Chapter 70: Post-match

"Link, the newspaper you want!"

"Thank you!"

On the beach in front of Baker's shop, the sun was shining brightly, and the sea rolled up blue waves from time to time, washing the white sandy beach. White water birds fluttered past the beach and landed on the tall and lush coconut tree crowns with the sea breeze.

Link lay on the beach chair, opened his eyes, pushed up the sunglasses covering his face, and there was a stack of newspapers in his arms, "Miami Herald", "Los Angeles Times", "New York Post", "American Express", "The Sun" and so on.

Although there are computers and mobile phones now, it is very convenient to browse news on the Internet, but Link still prefers to read newspapers.

Because the source of news in newspapers is more authentic and reliable, and has credibility, if there is fake news, the editor of the newspaper needs to bear the responsibility.

The news on the Internet changes every day, and even the spelling of words cannot be guaranteed to be correct, let alone the content of the news. Their existence is more like fooling people and cheating traffic.

In addition, the news in the paper media has been checked and screened by the staff inside the newspaper. They are all professional journalists, and their sensitivity to news is higher than that of ordinary people. They can use professional knowledge and vision to identify the truth from many news. Among the indistinguishable news, select more real and valuable news and present it in the paper media.

The efficiency of obtaining information by reading newspapers is also higher.

Link is an athlete, and he is used to reading newspapers from the entertainment and sports section.

There has been a lot of entertainment and sports news in North America recently.

Anne Hathaway publicly stated that she broke up with her ex-boyfriend last year and did not participate in the other party's work - today's headline in the "American Express";

Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston are tearing each other up, Brad Pitt is pulling sideways - today's headline in the "New York Post";

The crew of "Fast and Furious 4" came to Miami Film City to shoot - the entertainment headline of the "Miami Herald".

In the sports section, several newspapers reported the news of the end of the American Olympic boxing qualifiers.

According to reports, the US boxing team performed mediocre in this Olympic qualifier, winning 4 of the remaining 28 places in the Americas, including the second in the women's 51 kg category, the second in the men's 91 kg category, and the 81 kg category. Third, and first in the 75kg class.

In related news, the news of Link winning the championship in Havana has the highest popularity.

Newspapers such as the "Miami Herald" and "American Express" have published articles praising Link's performance in the qualifiers, saying that his record of 5 wins and 5 KOs in 5 matches is a miracle, which no one has done before, and no one will be able to do it in the future. .

The "American Express" sports edition commentary directly called him "a man who is creating and continuing to create miracles".

The newspapers also explained his game in detail, saying that from the first round to the last round, every opponent he encountered was an amateur elite, a boxer who had achieved excellent results in international competitions.

Including the second place in the Mexican team, Matthias Ezekiel Vargas Martin, Dennis Urs, the number one in the Canadian team, Rosniel, the second in the Cuban team, Peters, the number one in the Haitian team, and the "Boxing" magazine Rated as the elite among the amateur elites, Lorenzo Aragon, they have all achieved results in international competitions such as the World Championships, Pan American Games, and World Youth Championships.

Compared with them, Link is just a newcomer who has debuted for less than two months, but he defeated them one by one.

Rafael Varane, editor-in-chief of the Miami Herald, said in a new commentary article that almost all the opponents Link encountered were elite boxers who were as strong as him or even stronger than him, but after five rounds of competition, Link not only All won, and all KO or TKO opponents won, this has to be said to be a miracle, a brilliant record.

Rafael also analyzed the reasons for Link's victory in the article, and believed that in addition to his own strong strength, there are three key factors:

First, his boxing IQ is high.

His tactics in the ring are very flexible, and he can often change tactics according to the opponent's state, so as to win the weak by the strong.

For example, in the fourth round of the competition, facing Peters, who has super defensive ability and super resistance to blows, he concentrated all his strength to attack Peters' weak points, and finally forced his opponent to surrender;

In the fifth game, he played his high boxing IQ to the fullest. In the first round, he and Aragon attacked and defended each other dozens of times, but they were unable to break through each other's defenses and score points on each other.

At this time, most boxers will become impatient, will continue to attack hard, and waste time and energy in vain, but Link did not, he seized the opportunity and used a powerful backhand punch to exchange for Aragon's jab, Completely disrupt the rhythm of the game.

'It's wonderful, Link, this clever boy has taken advantage of it. This move not only hit Aragon hard in the face, but also disrupted the rhythm of the game that Saron had set for Aragon, and firmly controlled the rhythm of the game. In his own hands, this is a wonderful punch, a key punch, Link did a great job. '

Rafael praised this punch in the article, thinking that this punch is more critical than the final winning punch.

The second key factor, Rafael said that Link has a very good mentality. No matter what kind of competition scene he is in, no matter what kind of opponent he faces, he can maintain an excellent competitive mentality and often perform exceptionally well in the competition. He also believes that Link's mentality during the game is also very good. Whether it is encountering setbacks in offense or defeating opponents, he can maintain a normal mind, not impatient, and steady. Rafael calls this a world boxing champion mentality.

The third factor, Rafael believes that this is the most critical factor - extremely strong willpower, he believes that Link's willpower is more tenacious than Peters who continued to compete with a chin injury.

For example, in the fourth round against Peters, he attacked more than a hundred punches in a row, but still couldn't break through Peters' defense, and his body was exhausted, but for the sake of victory, he still insisted on punching non-stop, punch after punch, until the opponent's chin was seriously injured.

The key point is in the fifth round, Link used the backhand punch many times, which caused the biceps muscle of his right arm to be strained, but at the last moment he ignored the pain and threw that fierce backhand punch, one punch to determine the outcome.

"What kind of boxer is Link?"

Rafael Varane said at the end of the article, "He is definitely a boxer worthy of the expectation and trust of all boxing fans, and it is not an exaggeration to praise him with all the compliments. He will definitely be the biggest surprise in the world boxing world in the next ten years, and he will also become a A boxing superstar who is more eye-catching than Little Roy Jones and Money Mayweather, I bet Link will definitely become a world boxing champion within three years, if he fails to do so, I will run naked on Palm Beach."

Haha!

Reading this, Link couldn't help laughing, Rafael definitely wanted to run naked before he would bet publicly, instead of being sure that he could become a world boxing champion within three years.

This old man has always been unreliable.

There is also a photo in the newspaper.

It was him facing the auditorium, with his back to the light, raising his left arm high. That arm was thick and powerful, with clear and deep muscle lines, like a work of art carved out of marble.

What is even more eye-catching is his back, which is high-spirited and tenacious, giving people a feeling full of strength.

It is said that this picture has been sent to the Pulitzer Prize Jury Association to participate in the competition, and the photographer Simmons is expected to win a news photography award for this photo.

Dinglingling!

While reading the newspaper, Taylor called.

"Hey, Taylor, how was the concert in Vancouver?"

"Haha, great, Link, you should really come with me."

Taylor said happily on the phone.

"I'll accompany you to the concert? People will think I'm your bodyguard."

Link joked. After the game, Taylor took Mr. Swift back to Los Angeles for a follow-up consultation. According to the agreement, Taylor would come to Miami to stay for a few days to develop a relationship with him.

It's just that Big Machine Records arranged some work for her again, Taylor was busy with work and didn't have time to come, so she called specially to say that she wanted to postpone the agreement between the two.

Link felt very helpless, he directly told Taylor that both of them were in the rising stage of their careers, and they didn't have much time to spend on each other, so they might as well focus on their work first, and talk about love when they have time in the future, and they can be friends at this stage, which is also right. Neither of them is burdened.

It's just that Taylor disagrees, and calls to chat whenever she has time.

Link couldn't bear to hurt her either, and every time he received her call, he would chat with her as usual.

(End of this chapter)