Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 197 Give away a golden belt?

 The sixth week of release of "Go Forward".

Link was first besieged by many anti-fans, and the album sales suffered a considerable drop due to the poisonous material.

 But after the release of "SeeYouAgain", album sales increased in vain.

 On the sales statistics chart, a big ‘√’ sign appears, indicating a strong reversal.

 "Go Forward" sold 259,000 copies in its sixth week, ranking first on the Billboard album chart for three consecutive weeks.

 The runner-up is GrizzlyBear's album "Veckatimest", which sold 136,000 copies in its first week.

 The third runner-up is Maxwell's "BLACKsummers\'night", which sold 107,000 copies in the second week.

 "The Blueprint 3" dropped to fourth place, with sales of 74,000 copies.

 "Go Forward" has sold a total of 2.25 million copies in the United States, becoming the sixth album in the United States to sell more than 2 million copies in 2009.

Link has also become the fastest singer in the American music industry to achieve double platinum double albums in nine months.

In addition, in the sixth week of release, the overseas sales of the album have also been summarized. The total overseas sales in the first month were 2.757 million copies, 910,000 copies more than the first album.

Among them, Asia contributed the most, with 1.35 million copies sold in China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, New Zealand and other countries and regions, doubling the number of the first album.

Because of the high sales volume in Asia, in the fifth week of the Olympic gold medal gifting event, he drew an album number that was sold in China, and the gold medal was also given to the Chinese fan.

 It is said that when the Olympic gold medal was sent back to China, it caused a great sensation in the local area.

Many media outlets are reporting that this gold medal was originally produced in China, but now it was sent back to China by chance, like a "complete jade returned to Zhao" in the history books.

In addition, this Olympic gold medal originally belonged to Phelps, but was won by Link and returned to China through a lottery.

The story behind this gold medal is very interesting. Its market price will be no less than 100,000 US dollars.

It is said that many collectors expressed strong interest in this Olympic gold medal and wanted to collect it at a high price. However, the fan was not short of money and said he wanted to collect it for himself and would never sell it.

The news of giving away Olympic gold medals has also been stirred up by major media around the world.

 Fans from all over the world have flocked to Link’s Twitter to leave messages, asking him to be more diligent, participate in more sports games and championships, and win more gold medals.

There are also fans who want him to sign up for more events in the next Olympics and win more Olympic gold medals, so that everyone can have a chance.

This message received more than 100,000 likes within 24 hours.

In addition, some fans are even more imaginative, saying that Link is not only a swimmer, but also a world boxing champion, and he can take out the boxing championship belt in the lottery.

 This message also received support from many people.

Link called to discuss it with Ivaca and Franco, and they said it was okay.

 The gold belt of the world boxing champion is a gold-plated leather handicraft, not pure gold.

 In each organization, there is more than one gold belt for each level.

As long as a boxer can get a boxing title, he can get one by paying $2,000.

 After being defeated by your opponent, you can still leave a message as a souvenir.

 In terms of its own value, it is not even as good as a World Championship gold medal.

 For the boxing champion himself, the symbolic significance is greater than the practical significance.

 But for boxing fans, owning an authentic gold belt with the name of the boxing champion engraved on it would be an incredible gift.

Link replied to the fan and said yes.

 Tell all fans who want to get the WBA world boxing championship belt, regardless of nationality, age or gender. Before December 20th, record a boxing training video of more than 30 seconds, regardless of the training method or equipment, as long as it is boxing training.

He will draw a lucky fan based on the video number from the top 300 boxing videos on the day before Christmas.

At the same time, he also said that he will participate in two combined boxing title fights this year, and he is sure to win more than four boxing championship gold belts.

The remaining ones will be sent out one after another through lottery numbers.

 Fans responded enthusiastically after seeing his reply.

 Everyone was just talking about it for fun, but he actually agreed and was ready to give away all his boxing gold belts.

 Within one hour, there were more than 60,000 messages in the comment area and more than 150,000 reposts.

There are fans of other singers who forward his replies to other singers, asking them to learn Link, participate in sports games and boxing competitions, and win a few gold medals and gold belts to pamper their fans.

Other singers said they really couldn’t do it.

ˆSeveral acquaintances of Taylor, Lady Gaga, and Katy Perry saw this and warned him in different ways, asking him not to go too far. He was engaging in unfair competition and was careful not to cause public outrage.

Taylor had the most violent reaction. Every time she saw fans asking her to learn from her boyfriend, she would punch Link with her fists to vent her anger.

After the Dynasty Promotion Company communicated with the operations department of YouTube Technology Company, Link officially announced the new lottery event on Twitter:

 Shoot a boxing training video and have a chance to win the authentic WBA world boxing championship belt and other gold belts.

 After the tweet was posted, there were more and more messages in the comment area.

 The biggest change is on the YouTube website. YouTube staff have created a separate unit in the sports category.

 All fans who want to participate in the lottery can upload the video they took to this unit.

The first video in this unit is Link’s boxing training video, which is 50 minutes in total.

He introduced in detail his training methods, fitness methods, equipment usage, boxing training precautions, boxing competition rules, etc. in the video.

This video was played more than 2 million times on the first day it was uploaded, and the number of likes exceeded 1.3 million. Many people left messages saying that the video was too long, so they should save it first and watch it later.

 After he uploaded the video, more than 200 boxing training videos were uploaded to the unit.

 Judging from the training venues and equipment in the video, most of those people are amateur boxers, boxing enthusiasts, and even professional boxers.

 Because the boxing unit opened by Link gave boxers a lot of exposure, some boxers paid tribute to Link online.

"Boxing Ring" also praised Link in a new issue article, believing that Link's method has greatly increased ordinary people's interest and attention in the sport of boxing, and is a great way to promote boxing.

He also said that actively promoting boxing is what a boxing champion should do. Giving away the gold belt is the best way to preserve the gold belt.

Mr. Fisher Doug, editor-in-chief of "Boxing Ring" magazine, praised Link as a true boxing champion.

 Special commentator Mr. Raphael Varane also expressed in the article that he was very happy to see that Link can still actively promote boxing matches with such an enthusiastic attitude after becoming a big star, saying that he will always be the pride of Miami.

 The boxing magazines "The Ring", "KO" and "WorldBoxing" under De La Hoya also reported the news of YouTube launching a boxing unit and gave them great affirmation and support.

De La Hoya also uploaded a boxing training video in this unit and stated that he would not participate in the lottery.

 Tyson, Holyfield, Mario, Reggie, Morales, Andre Berto, Andrzej and others also uploaded training videos to support and said they would not participate in the lottery.

 Because these videos are so messy, some are professional boxing champions, some are amateurs, and some are ordinary people.

　　YouTube’s technical department proposed to separate videos into three categories: professional and amateur, and boxing enthusiasts.

Link thought this was not bad, agreed to the proposal, and said that for the sake of fairness, the draw would only be conducted among amateurs and boxing enthusiasts.

This proposal has been well received by many fans.

 (End of this chapter)