Holyfield is a light heavyweight fighter, and although he didn't become a champion in the light heavyweight division, he unified the welterweight division with three belts. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 If he moves up to heavyweight in November and manages to beat Foreman, he will become a two-division triple crown champion in both welterweight and heavyweight, with six belts.

Although it is one level less than Wang Lei, in today's professional boxing world, the heavyweight boxing champion is the absolute protagonist. Although Wang Lei's three-class triple crown is more brilliant, because he is middleweight, he is definitely not as attractive as heavyweight.

In other words, if Holyfield succeeds in defeating Foreman in November this year, not to mention Sports Illustrated's Athlete of the Year, he will not have a share in Boxing Magazine's Fighter of the Year and the King of the Year's P4P.

Don't think it's impossible, Wang Lei Ke knows that Foreman fought with Holyfield in his previous life.

In his previous life, Holyfield jumped directly from welterweight to heavyweight, defeated Douglas, who defeated Tyson in an upset, and became the new heavyweight champion. And his first opponent to defend his title after becoming the new heavyweight king was Foreman.

Foreman, who had made a comeback at the time, was unstoppable and won 24 fights in a row, knocking out almost every one of them, and finally became the top challenger for a chance to challenge the new heavyweight king Holyfield. However, he was defeated by Holyfield on points, missing out on the heavyweight throne, and it was only three years before he challenged for the boxing title again.

Holyfield was able to defeat Foreman in his previous life, and he may be able to do it in this life.

If he succeeds, the Athlete of the Year and the King of the Year's P4P will definitely fall into his hands.

Wang Lei definitely didn't want to see this happen.

So he decided to do two things, first, let Sadler supervise Foreman's good training and not let him relax.

With Foreman's strength in this life, as long as he doesn't slacken in training, he may not be able to defeat Holyfield, and maybe he can be knocked out.

Second, in the second half of the year, challenge another opponent with strength and fame. It's better that this opponent is not as famous as Leonard.

Thomas Hearns, for example.

Nicknamed "The Cobra of the City," Thomas Hearns is not only one of the four middleweight kings on a par with Leonard, but although the youngest, two years younger than Leonard, he is the most accomplished of the four.

In Wang Lei's previous life, Hearns not only preceded Leonard and Duran, but also became the first fighter in boxing history to win a four-division title. He is also the first fighter in boxing history to win a five-division title.

In addition, Hearns has won the WBU and IBO 190-pound welterweight titles. Just because the WBU and IBO are not as good as the four major boxing organizations of the WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO, this title is not counted.

Otherwise, Hearns would be the first fighter in boxing history to win a six-division title.

This record was only achieved by Oscar De La Hoya and Filipino fighter Manny Paquin before Wang Lei's rebirth.

Wang Lei had read about Hearns in the newspapers and found that he had moved up to light heavyweight in March of the previous year and knocked out then-light heavyweight WBC champion Edrith to claim his title, before dropping to middleweight at the end of the year. Defeated the middleweight champion of the newly formed boxing organization WBO, nicknamed "The Hammer", and took away Roldán's WBO middleweight title. Although the path he followed was a little different from his previous life, he was able to win a five-division title.

After Hearns returned to the middleweight division to win the five-division boxing title, he was supposed to challenge Leonard, who won the middleweight championship belt in the WBC, WBA and IBF for defeating Hagler, but unfortunately Wang Lei took the lead and had to give up.

Two months before Wang Lei defeated Leonard to become a three-division triple crown, Hearns fought a WBO middleweight title defense against an unnamed fighter named Ian Barkley, only to be knocked out by a rough Barkley shock, stunned many fans who supported him.

Today, Hearns remains in the middleweight division. I'm thinking about a revenge rematch with Barkley.

But Wang Lei knows that this fighter named Ian Barkley has a rough technical record and a poor professional record, and his professional record in his previous life was 43 wins, 19 losses, 1 draw and 27 knockouts. It seems to be very mediocre, but it is very weird.

In his previous life, Hearns fought two fights with Barkley, losing both of them, and gave him the title to others, making Barkley, a mediocre man who crossed three divisions but failed to defend his title once.

Wang Lei intends to stop the revenge battle between Killnes and Barkley and let Kills fight him.

As long as he defeats Hernes, the former five-division champion, at the end of the year, let the media help hype it up. Even if Holyfield really beat Forman unexpectedly at the end of the year. The Athlete of the Year and the King of the Year-end P4P titles are not without a chance to earn them.

Wang Lei, who thought of this idea, immediately contacted Arum by phone.

Arum was quick to get back to him.

It's not good news, Hearns is bent on revenge with a rematch with Barkley, and he doesn't want to fight him for the time being.

Arum said: If you want to play against Hernes, you have to wait until next year!

This is not what Wang Lei wants. If Hearns still loses in the same way he did in his previous life when he fights Barkley again, his Godhead will be completely shattered, and there will be no point in fighting him again!

Defeating a king who has been defeated twice in a row by the same person and is suspected by fans that he is no longer strong, will only be ridiculed by the media, saying that he is bullying people!

What's more, Wang Lei wants to fight with Killnes this year.

After frowning and thinking for a long time. Wang Lei thought of another idea.

"Arum, can you arrange for Barkley to fight me? As soon as possible, it's best to arrange for us to fight within a month! ”

"Barkley, the boxing champion of the WBO organization, why would you pick him as an opponent?"

"Doesn't Hearns want revenge on Barkley in a rematch, if Barkley is defeated by me and doesn't have a WBO crown, how can he get revenge? Don't fight me yet! ”

"That's the idea you're hitting, can this be done? Why do you have to insist on fighting Hernes this year? ”

"I have my own reasons, Arum, please help arrange it. I know that with your abilities, it won't be difficult to arrange for me to fight Barkley! ”

"Well, since you asked for it, I'll give it a try!"

In less than three days, the match between Wang Lei and Barkley was scheduled to take place a month later on July 16 at the Caesars Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City.

Arum persuaded Barkley's agent to do it simply, it was to smash people with money.

Although Barkley defeated Hearns in an upset to become the middleweight champion of the newly formed WBO organization, his popularity is still super low, and not many fans have heard of him.

Although Barkley has played a lot of games, his appearance fee is basically only a few thousand to tens of thousands of dollars.

In the upset win over Hearns, Barkley only played $100,000, which was already the most expensive appearance fee in his career.

And Arum offered him a $2 million appearance fee, and Barkley and his agent were immediately intrigued.

Wang Lei has three middleweight belts in the WBC, WBA and IBF, and if he Barkley can also beat Wang Lei in an upset like Hearns, he Barkley will have four middleweight belts.

At that time, he Barkley will become an invincible super boxing champion, and maybe the appearance fee for another title defense will increase several times or even tenfold, as high as 20 million US dollars.

Thinking of this, Barkley and his agent were crazy, and they didn't think about whether this was a trap, so they immediately agreed to Arum and signed the agreement as quickly as possible, and then held a pre-game press conference with Wang Lei.

The media in the United States had not yet recovered from Wang Lei's victory over Leonard when they received the news that Wang Lei held another pre-match press conference.

All of them were stunned!

Wouldn't this Chinese kid get tired?

I've just played 12 rounds with Leonard, so it's time to pick the next opponent and hold a pre-fight press conference.

And the game was actually set for July 16, which is only a month before the game with Leonard.

Is this Chinese kid too belligerent or too energetic to vent, so he plays frequently?

Look at Leonard, who only fights once a year after becoming a boxing champion, and retires to rest at every turn.

He's a good guy, he's already an unprecedented three-level triple champion, and he's not satisfied with playing three or four matches a year.

I checked Wang Lei's chosen opponent, Ian Buckley.

It's a name that's unfamiliar to the media and a little familiar, and it took me a long time to realize that it was the guy who unexpectedly defeated Thomas Hearns in March this year to become the WBO middleweight champion.

Did the Chinese kid choose him as an opponent because he fell in love with the WBO's middleweight belt?

The full name of WBO is the World Boxing Organization, which is a professional boxing organization that split from the WBC World Boxing Council last year, headquartered in Puerto Rico, but the championship committee is in Miami, USA.

Because it was only established last year, the organization has basically not organized a few boxing championship fights, and there are few boxing champions. Hearns was the first champion in the WBO middleweight division, but he was defeated by Barkley in less than four months to take the crown.

The WBO is a newly formed boxing organization, so the match between Hearns and Barkley did not have many spectators and did not have much media attention, but one of the four kings along with Leonard, Duran and Hagler, nicknamed "Cobra" and "The Killer", was beaten by the unknown Barkley, which still caused a sensation.

So Ian Buckley's name was remembered by the media.

Although Barkley beat Hearnes in an upset, no one would think that Barkley's strength was really above Hearnes, and Gains' defeat was definitely an accident.

Therefore, no one will think that Barkley can be Wang Lei's opponent. (To be continued.) )