Chapter 37: The Wonderful Performance Before the Opening (The First Shift on Chinese New Year's Eve.)

Although Los Angeles is 1,500 kilometers away from San Francisco, it is also a California city like San Francisco, and it is one of the cities with the largest number of Chinese Americans. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It seems that before the 90s, the number of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles was close to half a million.

Compared to Michael Nunn from Kentucky, Los Angeles fans are more likely to think of San Francisco-born Wang as part of their family. On the night of the match, more than 10,000 Los Angeles fans came to the Great Western Forum Arena to support Wang, including nearly 5,000 local Chinese in Los Angeles.

It is estimated that more than half of these 5,000 Chinese may not really like to watch boxing matches, but they only come to the court because of Wang Lei's Chinese identity.

The Great Western Forum was the home arena of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers until the Staples Center was built a decade later, and it was the longest-running arena for the Lakers. One of the NBA's most famous superstars of the 80s, "Magic" Elvin Johnson, spent his best years in this arena.

In addition to NBA basketball games, the 17,500-capacity Grand Western Forum arena also hosts entertainment such as rock and concerts, and of course, boxing matches.

Wang Lei made some tricks for today's appearance ceremony, he asked Ou Yangming to invite the lion dance team in Los Angeles' Chinatown, changed the music background to the most familiar drum music "General Order" in Chinese, and then let the lion dance team appear first, and he followed behind the two dancing lions.

The people who accompanied Wang Lei were no longer Sadler or Chekov and others, but were replaced by two big beauties.

One is his full-time masseuse, Amanda, and the other is his sister-in-law, Zhou Yuqiang.

The reason why Zhou Yuqiang appeared in Los Angeles is that she collaborated with several college classmates to shoot a movie, "Midnight Bell" written by Wang Lei has been completed, and she has also signed a release agreement with Hollywood's Columbia Pictures, and is planning to hold a premiere at Hollywood's famous Chinese Theater tonight.

When "Midnight Bells" was released during the Christmas season, Columbia Pictures was obviously in the water.

It's a pity that Wang Lei can't do anything about it, because Zhou Yuqiang found a collaborator who is Chand Cohen, the son of Columbia Pictures founder Jack Cohen.

Chand Cohen, a classmate of Zhou Yuqiang at Harvard Law School, obviously wanted to pursue Zhou Yuqiang, and in order to curry favor with Zhou Yuqiang, he not only persuaded his father to invest eight million dollars in the filming of "Midnight Bell". also invited the director and filming team from Columbia Pictures, and let Zhou Yuqiang be the heroine, and afterwards, despite the opposition of the distribution department of Columbia Pictures, insisted on setting the release date of "Midnight Bell" on the Christmas schedule.

If it weren't for the fact that the director who was hired to shoot the film too seriously, delayed filming for almost six months, and spent a lot of time in post-production, Chand Cohen might have made "Midnight Bell" to be released in the summer.

And Wang Lei's idea is to release it on Halloween.

It's a pity that because of the director's shooting speed, neither of them succeeded.

Wang Lei has seen this Chand Cohen, and thinks that this white young man is good, he does not have the bad habits and style of the rich second generation or the son of a gentleman, but he is a little simple, and when facing Zhou Yuqiang, he behaves like an innocent little student who has never been in love, and his shy and stammering appearance makes Wang Lei a little anxious for him.

Because Wang Lei's second professional boxing match was the same day as the premiere of "Midnight Bell", and the location was also very close, Zhou Yuqiang, as the heroine, simply came to support Wang Lei first, and then went to the Chinese Theater in Hollywood to attend the premiere after Wang Lei's match.

Wang Lei, as the screenwriter of "Midnight Bell", did not ask for the script payment, but Zhou Yuqiang won a 10% box office share for him and Columbia Pictures.

This is a treatment that only Hollywood's top screenwriters can enjoy. The main reason for the negotiation to be successful is that Chand Cohen is very brain-dead. In addition, no one in Columbia Pictures thought that "Midnight Bell" could get a high box office, and they didn't want to offend the prince, so they agreed.

can get 10% of the box office share, Wang Lei naturally has to go to the Chinese Theater after the game.

Because Zhou Yuqiang came to cheer, Wang Lei changed the order of appearance, let the lion dance team open the way in front, Zhou Yuqiang and Amanda, two beauties representing China and the West respectively, followed him in elegant and charming evening dresses, Chekov and Cruise, two muscular men, behind him, bodyguard Neeson and nurse Ou Yangming. As for coach Sadler, he didn't join in the excitement and walked at the back very consciously.

Wang Lei, who appeared like this, immediately attracted the attention of the audience.

When he came to the boxing ring, Wang Lei took off his robe, held the boxing ring rope with his hand, and suddenly turned over, and he fell into the ring with a fight.

The audience in the audience was in an uproar when they saw this, and they applauded Wang Lei's wonderful performance.

Wang Lei's performance is not over yet, after getting into the ring, Wang Lei did not do the usual warm-up movements, but played a set of boxing.

According to the ten true forms of Xingyi Fist, I extracted some routines that seemed to be relatively simple, but very imposing, and the movements were also very exciting and beautiful.

Wang Lei played very fast, his movements were very sharp and beautiful, and his punches and kicks could produce an amazing sound of breaking the air, which made the audience a little frightened.

In less than a minute, Wang Lei finished a set of punches that he named "Ten Shaped Dragon Fist", and then asked Chekov to stand in the middle of the ring with a thick boxing target, and he suddenly exerted force with his right fist an inch away from the target.

Chekov was beaten back three steps and sat down on the chair that had been placed in the corner of the ring.

"Inch fist!"

"Bruce Lee?"

The audience couldn't help but exclaim in surprise when they saw this.

That's right, Wang Lei performed the same boxing performance that Bruce Lee performed at the opening ceremony of the 1964 Long Beach Karate Tournament - a close-range punch knocked a strong man holding a target backwards to the chair behind him.

It has only been more than ten years since the death of the kung fu superstar Bruce Lee, who was once popular all over the world and made Westerners know "Chinese Kung Fu", and his influence on Hollywood and the entire United States has never weakened.

These people originally thought that since Bruce Lee's death, no one could perform "Inch Boxing", but they didn't expect Wang Lei to copy it, and he still wore boxing gloves to fight Inch Boxing.

Many viewers quickly thought of Wang Lei's interview report once published in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Originally, many viewers were skeptical of Wang Lei's interview report, but after watching Wang Lei's performance today, they all dispelled their doubts.

The performance of less than two minutes has allowed Wang Lei to prove that he really knows Chinese kung fu and can also "inch boxing".

Simon Neil's interview with Wang Lei in the San Francisco Chronicle is obviously not an exaggeration, but an "honest" report.

In this way, Wang Lei is really likely to become a boxing champion......

Many viewers couldn't help but pay a moment of silence to Wang Lei's opponent Michael Nunn tonight.

Michael Nunn was soon on the pitch.

is a very ordinary appearance ceremony, after watching Wang Lei's wonderful appearance ceremony, the audience was not interested in Michael Nunn's appearance, not only did no one cheer, but they all sent Michael Nunn to the ring with a very "sympathetic" gaze.

Michael Nunn, who didn't see Wang Lei's appearance ceremony and performance, felt a little inexplicable, and couldn't help but shiver after getting into the ring.

Tonight's boxing live host wasn't Mike Baffel, so the opening commentary was a bit dull.

After the cookie-cutter ceremony, as soon as the bell rang, the game began.

Wang Lei's forehand jab stabbed Michael Nunn in the face like an arrow.

The speed scared Michael Nunn.

Michael Nunn's strength is a little stronger than Wang Lei's last opponent, Maurice Bloor, but he can't keep up with Wang Lei's speed, and he was stabbed in the face by Wang Lei's jab at the beginning.

As a last resort, Nunn started his running tactics and ran all over the ring.

The speed is comparable to that of the Olympic sprint champion, and Wang Lei's movement speed is a little unable to catch up.

Finally forced Michael Nunn into the corner of the ring, but was hugged by Michael Nunn.

Michael Nunn's coach probably watched the video of Wang Lei's amateur boxing match, and knew that Wang Lei had a trick to deal with hugging, so he designed a very special hugging tactic for Michael Nunn.

Overhead cuddles!

When Michael Nunn's long arms hugged Wang Lei, his bare head pressed down against Wang Lei's chin, and Wang Lei kept retreating, and he couldn't hit the close-range explosive punches.

After finding that this trick was effective, Michael Nunn kept using the running and overhead hugging tactics, and even hit Wang Lei's eyebrow corner headlong when he was rising, almost knocking Wang Lei's eyebrow corner into blood.

Nima, this guy is "Huo Lao Fox"!

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