Chapter 201: One of the M-1 Tournaments
Only 12 of the 32 contestants in the "M-1 competition" are native Americans, three are from the Netherlands, three are from Japan, one is from Xiangjiang, one is from Brazil, one is from Russia, one is from Canada, one is from the United Kingdom, one is from Thailand, and the remaining eight are basically from South America, Europe and some small countries in Africa. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
While 22 of the 32 players were selected through the U.S. regional qualifiers, and three were K-1 stars, they were not on the same level as each other.
Because the "M-1 Tournament" is only held for seven days, there are three days of these seven days for the players to rest and recover, and the actual competition lasts only four days.
Thirty-two games will be played in four days, and the champion, runner-up and third place will be decided, and the game will be smooth and can not be arranged arbitrarily, otherwise it will be a strong confrontation at the beginning, and there will be no physical strength in the end, so that the low-level players will take advantage and become the champion, it is estimated that no one will be convinced.
Therefore, before the official start of the "M-1 competition", Wang Lei, together with Ou Yangming, McKale and three special guests specially invited by Ou Yangming, carefully analyzed the strength level of these 32 players, and planned to confront the high-level players and low-level players in the first round of the competition, and strive to eliminate all the low-level players in the first round, so that the next few rounds of the competition are all strong confrontations, which can not only make the game exciting, but also convince everyone, and whoever wins the championship has nothing to say.
The three special guests invited by Ou Yangming are all celebrities in the American martial arts world.
The first is American martial arts myth Bill Valles, nicknamed "Superfoot," and one of his disciples made it past the qualifiers in April to advance to one of 32 full-time competitors.
The second is even more famous, Bruce Lee's descendant disciple, Danny Eno Shandu, who has been selected as the "Black Belt Hall of Heroes" three times. Coincidentally, Ino Shandu also had a disciple who was promoted to one of the thirty-two official contestants.
The third is even more famous, he is a legend in the American martial arts and fighting world, known as the "Ali of American karate", a celebrity in the "Black Belt" Hall of Fame, and the ancestor of American free fighting, the first full-contact karate professional competition in the United States was organized and initiated by him. And this person was also a former student of Bruce Lee, and his concept of free fighting was influenced by Bruce Lee, and his name was Joe Lewis.
For Ou Yangming to invite Inokandu and Joe Lewis to be the special guests of the "M-1 competition", to be honest, Wang Lei was also very surprised.
Wang Lei originally wanted to invite his grandfather or the master Bolin Changqing to be a special guest.
It's a pity that grandpa refused without saying a word, obviously not interested in these things that Wang Lei tossed.
As for Master Bolin Changqing, he originally agreed, but it didn't take long for him to excuse himself from the martial arts hall under the pretext that he couldn't leave.
Wang Lei guessed that Master Bo was mostly because his proud disciple Zhao Peng was eliminated in the qualifier knockout round in April, which made him feel shameless and embarrassed to come.
The two guests who were looking for him in a row refused his invitation, and Wang Lei also felt that his face was gloomy, so he simply handed over the matter to Ou Yangming.
But he didn't expect Ou Yangming to give him a big surprise in the blink of an eye, which made Wang Lei have to re-evaluate this ninth uncle's ability and connections!
With the professional analysis of Bill Valles, Danny Inoshando, Joe Lewis plus Ou Yangming and McKel, the level of the 32 contestants is clear at a glance.
Next, Ouyang Yang Ming designed the draw ceremony for these 32 players, and tried to make these 32 players compete with high level and low level in the first round.
Wang Lei is not worried that there will be an accident in the lottery ceremony, Ou Yangming, the ninth uncle, is versatile, and it seems that he has learned magic tricks, and he doesn't know how he does it, anyway, he can let the thirty-two players draw the right number.
Because of the excellent ratings of the qualifiers, ESPN has reached an agreement with Wang Radar that the official matches of the "M-1 Competition" will be broadcast live by ESPN.
ESPN paid $50 million for the broadcast, which has allowed Wang Lei to recover operating costs, and the on-site ticket sales are pure revenue.
In order to befriend ESPN, Wang Lei even handed over the live host of the "M-1 Competition" to the anchor designated by ESPN.
The live host named Penny is a plump blonde Caucasian beauty, not even under the age of thirty, but she is already a veteran reporter and host of ESPN, who has hosted two "Super Bowl" games in rugby, and her quality is very good.
The opening ceremony was performed by a popular girl group in the American music scene singing and dancing on stage, which instantly heated up the atmosphere of the scene.
The song and dance are over, and Penny, who is wearing a sexy and hot tight dress, appears.
As soon as Penny spoke, her clear and magnetic voice immediately silenced the 60,000 spectators.
After a brief introduction to the origins and rules of the M-1 Tournament, Penny introduced the audience to three special guests: Bill Valles, Danny Inosandu, and Joe Lewis.
As long as the audience is interested in kung fu and martial arts, no one knows these three great gods in the American martial arts world, and when they saw that Wang Lei's "M-1 Competition" actually invited these three great gods, the audience was surprised and immediately felt that the "M-1 Competition" was at least three grades higher than the Japanese "K-1 Competition".
Kazuyoshi Ishii, who saw these three special guests on ESPN TV in Japan, turned very ugly.
With these three gods with a very high status in the American martial arts world as guests, it is impossible to attack the "M-1 competition" and cheat!
Because the three of Bill Valles are authoritative representatives in the American martial arts world, and they are on par with Oyama Beida's status in the Japanese martial arts world!
After introducing the three special guests, Penny introduced the four law enforcement judges of the "M-1 Competition" to the audience.
These four law enforcement referees were all recruited by Ouyang Ming with high salaries, and all have senior referees with experience in professional boxing, full-contact karate and wrestling matches.
Not only experienced, but also impartial and impartial!
Of course, all four referees were already familiar with the rules of the "M-1 competition" beforehand, and they promised not to make jokes.
After introducing the four referees, Penny began to introduce the 32 contestants.
With the 32 contestants appearing one by one under Penny's introduction, the atmosphere of the scene has reached a high climax!
After the 32 contestants stood in the ring together and got to know the audience, the draw ceremony began.
A red cardboard box was lifted out.
The cardboard box was about the size of a bucket, with a single inlet that could fit only one hand, and it contained thirty-two balls with different numbers written on them.
Each of the 32 players draws a small ball, and then determines the order of the game according to the number on the ball.
The first to draw lots was Scott, who reached into the cardboard box with his right hand and fumbled around it, and pulled out a plastic ball the size of a ping-pong ball.
The number on it is "2", which means that he has to be the first to play, and his opponent will be the player who draws the ball "1".
The second draw was a big fat man with a height of 1.89 meters and a weight of 140 kilograms, named Asahi Fuji Masaya, who is a sumo wrestler at the Yokozuna level in the Japanese sumo world.
A sumo is the highest honor for a sumo wrestler, and the wrestlers who can receive this honor are generally the highest level sumo wrestlers.
In other words, the sumo wrestler, Asahi Fuji Masaya, is much better than the sumo wrestler Chekov met at the qualifiers in California in April.
This Asahi Fuji is also able to participate in the official competition of the "M-1 Competition", not because Wang Lei posted an invitation, but because he himself stood out in the qualifiers and eliminated in Hawaii.
How could a Japanese sumo wrestler in Yokozuna come to the United States to participate in the "M-1 tournament", needless to say, Ishii and Yoshimi.
Kazuyoshi Ishii had the idea of trying to get Japanese players to compete for the top three if he couldn't stop or denigrate the "M-1 competition".
I have to say that Ishii and Yi's abacus played well, but without Wang Lei's idea, Ou Yangming and McKale thought of a way to deal with it.
Asahi Fuji Masaya drew the ball "10", and he was the fifth player in the order to play, and his opponent would be the player who drew the ball "9".
The candidates for this player, Ouyang Ming and McKel, have already booked for him.
Thirty-two players lined up, drawing lots one after another, and it didn't take long for all of them to draw their numbers.
Scott's opponent, the "1" ball, was drawn by a player named Gureney.
This Gureni is from Texas, not a pure martial artist, but the boss of the bikers, his figure looks not much different from Scott, he has loved fighting since he was a child, he is only twenty-five years old, he claims to have fought more than 10,000 times, and he has never lost.
Regardless of whether Gureni said it is true or not, his ability to emerge from the Texas qualifiers shows that he does have some quality.
However, after analyzing Ouyang Ming and McKel, they believe that a player from a jungler like Gureni is definitely not an opponent of Scott, who was born in the Delta Force. In addition, no one wanted to see a street gangster advance in the main event, so Ou Yangming did something to let Gureeney and Scott draw together.
The competition has officially begun.
As Ou Yangming and McKel expected, although Gureni, a street thug, fought fiercely, he was also very despicable and shameless, completely ignoring the rules of the game, and used the method of hitting his head and punching his crotch at every turn, and even opened his mouth to bite people.
However, these rule-breaking tactics could not intimidate Scott, who was once a special forces soldier of the Delta Force, and after only a minute of play, Scott took advantage of Gureney's kick in the crotch to grab his foot, pinned him to the ground with a counter-joint, and then slammed him on the neck, knocking Gureney unconscious.
Seeing Scott neatly kill the street gangster Gureni, the 60,000 spectators at the scene immediately gave warm applause.
In the first game of the first round, Scott won, and Penny, the host, came out again to make a sense of presence, and then the second game player came on the scene.
One of the contestants is former welterweight champion Carlos Leon, who is from Japan and wears a tiger skin mask.
Satoshi Sayama, a star of the Japanese professional wrestling world, founded the "Xiu Fight" competition, known as the world's highest level of mixed martial arts competition, in '86, and wore a tiger skin mask to compete, becoming the first generation of tiger faces. (To be continued.) )