Chapter 63: Welterweight Unification Battle (Part I)
September 20, 1987, 8 p.m. at the Caesars Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Welterweight WBC and WBA new champion Ray and IBF champion Wilfried Benitez have officially kicked off.
One is the first Chinese-American world boxing champion in the history of professional boxing, and the other is the youngest ultra-lightweight boxing champion in boxing history, and the winner of the three divisions of boxing.
One of the two is eighteen years old and the other is twenty-eight years old, and the difference is exactly ten years.
The bout attracted the attention of countless fans, with 15,000 tickets sold alone, which is already close to the record for the fight of the century between Leonard and Hagler in April, not to mention the live broadcast of CNN, which predicts that the number of fans who pay to watch the fight could exceed a million.
In order to hype up the game, the organizers of the competition not only invited many Hollywood stars and sports stars to cheer on the scene, but the Caesars Hotel and Casino even invited the popular female singer who has already released three albums and won the best female singer on MTV this year to sing a song before the game.
This popular female singer is the famous Madonna Siccone.
When Wang Lei saw a blonde-haired Madonna wearing a white top hat in the locker room, wearing only a small black vest on the upper body, ultra-thin mesh stockings, jeans, ultra-shorts and knee-length leather boots on the lower body, holding a microphone and twisting her sexy waist, singing her most famous classic song "Like a Virgin", her eyes almost popped out.
Madonna, who is not yet thirty years old, is really fucking... Enchanting... Provoke the fire!
Wang Lei tried hard to think about Madonna, who was in her fifties in her previous life, and finally suppressed her anger, otherwise she would be ugly when she appeared.
No wonder Madonna will become an unparalleled super diva in the eighties and nineties, her capital is indeed very sufficient, whether it is her voice or her angry figure, even a reborn man like my brother who is only interested in oriental women is almost moved......
Madonna only sang on stage for five minutes, but the atmosphere was so hot that the host of the boxing scene couldn't suppress it.
Looking at this crazy atmosphere, I don't know if I thought this was Madonna's solo concert!
Fortunately, the host was very shrewd, and in a few words, he pulled the topic to the two protagonists of today's boxing match, and pulled the hearts of the audience back from Madonna.
"Now I have one of the protagonists of today's fight, who is 18 years old and five months old, 1.78 meters tall and weighs 149 pounds, who has participated in seven professional boxing fights, with a record of 7 wins and 7 KOs, won the WBC and WBA welterweight double boxing belt, and the first Chinese boxing champion in history, Lei Wang ......."
With the introduction of the host, Wang Lei appeared in a red shirt with the support of Cruise, Chekov, Sadler, Ou Yangming, bodyguard Neeson and masseuse Amanda.
Wang Lei was a little depressed, because of the insistence of his opponent Benitez's agent, although Wang Lei was already a double boxing champion, he still played first as a challenger in this match.
No way, who made Benitez debut earlier than him, became famous earlier, and even won the boxing championship belt four times, once won three levels of boxing titles, and became the fifth king of the middleweight division!
Playing first as a challenger, coupled with Madonna's singing before the game, he couldn't achieve an eye-catching effect no matter what tricks he played at the appearance ceremony. Therefore, under the persuasion of coach Sadler and agent Arum, Wang Lei once again canceled the tricks prepared for the appearance ceremony in advance, and honestly played in a normal state.
Fortunately, the audience was very face-saving, and they applauded and cheered one after another, which made the atmosphere very warm.
The atmosphere intensified as Puerto Rican champion Wilfried Benitez came out from the blue position with a record of 49-4-1 and 30 KOs. The applause and cheers sounded louder than when Wang Lei appeared.
The change in applause and cheers showed that in the hearts of the fans, Benitez, the former three-division champion, is much more popular than Wang Lei, the new champion.
Wang Lei's face suddenly looked bad!
Standing in the ring, face to face after seeing Benitez who took off his robe, revealing a slightly dark skin, who seemed to be two centimeters taller than him, but looked a little lean, and also had a mustache under his nose, Wang Lei wanted to immediately punch the opponent in the face.
However, Wang Lei did not forget the warning of coach Sadler and suppressed his impulse.
After the referee finished talking nonsense and checked the gloves, brackets and shorts of the two, the fight finally began.
As soon as the bell rang, Wang Lei quickly approached Benitez and tentatively threw a jab.
Benitez sideways his head dodged Wang's jab and landed a jab at the same time.
Benitez's jab seemed to be more standard and aggressive than Wang's, and his arm seemed to be a little longer than Wang's, so the jab almost hit Wang.
Fortunately, Wang Lei's reaction has been superb, and he dodged Benitez's jab with a single back.
Benitez lowered his upper body and threw another punch.
This punch is still a front hand fist, but it is a straight punch, which is much more powerful than a jab, and the part of the attack is Wang Lei's abdomen.
Because he has to do thousands of sit-ups every day, and he has also practiced the relationship between iron plate bridge and leg flexion and extension, Wang Lei's abdominal resistance is very strong, even Foreman's heavy punches can withstand it. However, Wang Lei didn't want to give Benitez points for no reason, and still avoided Benitez's punch.
Then Wang Lei punched back.
Benitez dodged and fired back.
Benitez has flexible footwork, constantly moving in the game, and often holding his arms high in front of him, and will use his arms to protect his head when facing Wang Lei's attack, only exposing a slit to observe, and immediately punching back at the first opportunity.
And when Wang Lei attacked him in the abdomen, Benitez would choose to bend down, his arms still protected in front of him. This gave Wang Lei a feeling that a mouse was pulling a turtle and had no idea where to start.
After half a round, Wang Lei's fists basically landed on Benitez's arms, and none of them hit Benitez in the head or chest and abdomen.
Worthy of being a master of defense, this kind of almost turtleshell-like defense is a headache.
However, Wang Lei's thoughts are different from ordinary people, he doesn't think that you have to hit the head or chest and abdomen to attack the vital point, he thinks that the effect of hitting the arm is the same.
Although you can't score points by hitting your arm, if you hit it hard enough and beat Benitez's arm swollen or even scrapped, it will be equivalent to unloading Benitez's weapon, and then Benitez will become meat on the board and be cut by himself!
Wang Lei, who had this idea, ignored Benitez's defense and attacked fiercely, and a pair of fists continued to smash Benitez's arm in front of him, as if he was hitting a sandbag.
Benitez was smashed backwards, retreating to the rope and struggling to resist with his back against the rope, occasionally punching back.
However, in the eyes of the audience, Benitez is in absolute disadvantage, because this round of the game is basically Wang Lei's attack, and his fists are constantly smashing Benitez, although he smashed his arm, but the momentum looks very scary.
As a result, viewers who bought Benitez to win because of Ben Weston's analysis couldn't help but worry.
Could it be that Ben Wisen is out of the way or talking nonsense, and Benitez will be knocked out in a round or two, just like Wang Lei's previous opponents?
Fortunately, Benitez did not disappoint them, although he fell behind, he survived the first round and was not knocked down by Wang Lei.
When he returned to the blue position and sat down to rest, Benitez couldn't help but gasp, quickly asked the masseur to massage his arm, and said to his coach Teddy Atlas with a wry smile: "The Chinese kid is crazy, he keeps hitting my arm, and my arm is numb, if he is allowed to play like this for two or three rounds, my arm will probably be useless!" ”
Teddy Atlas frowned and proposed, "You move as much as you can, punch back every chance you get, and don't forget the style I designed for you." It is impossible for a Chinese kid to attack for two or three rounds in a row like this, and he will soon run out of stamina if he fights like this, and then the advantage will be on your side! ”
"I hope so!" Bertster's words sounded a little unconfident.
On the other side, Sadler said to Wang Lei: "Lei, fight well, and fight like this in the next round, but pay attention to the distribution of physical strength, don't run out of physical strength before knocking down the opponent!" ”
Wang Lei said: "Don't worry, Sadler, you don't know me, like the attack just now, I can't exhaust my strength after fighting twelve rounds in a row!" ”
"Very well, just let those who think you lack energy show and surprise them! Be careful, though, don't be as careless as you were in the last fight, and don't forget your left hook! ”
"Don't worry, I'll keep it in mind!"
The bell rang for the second round, and Wang Lei and Benitez took the court again.
Wang Lei still took the initiative to attack, and Benitez still kept moving, as if he was competing with Wang Lei's footwork, and took Wang Lei to keep spinning in circles in the ring.
Half a minute later, Benitez turned to Wang Lei's left side and threw a series of punches at Wang.
Sure enough, Benitez learned the routine of Marlon Starlin, Wang Lei's opponent in the last game, and spared Wang Lei's left side attack.
However, Wang Lei landed a left hook.
The fist flew through Benitez's arm like a hook of fire and smashed into Benitez's cheek.
Benitez was startled, reacted very quickly and threw his head back, not being hit by Wang Lei's left hook, but the gloves still brushed Benitez's face.
Beniteston felt hot on his face, but he was scratched by Wang Lei's punch.
(Two chapters of 6,500 words completed, thank you for the rewards, it's inconvenient to thank you one by one, but I remember each of you in my heart, thank you!) )