Chapter 221: Tyson and Foreman's Unification Battle (1)
Before the end of April, the qualifiers for the second edition of the "M-1 Competition" also came to a successful conclusion, and the list of 32 official participants was as follows:
Last year's champion, seeded Scott;
last year's runner-up, seeded player Liu Wenlong;
Huang Shengtian, a gang kung fu master from California;
Keck, a veteran from Washington state;
Mark Smithing, a freak from New York State;
Frankie Benson, a casino bodyguard from Nevada;
Wrestling star Kane Shamrock from Utah;
Joseph Rauch, Montana;
Anthony Pitt, a cowboy from Texas;
Steve Ben from New Mexico;
Vincent Abruzz, Minnesota;
Wade Bagwell, Michigan;
William Berwick, Indiana;
from G. Hawkes, Florida;
from Lincoln Kneap, Kansas;
Mitchell Mueller from Pennsylvania;
Will Watson, Mississippi;
George Bean, Kentucky;
Grant Dalton, North Carolina;
Nick Evans from Hawaii;
Aoio Uehara from Japan;
Hiromoto, a warrior monk from the Shaolin Temple in Japan;
Shi Zhengfang, a warrior monk from the Shaosi Forest in the mainland;
Lin Xiongzhen from Taiwan Island;
Kim Jun-sung from South Korea;
Tony Bell from France;
World Karate Champion Andy Haag from Switzerland;
Alexander Karrelin from Russia;
Peter Aziz from the Netherlands;
Germaine Hughes from Kenya, Africa;
Rexon Gracie from Brazil;
Hugo Marazzi from Mexico. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
To be honest, most of these lists are ...... Haven't heard of it!
To Wang Lei's surprise, in addition to the top 16 players of the "M-1 Competition" last year, in addition to the champions and runners-up seeds Scott and Liu Wenlong, only Peter Aziz and Germain Hughes passed the qualifiers, and all the others were eliminated.
What does this mean, it shows that the quality of the players participating in the "M-1 competition" today is much better than last year.
Moreover, there was a hodgepodge of members, and even people from the mainland, Taiwan Island and Bangzi Country participated.
Wang Lei originally asked Ou Yangmingbao to send an invitation post to the sports associations in the mainland and Taiwan Island with a try-and-see attitude, but he didn't really expect these two places to send people to participate. As a result, these two places gave him a surprise.
After the surprise, I couldn't cry or laugh, the mainland actually sent a Shaolin monk?
Do the people of the Mainland Sports Association understand the nature of the "M-1 Competition", and do they not think that it is a performance competition with oil hammer and chest stones?
Actually sent a Shaolin monk?
Interpretation of the square?
A guy who has never heard of it at all!
Is this a real Shaolin boxing master or a hard qigong practitioner? Or is it the hyped first Shaolin warrior monk like "Yilong" in the original timeline?
It's a pity that there is not much information about Shi Zhengfang sent by the Mainland Suspension Association, Wang Lei only knows that he is twenty-five years old this year, he grew up in Shaolin Temple since he was a child, and he has practiced several Shaolin Kung Fu, and he has nothing else to do, and he doesn't even bother to write down what Shaolin Kung Fu he is practicing.
However, a photo of Shi Zhengfang was attached to the information, which looked like a bald head with a very strong appearance and bronzed skin.
Judging by his height and physique, he is at least 1.85 meters tall and weighs 90 kilograms, which is considered a heavyweight.
Well, this Shi Zhengfang from the Shaolin Temple in the mainland may not look like a showmanship, and the first round will let him play against the warrior monk Haoyuan from the Shaolin Temple in Japan.
Anyway, it's all Shaolin Temple, just see which one is more powerful?
The monk who made it to the top 16 can only leave one, and if his strength is not good, he will be out!
After looking at the list of these 32 players, Wang Lei no longer plans to pit strong players like Keck and Mark Smith in the first round.
He decided to play the strong and the weak against each other in the first round, as he did last year, and strive to eliminate all the weak in the first round.
In this way, the second and third rounds will become very exciting and suspenseful!
So Wang Lei quickly drew out a list of players he was more optimistic about and hoped to pass the first round, and then handed it to Ou Yangming.
With Ou Yangming's methods comparable to that of a magician, he was already familiar with selecting a weaker opponent for these players at the draw ceremony, and there would definitely be no problem.
The official competition of the "M-1 Tournament" is still not held until October 1, and there are still five months to go.
In May, there were only three things that Wang Lei was most concerned about.
The first thing to do is naturally the heavyweight unification bout between Tyson and Foreman on May 5, as the winner of this bout will be his first opponent after being promoted to heavyweight.
The second thing is the release of new movies.
The action movie "Life and Death Fight", which Wang Lei wrote and invested in Lin Linglong, has completed post-production and has set a release date.
It was on May 6 that Tyson and Foreman's heavyweight unification battle ended.
In addition, Wang Lei has another movie that has also completed post-production and will be released in the summer vacation.
This movie is "Jurassic Park".
Since investing in James Cameron's "Terminator 2" last year, Wang Lei has contacted ILM through Cameron to co-produce "Jurassic Park" with him.
"Jurassic Park" invested a total of $80 million, Wang Lei invested $40 million privately, and the other $40 million was invested by Chand Cohen.
Of the $80 million, only $20 million was spent on filming, and the remaining $60 million was used for special effects production at ILM.
Wang Lei directly drew the living dinosaur images in "Jurassic Park" on the original timeline, which gave Industrial Light & Magic a direction and was able to speed up production.
Wang Lei, the director of "Jurassic Park," did not invite Steven Spielbert, who was a member of Universal and a competitor to Copernicus Pictures.
Wang Lei still asked Brian Yoz, who has always been a pleasure to work with him, to direct "Jurassic Park". Anyway, Wang Lei directly followed the storyboard script created by "Jurassic Park" on the original timeline, and as long as he shoots in strict accordance with the storyboard script, he can shoot the effect on the original timeline.
Brian Yoz is a director with no "ambitions", and his films have always been shot according to a storyboard script, and he rarely makes his own changes.
So Wang Lei is very relieved of Brian Yoz.
"Jurassic Park", which began production in June last year, was not completed until March this year.
Wang Lei watched the finished film and found that the effect was more realistic and perfect than that of the original timeline.
Wang Lei is confident that this "Jurassic Park" can break the box office record of the original timeline, and the box office income plus the profits from the surrounding areas may be able to earn 500 million US dollars at that time.
In order to avoid affecting the box office revenue of "Life and Death Fight", the release date of "Jurassic Park" is the end of June.
The third event was the release of the M-1 fighting game.
Last year's M-1 fighting game led by Mike Mowami and Alan Adhan is coming to an end.
Wang Lei tried the game a few times, and found that the effect was no worse than the original timeline of the three-D fighting game "Iron Fist" launched by the Japanese, Wang Lei decided to give the game as a gift to the audience who bought tickets to watch the game when the second "M-1 Competition" was held on October 1 this year.
Wait until these viewers have tried the game and helped promote it before taking the opportunity to launch it.
Wang Lei believes that with the fans cultivated by last year's "M-1 Tournament", the "M-1" fighting game will definitely be able to achieve sales that are no worse than the "Tekken" series and "Street Fighter" series of the Japanese.
If the M-1 fighting game is successful, the "M-1 Tournament" will become a well-known brand once and for all. The results of the next few editions will be better and better, the popularity will be higher and higher, and the profit income will also be higher and more stable.
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May 5, Madison Square Garden, New York.
Tyson's heavyweight unification battle with Foreman has finally begun.
Wang Lei came to New York on the first day with Sadler Foreman and others, accompanied by Zhou Yuwei.
Wang Lei got two tickets from Arum and sat in the audience with Zhou Yuwei to watch the game.
Madison Square Garden was packed, and despite the ridiculously expensive tickets for this game, all the seats were still full.
It seems that the fans are looking forward to this fight!
All fans can't wait to find out who is the true strongest champion in the heavyweight division, the undisputed champion.
I want to know who will be Wang Lei's opponent after being promoted to heavyweight, and whether Tyson can defeat Foreman to complete revenge?
A heavyweight bout that is so important and has received the attention of almost every fan force around the globe is sure to have an appetizer before it starts.
The appetizer has a total of three bouts, which are featherweight, lightweight, and heavyweight, all of which are four-round cushion matches.
The contestants are also newcomers who have just entered the professional boxing world.
Wang Lei, the fighter who played in the first two cushion matches, was unfamiliar with him, but when the third heavyweight cushion match began, Wang Lei found that he recognized one of the fighters.
Eric Ish, nicknamed "Cream Bean", is the famous four-round king in the original timeline.
He is only 1.82 meters tall, but he weighs more than 400 pounds, or more than 190 kilograms.
Because he is too fat, his physical strength is consumed faster than the average person. So even though his strength is good, the knockout rate is very high, and many fans believe that he has the ability to become a boxing champion, and even fight Tyson, he can only fight four rounds of mat matches.
Because of his pleasing looks, his bouts are very popular with fans, and he is very popular in the four-round mat bout. Later, he even entered MMA and played mixed martial arts competitions, and his record was also good.
Eric's opponent is a 235-pound black fighter.
At 235 pounds, that's a big guy in the heavyweight class, at least bigger than Tyson's. What's more, the black fighter is still 1.90 meters tall, but he looks too thin when he stands with Eric Ish, who weighs 400 pounds.
The black fighter threw quick punches, starting with jabs and right hooks, almost all of which landed on Eric Ishie's face and body, making Eric Ishie's fat tremble.
Eric Ishie didn't dodge, or he couldn't dodge at all, he could only stiffen.
Fortunately, the thick fat made Eric Ishie very strong in his fighting ability, and although the black boxer made Eric Ishie's fat tremble, he couldn't knock Ishie down.
Eric Ishch threw a right hook and just hit the black boxer, who fell like a downed tree.
It's only been a minute and a half before Eric Ishie throws that punch! (To be continued.) )