Tyson's downfall, the gambling company still doesn't sell it, and is optimistic that Tyson can beat Foreman.
After Wang Lei saw these two odds in the newspaper, he regretted that he was "talking nonsense" in front of the media.
If it weren't for his "nonsense", would G&C give the odds of 42 to 1 for Douglas to beat Tyson in his previous life?
If the company has a fever in the brain, it will also offer 1 to 42 for the battle between Foreman and Tyson...... No, even if it is 1 to 20, Wang Lei will come up with 50 million or 100 million US dollars to gamble.
If you win the bet, your net worth will have to increase dozens of times, but the company may have to lose money and go bankrupt.
The odds of 2.25 Wang Lei can't look at it yet, but in order to show his support for his brother, Wang Lei still generously took out a million dollars to buy Foreman to win, which means a little.
Interestingly, another gambling company also offered odds for the four-round cushion match between Wang Lei and Roy Jones Jr.
However, instead of betting on whether Roy Jones Jr. can beat Wang Lei, it is betting on Wang Lei to knock out Roy Jones Jr. in a few rounds.
Wang Lei's odds to knock out Roy Jones Jr. in one round are 1.25 to 1.
Wang Lei's odds to knock out Roy Jones Jr. in two rounds are 1.35 to 1.
Wang Lei's three-round knockout of Roy Jones Jr. is 1.45 to 1.
Wang Lei's four-round knockout of Roy Jones Jr. is priced at 1.55 to 1.
I don't know if the company is worried that Wang Lei will deliberately release water or is really optimistic about Wang Lei's strength, not only is there no odds for Roy Jones Jr. to beat Wang Lei, but even Roy Jones Jr. loses to Wang Lei on points in four rounds or the odds of a draw between the two sides.
It is said that when Roy Jones Jr. saw such odds, he almost smashed everything in his house like Tyson for a man with manic depression.
In order to allow Foreman to defeat Tyson and regain his position as the much-anticipated heavyweight champion, Sadler devoted all his energy to Foreman during this period of time and trained him with all his might.
Wang Lei is not dissatisfied with this, he understands Sadler's approach very well, and is happy to be free, plus during this period of school vacation, he just accompanies Zhou Yuwei, works hard to cultivate feelings, and at the same time conceives the next novel.
Twenty-five weeks after "Jurassic Park" topped the New York Times bestseller list, it sold 5.5 million copies in the United States and 12 million copies worldwide, making more money than writing the screenplays for two blockbuster movies.
Having tasted the sweetness, Wang Lei decided to write another best-selling novel.
He thought of the 21st century before it was published, and it broke the American record for the sale of novels, topped the New York Times bestseller list for 76 weeks, and sold 80 million copies of The Da Vinci Code worldwide.
Wang Lei has not read the original novel of "The Da Vinci Code", but he has watched the movie starring Tom Hanks, and he has also spent the content of this suspense novel on the Internet.
Wang Lei believes that with his current level of English writing, coupled with his career as a bookworm at the beginning of the past ten years, it is not a problem to restore "The Da Vinci Code".
Even if it is not as good as the original book, it can definitely sell tens of millions of copies.
Therefore, Wang Lei decided to spare two or three thousand words a day, planning to complete this novel in one or two years.
Just starting with less than 5,000 words, Sadler called him back to the boxing gym.
It turned out that Sadler found that he could not find a sparring partner who could imitate Tyson's style of play and style for Foreman, so he thought of Wang Lei.
No matter how Wang Lei denies it, he is indeed the person who imitates Tyson's "hide and seek" style of play and wheel-swing left and right heavy punch bombing.
In particular, he burst in front of his opponent and bombarded him with a series of heavy punches, knocking out his opponent in a style that was very similar to Tyson's.
If it weren't for Wang Lei's ability to be good at jab and wandering defensive counterattacks, and his left-right posture switching attacks that few fighters could learn, it is estimated that the media would have called him "Little Tyson".
Wang Lei, who doesn't like to be thought of as imitating a certain boxer's fighting style and style, had to follow Sadler's instructions to put on thick protective gear and accompany Foreman to practice actual combat with Tyson's "hide and seek" style of play and heavy punching.
It's not the first time Wang Lei has practiced with Foreman, but he used to play as he pleased, but now he has to imitate Tyson 100%.
To get the most out of the fight, Foreman still wore extra-thick boxing gloves, limiting his heavy punch power.
Otherwise, with the power of Foreman's terrifying punch, Wang Lei would have to fall to the ground after being hit.
This is the sadness of a light and middleweight fighter fighting a heavyweight fighter who can't afford the other party's heavy punches.
Before Mitchell Spincks rose to the heavyweight division and became the IBF Champion, he dominated the light heavyweight division for several years like Roy Jones Jr. in his previous life, and after he was promoted to heavyweight, he defeated Ali twice and became the heavyweight king, and was known as the "Winning General" Larry Holmes.
Larry Holmes is older and doesn't have heavy punches, so Spinkers can beat him twice on points. However, in June this year, he only lasted 91 seconds against Tyson before he was destroyed and knocked out by Tyson's terrifying punch, and announced his retirement after the match.
Wang Lei and Foreman's actual combat practice was basically able to rely on agility and speed, footwork and punching speed to gain the upper hand and take the lead in points. But if you accidentally get hit by Foreman's heavy punch, you'll fall to the ground like Spinks.
With Wang Lei's current weight, he can't withstand Forman's heavy punch.
So every time he practiced with Foreman, he had to wear thick protective gear and use super thick gloves to limit Foreman's heavy punches.