After the match, Link stayed in Miami for a little over a week before returning to the Big Apple, New York.
By the time he returned to New York, the fervor for the WBA Super Middleweight championship fight had already subsided.
The news coverage on boxing matches was about the Heavyweight World Championship fight that had ended just last week, with 'The Rock' Hasim Rahman challenging WBO-IBF Champion Vladimir Klitschko and suffering a technical knockout in the sixth round, thus failing in his challenge.
'The Nigerian Nightmare' Samuel Peter vs the Ukrainian Champion Vitali Klitschko saw the elder Klitschko win back the WBC Heavyweight title with an eight-round TKO of Samuel Peter.
The two brothers continued to hold three of the four major organization's Heavyweight Golden Belts.
The other WBA Heavyweight Golden Belt was in possession of 'The Giant' Valuev, who was Russian.
The media exclaimed that the Heavyweight division in the boxing world had been conquered by Slavs.