Conquer America, Start with a Boxing Champion

In addition to Divergent, Lionsgate also released commercial films such as Neighbors, Step Up 5, John Wick 4, and John Wick: Chapter 6 this summer.

In terms of the number of films released, Lionsgate has no fewer films than the Big Six, and the specific box office revenue depends on the attitude of the audience.

In May, Link received an invitation from the organizers of the 67th Cannes Film Festival to join the jury as an actor and become a member of the film festival jury.

Link happened to have time, and he did not refuse. In early May, he took his three little guys and a team of nannies and bodyguards to the small city of Cannes on a private jet and stayed in a sea view villa booked in advance for vacation.

After he came, Marion Cotillard also brought little Cassel over to let the four little guys play together. Among the four little guys, Alexander and Cynthia are the oldest, Cassel is the second, and little Margarita is the youngest.

When they first met, the three little guys were a little unfamiliar with Cassel, but they became familiar with each other after playing for a while, and they wanted to go everywhere together.

Marion Cotillard still had work to do, so she stayed in Cannes for two days before returning to the crew to film.

During his stay in Cannes, Link spent half a day watching the participating films, and the rest of the time traveling around with his four little ones.

Monica Bellucci also came during this period. She divorced Vincent Cassel last year and became a single mother. Because she had physical needs, she asked Link for help. Link helped her several times for the sake of friendship.

Monica is old, but she is considerate and has no limits on him when communicating in depth.

There are 1,208 films participating in this year's Cannes Film Festival, which is less than last year. Chinese films mainly include "The Crossing" directed by John Woo, "Coming Home" directed by Zhang Damou, "One Step Away" by Jiang Wen, and the Sino-French co-production "Wolf Totem".

After a week of exhibition and selection, 17 films entered the main competition unit, 20 films were shortlisted for the "Un Certain Regard Unit", and six films were shortlisted for the special film festival.

Director Zhang and Director Jiang Wen's films entered the non-competitive unit film festival.

In the end, the Turkish film "Hibernation" won the Golden Palm Award for Best Film, the Italian film "Miracle" won the Grand Jury Prize, the French film "Goodbye Language" won the Jury Prize, and Lionsgate's "Whiplash" won the Best Director Award.

The Russian film "Mommy" won the Screenplay Award, Canadian actor Julianne Moore won the Best Actress Award for "Maps to the Stars", and British actor Timothy Spall won the Best Actor Award for "Mr. Turner".

Compared with last year, this year's Cannes Film Festival was relatively calm. Except for the big star Link who came to serve as a judge, there was almost no big news worth reporting.

After the Cannes Film Festival, Link first sent little Cassel back to Paris, and then returned to the United States with the three children. When he left, he saw little Cassel's reluctant expression, and he was a little reluctant.

After returning to Los Angeles, Link continued to train boxing. At the end of May, he flew to Berlin, Europe, to participate in the boxing championship challenge with WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin.

Alexander Povetkin was born in 1979, is 35 years old this year, 188 cm tall, 191 cm wingspan, and weighs 225 pounds.

In 2003, he won the World Boxing Championships Super Heavyweight Championship in Bangkok, Thailand, and won the gold medal in the 91 kg and above category at the Athens Olympics in 2004.

He is also an all-around martial artist, who has systematically studied martial arts, karate, close combat and taekwondo.

In 1997, he won the World Youth Fighting Championship, the Baltic Cup Free Fighting Championship in 1998, and the world boxing champion title of the free fighting event WAKO in 1999.

He is the first athlete in history to hold the titles of free fighting champion, Olympic champion, world championship champion, and professional boxing champion (WBA heavyweight champion).

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Povetkin entered the professional boxing world in 2005, and currently has a record of 27 wins in 27 games. The opponents he defeated include Chris Bird, Mark Hack, Hasim Rahman and other heavyweight boxers with boxing titles.

In the 2011 WBA World Boxing Championship, Alexander defeated Uzbek boxing champion Ruslan Chagayev and won the WBA heavyweight general boxing title.

He has successfully defended the WBA gold belt four times in the past three years and is considered one of the strongest boxers in the heavyweight field today.

Alexander has excellent boxing skills, excellent fist lethality, medium-to-high resistance to blows, medium-to-high defense, medium speed, and medium footwork. He is a typical power boxer.

Since Link just defeated the undefeated champion Deonta not long ago and now challenges the WBA champion Alexander Povetkin, this match has also attracted the attention of boxing fans around the world.

Out of confidence in Link, before this match, the media believed that Link had a greater chance of winning, and the odds given by the bookmakers were also very attractive, with Link losing the match at 1 to 28.

If Link loses unexpectedly, those who bet on Link to lose can make a lot of money.

However, Link did not intend to give them this opportunity. After the game started, Link took the lead in attacking, using his arm span and speed advantages to bombard his opponent's defense with swift jabs, trying to find flaws and kill his opponent to the maximum extent.

Alexander is also a very good boxer. The good here mainly refers to the technique, pure Russian boxing technique, flexible and changeable footwork, accurate and powerful fists, and his strong ability to resist blows, which is difficult to deal with.

In the first round, Link punched 134 times, hitting the opponent's chest and abdomen 18 times and the head 4 times.

The opponent punched 155 times, hitting Link's chest and abdomen 12 times and his head once.

Link failed to knock down his opponent in the first round.

In the second round, Link used fast punches to attack his opponent's defense again. In this round, his fists hit his opponent's head 5 times, causing his opponent to fall to the ground once, his left eyebrow bone was swollen, and his nose was bleeding.

The opponent also hit Link's jaw once. Fortunately, he dodged quickly and leaned back quickly when the opponent's fist hit him, otherwise his chin would have been broken by the opponent's heavy punch.

Although he avoided it, this punch was also the most serious injury since his debut.

In the third round, Link quickly adjusted his state and continued to attack his opponent's defense with jabs, hitting up and down, hitting left and right. In the 96th second of the third round, he hit his opponent's forehead and left eyebrow bone with three consecutive heavy punches.

The opponent fell to the ground again, and his eyebrow bone bled continuously.

The referee squatted and counted to 6, and the opponent grabbed the ropes and stood up to continue the game.

Seeing that the third round was about to end, Link didn't want to give the opponent a chance to recover blood. Taking advantage of the opponent's eyebrow injury, blood flowing to the eyes, and blurred vision, he launched an attack from the right side and tried to hit the opponent's wound.

In the 109th second, he hit the opponent's forehead with a heavy punch again, causing the opponent to lie on the ground.

Alexander Povetkin is very tough and has a strong ability to withstand blows. After falling to the ground for seven seconds, he stood up and continued the game.

The two sides fought several times. Because Povetkin kept avoiding, Link failed to knock down his opponent before the end of this round.

The third round ended.

Link and Povetkin returned to the corner to treat the wound.

After the start of the fourth round, Link took advantage of the victory and risked being hit by the opponent. He exchanged punches and hit the opponent's forehead again with a precise and fierce jab.

Povetkin's eyebrow arch had suffered many heavy blows, and the wound became larger. Half of his face was covered with blood mixed with sweat, flowing from his face to his chest. His face was hideous and his vision was seriously disturbed.

Link activated the storm mode, forced the opponent to the corner, and then used the rope tactics to hit the opponent's abdomen with five consecutive punches, and three punches to the opponent's forehead and side face. Blood splashed, Povetkin's eyes became dazed, and his body began to shake.

Before Link continued to attack, the referee rushed over, protected Povetkin's head with both hands, and announced a pause in the game.

Link retreated with his fists.

After checking Povetkin's injuries, the referee believed that his condition was not suitable for continuing the game. In addition, he had been knocked down three times by Link in this game and was seriously injured. The strength he showed was a little worse than Link, and there was no point in continuing to fight.

After discussing with Povetkin's coach, the referee immediately stopped the game and announced that Link won.

"How do you feel?"

In the front row of the audience, Klitschko retracted his gaze and looked at his younger brother Vladimir Klitschko beside him.

Klitschko looked at Link on the ring and said, "He is a very powerful guy with good skills. He is faster than the top middleweight boxers and has an extremely fast reaction speed. If he hadn't taken the initiative to exchange punches with Alexander, Alexander could hardly hit his head. And his punch weight is also top among heavyweight boxing champions."

Speaking of this, Klitschko paused, shook his head and sighed, "He has strong overall strength and is a tough opponent."

Klitschko nodded. He first heard about Link in 2008, when Link was still the champion of the Golden Gloves Championship and challenged them to a fight.

Just seeing that Link was a super middleweight, he didn't care too much.

Later, Link entered the professional boxing world and brought the game into the "second era", causing a huge sensation in the boxing ring. It was impossible for him not to notice this very strong colleague.

In the following years, Link was like a rising star, from the super middleweight champion, to the super middleweight, to the light heavyweight, and he was also a music star, the world's top playboy, the billionaire, the Olympic champion, the Hollywood star, etc.

News about Link never stopped, even if he lived in Oakland, he often saw news about Link.

In the past, he only regarded Link as a colleague, not an opponent, and did not think that Link, a super middleweight boxer, had a chance to fight him.

After Link was promoted to heavyweight last year, he found that the probability of meeting Link was gradually increasing.

At this time, he and his brother Klitschko, as well as the coaching team, began to seriously study Link and discuss how to defeat Link.

After in-depth research, he had to admit that Link was indeed a very powerful boxer, except for being a little exaggerated and flamboyant, and he did well in technology, strength, speed, defense, tactics, and all aspects.

For them, Link has almost no shortcomings except for his height and arm span.

After watching the match between Link and Povetkin, they were more certain of their previous judgment.

Link is not only powerful, but also very cruel. When he beats people, he specifically hits the opponent's wounds, and blood splashes. It is completely different from the rumors that Link is a gentleman who has not experienced big scenes and is afraid of seeing blood.

Facing such a strong and stable opponent, Klitschko knew that even if they could defeat Link, it would probably be a miserable victory.

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On the boxing ring, Link looked at Povetkin who was helped off the stage by his assistant and exhaled. In the past, when he played with his opponent, he could make his opponent lie down for 10 seconds and couldn't get up at the end, and ended the game in this seemingly violent but not very harmful way.

But after reaching the heavyweight class, as his opponent's ability to withstand blows increased and the height difference widened, he could no longer use his punch weight advantage to knock out his opponent.

During the game, he needed to attack the opponent's head more times, causing injuries to the opponent, weakening the opponent's fighting power, and then find a way to kill the game.

Just like Deonta in the last game, he hit the opponent's chin many times, causing the opponent to be injured and unconscious. This time against Povetkin, the opponent's ability to withstand blows was stronger, and there was a kind of fearless blood and courage.

When facing such an opponent, Link needs to go head-to-head, show greater courage and courage, technology, and boxing tactics, in order to expand the results little by little and defeat the opponent.

If he had some fear in his heart, was afraid of being injured and hit in the face, and lacked the courage to take advantage of the situation, even if he could win this game, he would not be able to win so cleanly.

Also because he was not afraid of being hit, he was hit on the head and face several times by the opponent just now, and suffered serious injuries.

Also because the fight was too fierce, both sides were angry, and at the end of the game, he could hardly stop his fists and almost seriously injured his opponent.

He hadn't experienced this feeling of losing control for many years.

"I declare that the winner of this WBA heavyweight championship challenge is Link Baker!"

The referee raised Link's fist.

Link's battle song "Legends Never Die" sounded at the scene, and the song was passionate and resounding throughout the venue. Fireworks were lit over the Berlin Olympic Stadium, and the night sky became dazzling.

"Link, the champion!!!"

Many boxing fans shouted in the audience.

Link raised his fist and waved at the audience. Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit and WBA World Boxing Association President Gilberto Mendoza went to the boxing ring together to congratulate him on his victory and handed him the WBA heavyweight gold belt.

Link shook hands with the two and raised the heavyweight gold belt again. He also became the first boxer in the world boxing to successively own the WBA super middleweight-light heavyweight-heavyweight gold belts.

Professional record 38 wins, 38 KOs, 38 opponents.

This time, the referee stopped the match, which is called a technical TKO victory in boxing, and it also belongs to the category of KO.

After the match, Link held a press conference on the spot, answering questions from reporters from all over the world, and announced that he would give up all the light heavyweight gold belts and concentrate his time and energy on winning the remaining three heavyweight gold belts.

After defeating Deonta and Povetkin, there are still many strong masters in the heavyweight class, and two of them cannot escape.

It is the current WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, also known as Big K.

After becoming the WBC heavyweight champion in 2004, the opponent successfully defended the title 8 times, with strong fighting power, and he can speak five foreign languages, has a doctorate in sports science, and has an IQ of 160, nicknamed "Dr. Iron Fist".

And his younger brother, "Dr. Steel Hammer" Vladimir Klitschko, is the current WBO-IBF world champion.

He has held the WBO heavyweight champion title since 2002, and later won the WBA-IBF world champion title.

Since he is five years younger than Klopp, The Ring magazine believes that he is stronger than Klopp.

The two brothers have defeated many heavyweight champions, including Chris Bird, Samuel Pitt, Tony Thompson, Hasim Rahman, David Haye, Chagaev, Shanon Briggs, etc.

Both of them have been defeated by others.

Klopp was defeated by Chris Bird and Lennox Lewis.

Klopp has never been defeated by top boxers, but has been KO’d three times by second- and third-rate boxers, including Saunders, Brevest, and Priti.

But so far, no one has ever been able to defeat the two brothers at the same time.

It is said that they often practice boxing together and study opponents together. After Klopp is defeated, he studies his opponent with Klopp, and Klopp goes on the field to take revenge. After Klopp is defeated, he studies his opponent with Klopp, and Klopp goes on the field to take revenge.

They are a pair of very difficult brothers, more difficult than Povetkin.

If Link wants to defeat them, he needs to continue to work hard.