Chapter 657 Taylor's Reply

The opponent Leonard Wright once won the world champion gold belt of the four major organizations in the super middleweight category, and he is a boxing star with a first-line reputation.

He was promoted to the middleweight category this year, and defeated many WBA organization boxers along the way to get the qualification to challenge him.

As the overlord of the middleweight category, Link can actually delay the competition time and only accept one game per year.

However, he and Bob Arum have discussed that he will be promoted to the super middleweight category in the second half of next year, so that he can participate in more games before the promotion and earn more money and fame.

After he won the gold belt of the four major organizations in the middleweight category, Bob Arum also became easy to talk to and did not oppose his suggestion.

In the match with Leonard Wright, Link encountered some troubles.

Leonard Wright is a real defensive master. He entered the professional boxing world in 1990 and participated in 53 games, losing only 3 times.

Every time in the game, as long as he put his hands forward to block, the opponent would be helpless. World boxing champions such as Felix Trinidad and Shane Mosley lost to him because they could not break his defense.

When Link fought against Leonard Wright, he used heavy punches to attack for a round, broke the opponent's defense three times, and knocked down the opponent twice, but failed to KO the opponent in the first round.

In the 23rd second of the second round, he broke the opponent's defense again and successfully knocked down the opponent, causing the opponent to fall to the ground and unable to get up for 10 seconds.

After the game, it was hotly discussed by the media.

In the past year or so, Link has participated in 15 games, all of which ended in one round. Even when he faced Bernard Hopkins, he could win in one round.

Now he met Leonard Wright, but he failed to KO the opponent in the first round.

Leonard Wright's fame in the boxing world has greatly increased. Many people think that his strength is stronger than Hopkins, Jermaine Taylor, Trinidad and others.

The reason is that he lasted 200 seconds under Link, but others could not.

Leonard Wright was also rated by many media as the second person under Link in the middleweight field.

In addition to discussing Leonard, the media also suspected that Link neglected training and his strength declined after becoming the middleweight overlord.

Some media used Link's new album "The Fighter" as an example, saying that he was ready to enter the music scene.

Hopkins also complained in an interview that Link performed poorly in the game, blindly using heavy punches to break the defense, like a reckless man, and his fighting style was not as flexible and changeable as before, and lacked technical content.

He said that if Link's opponent in this game was him, he would be very sure to defeat Link.

The reporter asked him if he would compete for the qualification of the champion challenger of other organizations and take back the gold belts of the four major organizations from Link.

Hopkins did not respond.

Link did not respond after reading these news comments. The reason why he won the game in the second round was his and Bob Arum's publicity plan.

In the past 15 matches, he won by knocking out his opponent in the first round. Everyone is used to it. There is almost no emotional fluctuation when seeing such news, and no one will spend time paying attention to such news.

However, Link suddenly won in the second round. Everyone will be curious when seeing such news and want to know the process of the match. In the process of understanding, they will also deepen their impression of Link and increase the PPV income of the match.

There are many benefits.

As for his initial claim that he could knock out all the middleweight boxers in the boxing world in one round, now he knocked out Leonard Wright in the second round. Is it a slip of the tongue?

When the media discussed this matter, some thought it was, and some thought it was not.

Because when Link said this, Leonard Wright had not yet entered the middleweight class.

Even if it was counted, it would not have any impact. Link has become the overlord of the middleweight class. With 16 wins and 16 knockouts in 16 fights, no one would think that Link is not strong enough.

No matter what the result of the discussion between the media and boxing fans is, it is more beneficial than harmful to Link.

After the match, Link's income from the match was $16.8 million, including 850,000 PPV sales, a total income of $59.5 million, a 20% share of about $12 million, and a 15% box office share of about $2.2 million.

After deducting the share of top promotion, Link got $16.8 million.

After receiving the funds, Link did not transfer them back to China. He registered a venture capital company called "Beethoven" in the tax haven Cayman Islands through a lawyer and invested $20 million in the company.

Then, through Beethoven Investment, he invested in Hong Kong Island Golden Shell Asset Management Company and became a shareholder of the company, holding 12.4% of the shares, which also made the valuation of Hong Kong Island Golden Shell Investment reach $185 million, including JD Tencent shares and New World Films.

After the capital injection was completed, he arranged for the Golden Shell Investment Manager to contact the Chinese entrepreneur Chen Shijun.

The other party is the founder of YouTube. YouTube was launched in May this year. Currently, the website has about 100,000 videos, about 154,000 users, and about 500,000 daily hits, which is much worse than similar MSN Video and Google Video.

If YouTube wants to develop rapidly, it needs to invest more money to buy equipment, provide smoother video browsing services, and solve copyright issues.

Link invested $11.5 million through Golden Shell Company and obtained 18% of YouTube video website shares, becoming one of YouTube's angel investors.

Of the remaining funds, part of it will be invested in JD.com, and the other part will continue to buy Tencent shares. Currently, Golden Shell Investment holds 4.92% of Tencent shares. If it wants to continue to increase its holdings, it needs to be approved and announced by the Tencent board of directors.

Link does not intend to let Golden Shell Investment enter the public eye too early, so it will only keep 4.92% of Tencent shares for the time being. The remaining funds can be invested in Alibaba, Amazon, Google, or the newly established social networking site Facebook.

Before the financial crisis in 2009, as long as there is capital, there are many projects suitable for investment.

"Mr. Lin, there is a letter for you."

In the Bay Villa, Ms. Simmons, the housekeeper and maid, walked in with a letter.

"Oh?"

Link put down the information in his hand, took the letter and looked at the postmark on the envelope. The letter came from a suburban villa in Nashville, Tennessee, and the writer was Taylor Swift.

In July, when he was listening to a country music radio program, he suddenly heard a familiar song. The singer was a 16-year-old girl named Taylor. The song she sang was called "Lucky You", which was composed by herself.

After listening to the song, Link wrote a letter to the radio station as a fan, hoping that they would pass it on to Taylor.

Originally thought it was a dead letter, but unexpectedly, a few months later, Taylor replied.

Taylor said in the letter that she was very happy that he liked her songs, and that she would continue to work hard to create more and better songs, and wished him a happy life and smooth work.

It was Taylor's handwriting, probably because she was happy, and the words she wrote were also very lively.

Link smiled gently, took out the letter paper and wrote a second letter to her, saying that he was very happy to receive a reply from her big star, which was a surprise. He said that her voice was very nice and healing, and hoped that she could stick to it and create more good songs, and looked forward to her releasing an album.

At the same time, he asked a few questions about country music and asked her whose songs she liked.

Considering that Christmas was coming soon, Link found a vinyl record "Come On Over" released by country music queen Shania Twain in 1998 from a record store in Los Angeles.

One of the songs was Shania Twain's representative work "You're Still The One".

He packed the letters and records and sent them to FedEx. If he was lucky, they might be delivered to Nashville before Christmas. (End of this chapter)