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The U.S. media is divided in opinion, and there is a lot to say.

Some people think that Wang Lei is too arrogant and disrespectful to his predecessors. After all, Wilfred Benitez debuted more than a decade before him, and was already the youngest lightweightweight champion in boxing history ten years ago.

There are also people who believe that Wang Lei is not Benitez's opponent, and that his "wild words" at the pre-match press conference are a sign of weakness and a bluff. It was Ben Wesson of The New York Times who insisted on this view.

Puerto Rican-born Wilfred Benitez is no ordinary person, he won the 140-pound super lightweight championship at the age of seventeen in '76, and then won the 147-pound and 154-pound boxing crowns, and he has fought almost all the welterweight and super welterweight powerhouses, and has fought the other three of the four kings of the middleweight division except Hagler, and Leonard was knocked down at the end of fifteen rounds and six seconds, and he fought with Hearns for fifteen rounds and lost by fifteen rounds. The battle with Robert Duran defeated Durán by points.

It is precisely because of such outstanding results that he is recognized as the fifth heavenly king whose strength can be compared with Leonard and other four heavenly kings.

At the beginning of last year, Benitez was the 154-pound super welterweight champion and was originally planning to move up to 160-pound middleweight to challenge Hagler. But things didn't turn out for him, and Benitez suffered an unexpected injury while training, spent almost three months in the hospital, and after his comeback, he lost weight and had to return to 147 pounds to fight, which allowed him to defeat the first three-time champion in welterweight history, Donald Currie, to become the IBF welterweight champion.

Benitez had no plans to fight Marlon Starling in a welterweight unification fight, and his plan was to give up the IBF welterweight belt and gain weight back to the 154-pound super welterweight division, but Wang Lei's strong rise to defeat Marlon Starling with lightning speed and challenged him.

Benitez is a man with a more arrogant personality, and if he were challenged by another fighter, he might ignore it, but Wang Lei is different.

Although Wang Lei has been in the professional boxing world for a short time, he is super popular, and has also created a myth, less than a year after entering the professional boxing world, he became the boxing champion after only seven fights.

Wang Lei's previous record was that of Leon Spinks, a gold medalist in the heavyweight category at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

Leon Spinks had only eight fights in the 13 months since he turned professional, and he qualified to challenge then-boxing champion Ali and unexpectedly defeated Ali to cause one of the biggest upsets in boxing history. Although just six months later, Spinks returned the crown and honor to Ali, becoming the shortest person in boxing history to hold a heavyweight title, but he still made a name for himself.

Wang Lei's achievements are obviously more remarkable than Leon Spinks, although Wang Lei did not win the Olympic boxing gold medal, but won the gold medal in the World Amateur Boxing Championships, but the opponents after entering the professional boxing world are not particularly famous powerhouses, Marlon Starling's fame is more heaven and earth than Ali, but Wang Lei's record is terrifying.

Whether it's 45 amateur fights or seven professional fights, all of them have been won by knockouts.

And none of the longest fights lasted more than three rounds!

Although there are many well-known fighters who have a better record than Wang Lei when they first entered the professional boxing world, there are many who have knocked out their opponents in the first 10 or even 20 fights. For example, Tyson, the new heavyweight champion, won 25 fights by knockout before defeating Trevor Burbick to claim the WBC heavyweight title last November, and most of them were knocked out within a round.

Benitez, on the other hand, had a 38-0-1 record before the defeat to Leonard.

Compared with the professional record, Wang Lei's record of 7 fights and 7 KO wins is really nothing, but compared to the amateur record, no one can match.

The entire history of boxing with an amateur record of winning all knockouts is probably unprecedented.

Although Wang Lei only fought 45 amateur fights, which is a bit less than other boxing champions who have fought hundreds of amateur fights at every turn, his all-knockout record is still amazing.

After all, the rules of amateur boxing are different from professional boxing, and the knockout rate is very low.

Because of Wang Lei's super popularity and Chinese identity, Benitez could not avoid Wang Lei's challenge, otherwise he would be considered afraid of Wang Lei.

After a clever provocation by Wang's agent, Arum and instigation of his own Kiki, Biyang Cayton, Benitez finally agreed to stay in the welterweight division and accept Wang's challenge.

However, in terms of appearance fees, Benitez refused to be lower than Wang Lei.

Benitez has won three divisions of boxing titles, and his popularity is no less than that of Wang Lei. Even if Wang Lei has the bonus of being a screenwriter and a fiction writer, in the eyes of most fans, Wang Lei's status is still far inferior to that of Benitez, the middleweight fifth heavenly king.

Arum didn't insist on this, and after the two sides discussed, the combined appearance fee of the two was as high as 13 million US dollars.

Wang Lei's appearance fee has risen to $6 million, while Benitez's appearance fee is $7 million.

Although it is not as good as the appearance fee of the fight between Leonard and Hagler, it is not lower than the appearance fee of the other two kings of the middleweight division.

Ben Whistleson spoke in The New York Times about the pair's appearances, once again insisting that Wang Lei would definitely lose to Benitez.

He also announced three reasons why Wang Lei would lose to Benitez:

First, Wang Lei lacks physical strength and can only play three rounds, and after three rounds, he will lose his advantage;

second, Wang Lei is arrogant and prone to make the mistake of underestimating the enemy;

Thirdly, Benitez is a master of defense, and his style of play is compatible with Wang Lei's attacking style of play.

Ben Whyson concluded by asserting that Benitez would defeat Wang Lei in six rounds, with a maximum of eight rounds.

Ben Whistleson's analysis is marketable, affecting not only fans but also Atlantic City's leading companies.

Although Benitez is strong, not many people think that he will definitely lose to Wang Lei, but due to the impact of last year's injury and relegation game, the odds offered by ** company to the two are not much different.

But as soon as Ben Waskson's two analysis articles in the sports section of the New York Times came out, Atlantic City** immediately adjusted the odds, with Benister winning at 1.6 to 1, Wang Lei winning at 2.8 to 1, and 12 to 1 for a draw.

Obviously, under the influence of Ben Waskson's two analytical articles, Atlantic City** is more optimistic about Benist beating Wang Lei to win.

After Wang Lei saw this odds, he couldn't help but want to invest $1 million to buy himself to win.

But after thinking about it, I still gave up.

1 to 2.8, winning is only 2.8 million US dollars, less than half of his appearance fee. But if you invest too much, it will definitely attract the attention of the company, and the odds will be adjusted at that time, not to mention, maybe the boxing organization will investigate itself.

What's more, Wang Lei is not 100% sure that he will be able to defeat Benitez.

Even if Ali and Tyson are both defeated by others, Wang Lei doesn't think that he is really invincible in the welterweight division.

Since the pre-fight press conference, Wang Lei has watched Benitez's boxing match tape with Sadler every day in addition to training at the Sadler Boxing Gym.

Benitez is 28 years old, a famous boxing champion who won the championship at the age of 17 and a half, and has been fighting professionally for 11 years.

Wang Lei and Sadler first watched all the tapes of Benitez's professional fights, and then selected a few classic fights to watch over and over again.

For example, the tapes of Benitez's defeats to Leonard and Hernes and the points win over Duran.

The three tapes were watched more than five times by Wang Lei and Sadler, trying to find Benitez's weaknesses.

It turned out that Benitez had few weaknesses.

(Damn, I almost couldn't finish today's update!) Thankfully, two chapters are complete! ）