Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 152 Boxing Match

 “Link, what are you looking at?”

In New York, agent Simon Curtis asked as he drove on the road outside JFK International Airport.

Link looked out the window at the drizzle, making the road wet, like a woman in love with spring.

“Before coming here, I read the weather forecast and it was sunny in New York. But as soon as I got off the plane, it started to rain. I felt like the weather in New York was going against me.”

 “Haha, it’s just clouds and rain, and it will be gone in a while.”

 “I hope so, how is the competition going?”

Link asked as he leaned on his seat.

This trip to New York mainly involves three things. One is to attend the rehearsal of MJ's concert, the other is to record the second album, and the third is to have a boxing match.

“It is expected that there will be three competitions, two of which have been confirmed to be held within the year. Here is the information, take a look.”

 Simon took out a folder and handed it to him.

Link opened it and looked at it.

The first match was the WBA Champion Challenge. His opponent was Andre Rey. He was the middleweight bronze medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics. He defeated Jermaine Taylor in the qualifying round of the Champion Challenge in March. Get the qualification to challenge him.

 This competition will be held in New York in June.

 The second opponent is Roy Jones Jr.

 After defeating Tyson last year, Franco began to contact opponents for him.

　Invitations to boxing stars such as Roy Jones Jr., Joe Calzaghe, Bernard Hopkins, James Toney, John Ruiz, and Mayweather were issued.

 At present, only Roy Jones Jr. is taking the fight.

 Calzaghe is preparing to retire, and it is not yet certain whether he will play a game with him.

Hopkins expressed that he wants to see the match between him and Roy Jones before making a decision.

The others have not responded yet.

As for his match with Roy Jones, the right to host the boxing match and the prize money are currently being discussed, and the match time is to be determined.

 In the third game, he was originally scheduled to have a combined title fight with WBO-WBF double boxing champion Andre Ward.

 Just during the communication process, the four major organizations proposed a plan called Super Six.

  Let the boxing champions of various super middleweight organizations compete with each other, similar to the wheel battle between the four middleweight kings in the 1980s.

Link had heard of this competition before. There were twelve boxers participating in the 'Super Six', including Mikkel Kessler, Carl French, Arthur Abraham, Jermaine Taylor, Andr Lie Ward, Andre Reil, Lucien Bute, Alan Green, etc.

They are all boxers ranked among the top three in the four major super middleweight organizations, and they are known as the heroes competing for hegemony.

In the end, after three years of competition, Andre Ward won all the gold belts with six wins, which also allowed Andre Ward to rise to second place on the P4P rankings, second only to On Mayweather.

Now because of the appearance of Link, Mikel and Jermaine have been defeated by him successively, and the WBA gold belt has also been taken away by him. The other boxing champions are not as famous as him. The super middleweight field has "one super, many strong" ' pattern.

 However, the four major organizations still proposed the concept of "Super Six".

 This obviously does not mean that he has the ability to dominate the super middleweight class.

"Simon, wheel fighting is very troublesome. The competition period is too long. You should communicate with the four major organizations. Either super 1+5 and let several boxing champions with gold belts challenge me, or carry out a combined boxing title fight according to the original plan. I plan to win all the gold belts from the four major organizations within the year.” ˜ ˜ “Okay, I’ll communicate with Franco later.”

 Simon nodded.

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As expected, it was raining and cloudy, and the car arrived at Manhattan Island from Queens. The sky gradually cleared up, and the sun emerged from the clouds with a bright silly smile, as if it was playing hide-and-seek with Link.

After the sun came out, the streets of Manhattan became lively and lively again. High-rise buildings showed their strong figures and stood tall under the clear sky. Pedestrians also put down their colorful umbrellas and walked on the damp but spring-filled streets. Don't be in such a hurry again.

After returning to Manhattan, Link first went to Link Music Company in the metropolitan area, handed over the information of more than ten songs in his hand to Mr. Graeme Goodall, and asked him to adjust the soundtrack, and then he could record the second album. .

 “Link, are these not love songs?”

Mr. Graham looked through it and asked.

“No, it’s mainly based on life feelings. Let’s see how it goes. If you think it’s good, you can put it in the third album.”

Link said, pointing to several songs marked with a red pen.

Graeme looked at it for a while and praised: "It's very good. The level of these songs is very high. I have to say, Link, you are really a creative genius."

Link laughed and said: "Thank you. I am a newbie in music. I still need to learn more from you and my peers."

Graeme waved his hand and said with a smile: "You grow up very fast. This is your talent and has little to do with us. However, the style of these songs is similar to Givemereason. They are lyrical and alternative rock. They can be used as an album on their own. issued."

Graeme paused and pondered for a moment, "The current song Givemereason is very popular. The controversy between you and Kanye, Lil and others has not completely disappeared, and the popularity is still there. My opinion is to release this album first, next year Release the 'Love' album again, love is the eternal theme, it's never too late to release it."

Link thought for a while and decided that this arrangement would work. Most of the songs he copied were released after 2013, so a delay of half a year or so would not be a big problem.

“Okay, here are two rap songs, which are a new attempt of mine. I’m going to invite Eminem to collaborate. What do you think?”

 Eminem is a famous white rapper who debuted in 1996. He has released six albums and has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. His representative works include MyNameIs, LoseYourself, etc., as well as the movie "8 Mile".

 He ​​is very good at rapping. In the song "Rap God", he finished speaking 1,560 words in 6 minutes and 3 seconds, setting a Guinness World Record.

Graeme shook his head after listening to his words, "It's difficult. Eminem has a good relationship with rappers such as Kanye, Lil, and 50 Cent, and has jointly released several records, but you and Kanye have a bad relationship. He probably won’t agree to cooperate with you.”

Link also understands this, but this song has a lot of talking parts and needs someone who is good at rapping to cooperate. Except for the famous Eminem, he can't find a suitable candidate for the time being.

"Link, don't just focus on Eminem. There are many American rappers, such as Snoop Dogg and Akon. They are West Coast rappers. Rappers from the East Coast and the West Coast are in a competitive relationship and are hostile to each other. These two The rap song is of good quality and I think they will be interested.”

Mr. Graeme suggested.

Link nodded, agreeing with this proposal.

East Coast rappers are mainly rappers from New York and Chicago, with representatives such as JAY-Z, 50 Cent, Eminem, Kanye, etc.

The West Coast rap base is in Los Angeles-San Francisco. Representative figures include Snoop Dogg, 2Pac, etc.

 In the 1980s and 1990s, rappers from the East and West coasts briefly joined forces to create a global rap music trend and promote rap music to the world.

 But because of their different styles and mutual hostility, representatives of both parties, 2Pac and B.I.G, were shot one after another in 1996/97.

Link has some conflicts with the East Coast rap group, and West Coast rap is also someone he can cooperate with.

 (End of this chapter)