The match between Lei Wang and Julian Jackson will be held on February 6 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The match against Mike McCollum is scheduled for May 3 next year. Of course, the premise is that Wang Lei has to defeat Julian Jackson first. Otherwise, it will be Julian Jackson who will play Mike McCollum on May 3 next year.

Next year's fight against Julian Jackson will be Wang's first fight to 154-pound super welterweight, and with Wang's current status and popularity, plus CNN's cable pay channel to broadcast the match, the appearance fee will definitely have to rise again.

After Arum negotiated with many people, Wang Lei's appearance fee became nine million US dollars, and he was only one million short of breaking 10 million.

Arum assured Wang that if he defeated Julian Jackson and the boxing title fight against Mike McCollum, his appearance fee would exceed $10 million.

As for Julian Jackson, although his professional record of 34-1-32 KOs is much better than Wang Lei's professional record of 9-0-9KO, his popularity is really not as good as Wang Lei's, and there are really not many fans who are familiar with and like him.

Therefore, after negotiations, Julian Jackson's appearance fee ended up being only 2.5 million.

Prior to this, Julian Jackson's appearance fee was only 1.2 million at the highest, which could be more than doubled, and it was still stained with Wang Lei's light.

Julian Jackson can't express his dissatisfaction with Wang Lei because of the appearance fee, but his eyes are red!

With the match against Julian Jackson confirmed, the pre-match press conference was the most important part of promoting the game.

Thanks to Wang Lei's super popularity, there were many media who came to participate in this pre-match press conference.

At the press conference, Wang Lei's opponent Julian Jackson was completely ignored, and all the questions of the media reporters focused on Wang Lei.

Simon Neal of the San Francisco Chronicle, who already belonged to Wang Lei's camp, was taken care of by Wang Lei and was named as the first to ask questions.

However, his question made Julian Jackson, who was originally black, look black as the bottom of a pot.

"Wang, didn't you say at your last press conference that you were going to challenge Robert Duran when you moved up to 154 pounds super middleweight? How could he give up on Duran and choose this nobody? ”

Julian Jackson almost vomited blood, glaring at Simon Neal with eyes that were about to burst into flames: Am I nobody? I'm also a boxing champion, okay?

Simon Neil ignored Julian Jackson's gaze, and he wasn't worried that the other party would jump down and beat him.

The United States is a country of free speech, and journalists are the uncrowned kings, which is what Simon Neal is all about.

Wang Lei nodded in his heart to the inquisitive Simon Neil, sighed pretendedly, and said: "My target is indeed Robert Duran, in fact, before the match with Benitez, my agent had already contacted Mr. Duran, and Mr. Duran also verbally agreed to my challenge. However, when I knocked out Benitez in seven rounds and Currie in two rounds, Mr. Duran changed his mind. His agent, Don King, asked me to meet privately, and because of Don King's relationship with my agent, Arum, I mistakenly thought he wanted to dig into Arum's corner, so I refused to meet him privately. A few days later, Arum brought me the news that Mr. Duran had rejected my challenge and that he would rather defend his title with an unknown fighter who was far inferior to him than fight me, and I realized that I might have misunderstood the reason why Mr. Don King had asked me to meet privately. ”

The reporters in the audience were a little dumbfounded: Is the Chinese kid saying that Robert Duran is afraid of him and refuses to accept his challenge?

Thinking of this, these reporters were excited, and for a while, the flashlights kept flashing, making everyone on the stage a little dizzy.

But I heard Wang Lei continue: "I once said that when a fighter refuses to challenge, he has already admitted defeat in his heart. Now that Mr. Duran has already conceded defeat to me, how can I be embarrassed to provoke him again? What's more, Mr. Duran is already thirty-six years old, and many fighters have long since retired at this age. I didn't have much sense of accomplishment in bullying an old man, so I asked Arum to turn me into an opponent. Luckily, both Jackson and McCollum were willing to play against me, and they were not only much younger than Mr. Duran, but also not as good as Mr. Turan. I can prove myself by beating both of them and taking away the IBF and WBA super welterweight belts. Then I can level up again and challenge Leonard or Mr. Hagler in the 160-pound middleweight division. ”

After a pause, Wang Lei added: "Leonard, Hagler and Mr. Duran are all fighters who debuted at the same time, to be honest, I am worried that the promotion will be slow, and both of them have retired. Mr. Leonard, in particular, has a lot of criminal records, and I heard that he delayed his rematch with Mr. Hagler, and I fear that he will choose to retire when the time comes. In this way, the record for the number of retirements has been broken! ”

The reporters in the audience were crazy with excitement, and their pens were flying.

The Chinese kid really dares to say that a pre-game press conference not only brushed Duran and Don King, but also Leonard and Hagler.

This kid is afraid that the world will not be chaotic!

We love it though!

These media reporters seemed to see the newspaper selling well.

Arum, who was sitting next to Wang Lei, shook his head with a wry smile.

Before the pre-match press conference, Arum expected Wang Lei to take the opportunity to provoke Robert Duran and drive a wedge between him and Don King. But the Aru line didn't expect that Wang Lei would even provoke Leonard and Hagler.

This kid, I'm afraid things won't make a big fuss!

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After the pre-match press conference between Wang Lei and Julian Jackson, it was Leonard who reacted first.

Leonard, who defeated Hagler in April this year by a controversial point win and won three middleweight belts, originally refused to ask for a rematch with Hagler, but because Wang Lei "predicted" to media reporters before the match and instigated with ulterior motives, he didn't want to be thought that he was scared by Hagler, Leonard, who had already conceded defeat in his heart, was forced to change his mind and impulsively agreed to the request for a rematch with Hagler.

Originally, Leonard's rematch with Hagler was scheduled for November, but three days ago, Leonard accidentally injured his finger while training, and had to postpone the match to February 18 next year.

Leonard, who has always been known as a "humble gentleman", finally became angry, so that when media reporters asked him about it, he blurted out impulsively: "Tell the Chinese kid that after the fight with Hagler in February next year, whether I win or lose, I will not retire, and I will wait for him to be promoted to fight with me." If he can't wait, let me downgrade and fight him! ”

Leonard screamed so far that the reporter who interviewed him was so excited that he almost fainted.

Wang Lei, who got the news, just smiled and continued to train without saying anything.

As if it were just a trivial trifle!

But Arum is very happy, who Leonard is, that is the most popular superstar in the professional boxing world at present, the equivalent of Ali who was the heavyweight more than ten years ago. Even Tyson, who unified the heavyweight triple crown last year, can't match him in terms of popularity.

You can't see that Leonard has broken the record appearance fee at every turn, and he is also the first middleweight fighter to exceed $10 million in appearance fee.

With Wang's current popularity, if he plays a match with Leonard next year, the ratings and total ticket revenue are estimated to break the record of Leonard's battle with Hagler in April this year.

At that time, Wang Lei's appearance fee will definitely be doubled again, 10 million US dollars is too low, at least more than 15 million.

Just think about how much he will gain if this game is successfully implemented, and Arum will wake up laughing in his dreams.

In contrast to Arum, Don King's mood is not so good!

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