Chapter 111: Beauty's Appointment (Prosperity in the Dragon Year)

Actually, even without Ivanka's invitation, Link would have gone to watch the match between Evander Holyfield and the "Eastern Beast" Nikolai Valuev.

Not just him, Dino, Nora Duvall, Coach Brooks, and all the professional boxers at the gym planned to see it as well.

Because Holyfield was the main event's star boxer and Valuev was a top fighter from a leading promotion company, the match was jointly promoted by both companies.

Reports said the prize money for the match was about 5 million US dollars.

As the current WBA champion, Valuev received the bulk of the appearance fee, while Holyfield's was between 700,000 and one million US dollars, more than twenty times less than what he earned for his 1997 rematch with Tyson.

Despite this, Holyfield still gladly entered the ring.

On one hand, he wanted to win the WBA Golden Belt once more, and if he succeeded, he would become the only boxer in history to have won the WBA Heavyweight title five times.