Wang Lei received a $500 prize and a championship trophy that looked like a boxing glove made of stainless steel, with an extremely thin layer of gold plated on the outside, which looked like a gold cup. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info, however, is estimated to be worth less than two hundred dollars.

Wang Lei had planned to give Sadler $500 to thank him for his hard work in teaching him over the past few months. Anyway, Wang Lei himself is not short of money, his parents opened a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown, and his grandfather opened a home pharmacy, although his family is not a wealthy family, but it can also be called a well-off family, and he does not worry about food and clothing, so Wang Lei can't look down on the five hundred dollars.

It's just that Sadler insisted on not wanting it, he would rather want Wang Lei's championship trophy than the five hundred dollars, and said that if Wang Lei really wanted to thank him, he would win a few more championships, put the trophies in the boxing gym, advertise him, and attract a few students who love boxing to join. In addition, when he becomes a professional boxer and becomes a boxing champion, he will be paid a coach's remuneration according to the regulations, and don't just abandon George Foreman as soon as he becomes famous.

Wang Lei was speechless, so he had to swear that he would never be.

Who said that foreigners only pay attention to immediate interests, does Sadler, the old man, seem to be very far-sighted, but his tone when he mentions George Foreman is too "resentful", just like the angry daughter-in-law in Qiong Yao's novel, every time I hear Wang Lei can't help but get goosebumps all over his body.

It seems that George Forman hurt Sadler very much!

Winning the first amateur boxing championship, Sadler gave Wang Lei a rare day off, and Wang Lei invited his buddy Bill and his classmates who came to the Bay Stadium today to cheer him on to a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown for a meal and drink.

I didn't dare to go to my parents' restaurant, and I didn't dare to tell my parents about his boxing!

When he returned home after eating and drinking with his classmates, Wang Lei saw his parents waiting for him in the living room, and his mother was still holding a copy of the San Francisco Chronicle in her hand, and the sports section on it had a news report covering him and Sadler today, and a photo of him holding the Champions Cup aloft was also published.

It's over, I can't hide it now!

Wang Lei was in a hurry, and hurriedly spoke first: "Dad, Mom, you listen to my explanation first......

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by his father raising his hand: "No need to explain, we have already asked your grandfather, and we know everything we should know." We just want to ask you, did you really choose the path of boxing? ”

Wang Lei nodded first, and then said: "But I won't fight for the rest of my life, at most I will retire at the age of thirty, and then I will have to go to Hollywood to be a director and make movies!" ”

Dad frowned and asked again: "If you want to fight until you are thirty years old, what about your studies, you don't plan to go to college?" ”

"Of course not!" Wang Lei denied: "I must go to the University of Southern California to study, but going to college and boxing do not conflict, after becoming a professional boxer, basically only one or two months to fight, after becoming a boxing champion or famous, in order to promote and publicize, only two or three fights a year, an average of three or four months to fight, sometimes even half a year, it does not affect my college at all!" ”

Although my parents live in San Francisco's Chinatown, they obviously don't know much about professional boxing, and they don't know what Wang Lei said about fighting two or three fights a day, sometimes only one in half a year is from the late 90s to the new century, and only a very famous boxing champion will have treatment.

It's like the release of a Hollywood promotional blockbuster in the previous life, which has obviously been filmed, but it will not be released until half a year or even a year later. The purpose is not only to fight for a good schedule, but also to promote more time, so that more people can know about this boxing match and hype up tickets.

Newcomers who have just become professional fighters and professional boxers who have never been famous basically have to fight once a month, and they have to fight more than ten times a year. For example, Mike Tyson, who just entered the professional world this year, recorded in his previous life that he fought 15 fights in the first year of his career and 12 fights in his second year. After Tyson became a boxing champion, he only played three or four fights a year, and the more famous he was, the fewer fights he had in a year, and the corresponding appearance fee would be higher.

In the new century, big-name boxing champions such as Holyfield and Lewis basically only fight two fights a year, and sometimes even only one fight a year.

I only play two or three games a year, and I can't train every day the rest of the time. Therefore, Wang Lei is confident that it will not affect his studies, and he plans to play professional boxing while taking care of his university studies.

Dad stopped talking, but Mom was still very worried: "Son, boxing is very dangerous, Mom remembers that I didn't report on the TV news last year, saying that there was a boxer named Jin or something, who was beaten to death in the boxing ring, and even his mother committed suicide because of this." If something happens to you in the ring, how do you let your mother live? ”

"Uh, Mom, no, the boxing organization has changed the game time and rules because of this incident, and there will be no more fatal accidents. What's more, in professional sports, boxing has always had the fewest casualties, and your son has always been blessed with a great life, and there will be no accidents! ”

Wang Lei knew that what his mother was talking about was the Jin Dejiu incident in '82.

Kim Deok-koo is a South Korean lightweight fighter who once won the lightweight title of the Eastern Pacific Boxing Association, and in November '82 he fought an American fighter named Ray Mancini for the WBA lightweight title.

Later, Kim Deok-koo's mother committed suicide by poisoning two months later because of excessive grief. And the law enforcement referee at that time also committed suicide after the game because of self-blame and guilt.

This incident shocked the world, public opinion was in an uproar, and under pressure, after several days of discussion and research, the WBA revised some boxing rules, changed the fifteen rounds of the boxing championship to twelve rounds, and also improved the boxing gloves and sheaths to slow down the impact of boxing and so on.

Although the rules of boxing have been changed, professional boxing still cannot avoid deaths. But there's no denying that boxing has a much lower mortality rate than popular events such as skiing, motorsports, rugby and football.

Wang Lei is not a person who is not afraid of death, but as a reborn person, he feels that almost every profession has the possibility of death, even if he chose to play basketball and make movies when he was just reborn, he may die in an accident. In his previous life, he was an otaku who stayed at home for ten years, and he didn't die suddenly, if he wanted to live a wonderful life and shine, he couldn't be afraid of this.

That's why Wang Lei chose boxing unwaveringly.

People must be fearless in their lives!

Cowardice can't get out!

After a lot of effort and countless promises, Wang Lei finally persuaded his mother.

As for Dad, as early as when Wang Lei made a second oath to his mother, he couldn't stand it and went back to the bedroom to sleep.

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After the morning exercise the next day, Wang Lei returned to school to continue studying.

He was still distracted during class, listening to lectures while studying himself the movie textbooks that Bill had lent him.

Bill was probably stimulated by Wang Lei's championship yesterday, worried that he would lose his bet with Wang Lei, so he ran to the basketball club to practice basketball as soon as he got out of school, trying hard to make Wang Lei feel ashamed.

When I went to Sadler's boxing gym after school in the afternoon, I was surprised to find that there were more than a dozen students practicing boxing in the boxing gym, two of whom were classmates from school, and Bill came to the Bay Gymnasium yesterday to cheer him up.

I found out after asking, because he was interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle for his victory yesterday, not only did he become famous, but the fact that Sadler was George Foreman's first coach was also dug up.

The next day, Sadler's boxing gym became famous, and on the same day, more than a dozen teenagers who loved boxing came to learn boxing from Sadler, and Sadler did not refuse to come.

As a result, the gym had more than a dozen more students, and Sadler had some more income.

No wonder Sadler would look down on Wang Lei's $500 prize.

It is conceivable that when Wang Lei wins the championship of the "National Golden Glove Championship" and becomes a professional boxer next year, and after becoming a boxing champion in the future, the students who come to Sadler's boxing gym to learn boxing will be continuous, and Sadler will not worry about not making money.

Vision!

Commenting on Sadler again in his heart, Wang Lei devoted himself to boxing practice.

With more than a dozen "junior brothers" with different heights and styles, Wang Lei will not worry about having no sparring partners in the future.

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The days passed, and in the blink of an eye, it was October.

Regarded as one of the most important events of the year in amateur boxing, the "National Golden Glove Tournament" is about to begin.

With the qualifications of the lightweight champion of the "San Francisco Youth Boxing Competition", Wang Lei signed up for the "National Golden Glove Competition" without any difficulty, and easily qualified for the competition.

Unfortunately, the "National Golden Glove Competition" was not held in San Francisco or California, but in Boston, the capital of Massachusetts in the northeast of the United States.

The venue for the tournament is the Boston Garden Arena.

Boston Garden Arena is an indoor stadium that opened in 1928 and has a capacity of almost 15,000 spectators. Although it was called the arena and was once the home stadium of the Boston Ice Hockey Bruins and the NBA basketball Celtics, the stadium was designed by Tex-Richard, the promoter of a boxing tournament. Turks Richard designed the Garden Gym for boxing matches.

So Boston's Garden Arena, while it often hosts ice hockey and basketball games, is also very suitable for boxing matches.

Wang Lei has never been far away in his life, not to mention California, he has never even left San Francisco. So when she learned that her son was going to Boston to box, her mother first disagreed.

Fortunately, the grandfather spoke, and he will personally accompany his grandson to Boston.

Although grandpa is old, he has no disease in his life, and his body is healthier than that of young people, plus he is the most famous Chinese medicine doctor in Chinatown with the highest skills, and he is personally accompanied, my mother has to agree.

What's more, there are many people who accompanied Wang Lei to Boston to compete this time.

In addition to his grandfather and coach Sadler, there are also his disciples, Ou Yangming, Wang Lei's professional nursing doctor, Wang Lei's sparring partner Cruise, and a Russian fighter named Chekov.

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