Next, Zhou Quan entered boxing training in Los Angeles.

Previously, he had already received the system reward of the Triple Crown Dynasty, and his body aging was slowed down by 30%, and he couldn't see any effect at the moment.

For athletes, this reward is of course quite good, because the athlete's consumption of the body is very large, and it is easy to get old after the age of thirty or forty, and this reward makes his body not age so quickly.

If you are lucky enough to complete the unification battle, the heart function will be strengthened by 100%, the body and mind will be strengthened at the same time, and the sleeping pill gong can strengthen the spirit, and there is hope for you to live more than 100 years old with energy!

On August 11, Zeng returned to the United States.

She has not participated in the management of Fine Coffee, and has completely handed over to the professional manager Ferro Chels, after Zhou Quan injected capital again into Fine Coffee last time, the company is now developing very rapidly, and there are 69 stores in the United States.

On August 15, the NBA finally reached a new TV contract with NBC, which is $845 million for four years.

This contract is more than 100 million less than the current contract being executed, far below the previous expectations of the league, and it turned out that David Stern was expecting to get a super contract of 4 years and 2.5 billion US dollars, and now only one-third is left.

As long as it can get a $2.5 billion broadcast contract, the NBA can surpass MLB and become the second largest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States.

But now it's impossible, this contract can't even keep the position of the third, and after the implementation of the new broadcast contract in '98, the salary cap will definitely be lowered, but I am afraid that it will be surpassed by the ice hockey league.

NBC's reason for only giving this contract is quite simple, first, there was no Iron Fist King in the G3 Finals, and the ratings plummeted by six or seven percent, and then the Iron Fist King came back, and the ratings hit a new high, so the NBA without Iron Fist King, with Michael Jordan's signboard alone, is only worth this price.

Second, without Iron Fist, the NBA will be notorious for racial discrimination, and plans to go global will surely fail.

Third, Jordan was defeated by the Iron Fist King in the Finals for three consecutive seasons, and was completed by the Iron Fist King on the head, and he was unable to withstand the blow of the Iron Fist King, and his reputation in the league and sports world has plummeted, far less than his peak, and he is too old to support the NBA league.

"The Iron Fist King has single-handedly buried the future of the NBA, and he must be held accountable for it." New york times.

"Success is also the Iron Fist King, and defeat is also the Iron Fist King." Washington post.

"Whoa!"

When he got up in the morning, Zhou Quan read the newspapers and threw them aside like garbage.

These mainstream media in the United States are still targeting him, and it seems that they are iron-hearted. But even if they hate him, these media have to write about him every day.

The time enters September, and the boxing championship is getting closer and closer.

Under the operation of the promotion fund that exceeded the historical record, the promotion of boxing matches is also increasing, not only in the United States, but also all over the world, and there are advertisements for boxing matches everywhere.

……

On the morning of the 11th, Adam Xiaohua simply ate two sandwiches and prepared to go out to look for a job.

Since being kicked out of the NBA league, with his education and work qualifications, he has not found a job until now.

The reason for this is also very clear to him: no company wants to hire a very well-known racist.

He doesn't have much cash on hand, and now he hasn't paid the mortgage for a month, and the bank has informed him that a penalty interest of 50% and a late fee of 5/10,000 will be charged if he overdue, and compound interest will be calculated.

After three months, if he doesn't take out the loan, the bank will start the judicial process, and then he will have only one way to go, file for personal bankruptcy, and then the bank will take over his $2 million house.

"Damn Iron Fist! Damn Stern! ”

……

On the 25th, Zhou Quan arrived in New York and checked into the Hilton Hotel.

From that day on, he scaled down his training and got into the rhythm of boxing.

"Husband, there are 80 stores in Delicacy." At lunch that day, Zeng Tanuki said happily.

"By the end of the year, there should be 100 companies, and the listing can also be put on the agenda." Zhou Quan is very excited, and it feels good to build a listed company by himself.

"Where's Jazz?" He asked again.

"In the past two or three months, it has grown very quickly, and now there are 70 stores. However, the real estate company has already bought more than 100 stores, and the renovation can speed up the laying of stores. Now Jazz is stepping up to train its staff. Zeng Li said.

"What about the profits of the stores that have already been opened?" He asked.

"Don't say it, it's really marketable, the profit is not bad, basically all the stores opened have profits, and there is still a queue for good locations." Zeng Li smiled.

"The price of Jazz's coffee is actually quite high in China, and it is currently a kind of mid-to-high-end consumption." Zhou Quan nodded.

On the 28th, at 11 o'clock in the morning, Zhou Quan and Michael Tyson attended a press conference at the Hilton Hotel, and the world-renowned boxing championship officially kicked off.

In order to cheer up popularity, Zhou Quan invited a group of Hollywood star friends such as Stallone to help him, and they were also very happy to participate in this kind of press conference with a high degree of attention, and those who didn't have time took the time to come.

In addition, he invited a group of NBA friends, Smiling Assassins, Joe Dumas, Rodman, O'Neal, David Robinson, Mutombo, Reggie Miller, Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Wharton, Drexler, Schramf and others.

At 10 o'clock, the press conference had not officially started, and he and Zeng Lixi ushered in one star and star friend after another.

"Click, click, click......"

Journalists frantically took pictures.

The event was broadcast live on New York Television and was visible in the New York metropolitan area.

Michael Tyson was very happy at the beginning to see so many Hollywood stars coming, but it was not very cool to see that they were all coming for Zhou Quan.

He looked around him, there was not a single star, just a dozen team members, and there were no reporters around him, how could he have face?

"Tang Jin, why don't you invite a star to me? Now the reporters have gone to the Iron Fist side. Staring at Don King, he questioned.

Don King said: "Michael, the appearance fee of Hollywood A-list stars is very high, at least hundreds of thousands of dollars, if you want to take out the money, I can also invite some to come over and help." ”

Tyson glanced at Zhou Quan's side, and Tang Jin immediately said: "They are all friends of Iron Fist, personal friendship, no one cent appearance fee, and the travel fee is upside down, don't you know?" ”

Tyson snorted angrily, not bothering to pay attention to Don King.

The old fox Tang Jin's eyes rolled, and he encouraged: "Michael, I heard that your relationship with Iron Fist is not bad, why don't you rub the popularity of those stars in the past?" There are a lot of celebrities you know. ”

Tyson glared at Don King, am I as shameless as you?

He has nothing to do with Iron Fist at all, at most it's not bad, and it's definitely going to be bad after this fight.

And he has the confidence that he will win this boxing match, although his current state is not as good as his peak, but he thinks that he can still win with iron fist.

Tekken's strengths are dodging and precision strikes, but that's also his strength, and in front of him, Tekken doesn't have the strongest advantage it used to be.

Under the belief of victory, he will not rub the popularity of Iron Fist in the past, which will definitely weaken his confidence in victory.

Before the big battle, he would not have any contact with Iron Fist, from the moment the game was decided, Iron Fist was his enemy, how could he rub the enemy's popularity? Stupid Donkin!

A total of more than 20 Hollywood A-list stars attended the event, plus more than a dozen NBA stars, the press conference was star-studded, and the attention was also super high.

"Iron Michael's row of noodles is too shabby, isn't it?"

"Why didn't Don King help Tyson invite a few heavyweight champions to come over and support the scene?"

"Come on, everyone wants to fight with Iron Fist, at least tens of millions of income, Tyson grabbed the opportunity, where are the other heavyweight boxing champions willing to come over to cheer him on?"

"Don Kim doesn't have a good relationship with those heavyweight champions."

"Tyson doesn't have a good relationship with those boxing champions either."

More than 200 reporters from all over the world crowded the press conference hall, they saw a pile of stars behind Zhou Quan, they couldn't stand, and then looked at Tyson's side, all of them were amateurs, this row of noodles was too different, and they couldn't help but talk about it.

After the press conference began, Zhou Quan and Tyson stood together, and the media began to take pictures.

"Click, click, click......"

The press hall was illuminated by flashing lights.

"Iron Fist King, don't think that you have found a few celebrities to support you, and when you get into the ring, I will beat you down in three rounds." Tyson, who had been holding back for a long time, began to let out his anger, and said to Zhou Quan with a fierce face.

Zhou Quan glanced at Tyson out of the corner of his eye, still smiling at the media, but said in his mouth: "Iron Michael, who gave you confidence?" ”

Tyson said with a cruel smile and disdain: "Everyone knows, even you admit yourself, that you are imitating my boxing style, and hitting you is as simple as beating my sparring partner." Why don't you wait until I beat you, and you will be my sparring partner? ”

"You're stupid! Is it shit in your head? Zhou Quan smiled.

"You're the shit!" Tyson scolded back.

"Okay, I promise you, whoever loses will be a sparring partner for the other party for a month? The free one. Zhou Quan proposed.

“OK。” Tyson, who was full of confidence, immediately agreed.

Immediately hundreds of reporters raised their hands, and the moderator was Roger Philip, who pointed to a reporter from the Los Angeles Daily News.

"Iron Fist, did you just say something to Michael Tyson?" The reporter asked.

"He said it was easy to hit me, it was like hitting his sparring partner. So we made a bet that whoever loses will be given a free month as a sparring partner. Zhou Quan said with a smile.

"Oh roar!"

There was a lot of excitement underneath.

The reporter asked: "Iron Fist, the latest TV broadcast contract signed by the NBA and NBC is not as good as the current one, if you take inflation into account, it is only equivalent to $780 million in '94, a decrease of more than $100 million."

In other words, the NBA league has developed for 4 years, and the result has actually regressed, what do you think of this situation? ”

Zhou Quan said: "I have a suggestion to the league, it is useless to fire a few executives, and to carry out a large-scale purge of the league from top to bottom, including the referee committee, referees, ordinary staff, team executives and even bosses, and all the racist elements are driven out, so that the league will be much cleaner and purer." ”

"Oh!"

There was another exclamation below.

At this time, in a conference room at the NBA headquarters, a group of NBA executives were meeting collectively to discuss some things for the new season.

"Damn it!"

"Shet!"

David Stern deliberately asked people to turn on the TV to watch Zhou Quan and Tyson's boxing news conference, and when Zhou Quan said this, several executives immediately cursed.

David Stern glanced at the executives coldly, with murderous intent in his eyes.

Including Adam Xiaohua, there are a total of eight executives, and he has already cleaned four of them, and there are still four left.

These four people have higher positions, including two senior vice presidents, the chairman of the referee committee, and the vice chairman, and the high power is not easy to manage, and there are many people behind them, and even some team owners have a good relationship.

Although he has the support of the bosses to purge these executives, there are not a few bosses who oppose racial discrimination in person and support racial discrimination behind their backs, so these four guys have to take their time.

The new season is not long away, and the preseason will start ten days later, but so far, the TV contracts from overseas are less than a third of last season's, and the league's operating revenue in this area will plummet by about 70%.

Other merchandise, such as jersey sales, also plummeted.

Because the ratings are expected to plummet in the new season, many sponsors in the league have opted out, and the loss in this area is very large, and all the teams below are now complaining, especially those with small ball markets.

The negative effects of Iron Fist's retirement, or racial discrimination against Iron Fist, continue to affect the league.

"Gentlemen, do you now know what the consequences of racially discriminating against the first man on duty, against the league's signature star, against one of the greatest athletes on the planet?" He said coldly to everyone.

"Mr. Stern, I suggest that the Iron Fist King do what he said and immediately carry out a large area of purge, so maybe the Iron Fist King will consider coming back."

Rex Rose, the league's senior vice president, stared at the chairman of the referee committee, Liro Dix, and said coldly.

"Mr. Ross, what are you looking at me for?" Lirodix said angrily.

"Aren't you going to ban Tekken for life? Now you should live the consequences. Rex Rose said angrily.

"It's only temporary, and the situation will definitely get better." Lirodix said with little confidence.

"! The TV contract has been signed, and even if Iron Fist comes back today, it won't change that contract. Another executive yelled at Dix.

"We have lost $1.7 billion in four years, our overseas operating income has plummeted by 70%, and our sponsorship income has decreased by half, and someone must bear the consequences." Another executive broke out.

(End of chapter)