"Honey was knocked down and fell unconscious, and the Chinese kid staged a miracle night"

"The First Triple Crown Champion in the History of Boxing"

"Wearing Nine Golden Belts, the Road to the Emperor of Chinese Kids"

"The first person in the pan-middleweight division, who can beat the Chinese kid under the heavyweight? 》

"Entering the super middleweight and light heavyweight divisions, the Chinese kid challenges the Hearns five-division championship record"

"Wearing a dragon robe, an ingenious appearance ceremony - a Chinese kid declares that he is the emperor of boxing"

"Locking in the best boxing match of the year, can the Chinese kid win the year-end P4P king?" 》

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After Wang defeated Leonard to claim three more belts and become an unprecedented triple crown champion in the 147-pound welterweight, 154-pound super welterweight and 160-pound middleweight divisions, the global media and fans were shocked. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The next day, almost all newspapers and sports channels on television in the United States reported the news.

Even the media in Europe and the South Seas are no exception.

Wang Lei went to Xiangjiang to defend his title, although he offended the Xiangjiang martial arts community, but he was remembered by the media and fans in Nanyang. So after he defeated Leonard to claim three more 160-pound middleweight belts, almost all the media in Nanyang reported the news for the first time.

The media in Japan and South Korea are also reporting, but unlike the media reports in the United States, Europe and the South Seas, the media reports in Japan and South Korea are a bit sour, and after celebrating Wang Lei's sentence, they call for where their world champion is?

Some radical media even openly asked their fighters to challenge Wang Lei, take away Wang Lei's glory, and not let a Chinese be above them!

I have to say that these extreme media have really encouraged many fighters from their countries to challenge Wang Lei.

But Wang Leili didn't bother to pay attention to them, and handed them over to Arum to deal with.

With the abilities of Arum, an old Jewish fox, this kind of trouble is a breeze, even against the Japanese and Korean media.

Wang Lei is very busy, and he has to be interviewed by "Boxing" and "Sports Illustrated".

Two of America's most authoritative boxing and sports newspapers and magazines plan to use him on the cover of their next issue.

The people in "The Ring" magazine also quietly hinted to him that he will not only have a chance to defend the Fighter of the Year title next year, but also may be the king of the year-end P4P for the first time.

Forget about the former, for the latter the honor of "the king of year-end P4P". Wang Lei valued it very much, so he happily accepted an exclusive interview with "Boxing" magazine, and asked the photographer assigned by them to take a cover photo for him.

As for Sports Illustrated, it's a sports weekly owned by American media giant Time Warner. With more than 3 million subscribers and 23 million adult readers per week, it is said to be the most influential sports weekly in the United States and even in the world.

Except for the special issue of swimsuits launched every year at the beginning of ****, the cover of the swimsuit special issue of "Sports Illustrated" is a beautiful woman in a swimsuit, and most of the weekly covers in the rest of the period are influential sports stars in the United States.

For example, professional baseball MLB, American football NFL, professional basketball NBA and college football and basketball stars. Sports stars from boxing, golf and the Olympics also appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

For example, boxing champion Ali has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated 38 times. Second only to basketball god Michael Jordan, Jordan appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated 56 times before retiring, a record that no one could break before Wang Lei was reborn.

Although Wang Lei had been interviewed by a reporter from Sports Illustrated before, it was the first time he had been on the cover.

And the reporter of "Sports Illustrated" interviewed him also quietly revealed to him that he may be nominated by "Sports Illustrated" as "Athlete of the Year".

Wang Lei was a little flattered.

Since its inception in 1954, Sports Illustrated has annually awarded the "Athlete of the Year" award to "the athlete or team that best demonstrated the sportsmanship and achievements of the year".

The first time he won the award was track and field athlete Roger Bennetts, who broke the world record for the one-mile race with a time of 3:59.4, the first time a man had run under four minutes in this event.

Being nominated for "Athlete of the Year" by Sports Illustrated is definitely a great honor than being the Boxer of the Year or even the King of P4P at the end of the year.

After all, "Boxing" magazine only selects professional boxers, while Sports Illustrated's selection is for all competitive athletes.

Not only was Wang Lei flattered, but Sadler and Arum also attached great importance to it.

Arum even sent a professional etiquette expert to instruct Wang Lei on etiquette and dressing. So that he can face the interview with Sports Illustrated in the best possible light and take a cover photo.

Therefore, Wang Lei has been busy with this for a week after returning from Las Vegas, and it is naturally impossible to ignore the challenges of Japanese and Korean fighters.

The photographer of "Boxing Ring" magazine is very good, as long as Wang Lei wears boxing gloves and poses with his upper body bare.

The photographer assigned by the "Sports Illustrated" weekly was a little troublesome, this good-looking photographer was too fastidious, and he tossed Wang Lei all afternoon, and he was not satisfied with hundreds of photos.

If it weren't for Arum's repeated instructions before, Wang Lei would have been angry a long time ago.

Fortunately, when he took almost a thousand photos, the special photographer who is said to have won several international photography awards finally found a satisfactory photo to use as a cover, which relieved Wang Lei.

There's not much to say about the interview. Just a few questions back and forth, talk about your impressions or reveal your training methods or something.

Different from the professional of "Boxing" magazine, the interview reporter of "Sports Illustrated" talked about Wang Lei's private life in a few sentences.

It seems that the reporter of "Sports Illustrated" is more interested in Wang Lei's private life, and asks him if he has a girlfriend as soon as he opens his mouth. How long have you been dating, what kind of girls do you like, and even boldly asked him how many girlfriends he plans to have?

Wang Lei was asked all over the black line, so he simply pushed his fiancée Zhou Yuwei out, saying that he was a man who was very loyal to his feelings, and he would only like his fiancée in this life.

The reporter of "Sports Illustrated" asked Zhou Yuwei very seriously. and asked him when he and Zhou Yuwei would get married?

I guess my mother is also very concerned about this issue!

Wang Lei didn't ask Zhou Yuwei, it was not easy to decide privately, so he said that he and Zhou Yuwei were still studying at Stanford University, and they would consider this issue after they graduated.

The reporter was not very satisfied with Wang Lei's answer, but Wang Lei only gave up when he said this, and then changed the topic. Finally asked a question related to boxing:

"Wang, you are now a three-level boxing champion, will you stop there, or continue to move forward?"

Wang Lei replied: "Of course, continue to move forward." After I became the 147-pound welterweight champion, I had already set my sights on moving from welterweight to heavyweight and becoming the first seven-division champion in boxing history. I would consider retiring! ”

"Seven divisions, are you going to move up to heavyweight?"

"That's right!"

"It's a great goal, it's not only an unprecedented feat, but I'm afraid it's the best of the best, and if you do it, you'll surpass everyone else in boxing history and become a unique boxing champion." But, king, do you really think you can do it? ”

"I've always had confidence in myself!"

"So you're a 160-pound middleweight champion now, when will you get to the 168-pound super middleweight division?"

"Next spring at the latest. Gaining weight too quickly will have an impact on the growth of strength, so I followed the advice of my coach Sadler and slowly upgraded and tried to move up one level a year. If you manage to win the championship in that class, you will be promoted the next year, and if you don't, you will wait an extra year. According to the plan, I will be able to enter the heavyweight division in three years at the earliest, and no more than five years at the latest. I was twenty-five years old. At least five or six years later! ”

"Will you fight your brother Foreman?"

"If Foreman hadn't retired by then, we would have had a fight!"

"Are you confident of winning?"

"Hehe, as I said, I've always been confident in myself!"

“……”

The interview is finally over. The reporter who interviewed him from Sports Illustrated said meaningfully to Wang Lei before leaving: "Wang, I can't guarantee whether you can successfully be selected as the best athlete of the year this year, but I can guarantee that when you really win the seven-level boxing championship, the best athlete of the year will definitely be yours, and it will not be limited to one time!" ”

“……”

After the people from "Sports Illustrated" left, Wang Lei said to Ou Yangming, who had been with him: "Uncle Ming." What did he mean by that, did it imply that I wouldn't be able to win the Athlete of the Year award this year? ”

Ou Yangming said indifferently: "Don't forget that you are a Chinese, unless your achievements really crush all other athletes, Sports Illustrated will not easily award you the 'Athlete of the Year'!" ”

"But who can match what I've achieved this year?" Wang Lei said unconvinced.

The Seoul Olympics were last year, and there were quite a few scandals about the use of banned drugs, and being selected as the athlete of the year was just a joke.

The two most popular sports in the United States, football and baseball, have yet to have a star with a standout performance this year.

As for the NBA, Michael Jordan was the scoring champion despite his regular season performance against the sky, averaging 32.5 points per game to become the scoring leader, but he was eliminated by the Pistons' bad boys in the Eastern Conference Finals, and it is unlikely that he will be selected as the athlete of the year by Sports Illustrated.

Sports Illustrated favored Jordan after Jordan received his first championship ring in '91.

And although the Lakers team of "Magic" Johnson eliminated Drecules and Wang Lei's friend Bill Led the Trail Blazers in the first round, they were also swept by the Pistons' bad boys in the finals.

With the Pistons' Bad Boys almost everyone shouting about it, Sports Illustrated couldn't possibly award the Athlete of the Year title to any of them.

It's not possible in the NBA, and it's even less likely that anyone will be selected in the NCAA.

Another sports star favored by Sports Illustrated, "Tiger" Woods, has yet to make his debut.

Wang Lei really can't think of anyone who can compete with him for this "Athlete of the Year"?

Could it be that just because he is of Chinese descent, "Sports Illustrated" will ignore himself and randomly select a sports athlete who is far inferior to himself as the best?

If Sports Illustrated really wants to do this, it will lose its authority!

But I heard Ou Yangming remind: "Don't forget that it's only June, there is still half a year before the end of this year, you have a potential opponent in the second half of the year, if he succeeds, he can replace you as the best of the year, and even win the year-end P4P king of "Boxing" magazine!" ”

"Who?"

"Evan Holyfield, because Morrison's white kid was injured in a fight, Holyfield will be promoted to heavyweight and fight Foreman in advance, and the time has been set, in November of this year."

Lao Huo, why did you forget this guy? (To be continued.) )

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