Conquer America, Start with a Boxing Champion

In mid-May, the filming of Captain America 3 was completed, and Link took a flight back to the United States.

At this time, the North American film market also entered the summer vacation.

Before the summer vacation, the box office results of several films released by Lionsgate were released one after another.

The earliest released "Two Days and One Night" had a North American box office of 3.16 million US dollars and a global box office of 11.08 million US dollars, which was break-even.

The second film "Foxcatcher" had a North American box office of 11.35 million US dollars and a global box office of 23.55 million US dollars, with a loss of about 18 million US dollars. The main producer Annapurna Pictures lost most of the loss.

The third film "Creed" had a North American box office of 109 million US dollars and a global box office of 184 million US dollars.

The production cost was 35 million, which was a big hit and the first movie of Lionsgate this year to have a North American box office of over 100 million.

The fourth film "Insidious 3" was released in mid-March, and the current North American box office is 52.21 million US dollars and the global box office is 114 million US dollars.

The film cost 10 million to produce, and with an 11 to 1 profit ratio, it is considered a hit movie.

The fifth movie is "Trainwreck", which is somewhat similar to "Bridesmaids". It is an R-rated comedy about a girl named Amy who, under the influence of her father, is keen on clubbing and dating different men but never falls in love until she meets Aaron, a doctor who treats sports injuries.

The screenwriter of the film is Amy Schumer, a famous American talk show host, known as the "American version of Jia Ling". The film is also adapted from her personal experience.

Amy Schumer is also the heroine of the film, and LeBron James plays the second male supporting role in the film.

The film was released at the end of March and earned 44.24 million US dollars in the first week in 3,158 theaters in North America. After more than a month of release, the North American box office is currently 113 million US dollars and the global box office is 142 million US dollars.

It is also the second movie of Lionsgate that has broken the 100 million US dollar box office in North America this year.

The film cost 35 million US dollars to produce and is a hit movie.

Originally, the first two films released by Lionsgate at the beginning of the year were not doing well, and only one of the first four films had a North American box office of over 100 million, which was a little worse than the same period last year. Before April last year, "The Georgia Brothers" and "The Impostor Family" had already broken the North American box office of 100 million.

This situation made the peers feel relieved, and many people secretly prayed that Lionsgate's films would continue to lose money.

But with the North American box office of "Trainwreck" breaking 100 million, Lionsgate had two more films breaking the box office of 100 million before the summer vacation, and the six major film studios felt the pressure again, while the pressure on Lionsgate suddenly decreased.

In mid-April, Lionsgate's sixth film "Now You See Me 2" was released.

The film was directed by Jon M. Chu, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, etc., and Chinese singer Jay Chou and actress Ni Ni played important supporting roles in the film.

The movie tells the story of a group of magic masters using magic to rob the rich and help the poor.

The production cost was 75 million US dollars, and the North American box office in the first week was 35.25 million US dollars, which was an average box office performance.

After more than four weeks of release, the current North American box office is 72.2 million US dollars.

However, the box office performance in China exceeded expectations. "Now You See Me 2" was released in China ahead of schedule, with a box office of 280 million in the first week, and it has been the box office champion for two consecutive weeks.

After four weeks of release, it received a box office of 98 million US dollars in China, far exceeding the North American box office, and it is also the highest-grossing imported film in China this year.

In addition, the film also performed well in other overseas regions.

After 37 days of release, the global box office has accumulated to 334 million US dollars, making it the first Lionsgate film to exceed 300 million US dollars in the global box office this year.

In the summer vacation, Lionsgate has five films released this year, "San Andreas", "Maleficent", "Lucy", "Terminator: Genisys" and "The Expendables 3".

Among them, "Maleficent", "San Andreas" and "Terminator: Genisys" are jointly promoted by Lionsgate, Disney and Paramount Pictures. Lionsgate is responsible for North America, and Disney and Paramount Pictures are responsible for overseas regions.

"San Andreas" was released on May 1.

The movie tells the story of a once-in-a-century earthquake in southern Nevada. The Hoover Dam was completely destroyed in the strong earthquake. Raymond, a helicopter rescuer from the Los Angeles Fire Department, witnessed the terrible scene of a prosperous city turning into ruins in a blink of an eye on the helicopter. He was ready to fly the plane to try to find and rescue his daughter Blake.

An action-adventure movie.

Starring Dwayne Johnson, Emma Watson, Carla Gugino and others, it was released simultaneously in 63 countries and regions around the world in early May.

It earned $67.12 million in 3,777 theaters in North America over the three days of the weekend. The North American box office exceeded 100 million in 8 days of release, and the North American box office exceeded 200 million in 24 days of release. It is also the third movie of Lionsgate that has broken the 100 million North American box office this year.

The box office performance in overseas regions is also good, with a total box office of 200 million in 15 days of release.

The current global box office of the film is 448 million US dollars.

The global box office is expected to be more than 500 million US dollars.

The film cost 120 million U.S. dollars to produce and was jointly produced by Lionsgate, Paramount, and Skydance. Lionsgate holds a 50% investment share and half of the box office revenue.

If the total box office of "San Andreas" reaches 500 million, Lionsgate's profit on the project will exceed 100 million U.S. dollars.

However, there are more summer blockbusters this year than last year, and it is not easy to get a box office of 500 million.

This summer's blockbuster productions include several Lionsgate films, including Disney's Avengers 2, Inside Out, and Ant-Man, Universal's Jurassic World, Minions, and Ted 2, Paramount's Mission: Impossible 5, and Warner Bros.' Mad Max: Fury Road, all of which cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Among them, Avengers 2 was released on May 8. After returning from Berlin, Link joined the film promotion team without much rest and participated in the premiere ceremony held in seven major cities including New York, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong Island, and the sea.

Avengers 2 was released on the second weekend of May after San Andreas. It ranked second in North American film history with a box office of $84.46 million on the first day. The North American box office in the first three days was $203 million, surpassing Avengers 1, The Dark Knight, and The Hunger Games 2, ranking first in film history.

"Avengers 2" has been released for two weeks and has accumulated a total box office of 333 million US dollars in North America and a total global box office of 820 million US dollars. The total global box office is expected to be more than 1.5 billion US dollars.

Link and Robert Downey Jr. are also expected to receive more than 50 million in box office revenue.

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After completing the promotion work for "Avengers 2", Link returned to the Muscle Beach Boxing Gym in Los Angeles for training, and flew to Paris, France in late May to participate in the WBA Boxing Championship Challenge. His opponent in this game is Carlos Takam, a French boxer born in Cameroon, Africa.

The opponent defeated American veteran "Tiger" Tony Thompson, Mike Perez and others in the WBA Heavyweight Boxing Championship Challenge at the beginning of the year and got the qualification to challenge Link.

Carlos Takam is 35 years old this year, 187 cm tall, 204 cm wingspan, and 254 pounds. He is a talented player with a sturdy body and hands over his knees. He entered the professional boxing world in 2005 and currently has a record of 32 fights and 1 loss, and 24 KO wins.

The opponent's advantages are long arms, strong body, strong resistance to blows, good fist lethality, and abundant physical strength.

The disadvantages are slow punching speed, inflexible steps, average boxing skills and tactics.

He is a typical power + muscle boxer.

The match was held at the Stade de France in Paris and broadcast live by ESPN+, Canal+, Sky Sports and other TV stations.

After the start of the match, Link took the initiative in the first round, making full use of the advantages of speed and technology to beat the slow with fast. In the first round, he punched 168 times and hit the opponent 32 times, causing the opponent to fall to the ground once, and injuring the chin and brow bone.

In the second round, Link continued the tactics of the previous round, actively attacking, punching 182 times, hitting the opponent's head 10 times, causing the opponent's brow bone and chin to bleed, falling to the ground twice, and failing to get up for more than 8 seconds the last time.

Link successfully won the WBA defense.

Professional record 40 wins and 40 KO opponents in 40 games.

Since this match is a title defense, the opponent is less famous than the Klitschko brothers, Povetkin and others, and the income from the match is also less.

Including the appearance fee, PPV sales share, ticket share, etc., Link's income from this match is 135 million US dollars, and his opponent's income is 1 million.

In the recent boxing world, there is another match that has attracted a lot of attention. It happened at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas in early May, the welterweight champion Mayweather VS "Asian Destroyer" Pacquiao.

Because both sides of the game are relatively famous, the promotion company has done a good job in promoting the event. This match was named "The Battle of the Century" by the media.

This match lasted 12 rounds. The final result was scored by three referees 118-110, 116-112, and 116-112, and Mayweather was unanimously ruled the winner.

Mayweather also maintained a record of 48 professional boxing victories through this match.

However, what surprised Link was that the total prize money for this match was only 300 million, not 400 million or 500 million as he remembered. The final winner Mayweather took away 180 million US dollars, and Pacquiao earned 120 million.

Although the total income exceeded Link's four matches last year, the personal income per match was still much less than Link, who earned more than 200 million in three matches last year.

In this match, Pacquiao played more actively and was on the offensive end, while Mayweather was mainly defensive. The two sides had wins and losses, and the gap was not big.

Afterwards, some media believed that the match was held in Las Vegas, which led to the unfairness of the referee in scoring.

The referees seemed to want to create another undefeated boxing champion through Mayweather.

In addition, this match lasted 12 rounds, but there was no knockdown, and the opponent was not injured or bleeding. The intensity and viewing quality of the match were far less than that of heavyweight matches, especially Link's recent matches.

Some media compared Link's four matches last year with the "Fight of the Century", comparing the strength, speed, technology, tactics, opponent strength, number of punches, and viewing experience, and criticized the match for nothing, believing that this match was not the "Fight of the Century" but only a more popular event in the welterweight class.

In addition, Mayweather's 48 wins were also untrue, which was far from Link's record of 40 wins and 40 KOs in 40 matches.

Therefore, after the promotion of Link's match with Carlos Takam began, the media's reports and discussions about the match were quickly overshadowed by Link's match, and the influence was much smaller.

Afterwards, a reporter interviewed Link about his opinion on the "Fight of the Century" at the Paris match. Link gave a positive evaluation of the match, saying that Mayweather and Pacquiao are both among the best boxers in the current boxing world, and the match between the two is also very exciting.

After participating in the WBA boxing title defense, Link returned to Los Angeles to rest and train for more than half a month, and led the team to Australia in mid-June to participate in the WBC heavyweight boxing title defense held here.

His opponent in this match is the Australian boxer "Australian Tyson" Lucas Brown.

Born in 1979, white, 36 years old this year, 196 cm tall, 196 wingspan, 267 pounds, tattoos all over his body, originally a rugby player, worked as a bodyguard in a Sydney nightclub as an adult, and then received boxing training and entered the boxing world.

The current record is 23 wins and no losses, and he once defeated "Lights Out" James Toney in 2013.

In the WBC boxing champion title qualifier at the beginning of the year, he defeated the Uzbek boxing champion Ruslan Chagayev, the "White Tyson", Chanchauncey Willivo, Andriy Rudenko and others, and got the qualification to challenge Link.

The opponent's advantages in boxing are strong body, strong resistance to blows, good fist lethality, strong willpower in the game, and dare to fight.

The disadvantages are similar to Carlos Takam. The punching speed and reaction speed are not fast enough, the boxing skills are not systematic, and lack sufficient training. Compared with the veterans in the boxing world, the competition experience is also insufficient, and the fighting style has not formed a game tactic with personal characteristics.

Still relying on personal body and strength to compete, but not rising to skills and tactics.

The overall strength is comparable to Carlos.

This game was held in the Great Dome Stadium. Because Link and Lucas Brown are more famous, a total of 36,000 spectators were attracted to watch the game on the day of the game.

There were also a number of Australian stars who came to support him, including Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Chris Hemsworth, Rose Byrne, Cate Blanchett and others. Some of them were his partners, and some were his fans. They heard that he was competing in Australia and flew back from the crew to show their support.

Their attitude was very enthusiastic.

The match lasted three rounds.

In the first round, the opponent Lucas Brown took the lead in launching an attack. He used his physical advantage to swing his fists and attack Link fiercely. The momentum was amazing and successfully caused a small climax in the audience. Many Australian boxing fans were cheering for Lucas Brown.

In this round, Link allowed his opponent to attack and used his skills to lead the rhythm of the game, allowing the opponent to attack continuously.

At the end of the first round, the opponent was sweating all over.

In the second round, the opponent turned to defense and Link became the attacker. He used his speed that was much faster than his opponent, superb combination punches, and his usual "hit down and hit up" tactics to knock down his opponent twice in this round, and his left cheekbone and nose bridge were injured and bleeding.

In the third round, the opponent mustered up his remaining strength to attack, and Link began to play defensive counterattacks, interrupting the opponent's offensive rhythm with fast punches and breaking the opponent's defense with heavy punches.

In this round, the two fought fiercely, and every punch hit the flesh. The audience was also quite satisfied and cheered for the two loudly.

In the 66th second of the third round, Link hit the opponent's side face with a straight punch, causing the opponent to fall to the ground. The opponent struggled for 6 seconds and grabbed the ropes to get up.

Link continued to attack with fast punches and knocked down the opponent again in 92 seconds. The opponent fell to the ground and failed to get up for 8 seconds.

Link won the WBC boxing title defense again.

His professional record has improved further, reaching 41 wins and 41 KO wins in 41 games.