Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 155 Awarding (Leader’s update 110)

  After taking a break of more than two hours at noon, Link and Dino played a game of basketball in the gymnasium. At around two o'clock, they came to the game again to watch Mario's final.

 In the final, Mario met his opponent who was also a Hispanic boxer, Koosre Arnold, who was lean and muscular, 182 cm tall and over 192 cm long.

 Just looking at his body shape, he is a technical player with flexible movements, and his physical strength and boxing willpower should be good.

“Mario has encountered a very strong opponent, and it may be difficult to win.”

Morales said while looking at the ring.

Link nodded. If he encounters this kind of opponent, he only needs to surpass him in speed and then use heavy punches to implement KO tactics. It will not be difficult to defeat him.

 But Mario's speed is his shortcoming, and his physical strength and skills are not necessarily stronger than his opponent's. The only advantage is that his punch is a little heavier than his opponent's.

 In amateur competitions, contestants wear protective gear to protect themselves, and punching harder is not an advantage.

 After the start of the game, Mario attacked for a round and punched more than 60 times in a row. Only 3 punches hit the opponent's effective part, and all the others failed. However, the opponent hit him 7 times in a row, and once in the face.

 Mario plays very passively.

 “Link, do you have any good ideas?”

 Coach West asked.

Link looked at the ring and nodded, "I have some ideas, but I have to wait a little longer."

"Why? If you have tactics, why don't you come up with them right away?" Dino and Reggie asked curiously.

Link shook his head, "Mario's ability to execute tactics is very poor. It's useless to use it now."

In the first round, Mario was beaten to a disgrace. Link asked Reggie to take the gold medal to the ring and tell Mario to persuade him to surrender. He couldn't beat him anyway.

 Mario was furious and almost attacked Reggie.

 In the second round, Mario continued to attack with force, while his opponent continued to dodge flexibly and engage in defensive counterattacks.

 Mario punched 72 times in this round, only hitting his opponent's effective parts 4 times, and was hit 8 times by his opponent. The score between the two sides was 7:15, a big deficit.

Link asked Reggie to go to Mario to show off, saying that Coach West was going to reward him with a sports car, no worse than the Pontiac GTO.

 As soon as Mario heard about the sports car, his eyes suddenly turned red and he shook his fists and roared.

“Link, if you stimulate Mario like this, he can defeat his opponent?”

 Dino asked looking at Mario who looked like he had taken stimulants.

 “It’s useless, he will continue to lose this round.”

 “Then what’s the use of doing this?”

"hold on!"

Link watched the competition in the boxing ring and found it very interesting. He used to compete on the stage and was watched by the audience.

Now that he is sitting here, watching other people's matches, he finds that after becoming a bystander, he can more clearly see the moves, tactics, habitual little moves, boxers' personalities, boxing consciousness, etc. of both parties in the match.

At the same time, I thought that playing in front of tens of thousands of people was actually a process of showing off my own abilities, personality, and charm. The stronger the opponent, the more exciting the game, the more fully displayed, and the personal ability and charm will be stimulated. And amplify, attract and conquer more viewers.

 After thinking about this, he began to reflect on past games and found that he did not perform well in previous professional games.

 Winning too quickly, time was limited, and failed to show more ability and charm.

 Apart from leaving an admirable record in the media, powerful punches, and speed, there is nothing else worth boasting about. It’s a bit too big to deserve.

In comparison, although Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Joe Frazier and others did not have so many wins and records in boxing, they left a deeper impression on boxing fans, including their tenacious spirit and tenacity. Willpower, superb technology, never give up fighting spirit, cunning tactics and so on.

In the hearts of boxing fans, such boxers are also more charming and infectious, so boxing fans will still miss him decades after they retire.

Link and the boxers of his generation all seemed to have made a mistake. They were too impetuous and focused too much on the results of the game, and were unable to fully devote themselves to the game and show more to the audience. It was a bit like fast food.

 This may also be one of the reasons for the decline of contemporary boxing.

After understanding this, Link frowned and pondered, how can he perform better in the boxing ring and be more charismatic?

"Link, don't be stunned. The third round is almost over. Mario took 9 punches and only hit his opponent 5 times. He is about to lose. What is your plan?" Dino shouted, holding his arm. .

Link looked at Mario on the ring. He had high fighting spirit in the first three rounds. After losing three rounds in a row, his physical strength and willpower have seriously declined, and he has no fighting spirit at all. He may have accepted the defeat in his heart.

Link said a few words to Coach West. After hearing this, Coach West thought about it and agreed to his suggestion.

 At the end of the third round, Coach West walked over and whispered a few words to Mario.

Mario lowered his head with a gloomy expression and had no reaction to Coach West's words.

 Coach West said no more and returned to the audience.

 “Come on Mario!”

Reggie and the others shouted.

In the fourth round, Mario stopped attacking and retreated while fighting. When his opponent saw that he was sweating, panting, and had no fighting spirit on his face, he tried to launch a counterattack to expand the victory.

The opponent punched him one after another. Mario did not fight back, but just defended passively.

About 80 seconds into the fourth round, Mario retreated to a corner and suddenly launched a counterattack against his opponent. He hit the opponent with several heavy punches in succession, forcing the opponent to the corner and blocking the opponent's body with his thick body. Moving route.

 The opponent was caught off guard by him and could only protect his head with his hands clasped in fists and kept dodging.

 Mario continuously swung his fists and hit the opponent's head and face until he was hugged by his opponent and the referee came to separate the two, and the confrontation between the two ended.

 “Is this your tactic?”

Dino said in surprise.     “A little early.”

Link shook his head. During the game, he noticed that Mario's opponent's movements would stop for a moment after being hit, as if he had been blinded.

 He guessed that the opponent's ability to resist blows was not high enough and that he had poor ability to respond to Mario's heavy punches.

 So through coach West, Mario was persuaded to use fence tactics, forcing the opponent to the corner, limiting the opponent's speed, and then executing a series of strikes.

It's a pity that Mario's fists are not heavy enough and his punching speed is not fast enough. If he were to attack by himself, the head attack just now could knock over his opponent.

“Link, you have such a tactic, why didn’t you come up with it earlier?” Dino asked.

“In the first three rounds, the opponent did not consume much energy and Mario could not surround him. In addition, Mario had a mental problem. His performance in downwind games was average, but in headwind games he sometimes performed exceptionally well.”

Link explained.

With more than 20 seconds left in the fourth round, Mario launched another strong attack before the opponent recovered. This time, the opponent's reaction was slower and he was hit in the head twice by Mario.

By the fifth round, the opponent begins to play passively, circling around Mario, trying to survive the remaining two minutes this way.

Mario directly adopted foul tactics, stretched out his arms to hug his opponent, and took the opportunity to punch the opponent twice.

After being separated by the referee, Mario pounced again, punched the opponent near the rope, pressed his opponent with his belly, and before the opponent could react, he hit the opponent's head hard with several swinging punches.

 It’s a pity that he still failed to defeat his opponent.

 After being separated by the referee, the opponent continued to move, but his movements were much slower than in the previous rounds.

 Reggie and Morales shouted sports cars in the audience! Sports car! Sports car!

 Mario seizes the time to attack. At the 86th second, he once again successfully forced his opponent to the ropes and hit the opponent's head with five consecutive punches. The opponent fell to the ground for the first time.

Seeing Mario knock down his opponent, the audience shouted, come on, Reggie and the people in the boxing gym also shouted loudly.

 Mario's status improves, while his opponent's status declines seriously.

 At 112 seconds, Mario hit the opponent three more times and wanted to continue attacking, but unfortunately the bell rang to end the game.

 Dang Dang Dang!

Since there was only one knockdown, Mario failed to win by KO. Both parties stood in front of the referee's table together, and everyone watched with anticipation as the three judges announced their scores.

 The final results were 32:31; 30:30; 31:30. Two judges judged Mario to win, and one judged it to be a tie. Mario won with a slight advantage.

"Roar!!"

 After seeing this score, Mario raised his fist and roared in the sky, and also hammered his chest hard in the direction of Link, looking particularly arrogant.

Link smiled casually.

  The heavyweight competition ended, and the award ceremony began immediately. "Unstoppable" was played on the stadium speakers, and Link and Mr. John Cardir, the vice president of the Amateur Boxing Association, walked onto the ring.

 "Link, I won! I won! I am also the champion!"

Mario stood on the podium and shouted at him.

Link clapped his hands gently.

“Haha, Link, just now you thought I was bound to lose, what now? Hahaha, you are wrong, absolutely wrong!”

 Mario waved his arms and shouted proudly.

Link nodded, shook hands with the third person, congratulated the other person, and hung a bronze medal around the other person's neck.

ˆ “.”

 Mario suddenly widened his eyes and said, "You, you, you"

Link shook hands with the second place player again, said congratulations, and hung the silver medal around the other person's neck.

 “You, you present the award?”

 Mario asked in shock.

Link smiled lightly, "Am I not qualified to give you an award?"

He is not only an Olympic champion, but also a world boxing champion. In April, he was also named the best boxing promoter of 2008/09 by "Boxing Ring" magazine because he promoted boxing matches on many occasions and made boxing popular among more people. focus on.

 After the news that he came to watch the match was made public by the media, the boxing association sent people to invite him to be the award presenter. He could choose any level, saying that having him present the award would also draw more people's attention to the event.

Link did not refuse.

 Mario stared at him, the flesh on his face trembling.

Link picked up the gold medal and smiled at him.

 Mario gritted his teeth and pushed hard for a few seconds before having to lower his head.

 “Good performance! Keep up the good work!”

Link patted him on the shoulder and said.

 Mario twitched the corners of his mouth fiercely. He swore that if he had known that the award guest was Link, he would not have fought so hard to win the game.

 After the game, the news that Mario and Reggie won the National Amateur Boxing Championship, the welterweight and super welterweight championships was also widely spread by the media.

Because the two of them came from the same school as Link, Link's performance in the boxing ring was very impressive, and the media and the public also paid great attention to the two of them, wondering whether the two of them would be as powerful as Link in the future.

However, the one that has benefited the most is the West Club. This club has produced three amateur championships in succession. This achievement is so amazing. According to Mario, Coach West is grinning like a lunatic every day. .

 (End of this chapter)