Chapter 083 Spreading the Name of Huaxia
"Mom, look, Link is now a world champion. Do you still think he's a bad kid?"
In the Times Square Hotel in New York, Taylor sat cross-legged on a couch, looking at Link writing Chinese characters on TV.
"He is indeed excellent now, but he has done bad things in the past, and I'm not making that up."
Mrs. Andrea placed a plate of washed blueberries on the table.
"Then will you still oppose our dating? Don't deny it, last time dad's paralysis was forced by you, right? I must say, dad's acting was terrible."
Taylor snorted.
Mrs. Andrea shook her head, not surprised by her daughter seeing through that incident. After all, her daughter was smart. She said with a light laugh, "Taylor, even if I don't stop you, it will be hard for you two to become boyfriend and girlfriend because you are both too busy. Like now, Link came back to Los Angeles after competing abroad, and you had no time to meet him."
Moreover, Link is an energetic boxer. He needs a girlfriend who can stay by his side often, not a nominal one who is always flying around and can only be reached by phone. Do you understand what I mean?"
Taylor lowered her head and thought for a while, put down the fruit plate in her hand, and walked outside.
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to cancel all my announcements and go back to Los Angeles to find Link."
"Whatever you want!"
Mrs. Andrea said indifferently.
"Link, Mike, before watching the semifinals, how about we play a game?"
"OK!"
"I don't mind!"
The TV continued to show the program "Follow the Champion to Watch Boxing," the host Steve asked the staff to push up a machine, introducing to everyone, "This is a punch weight tester developed by the Clark Boxing Champion Company, Nevada. It can accurately test a boxer's punch weight. Link, I heard your gym also has one, right?"
"Yes, it works great, so is this an ad insertion?" Link said with a smile. Continue your adventure at empire
"Haha, well, yes it is an ad insertion."
Steve laughed and said, "Mike, I heard that at your peak, your punch weight was as high as 1800 pounds. How much is it now? You test first, then we'll invite Link to test, it's said his punch weight is as high as 1500 pounds."
"Link, you are a super middleweight boxer, and your punch weight is 1500 pounds?"
Tyson asked in surprise.
"The punch weight at burst, the average is just over 1100 pounds."
Link stated a relatively conservative number.
"1100 pounds is also extremely impressive, my peak average was only a little over 1500 pounds."
Tyson took off his suit jacket, leaving just his shirt on, moved his muscular right arm a few times, then smashed his fist onto the punching pad. The punch weight tester's numbers fluctuated quickly, finally stopping at 1450 pounds.
"Wow!"
Link and the audience clapped as well. Tyson, at 42, still had a punch weight of over 1400 pounds three years after retiring, higher than a standard heavyweight champion's, and his peak punch weight was probably more than 1800 pounds, just like Link would not tell others the maximum value of his punch weight.
"Link, your turn."
Steve, rubbing his knuckles, said.
Link also took off his coat, revealing his neatly pressed shirt, muscular arms, and the contours of his pectoral and back muscles visible even through the shirt.
"Cameraman, close-up, capture Link's physique."
Mrs. Tina commanded.
Steve, hearing the message in his earpiece, secretly rolled his eyes. That's the downside of having a female producer, digging into guests' gossip and capturing handsome guys' physiques in a sports program.
Link went up to the machine, clenched his right fist, and hit the punching pad hard. Beep beep beep, the numbers jumped rapidly, finally stopping at 1500 pounds.
"Wow!!"
Seeing his punch weight, which was 50 pounds heavier than heavyweight Tyson, the audience clapped and cheered vigorously.
"Link, you just mentioned your maximum punch weight was 1500 pounds, then you immediately hit that number, were you hiding your strength?"
Steve joked.
"Of course not, my punch weight is roughly around 1500, with an error not exceeding 50 pounds."
Link chuckled and returned to his seat.
After the minor episode, he continued to explain his competition with James DeGale to the audience.
DeGale was indeed a formidable boxer, having won a gold medal at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, his technique is comprehensive, physical condition exceptionally strong, he's great both in offense and defense, a strengthened version of Andrea Berto. In the match, while the opponent was very mentally stable, Link knocked down his opponent four times within four rounds.
However, after each knockdown, DeGale got up quickly the first two times without being counted out, and in the end, Link had to stand before the judges' table for the first time to accept the scoring, finally winning with a score of 31:19, advancing to the finals.
Without him, the opponent would have been the 08 super middleweight gold medalist.
"Link, not completing all amateur fights with full KO, do you feel regrets?"
Steve asked.
"A bit, but the Olympic gold medal makes up for all regrets."
Link said, holding the gold medal on the table.
"Haha, well said, no matter what, you're still the champion."
Steve clapped his hands and then asked the three guests to comment on Link and James DeGale's performance during the match.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
The trio felt that Link not being able to KO his opponent was partly because the opponent was strong, and another reason was that Link had faced a tough opponent, Altayev, in the previous match and was quite drained.