Chapter 218: Tyson's Escape from Prison and Unification of the Welterweight Division

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Wang Lei has proven his strength, and almost everyone believes that his strength is invincible below the heavyweight level, and whoever fights him will only lose.

Knowing that he would lose a fight, he should theoretically avoid it, but Arum persuaded the current IBF champion Al Kohler to fight Wang Lei in a boxing match.

Whoever wins this game is the welterweight WBA and IBF double champion, no one believes that Al Kohler can beat Wang Lei, even if Al Kohler's agent and coach don't believe it, but Al Kohler was persuaded by Arum, not only agreed to play with Wang Lei, but also set the time on February 1, three days before the Chinese New Year.

At the press conference, Al Kohler swore to the media: "The king is very strong, but he is not a god, as long as he is not a god, he will have weaknesses, he may be defeated, and I will be the first to defeat him!" ”

Although Al Kohler said this with confidence, none of the media reporters in the audience believed him, and his expression was like that of an idiot who insisted on sending him to death even though he knew he was going to die.

A media reporter interviewed Arum and asked how much he paid Al Kohler for his appearance.

When they learned that the answer was $4 million, it dawned on the media reporter why Al Kohler was so "stupid" and insisted on being sent to death.

Sadly, Al Kohler is as much of a welterweight champion as Wang Lei, but he is not popular, and almost no one knows who he is, except for those veteran fans who really care about professional boxing.

No popularity means no audience and no appearance fee!

Prior to this, Al Kohler received the highest appearance fee of only $200,000.

Arum directly increased his appearance fee to twenty times!

No wonder Al Kohler knew that he would be defeated, but he was willing to fight Wang Lei!

For someone like Al Kohler, a boxing championship belt and honor could not be more important than money!

Wang Lei's appearance fee in this game is not very high, only 20 million US dollars, compared with the previous game, it has not increased but decreased.

This is also something that can't be helped, because no one thinks that Al Kohler can beat Wang Lei, and even the gambling company has not offered odds for this game, and Wang Lei's popularity alone can't make this game hot, resulting in a decrease in the audience, and even TV stations that are willing to buy TV rights are not willing to pay too much money.

Arum's promotion company didn't take the benefits of this match into account, they just wanted to unify Wang Lei in the welterweight division as soon as possible, so that Wang Lei could be promoted to heavyweight.

Only by moving up to the heavyweight division will Wang Lei have a large number of evenly matched opponents, which will make his fights much more appealing and maybe set record for ticket sales and ratings.

In order to unify Wang Lei in the welterweight division as soon as possible, after Arum "convinced" Al Kohler, he immediately "convinced" the welterweight WBC boxing champion Marvin Carmel to agree to fight Wang Lei in April or May.

This means that if nothing else, Wang Lei will be able to unify the welterweight division in the first half of '92 and then move up to the heavyweight division.

On February 1 of '92, Wang Lei's match against Al Kohler didn't attract much media attention, and the media focused more on another matter.

Tyson is out of prison!

Tyson, who was originally sentenced to three months in prison, was released early because of his good behavior, combined with the efforts of his lawyer and Don King, and was imprisoned for only 60 days.

After being released from prison, Tyson immediately held a press conference under the arrangement of Don King, at which Tyson admitted his mistake very "sincerely", saying that last time it was because he was affected by alcohol and mania that he did irrational things, and he was willing to apologize to the lady who was violated by him in person, and promised to quit drinking in the future, and see a psychiatrist again, and never make such mistakes again.

Probably because Tyson's attitude at the press conference was really "sincere", not only the media sang praises to him, saying that he would not change the money of the prodigal son, but even the lady who was violated by Tyson said to the media that he "forgiven" Tyson.

Of course, I don't know that everyone was deceived by Tyson's "performance", Wang Lei, who knew what kind of bird character Tyson was, could see at a glance that Tyson was acting, and the media that sang praises to Tyson were bribed by Don King, and I am afraid that the same is true of the lady who was violated by Tyson.

After all, Tyson was only imprisoned for two months, and he was imprisoned for three years in the original timeline, and he didn't see much change in him.

Immediately after the press conference, Don King approached Arum again to resume the match between Foreman and Tyson.

But Arum unexpectedly refused, saying that Tyson was no longer eligible to play with Foreman.

Because of his imprisonment, Tyson has been stripped of his WBO boxing championship belt, and at present, Tyson is empty-handed, and he is indeed not qualified to fight Foreman, who has three boxing championship belts in WBC, WBA and IBF.

Arum said: The opponent of Foreman's next game has been decided, that is, Wang Lei.

Foreman will rest well and maintain his form throughout the year, and when Wang Lei is promoted to heavyweight after unifying the welterweight division, he will fight him directly. Until then, Foreman will not accept anyone's challenge again.

Don Kim was dumbfounded!

Tyson, on the other hand, was so grumpy that he almost destroyed his villa and sports car again!

However, Don King is an old fox who is good at manipulating people's hearts after all, and he doesn't believe that Arum will really let Foreman not play for a whole year, just waiting for Wang Lei to be promoted.

Arum, an old fox who is not inferior to him in cunning, clearly wants to make him bleed!

Despite guessing Arum's intentions, Don King had to negotiate with Arum in order for Tyson to become the boxing champion again and become his cash cow.

After a week of negotiations, Don King finally "convinced" Arum to agree to Foreman and Tyson matching.

Don King paid a huge price for this!

Foreman's appearance fee reached an unprecedented $30 million, while Tyson's appearance fee was only half of Foreman's.

The money must be paid in full by Don King, and with the old fox overseer of Arum who is no less cunning than him, Don King certainly can't deduct his appearance fee like he did with his fighters, and must pay a lot of money to Foreman, and it can't be delayed.

The game is scheduled for May 5 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

And Arum also added an unviolable condition, no matter who wins or loses this match, the winner's next opponent must be Wang Lei, who has been promoted to heavyweight.

Arum is indeed a very shrewd agent, and under these conditions, whether Foreman can beat Tyson or not, he will not suffer.

Foreman won, and the benefits he got as an agent naturally went without saying.

In case Foreman unfortunately loses to Tyson, Tyson will have to fight Wang Lei in the next game, and he will have the same benefits.

Originally, Arum was cautious and very considerate of his fighters, but if he was replaced by another fighter who was promoted from welterweight to heavyweight, he would definitely not let him directly challenge Foreman and Tyson, the two top heavyweight champions.

But Wang Lei is different!

Because Arum has personally seen the actual combat exercises of Wang Lei and Foreman several times, it is not a one-sided actual combat exercise, but an evenly matched actual combat exercise, and sometimes Wang Lei can even have the upper hand.

Although it is just a combat practice and not a real boxing fight, with Arum's vision for many years, it can be seen that Forman is indeed doing his best, and Wang Lei definitely has the ability to match and even defeat Fuhrman.

This is still the situation that Wang Lei's weight has not been upgraded to the heavyweight level!

It is precisely because of Wang Lei's amazing performance that Arum believes that after he is promoted to the heavyweight division, he is definitely capable of fighting Foreman and Tyson.

As for whether the weight gain will affect Wang Lei's strength, Arum is not worried about it.

Over the past few years, Arum has witnessed Wang Lei fight his way from 147-pound welterweight to welterweight.

In less than five years, he has been promoted to six levels, and Wang Lei's strength has not only not been affected or repeated, but has become stronger and stronger!

This made Arum have to believe that Wang Lei, a yellow man, has a completely different physique from black and white fighters, and no matter whether he gains weight or loses weight, it has no effect on him.

The two matches, on February 1 and April 15, proved Arum's point.

Probably because the audience was not full, and the media's attention was taken away by Tyson's release from prison, Wang Lei did not retain his strength at all in the match with Al Kohler, let alone show mercy to his subordinates, the game only lasted less than two minutes, and Al Kohler, who said "big words" before the game, was knocked down by Wang Lei neatly and confiscated Al Kohler's IBF boxing championship belt.

On April 15, it took only half a minute for Ray to knock out Marvin Carmel in his match with welterweight WBC champion Marvin Carmel, easily confiscating his WBC belt.

As a result, since Holyfield, the three major organizations of the welterweight division have been unified by Wang Lei again, and Wang Lei has twenty boxing championship belts.

After defeating Marvin Carmel, Wang immediately announced in his post-fight press conference that he would no longer defend his title, that he would spend half a year gaining weight to move up to the heavyweight division, and that he would directly challenge the winner of the battle between Foreman and Tyson next year.

Both the media and fans were thrilled by the news.

Everyone believes that after Wang Lei is promoted to the heavyweight division next year, whether it is against Foreman or Tyson, it will be the most exciting and interesting match in the history of professional boxing, and ticket sales and ratings will definitely be explosive.

On May 5th, all the fans' eyes turned to Madison Square Garden in New York.

Everyone wants to know who Wang Lei's opponent will be next year?

Foreman or Tyson?

Some media have even made a special interview and investigation program for this purpose - who do you expect the Chinese kid to compete with next year? Foreman or Tyson? (To be continued.) )