Chapter 1: The Down-and-Out Coach
"Bang ......"
Wang Lei's fist kept swinging, and it landed heavily on the sandbag in front of him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The sandbag weighing one hundred and fifty pounds was struck and trembled, making a terrifying sound.
"Four hundred and ninety-one, four hundred and ninety-two, four hundred and ninety-three...... Five hundred! ”
After five hundred blows, Wang Lei stopped, gasping for breath, sweat on his face like rain.
"Kid, it's not right for you to punch a punching bag like this!" Sadler, the owner of the boxing gym, walked over and pointed out Wang Lei's mistake with a smile: "Your body is too stiff, especially your shoulders, you must relax before fighting." Your posture and steps are not right, your center of gravity is too forward, your knees must be bent, and your heels must be slightly raised... Also, if you breathe at the wrong pace, you'll get tired if you don't last more than a round! ”
Wang Lei took the towel hanging next to the sandbag, wiped the sweat from his face, and replied: "Sadler, I'm just exercising, and I'm not really practicing boxing." ”
Sadler said: "Yes, your physique is very good, and your explosiveness is also very strong, and there are few yellow people who have such physique and explosiveness as you." If you practice boxing seriously, you may have the opportunity to fight professionally, and it is not impossible to win the championship, of course, provided that you have a good coach to guide you. If you want, I can be your coach, teach you boxing, and introduce you to the world of professional boxing. Will you, King? ”
"Boxing pro?"
Wang Lei looked at Sadler in a daze when he heard this, and then shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, Sadler, I thank you for your kindness." But I don't want to box, my dream is to go to Hollywood, to be an actor or a director! ”
"Oh, do you want to learn from Bruce Lee?" Sadler shook his head and said, "Wang, it's not that I look down on you, your ideals are very unrealistic, there is only one Bruce Lee in this world, and there will be no second." Although the United States talks about racial equality and freedom all day long, discrimination is everywhere. Hollywood, in particular, is one of the most racist places. Even Bruce Lee couldn't survive in Hollywood back then, and it wasn't until he went to Hong Kong that he achieved great success and got in touch with Hollywood. But this does not depend on his acting skills or connections, but on his kung fu. Wang, do you know kung fu? ”
"Kung Fu, I really know. It's just that I haven't practiced it seriously! Wang Lei replied.
Brother has indeed learned kung fu, whether it is Xingyi Boxing Baguazhang or Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, he has learned it. It's a pity that I haven't practiced seriously, but I can't do it, and I can't fight.
Sadler choked for a moment before asking, "Do you practice kung fu now?" ”
Wang Lei said: "I only practice after running in the morning and before going to bed at night. I know I'm not going to be able to get to Bruce Lee, but I'm only sixteen now, so I'm still young, and I can take my time, stick with it for three or five years, and sooner or later Hollywood will accept it. ”
Wang Lei thought to himself: Brother is also a reborn person, he watched so many movies and American dramas in his previous life, and spent three to five years learning to write scripts and acting, and he didn't believe that he couldn't conquer Hollywood!
Sadler was speechless for a long time, and said without giving up: "You can fight boxing first, with your talent and my guidance, you can become a professional boxer in less than three years, and I can make you a world boxing champion in five years." When the time comes, you enter Hollywood as the world boxing champion, and Hollywood will definitely see you as a second Bruce Lee, and they will rush to you! ”
Wang Lei was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said: "It sounds very reasonable, but Sadler, can you really make me a professional fighter in three years and a world boxing champion in five years?" ”
Sadler said with a solemn expression: "I once trained a heavyweight world boxing champion, how could I deceive you?" ”
"Have you trained a world champion?" Wang Lei looked at the boxing gym in front of him, which was very old and dilapidated, not much like a garbage dump, and looked suspicious of Sadler.
Sadler's old face turned red, and he argued a little angrily: "I didn't lie to you, George Foreman was trained by me, I don't believe you went out to inquire!" ”
George Foreman?
Wang Lei was startled when he heard this.
This is a well-known guy, and his fame in the boxing world is estimated to be only below the boxing champion Ali, and even more famous than the boxing champion Ali.
What's more, boxing champion Ali has retired. George Foreman may have retired, but he will make a comeback in a few years, eventually winning the title again at the age of 45. In the limelight, he even suppressed Mike Tyson for a time.
If this old man named Sadler is really George Foreman's coach and helps George Foreman rise to the throne of boxing champion, he is definitely a famous coach, how can he be so downcast? Ran to San Francisco to open such a dilapidated boxing gym, not to mention, there are not even a few students who learn boxing from him?
Seeing the doubt in Wang Lei's eyes, Sadler sighed and explained: "I am indeed George Foreman's coach, and I am still his first coach. It was I who brought Foreman into the boxing ring and helped him defeat Joe Fraser and become the king of boxing. It's just that after that, we had a conflict with each other and parted ways...... If I were still by his side, he might not have been defeated by Ali in eight rounds in the African bush battle that year! Losing to Ali is nothing, with his excellent boxing talent and physique, as long as he cheers up, sooner or later he will regain the top of the throne and become the world champion again. It's a pity that his fighting spirit collapsed, and after unexpectedly losing to a small character named Jimmy Young, he has been in a state of decline since then, and chose to retire ......"
Looking at Sadler's lost expression and sad look, Wang Lei believed his words.
This old man, apparently, was George Foreman's coach for the real time.
It's embarrassing that the coach of a world boxing champion would be so down-and-out.
Although he believed that Sadler was once George Foreman's coach, Wang Lei was still a little hesitant about Sadler's proposal.
He didn't want to fight boxing and become a professional boxer.
What's more, he also knows that the professional boxing world in the next few years is Mike Tyson's world, from next year Tyson became the youngest heavyweight boxing champion in history to Tyson was imprisoned in 91 years, almost all the news of professional boxing revolves around Tyson, no matter how much other boxers have achieved, they can only play a supporting role, and the limelight is completely pressed by Tyson, even if James Douglas, who defeated Tyson in the 90s.
During this period of professional boxing, even if he can successfully win the world boxing championship as a yellow race, Wang Lei does not dare to guarantee that his limelight and popularity can overshadow Mike Tyson.
He doesn't want to be a supporting actor or the second in 10,000 years!
Either don't do it, or do it best!
This is Wang Lei's belief since his rebirth!
That's right, Wang Lei is a reborn.
In his previous life, he lived under the red flag of the 21st century, and he was an otaku who didn't mix well, chatting online, playing games, watching videos or starting novels, which was basically his life without leaving home for the last ten years of his previous life.
has been an otaku who has been staying at home for ten years, and lacks exercise, his health is getting worse and worse, and he often stays up all night to surf the Internet, which finally leads to sudden death due to his body's inability to resist.
When you open your eyes after death, you find yourself reborn.
Reborn in a parallel world that is 99.999% similar to the previous world.
The reason why Wang Lei thinks so is because although his geographical location in this world has changed, he ran from the red flag to San Francisco in the United States, and he was born eleven years earlier, but his parents are still the same pair in his previous life.
Wang Lei investigated curiously and found that the historical background of this world was no different from the previous life, and the only change was his grandfather.
In his previous life, his grandfather originally planned to go to San Francisco with several fellow villagers to pan for gold when the "gold rush" was rising in San Francisco, but he didn't go because of some accidents. But in this life, the accident did not happen, my grandfather successfully arrived in San Francisco, USA, and survived with difficulty, my grandfather, my father and Wang Lei himself were also born in San Francisco and became Chinese.
The difference is that Wang Lei in his previous life was born when his father was almost forty years old, but this life is ten years earlier.
As for how his mother came to San Francisco to meet his father, Wang Lei is not clear.
It can only be said that there is a providence in the dark, and the father and mother are destined to be together no matter what world they are in.
The current time is July 10, 1985, and Wang Lei only celebrated his 16th birthday more than two months ago.
After discovering that he was reborn in the 80s in the United States, Wang Lei, who had read a lot of entertainment and competitive articles at the starting point in his previous life, was originally extremely happy.
After all, he was also a fan of movies and American dramas in his previous life, and he didn't leave home for ten years, Wang Lei has watched so many Hollywood movies and American dramas that he can't count them, and he has watched some classic movies and American dramas several times, not only remembers their content vividly, but even can recite some classic lines.
This is already a great achievement for Wang Lei, who had a very fucked English score in his previous life.
After being reborn, Wang Lei's first thought was to write scripts and make movies for Hollywood studios. As long as the first film written by him can be a blockbuster and even win the Oscar for Best Screenplay, he will be able to truly gain a foothold in Hollywood, and his fortune will naturally roll in in the future. It won't take five or six years to embrace the left and right and live the good life of those protagonists of European and American entertainment literature at the beginning of their previous lives.
But soon, Wang Lei found that he was thinking too much.
He didn't know how to write a script at all.
Although he received the memories in his mind and spoke English as well as his hometown, he had never seen a script in his previous life or in his life, and he didn't know how to write a script at all.
He didn't understand the format of the script, the storyboards, and the like.
In the 80s, when computers and the Internet had not yet advanced, Wang Lei couldn't find a script to refer to.
There are no schools, and there are no bookstores in Chinatown.
If he writes a novel or directly copies the content of the movie, Wang Lei is worried that Hollywood studios will throw it in the trash if they don't even read it.
If you can't write a script, it's even more impossible to act.
Not to mention that he is only 16 years old now, and he is not yet an adult, and just because he is Chinese, he will not want to step into Hollywood, where the concept of white supremacy is still very serious.
Back then, even Bruce Lee couldn't get along in Hollywood, so he had to go to Xiangjiang. He is now far worse than Bruce Lee, but it is far more than eight streets.
After thinking about this, Wang Lei decided to slow down and not be too anxious.
It's best to study hard first and try to get into a film school after high school, such as the famous USC.
As long as you are admitted to the film school of USC and study seriously for two years, it will be much easier to mix with Hollywood.
Wang Lei didn't think that he would not be admitted to USC, he had thirty years of life experience and memory, and if he couldn't get into USC after studying hard, he was so sorry for the chance God gave him a chance to be reborn.
What's more, USC is not one of the top universities in the world like Harvard or MIT, and the college entrance examination in the United States is not the same as that in China.
Wang Lei felt that he had to at least get a full scholarship to enter USC to be worthy of his status as a reborn.
In this life, his parents opened a restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown, and their lives are not bad, at least they don't have to worry about food and clothing, so Wang Lei doesn't have to rush to make money, laying the foundation first is the most important thing.
After making a decision, Wang Lei made a plan for himself.
Serious study is a must, but physical exercise should not be neglected either.
Learning the lesson of sudden accidental death in his previous life, Wang Lei attaches great importance to his physical health after being reborn, insists on running at least five kilometers every morning, and presses his legs and lower waist after running to practice the flexibility of his body. In the evening, do a few sets of push-ups and leg curls to practice strength.
When he unexpectedly found that his physical fitness in this life was very good, and he had practiced Xingyiquan, Wang Lei changed his evening practice to a special practice of Xingyiquan.
From the "memory", it is known that Xingyi Quan was taught to him by his grandfather when he was ten years old.
Although the grandfather in this world is the same person as the grandfather in the previous life, his fate is different. Because he was born in San Francisco's Chinatown, the grandfather of this life worshipped a master of national art as a teacher when he was a child, not only knew Xingyiquan but also proficient in traditional Chinese medicine, and opened a medical clinic in Chinatown, and also accepted several apprentices.
Because he was worried that his grandson would be bullied by foreign classmates after school, when Wang Lei was ten years old, his grandfather insisted on letting Wang Lei learn boxing from him.
Wang Lei only studied with his grandfather for two years, and only learned the three-body style and the five-element boxing style of Xingyi Boxing, although he was not good at practicing and failed to play Mingjin, but at least he had the ability to protect himself, and he would never lose in a fight with his peers, so his grandfather let him go.
It's a pity that Wang Lei in this life was born lazy, and without the supervision of his grandfather, he gave up continuing to practice Xingyi Boxing, and his kung fu has almost degraded in four years.
Fortunately, the memory of practicing boxing is still there, and Wang Lei in his previous life was obsessed with national arts and had seen a lot of Xingyi boxing videos and teaching materials on the Internet, so he was able to practice again.
Wang Lei didn't dare to be as good as Bruce Lee, he just wanted to practice a certain amount of skills, and when he mixed into Hollywood in the future, he could be an action actor and make action movies.
Every morning when running, Wang Lei would always pass by Sadler's boxing gym, and one day he couldn't help but go in and take a look, although it was very old and dilapidated, but it was well equipped, not only boxing rings, barbell dumbbells and other equipment to practice strength, but also hung a few sandbags and pear balls.
After asking the owner of the gym, Sadler, and learning that he could come in and practice with the equipment at will for only ten dollars a month, Wang Lei was moved.
Wang Lei felt that just running every morning was too boring, and it was better to come to the boxing gym to hit sandbags.
After paying ten dollars, Wang Lei became a regular visitor to the boxing gym, coming almost every morning, and only playing sandbags or pear balls.
After going back and forth like this, Wang Lei gradually became familiar with the owner of the boxing gym, Sadler, so there was the beginning of the conversation.
I have to say that Sadler's proposal made Wang Lei very moved.
If you can really become a professional boxer and become a world boxing champion, it will definitely be much easier to mix in Hollywood.
More importantly, he is a Chinese, a pure Chinese, if he can become the world boxing champion, it is to win glory for the Chinese, and when the news reaches the other side of the ocean, he will definitely gain at least one billion fans. is like Yao Ming, who played basketball in the NBA in his previous life, and his popularity is overwhelming.
Thinking of Yao Ming's popularity in his previous life, Wang Lei was moved.
He doesn't know how to play basketball, and he doesn't have much interest, so it's better to play boxing.
What is Tyson afraid of, my brother's weight is only lightweight now, and when my brother gains weight in a few years and can enter the heavyweight division, Tyson's guy may have been imprisoned.
In this way, the future professional boxing world is still the world of my brother!
After a night of consideration, Wang Lei made a decision in his heart.
The next day, when he came to Sadler's boxing gym again, Wang Lei walked in front of Sadler and said cautiously: "Sadler, I have decided, I will learn boxing from you, I want to become a professional boxer, I want to be the world boxing champion, please guide me!" ”
"Good!" Sadler nodded with satisfaction: "Believe me, child, I will not disappoint you!" ”