Wang Lei rejected Pat Sloan's "kindness", Pat Sloan didn't care too much, but Griffith was a little anxious. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Ray, please listen to me. I don't deny that Sadler is a good coach and used to be a good agent, but he is old after all, he is almost 70 years old. At the age of seventy, it's a little too much to be your coach, and you still want him to take care of his agent, how can he take care of it? In case there is a good loss, it is your responsibility! ”

After a pause, Griffith said again: "Besides, the current boxing world is not as good as before, since Ali retired, the boxing world has become very chaotic, originally there were only two organizations in professional boxing, WBA and WBC, but last year the WBA split into an IBF and became three boxing organizations." And I heard that there are still people who want to continue to split the WBA, and it is estimated that it will not take a few years to create a fourth boxing organization. In such a chaotic situation, agents have to deal with more people, and if they are not capable enough, it may be difficult to arrange boxing matches for fighters to improve their rankings, let alone challenge for the boxing champion. ”

Wang Lei knew that Griffiths was true that there were originally two organizations for professional boxing, namely the "National Boxing Association" founded in 1921, and later changed to the "World Boxing Association" in 1962, referred to as WBA.

The WBA can be said to be the oldest and most influential professional boxing organization, but in 1963, it split into a "World Boxing Council", abbreviated as WBC, due to contradictions.

The WBC did not officially operate until 1965, but it grew rapidly, and it did not take long for it to have 156 member states, surpassing the WBA in terms of influence and coverage. The first heavyweight champion of the WBC was none other than the great Muhammad Ali.

In 1983, the WBA continued to split, and Robert Lee, the vice president of the WBA, led some people to form a new boxing organization, the International Boxing Federation, or IBF for short, the following year. Ali's former sparring partner defeated Ali's new boxing champion Larry Holmes on his fourth appearance, becoming the heavyweight head of HBF and the organization's first boxing champion.

In 1988, three years later, the WBA split again, and a new professional boxing organization appeared, namely the World Boxing Organization, referred to as WBO. After more than ten years of development, the influence of WBO has also become stronger day by day, surpassing WBA and IBF, and approaching the trend of WBC.

In Wang Lei's previous life, winning the boxing championship belt of any of the four major boxing organizations can be called the world boxing champion, but if he wins the boxing championship belt of the two organizations, the influence will be much greater. If the belts of the three major boxing organizations of WBA, WBC and IBF are all covered, they will be called "super boxing champions", and their influence will be unparalleled, and the appearance fee will exceed 20 million US dollars, plus other gains such as TV broadcast rights and advertising fees, it is possible to earn 780 million or even hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

In Wang Lei's past life memory, the first person to win the three belts of WBA, WBC and IBF seems to be heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson. Since then, Douglas, Holyfield, Riddick Bowe, and Lewis, who have beaten Tyson in an upset, have all taken the belts of all three boxing organizations. As for the other levels, Wang Lei only remembers Roy Jones Jr.

The only one who has won the belts of the four major boxing organizations of the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO seems to be the only middleweight boxing champion, Bernard Hopkins, nicknamed "The Executioner".

As for Floyd Mayweather, the most famous and valuable lightweight champion before Wang Lei's rebirth, although he did not win the gold belt of the three major boxing organizations, he won a total of 22 belts because he fought from lightweight to welterweight.

Wang Lei once saw a photo of Mayweather posted after retiring on the Internet, one is a photo of him showing off his wealth, lying on a bed stacked with a lot of speculative tickets. The other is a photo of twenty-two belts on a table.

According to statistics, Mayweather earned hundreds of millions of dollars a year before retiring, and the fight of the century between him and another super boxing champion, Pacquiao, in 2015, totaled $250 million.

Wang Lei still remembers that when he saw this news in his previous life, he was so envious that he couldn't do it, and he hated to immediately devote himself to professional boxing, make a lot of money like Mayweather, and get past the addiction of the world boxing champion.

It's a pity that he was reborn a little earlier, before the rise of the Internet and cable pay TV networks, even if he can obtain the achievements of Mayweather in his previous life, the appearance fee will probably not exceed 20 million US dollars until death.

Unless he can take the belts of the four major boxing organizations and create enough buzz and influence.

It's very difficult to do that unless he has a very powerful agent and promoter, like Don King.

I heard Griffith say again: "Ray, it's not that I'm exaggerating, if your agent is not strong enough, when you become a professional boxer, maybe you won't challenge the boxing champion after a hundred boxing matches, compete for the boxing championship belt, and you won't even make much money from appearance fees." But with Pat Sloan as your agent, up to 30 fights, he can make you the number one challenger and qualify for the title of boxer. Even your appearance fee will go up to more than two million dollars. ”

Two million dollars in appearance fees, that's too low!

Wang Lei touched his chin and asked, "The premise is that I must win all these thirty games, and I can't lose one, right?" ”

Griffith nodded, "It's natural, but even if you lose one or two fights, you still have a chance to challenge for the boxing title." ”

Wang Lei shook his head and said, "It's too slow, my goal is to fight from middleweight to heavyweight, and I have to get the gold belt in every division." I have to fight 30 fights to qualify for the title, which means I have to have two or three years to have a chance to become a boxing champion, and by the time I fight from middleweight to heavyweight, I'm afraid I'm going to be 30 years old, right? It's been too long. And the appearance fee you mentioned is too low, my goal is to qualify for the title challenge before 20 professional fights, and when I get the championship belt, my appearance fee will have to rise to tens of millions of dollars! ”

Griffith and Pat Sloan were dumbfounded, and looked at each other for a long time before Griffith said with a wry smile: "Ray, you think too much, even if Ali comes back, it is impossible to get tens of millions of dollars in appearance fees." Do you know how much I paid to get my first title that year? It's only half a million dollars. Tens of millions of dollars in appearance fees are out of the question! ”

Wang Lei secretly pursed his lips when he heard this, thinking that I will sue you until the end of next year after Tyson wins the boxing championship, will the appearance fee easily break 10 million? And when this guy returned from prison in his first game, he only played 89 seconds and received 30 million dollars in appearance fees?

What's more, in addition to Tyson, two of the most famous of the four middleweight kings of the 80s, Sugar Cube Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler, nicknamed "The Bald Devil", both of them paid more than tens of millions of dollars in appearance fees in the 1987 fight. The record of tens of millions of appearance fees for the first appearance of the middleweight boxing tournament was before that, Leonard and another boxing champion of the four middleweight kings, nicknamed "Stone Fist" Duran, in the second fight, when Leonard's appearance fee had broken tens of millions of dollars.

Wang Lei didn't argue with Griffiths because he saw Sadler.

Sadler, who appeared at the door at some point, turned pale and glared at Griffith and Pat Sloan with unkind eyes, apparently hearing what the three had said earlier.

Wang Lei, who felt a little bad, hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, Griffiths, you can talk to Sadler about the agent, I have to go in to practice boxing!" ”

With that, Wang Lei rushed into the boxing gym with a gust of wind and handed over Griffith and Pat Sloan to Sadler to deal with.

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What Sadler talked about with Griffith and Pat Sloan, Wang Lei didn't know, anyway, after half an hour, Wang Lei only saw Sadler come in alone, and Griffith and Pat Sloan were nowhere to be seen, and it is estimated that they will not come again in the future.

Sadler didn't talk about it, and still guided Wang Lei to practice boxing very seriously.

It wasn't until Wang Lei's training today was over that Sadler called him aside and asked him seriously: "Lei, what do you think about what Griffith talked to you about today?" ”

Wang Lei replied without hesitation: "I don't have any ideas, don't worry, Sadler, I won't agree to let that Pat Sloan be my agent, my agent is you!" ”

Probably moved by Wang Lei's "loyal" attitude, Sadler nodded with relief, but said: "Lei, I am grateful that you trust me as an old man. But Griffith is right, I'm old, it's okay to be your coach, and I'm afraid I can't do it when I take care of your agent. So I decided to wait until you become a professional fighter next year, and then find you another agent. Pat Sloan can't, if you want to find the best, I happen to know a guy who has him as your agent, maybe you will be able to achieve your dream in no time! ”

The best agent, does Sadler also know Don King?

Wang Lei was a little surprised, but asked another question: "Sadler, you want to become a professional fighter next year, and I will only be seventeen years old next year?" ”

"yes, what's wrong?"

"Don't you have to be eighteen years old to become a professional boxer?"

"Who said that you can apply for a professional boxing license at the age of seventeen in California, and even at the age of sixteen in some states!"

Wang Lei was stunned for a long time, and then he realized that this is the United States, not China, and he made a mistake before.

If you can apply to become a professional boxer next year, won't you have a chance to win the boxing championship belt at the age of eighteen or nineteen and become the youngest world boxing champion in history.

With such an aura in his body, the appearance fee can't be brushed up?

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