Chapter 56 The fourth round

The game went to the fourth round, five to four, and only one person was eliminated in this round.

Link vs. Haitian boxer Calvin Peters;

Lorenzo Aragon vs. Douglas Silva of Jamaica.

Fernando Vargas of Mexico vs. Venezuelan boxer ‘Alva Enriquez’.

Alva was the first in the Venezuelan boxing team. He was defeated by Aragon in the second round. Later, he won five challenges in a row, defeated five opponents including Andre Berto, and qualified for the top three. His strength is very good.

It is said that if he had not met Aragon, he would have advanced in the second round and would not have needed to participate in the challenge.

The first game of the fourth round was Aragon vs. Silva of Jamaica.

Both of them are black. Silva has a darker skin color and a strong body, but after meeting Aragon on the boxing ring, he was completely at a disadvantage.

Although Aragon looks very proud, he is indeed very strong. He has long arms, great strength, and continuous offensives. He often seizes opportunities and scores several points on the opponent.

He is also very good at guerrilla warfare, his footwork changes at any time, and he often fights around his opponent, making his opponent dizzy.

Another point is that he is also very energetic. After three rounds, he turned around on the stage and threw more than 400 punches, but he didn't sweat much.

In comparison, Link sweated a lot in the first three games.

"How do you feel?"

Coach Ed asked.

"Very good."

Link nodded.

Coach Ed frowned. Aragon's strength was no worse than Link's. If Link was willing to play the game in a scoring way, he would still have a chance to win, but it would be almost impossible to KO Aragon.

It's just that Link is a little obsessed with his goal, and it's useless to persuade him.

"Don't worry, Ed, I can KO him."

"How to KO?"

"Hit hard!"

The game on the stage was over, and the referee pulled Aragon and Douglas Silva to stand in the middle of the ring, facing the referee seat.

The Olympic Games use computer scoring, and the referee will score according to the number of times the boxer hits the opponent.

In the competition, if a boxer hits the opponent's head, waist or above directly from the front or side with the peak of any fist (the peak of the fist of the glove is different in color, mostly white) without any blocking, it will be counted as 1 point.

In the continuous close-range fights between the two athletes, the score will be awarded to the athlete with the greater advantage according to the degree of advantage of the two sides in the fight, and the one with the greater advantage will get 1 point.

Knock the opponent to the ground in the game, each time counted as 1 point.

The referee will score quickly after the boxer hits the opponent.

If three or more of the five referees press the button at the same time, it will be counted as 1 point. If there are less than three people, the computer score will not increase.

In the end, the score of the two was 32:14. Aragon defeated his opponent by a large score. This was the fourth time that Aragon scored more than 30 points in four rounds, which was quite impressive.

"Link, can you do it?"

Andre Berto asked.

Link thought about it and thought it should be possible, but it would be extremely difficult to control the score to more than 30 points in every game.

Because the qualifying round was too short and the opponent was too strong, it was not much less difficult to hit the opponent's effective parts more than 30 times accurately and powerfully within four rounds than to KO.

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The second match, Fernando Vargas of the Mexican team VS Venezuelan boxer 'Alva Enriquez'.

The two sides fought for four rounds, and finally Alva Enriquez defeated the first Fernando Vargas of the Mexican team with 24:21, successfully completing the counterattack.

It caused a lot of praise at the scene.

Alva was eliminated in the second round, and then he played five consecutive challenges, all of which were successful, and successfully counterattacked Fernando of Mexico in the 5-to-3 round. His strength is very strong.

With this counterattack, Alva Enriquez also surpassed Link and Aragon for a time, becoming the biggest highlight of this Olympic qualifying tournament.

The third match was between Link and Haitian boxer Calvin Peters, 23 years old, black, nicknamed ‘Rock’, 182cm tall, arm length 183cm, amateur record 43 wins and 1 loss in 44 matches, the only defeat was to Aragon at last year’s Pan American Games.

He is sturdy and strong, like a black reef on the seashore, with extremely high resistance to blows and extremely strong willpower.

According to his information, he has never been knocked down in the past 44 matches, and neither has Aragon.

Because Link and ‘Rock’ Peters are both boxing celebrities.

On the day of the match, more than 3,000 spectators came to the scene, filling the venue of the cultural and sports center. Among these people were ordinary citizens, hundreds of boxers who came to participate in the competition, and dozens of media reporters.

Everyone wanted to see whether the KO madman Link could knock down Rock Peters in four rounds, and also wanted to see how long Rock Peters could hold out under Link’s strong attack, and whether he would kill Link in return.

Even the Miami Herald published a review of the match, saying that this was a battle between a hammer and a block of iron. The two needed to fight to see whether the hammer would smash the block of iron or the block of iron would break the hammer.

However, the Miami Herald was somewhat pessimistic about the outcome of the match, because Link said before the match that he would win by KOing all opponents, which meant that he not only had to beat Peters, but also had to knock him out completely, that is, knock Peters unconscious and unable to get up for ten seconds.

But if you want to knock down a boxer like Peters, the success rate is extremely low.

Editor-in-Chief Raphael Varane finally advised Link in the article, advising him to temporarily give up the plan of KOing his opponent to win the game, and first win by points to get an Olympic quota. With his strength, it is not difficult to get a medal in the Olympics.

He also said that he is young and in the growth period, with great potential. Even if he encounters setbacks, he should not be discouraged. He will persevere and will definitely achieve great success in boxing in the future.

Editor-in-Chief Raphael Varane is like a psychologist. Before the game started, he gave Link psychological counseling to prevent him from being depressed after failure.

Even the local casino in Havana opened a betting for the two. The odds of Link KOing Peters were as high as 1:10. I heard that many people bet on it.

In this atmosphere, Link couldn't help but doubt himself a little. Can such a strong opponent really get a KO from him?

When he stepped onto the boxing ring, his opponent, ‘Rock’ Peters, had already arrived. He was wearing blue protective gear and stood on the ring like an iron tower, with a dark head and face and a dull expression.

Link looked at the other party and found that he was indeed a strong opponent.

This man was probably the biggest challenge he had encountered since his debut. It would be very difficult to knock him down, but if he could knock him down, it would be equivalent to completing a difficult challenge, and his mentality would become stronger and his competition experience would be richer.

It was like a process of mentality superposition. The more victories, the stronger the mentality. A person with a strong mentality is a real strong man.

So no matter how difficult it is, he must be knocked down.

“Come on, Link!”

Morales and others shouted loudly.

“I will!”

Link raised his fist and waved it.

“Boxing!”

After the game started, Link waved his fist and launched a tentative attack on his opponent.

He wanted to use his fist to test his opponent’s reaction ability, punch weight, and defense.

These boxing qualities cannot be seen through videotapes. You need to fight in person and compare them with yourself before you can make a judgment.

After more than ten exchanges of punches, Link found that the opponent's reaction ability was average, about B+;

The punch weight was at least 900 pounds, heavier than Morales, Mario, and Rossnier's punches. After being hit, the arm was numb, and being hit in the ribs would have the urge to vomit blood.

Peters' arms were very strong. When he raised them to defend, Link's heavy punches could hardly break through his outer defense. The defense strength was at least A+, or S-.

Link couldn't help but worry.

In the previous amateur competitions, because the opponent's strength was not as good as his, he was used to using heavy punches to blast open the opponent's defense, and then using jabs + straight punches + swinging punches to hit the opponent's head, causing the opponent to knock down or be completely knocked down.

Now he encountered a tough guy, and his heavy punches could not break the opponent's outer defense at all. How to fight?

"If Link insists on KO, he will definitely lose."

In the audience, Aragon said lightly.

Rossnier looked at the stage, "How did you beat Peters last time?"

"14:8!"

"You only got 14 points against him?"

Rosnier was surprised. Aragon lost two games in the first two years of his debut, but he grew very fast. After the age of 22, he has never been defeated. Every time he played with his opponent, he scored more than 20 points, and 30 points were also common. But last year, he only got 14 points against Peters in the Pan American Games.

"Do you think Link will give up KO?"

Savon looked at the two people on the ring and asked.

Rosnier thought for a while, "He is a smart man. If he can't knock down his opponent, I think he should change his tactics."

Aragon shook his head, "No, Link is a proud man. Changing tactics means failure. I think he would rather lose the game than change his tactics."

"You are the same as Link!"

Savon laughed and held the camera to the boxing ring, ready to record this game as a video teaching material.