Chapter Eighty-Six: Coming to Panama City

Al-Balado, who has been retired for many years, is very strong, although he is ten centimeters shorter than Wang Lei, but his playing style is very fierce, and Wang Lei feels no worse than Emile Griffiths, the first sparring partner and retired boxing champion when he first learned boxing. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Of course, unlike a pure technical fighter like Griffith, Ballado's heavy punches are powerful and feel painful on the body, not much worse than McCollum's.

Robert Duran is not only one of the top 80 superstars, but also one of the top 100 heavy gunners, and he ranks very highly, at 28th, only three places below Julian Jackson at 25th, but much better than McCollum at 87th.

This means that Duran's heavy punches are definitely heavier than Balado's!

If Wang Lei wants to defeat Duran, he must maintain the honor of "KO King", not only to increase the lethality of heavy punches, but also to strengthen his resistance and unloading skills, otherwise he will be embarrassed if he is accidentally knocked down by Duran's heavy punches.

The first time he fought a fighter with a height of less than 1.70 meters, Wang Lei felt a little uncomfortable, and was almost knocked out by Balado at the beginning.

After practicing three or four times, Wang Lei got used to the short fighter's style of play and gradually suppressed Balado.

After a week of practice, it was difficult for Balado to gain the upper hand again.

After two weeks of practice, Balado was basically abused by Wang Lei.

This is still based on the fact that Wang Lei wears thickened gloves and he wears a helmet and protective gear.

After three weeks of perseverance, Balado began to get tired of it and gave birth to a retreat.

Seeing this, Sadler had to reduce the number of rounds of Wang Lei's actual combat practice with Balado to allow Balado to persist again.

By the end of the five-week practice, Balado had come out of purgatory, physically and mentally scarred, and even Sadler's readily paid him $50,000 didn't make him happy.

When Balado left the Sadler boxing gym, he told Sadler: No matter how poor and miserable he is in the future, he will not come to Wang Lei to be a sparring partner again.

This is not actual combat practice, but his unilateral abuse!

Sadler didn't take Balado's complaints to heart, and Wang Lei was used to fighting short fighters anyway, and he would no longer need him as a sparring partner in the future.

With a weekly salary of $10,000, to be honest, Sadler was very distressed.

After the five-week closed training, Wang Lei first went to the airport to pick up his fiancée Zhou Yuwei, and then went to Stanford University with Zhou Yuwei to report for duty.

Zhou Yuwei, who has the attributes of a scholar like her sister, also took the SAT exam, with a score of 2398 points, only two points short of a full score, plus her comprehensive quality is strong, she is very popular in the school club, and she also made two movies, one won an award and the other was amazing at the box office. Such excellent students are naturally very popular with Stanford University.

Stanford University not only admitted Zhou Yuwei, but also gave her a lot of scholarships, and the treatment was even better than Wang Lei.

Wang Lei naturally did not envy his fiancée because of this, but was proud. Delivered

After taking Zhou Yuwei to the school to complete the formalities and officially becoming a freshman at Stanford University, Wang Lei asked the school for leave to go to Panama City to compete.

Fortunately, there is no military training in American universities, and Stanford also knows that Wang Lei is a professional boxing champion, and the situation is special because his leave was approved.

So Wang Lei said goodbye to his fiancée, who had only been together for a day, and set off for Panama City with Sadler, Ou Yangming and others.

Panama City is the capital of the Republic of Panama and is the southernmost country in Central America.

Panama has a famous Panama Canal in the history of the Americas, which not only connects the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, but also serves as the dividing line between North and South America.

Panama has a very good relationship with the United States, and the US dollar is not only the currency of Panama, but also the first country in the world to use the US dollar as legal tender outside the United States.

Because of the relationship between Panama and the United States, Wang Lei and others did not encounter the slightest trouble when they came to Panama City by plane, as if it was as convenient as traveling between states in the United States.

The only bad thing is that the official language of Panama is Spanish, a language that Wang Lei doesn't understand at all, and neither can Sadler and Ou Yangming, so they have to pay for a translator.

Fortunately, Robert Duran is so famous in Panama that almost everyone in Panamanians regards him as an idol or hero. The news that he was going to fight a boxing championship match with Wang Lei in Panama City had been hyped up by everyone three months ago.

In Panama City today, you can see posters of the confrontation between Wang Lei and Duran almost everywhere. Therefore, Wang Lei's appearance has become familiar to the people of Panama City.

Therefore, Wang Lei, Sadler and others did not encounter any trouble when they came to Panama City, and the Panamanians looked at Wang Lei with curiosity and did not regard him as an enemy.

It is estimated that in the hearts of these Panamanians, Wang Lei cannot be Duran's opponent, and this game is just an additional victory for Duran's record.

Wang Lei wondered if he had beaten Duran in the tournament and brutally knocked him out by knockout, would the Panamanians, who see Duran as a hero or even a spiritual symbol, let him get out of the ring and return to the United States.

After finding the hotel and boxing training hall arranged for them by the organizer of the boxing match, Wang Lei only rested for an hour, and then went to the boxing training hall with Sadler, Ou Yangming and others for adaptive training.

Located close to the equator and halfway between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, Panama has a tropical oceanic climate with hot and humid weather, reaching temperatures of more than 35 degrees Celsius in August.

Wang Lei Ke remembers an article he had read in his previous life, saying that Sugar Ray Robinson, nicknamed "The Saint of Fighters," had never actually been knocked down by an opponent in his career, and that the only defeat he had had was because he couldn't stand the heat.

The race appeared to be held in a sun-soaked open square, and the temperature was said to be over 40 degrees.

Although the venue requested by Duran was the National Stadium in Panama City, Sadler had already explored that the place was actually an open-air stadium, not an indoor stadium, and the temperature could not be regulated.

In other words, Wang Lei had to fight against Duran in the heat that day.

To add insult to injury, Don King and Arum agreed on a match time of 2 p.m.

It's exactly the hottest time of the day and the sun is the greatest!

Don King, a cunning old fellow, had obviously secretly cheated Wang Lei, and such a shrewd Jew as Arum had been calculated by him!

Sadler was annoyed by this, but Wang Lei felt that it didn't matter.

Anyway, Duran is in the same environment as himself, and he doesn't suffer.

What's more, with his physical fitness, he may not be able to endure high temperatures and exposure!

Besides, this match was finalized by Don King and Arum three months ago, and Don King is not a god, so how can he be sure that August 16 will be a sunny day?

What if it suddenly rains on this day?

Getting drenched in the rain and fighting Duran in a boxing match is also an unprecedented experience, and it's hard to say who will be beneficial when the time comes.

But Wang Lei is sure that he will not be affected by the rain!