Chapter 45: The Challenge of the Wrestling World
The video news of CNN Sports' beautiful reporter Erin interviewing Wang Lei before the game was already broadcast on CNN's sports channel before the match between Leonard and Hagler ended. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
I didn't watch Leonard and Hagler live that night, but watched CNN Sports.
When they first saw it, these people still reacted, but they just felt that Wang Lei was talking big, and they were even more surprised that Wang Lei provoked the wrestling world and despised the courage of wrestlers.
By the time Leonard's match with Hagler was over, the spectators couldn't help but be shocked.
Wang Lei, a Chinese boy, is he a god?
Otherwise, how could it be predictive that not only the outcome of the match, but also the post-match reaction of Leonard and Hagler?
This is too godly, isn't it?
It is said that Leonard was not in a good mood after learning about Wang Lei's interview that night. By the time I saw the replay of CNN Sports the next day, I didn't even eat breakfast.
When Leonard went out, he was immediately blocked by dozens of media reporters, all of whom asked him what he thought of the interview with Wang Lei, which aired on CNN yesterday. The continuous questioning and questioning finally made Leonard unbearable, and impulsively said that he would have a rematch with Hagler to prove that he was not afraid of Hagler.
As soon as the remarks were reported, Leonard and Hagler's fans were thrilled again.
Hagler, who had originally planned to retire, also gave up the idea of retiring as well.
Wang Lei was surprised by the news, and couldn't help but smile in his heart.
His reborn butterfly flapped its wings again, and he didn't know if the impact was good or bad?
However, Leonard was not alone in Wang Lei's interview yesterday, almost all wrestlers in the wrestling world were angered by him.
Wang Lei commented in an interview that the wrestler's words were really annoying, especially the sentence "Challenge me, his courage cannot be described as 'commendable courage', it should be said that 'death is like home'!" ”
Dare the wrestler to challenge you is looking for death?
As long as a man with a good face can't bear this, let alone a wrestler who has almost hundreds of millions of fans around the world!
So, the wrestling world exploded!
First of all, James, Randy, and Rick, who were beaten by Wang Lei, jumped out and insisted on denying that Wang Lei defeated them with one enemy and three enemies, arguing that they were all drunk that night and couldn't tell the difference between southeast and northwest, so they were secretly attacked by Wang Lei. In fact, none of them were knocked down by Wang Lei's fist, but drunk. After getting drunk, he was confused, and he was beaten by Wang Lei's sneak attack, and his nose was swollen and his face was blue.
Rick, the tallest of the three, even said that he didn't know what was going on until he woke up the next day, and that he didn't feel any pain when Wang Lei beat him, and thought he was dreaming.
Randy said that Wang Lei's fists had no strength at all, and he was drunk and let him fight for a long time, and he didn't suffer multiple injuries, but his face was swollen. If you are prepared, it is estimated that even if you don't fight back and let Wang Lei punch him a hundred times, Wang Lei will not be able to defeat him!
As for James, the youngest of the three and has not yet won the championship, he threatened to fight Wang Lei one-on-one in the ring, guaranteeing that it would only take one minute to beat him half to death.
Wang Lei's answer to this is: Welcome to death, as long as you prepare enough appearance fees!
Boxing fans, wrestling fans, and xenomartial arts fans are all looking forward to it, and they are all curious about who is better in a one-on-one fight between boxers and wrestlers in the ring. So they all called for Wang Lei and James's agent to arrange a fight between them.
Although it was highly anticipated, James' challenge to Wang Lei ultimately did not come to fruition.
The reason is not that Wang Lei's agent Arum Lion opened his mouth and asked for an appearance fee of up to three million US dollars, but that James backed down.
It wasn't Wang Lei who made James hold back, but the new heavyweight boxing champion Tyson.
After defeating Burbick to win the WBC heavyweight title in November last year, Tyson only defended his title in two fights before challenging WBA heavyweight champion James Smith to become the double champion of both WBC and WBA, just one step away from becoming the "undisputed heavyweight triple crown".
Not long after Leonard and Hagler's battle of the century ended, Tyson came to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas to defend his title.
During the pre-game interview, a malicious reporter asked Tyson's opinion on James's challenge to Wang Lei.
Tyson, who has always spoken brainlessly, laughed and said, "Wrestler challenges boxer, is this guy named James crazy?" He's going to be beaten to a concussion! ”
As soon as this remark came out, it immediately angered a wrestling star present.
The 1.83-meter-tall, 250-pound wrestling star named Paul Orndorf is a professional wrestler who has been on the stage for ten years and has won multiple championship titles, and his status and fame are still above James and Randy.
The reason why Oundorf appeared at the scene of Tyson's title defense match was at the invitation of the Caesars Palace Hotel to be a guest performer. As a result, he heard Tyson's "wild words" of contempt for wrestlers, and he couldn't bear to jump into the boxing ring, spat at Tyson, and kept hitting Tyson's chest with his fingers, as if asking Tyson to apologize.
Tyson was annoyed, and before the security guards came on stage to take Oendorf away, he punched Oundorf in the face, and Oundorf fell down and fell unconscious on the spot.
Olrodov was later admitted to the hospital, reportedly having suffered a concussion from a punch by Tyson.
The incident was "faithfully" filmed by the cameras at the scene, and it was broadcast by CNN News TV on the same day.
As a result, the wrestling community collectively lost its voice.
James, who was clamoring for a one-on-one fight with Wang Lei in the ring, also disappeared and could not find anyone.
Although James was "scared", the wrestling world did not let Wang Lei go, and after Wang Lei switched to Atlantic City on May 10 to finish his sixth professional boxing match, and took two rounds and 40 seconds to KO his new opponent Herman Montes, the president of the World Wrestling Federation WWF and the founder and owner of WrestleMania Tournament, McMahan suddenly appeared at the post-match press conference with several wrestlers and spoke out to provoke Wang Lei.
Behind McMahon are James, Randy, and Rick, three wrestling stars who have been beaten by Wang Lei, as well as two guys that Wang Lei doesn't know, one of whom is an Asian like Wang Lei, and his height and physique look similar to Wang Lei.
McMahon demanded that Mr. Wang apologize to the wrestler for what he said in an interview with CNN last month, and to apologize to the drunken James, Randy and Rick whom he "sneaked up" that night.
Wang Lei naturally refused, so McMahon announced that he would arrange a wrestler to fight Wang Lei one-on-one, and if Wang Lei lost, he had to apologize, and if he won, he would no longer trouble Wang Lei.
When he challenged, McMahon also pretended to be generous and said in public: he would not take advantage of Wang Lei, and would not let James, who weighed more than 240 pounds, fight Wang Lei. For the purpose of fairness and justice, he asked wrestlers whose height and weight were not much different from Wang Lei to fight Wang Lei, so that Wang Lei would have nothing to say after losing, and he would be convinced.
Because McMahon's tone and expression were too arrogant, Wang Lei was about to agree in anger, but was blocked by the quick-eyed Arlum.
Arum responded to McMahon's challenge for Wang Lei, but how to play and when to play and how much to play had to be discussed with him.
McMahon is an old fox, but Arum is clearly not bad either.
After six hours of intense verbal exchange between the two and the consent of both parties, the rules and agreements of the game were finally decided.
Because one side practices boxing and the other practices wrestling, it is unfair to compete according to the rules of boxing or wrestling, because Arum and McMahon discussed on behalf of their fighters and finally settled on a relatively open mixed martial arts competition rules proposed by kung fu superstar Bruce Lee in his early years.
Gloves or bare hands are allowed during the match, and no attacks are allowed to the eyes, the back of the head and the crotch.
Fighters are allowed to use any kick-and-grapple moves such as boxing, wrestling, karate, judo, and Chinese kung fu, whether it's a stand-up strike, or a grappling on the ground, knocking out an opponent, or forcing an opponent to admit defeat.
The fight is played over five rounds of three minutes each, with a one-minute break between rounds.
This kind of competition rules are very close to the rules of MMA mixed martial arts competitions, which only emerged a few years later, and are the result of Wang Lei's deliberate guidance.
The game will take place a week later at the Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas, which Wang Lei is already familiar with.
Because Arum's lion opened his mouth and insisted on not relaxing, and Wang Lei had signed a contract with CNN, the game could be broadcast on cable networks, so Wang Lei's appearance fee was as high as $2.5 million. The opponent Takada Tinghiko is a challenger, and the appearance fee is only 600,000 US dollars.
Wang Lei didn't know the identity and name of his opponent until he signed the match agreement.
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