Chapter 652 Boxing Champion Challenge

In mid-May, the movie "Qinghong" was released in China.

The movie tells the story of the great changes in the domestic society in the early 1980s, which also led to a huge conflict between the female protagonist Qinghong and her father's ideas. Qinghong's father believed that moving back to Shanghai was the only happiness, while Qinghong wanted to stay there to enjoy her youth and love.

Later, under the indiscriminate intervention of her father, Qinghong's life also changed.

This movie is an art film with a small audience. It was only released in more than 200 theaters in cities such as Kyoto, Dahai, and Guangzhou.

Influenced by the "Jury Award" of the Cannes Film Festival, the box office was 3.5 million yuan in two weeks of release. Counting the copyright fee of more than 900,000 US dollars abroad, the total income of this movie is about 10 million yuan.

The production cost of the film was only 3.5 million yuan, which is a profitable movie.

And Link's appearance in the film was also praised by many filmmakers, who believed that Link's performance in the film was amazing and spiritual, and he was very suitable to be an actor.

Link didn't care about this kind of praise. He is now an athlete. His main job is to play boxing matches and participate in other sports.

Only by winning the gold belt and gold medal, and winning tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars in prize money through competitions, can it be considered a real success.

After attending the premiere of "Qinghong", Link continued to train in the boxing gym, only occasionally taking time to accompany Zhang Zilin shopping, teach her foreign languages, teach Liu Yifei to sing, or date the princess, Lin Zhilin, and Tang Yan.

The date with Tang Yan took place in late May. During that time, Tang Yan often came to Dayangshan Boxing Stadium to watch him train. Once when he sent her back, Tang Yan took the initiative to confess and devote herself.

Link did not refuse. He asked Tang Yan on the bed in her small apartment, and then dated seven or eight times.

He also took out more than 200,000 yuan to improve Tang Yan's situation, allowing her to buy more fashionable clothes and cosmetics to improve her image and temperament.

Tang Yan declined several times, and under his persuasion, she also accepted his funding.

In addition to training and dating, Link also dealt with some investment matters during this period.

Since last year, with his strong support, JD.com has developed rapidly in the field of e-commerce. At the beginning of the year, it has expanded from Kyoto to the sea, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places.

The company needs money to expand. As an angel investor, Link invested 18 million US dollars in JD.com through Hong Kong Island Golden Shell Company.

However, Lao Liu and JD.com's development has not lived up to his hard-earned money. At present, JD.com has become an e-commerce company second only to Alibaba in domestic e-commerce. JD.com Mall's daily order processing volume has steadily exceeded 500, and the current market value of the company has reached 300 million US dollars.

The value of JD.com shares under Golden Shell Investment has also reached 100 million US dollars.

In addition, he also continued to buy scattered Tencent Group stocks on the stock market through Golden Shell Investment. At present, the company holds 3.82% of Tencent shares.

The current market value of Tencent is still fluctuating around 9 billion Hong Kong dollars.

3.82% of the shares are worth about 300 million.

In addition, in terms of film investment, because the two companies were founded not long ago, the company's departments are still in the running-in period, and it is not appropriate to participate in too much investment.

Taiwan New World Film and Television Company has only invested in one movie, "Summer Light Years".

However, Lin Chi-lin has done well in the fashion industry and has many connections. Now with his funding, Lin Chi-lin has signed five models one after another and is ready to enter the fashion industry. When the models become famous, they will enter the film and television industry.

Lin Chi-lin also got important roles in TV series such as "Liao Zhai 2", "Women's Journey" and "The Star of Sheep" through the company's channels.

At Flower Fairy Culture and Entertainment Co., Ltd., the main work is to promote Liu Yifei and her TV series. On the one hand, it helps her gain a foothold in the domestic entertainment industry and stabilize her position as a first-line actress. On the other hand, it also protects her reputation through the media to prevent her from being hurt by the open and secret arrows in the circle.

In addition, in May, Flower Fairy also invested in a movie "Crazy Stone".

This movie project was introduced by Wang Xiaoshuai. Once during a meal, Wang Xiaoshuai mentioned that his junior brother Ning Hao had a new project and was seeking investment. Wang Xiaoshuai knew that Lin Ke had a film company and asked him if he was interested.

After reading the script called "Big Gem", Lin Ke chatted with director Ning Hao and asked about his shooting plan.

After hearing that the production cost was only 3 million, he did not hesitate and agreed to fully fund the film.

It was just out of habit that he asked Ning Hao to go back and write a plan and budget report to sort out the process of film production before starting filming, so as not to be like a makeshift team and do things without a plan.

By early June, the 17th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards ceremony was held in Taiwan. Lin Ke had 8 nominations and was invited to participate. In the end, he won two awards, the Best Mandarin Male Singer Award and the Best Lyricist Award.

In June, after the crew of "Curse of the Golden Flower" was established, Lin Ke also took time to join the crew to meet with several leading actors, discuss the script, audition, try makeup, take makeup photos, etc.

The leading actors of the film are still the original few people, Zhou Runfa, Gong Li, Liu Ye, Ni Dahong, Qin Junjie, etc.

After Link took the final makeup photo, the crew released a photo of him wearing golden armor online, which was later reprinted and reported by many media.

In the photo, he wore a golden helmet, golden armor, and held a dark spear in his hand. He looked handsome and stern, tall and straight, and his eyes showed a look of looking down on the world.

After seeing the stills, fans exclaimed that he was too handsome and killed all the male gods in the circle in seconds.

Many people left messages expressing their expectation for this movie.

Some media also expressed concerns about Link's practice of filming before the game.

After media promotion, everyone now knows that Link will fight Bernard Hopkins, the middleweight champion of the four major organizations of WBA-WBC-WBO-IBF, in July.

Will it affect the game if he goes to film now?

Agent Zhang Ying said in an interview with the media that Link is still training for the upcoming competition, and the film will not enter the crew until the competition is over.

The crew of "Golden Armor" also stated that they will adjust the filming schedule according to Link's game schedule and will not affect Link's game.

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In early July, after Link returned to Beijing to train for more than a month, he took a flight to Tokyo, Japan, to participate in the middleweight world boxing championship challenge held at the Tokyo Dome.

This match was originally scheduled to be held in Las Vegas, USA. Later, the Japan Boxing Association came forward on behalf of Sumitomo Chamber of Commerce, TV Tokyo and other companies to buy the right to host this event with a bonus of 30 million US dollars.

The competition was also moved to Tokyo.

Bernard Hopkins's appearance fee is 4 million US dollars, Link's 1 million US dollars, and the remaining 25 million US dollars will be divided into 73% after negotiation between the two agencies. The winning side will get 70%.

The Japanese side was very vocal in promoting this game. Almost all media participated in reporting this game and compared this game with the Douglas game.

That game was also held at the Tokyo Dome.

Boxing title challenger James Douglas upset the undefeated Mike Tyson in the tenth round and won the three gold belts of WBC-WBA-IBF, becoming the undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion.

Japanese media believe that Link is also very likely to create miracles in the game and become the first world boxing champion in Asia to hold the gold belts of the four major organizations, and also the first undefeated boxing champion.

On the day of the game, the Tokyo Dome was packed.

According to media reports, all tickets for this game were sold out on the third day after they were released to the public, with a total of 42,500 tickets sold.

General admission tickets are 1,000 yen, about 70 US dollars, and VIP area tickets are priced at 1 million yen. It is said that members of the royal family were watching the game that day.

In addition, TV stations in more than 30 countries including China, South Korea, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia purchased the broadcast rights for the game in advance.

"Business Daily" estimates that Japan will be able to recoup its costs from the broadcast rights fees alone. Add in revenue from hotels, restaurants, transportation, advertising sponsorships, etc., and this game will definitely be a lucrative event.

Before the competition, Japan also arranged a half-hour warm-up performance, with newly formed girl group AKB48, singer Hamasaki Ayumi, rock group X-Japan and others performing on stage.

The match between Link and Hopkins officially started at six o'clock in the afternoon. When Link took the stage, there were many Chinese spectators and Japanese boxing fans cheering for him loudly, many more than Hopkins' fans.

"Hmph! Link, I don't know what means you used to win in the previous games, but here today, you must be the loser."

Hopkins clenched his fists and looked at him with bull's eyes.

"Bernard, if you choose to admit defeat, I can let you end gracefully. If you don't admit defeat, you may lose miserably today, even worse than Jermaine Taylor in the last game."

Link smiled.

"Fart! I am the boxing champion of the four major middleweight organizations, and you want me to admit defeat?! This is absolutely impossible. If you are willing to admit defeat, I can give you US$5 million afterwards. How about that?"

Hopkins bared his teeth and said.

"No, I can earn more dollars by beating you."

Link said.

The referee in the boxing ring came over to announce the rules. After confirming that both people understood them, he announced that the game had officially begun.

Although before the game, Hopkins acted very recklessly, as if he wanted to fight him desperately.

But after the game started, Hopkins immediately took two steps back, squared up his fists, and made a full defensive posture, staring at him with a pair of eyes.

Whenever he moves, Hopkins reacts, making him impossible to hit.

Hopkins is 40 years old this year. Link once played against the 46-year-old Hopkins. Comparing the two, the 40-year-old Hopkins is obviously stronger, while Link is now stronger than the 11-year-old. It's weaker when you're older.

In that game, he KOed Hopkins in two rounds. Now if he wants to win the game in one round, he must be more active during the game.

But when Link attacked, Hopkins kept retreating and didn't fight him at all. Even if the referee urged the two to fight quickly, Hopkins ignored him.

Today's game is a big one. As long as he doesn't make a serious mistake, the referee cannot stop the game or send him off the field. If he does that, the audience who bought tickets to watch the game will definitely be very dissatisfied, and the organizer will also suffer losses.

So Hopkins' plan was to delay the first round and then fight Link in the next round. Even if he lost by then, it wouldn't be too ugly.

Seeing this situation, Link no longer tried to attack. Instead, he lowered his fists, relaxed his body, and walked towards Hopkins without defense, with a look of contempt on his face.

Hopkins saw him assuming this posture and looked at him angrily.

At this time, the audience also complained one after another, saying that Hopkins was a coward. If he didn't dare to compete, he would just admit defeat and give up the gold belt. He was not qualified to stand in the boxing ring.

Hopkins ignored him and continued to retreat.

At this moment, Link suddenly took a big step forward, blocked Hopkins near the ropes, and regardless of the foul, he held him with his arms and punched him hard on his left ribs twice.

Hopkins forced a counterattack and punched Link's head.

Link deliberately slowed down his pace, and was hit on the left forehead by Hopkins' fist, and his body couldn't help but retreat two steps.

Wow!

Seeing the changes on the stage, the audience shouted excitedly.

After Hopkins hit him with a punch, he seemed to be inspired and punched him.

Compared with the 46-year-old Hopkins, the current Hopkins has more advantages in strength and speed, and his punches weigh about 800 pounds.

But Link is not worried. His current overall strength is slightly stronger than Hopkins, he has more competition experience, and he also has experience in defeating opponents.

Seeing Hopkins attacking, Link did not dodge, but stood in place, facing Hopkins' fists, and kept shaking and dodging.

There were many times when he was about to be hit by Hopkins, but Link immediately changed his position and avoided it with clever methods. The whole process looked very thrilling.

The audience couldn't help but exclaimed when they saw this scene.

After Hopkins punched more than ten times, Link began to fight back.

This time he was not afraid of getting hurt. He stood very close to Hopkins and fought with him, straight punch + swing punch + hook punch, hitting up and down, hitting down and up.

Hopkins also punched like the wind, hitting up and down, hitting the real and the fake, attacking the key parts of his body.

In less than 60 seconds, both sides punched more than a hundred times, and each punch hit the flesh, and each was hit, and the fight was very fierce.

The audience also cheered loudly.

At 145 seconds into the match, Link punched Hopkins in the abdomen. Hopkins, taking advantage of his arm length, hit Link's chin with an uppercut.

Link immediately stepped back, but was a little slow, and the opponent's fist brushed his chin and almost hit him.

Wow! !

The audience screamed.

Hopkins was encouraged and approached Link, and threw a right hook at Link's head.

Link seemed to be scared and stood there without moving.

Hopkins' eyes flashed with ecstasy, and his fist accelerated to hit Link's face. As long as this punch hit Link, he would have a chance to KO Link in the first round, and then he would be the real overlord of the middleweight class.

"Be careful!!"

At this time, someone shouted from the audience.

It sounded like De La Hoya's shouting, and Hopkins didn't understand what De La Hoya was shouting at this time. (End of this chapter)