Chapter 241： Link's flaws

Chapter 241 Link’s Flaws

Bang bang! Bang bang!

"Morales, move faster! Keep your distance. Remember, when fighting Link, you must keep your distance. He is very fast and flexible. If you get too close, you will only get beaten."

At the Muscle Beach Boxing Training Ground, Coach Brooks shouted to the two people who were fighting on the stage.

Mainly to guide the sparring partner Morales so that he can play more rounds with Link and create some difficulties for Link's training.

On Link's side.

After fourteen professional matches, his boxing skills have become more and more sophisticated, coupled with his boxing weight of more than 1,500 pounds, excellent speed, super-fast reaction ability, and superb tactical thinking in the boxing ring.

In the super middleweight field, Coach Brooks doesn’t think anyone will be his opponent.

Now when he is instructing Link to train, his main task is to find Link's shortcomings, check for omissions and make up for them, and conduct targeted training to make Link more perfect.

Now Link is not only the hope of dynasty promotion, but also one of the spokespersons of boxing.

The higher his popularity and strength, the more passers-by he will be able to attract, pay attention to and become involved in this sport.

Coach Brooks is not surprised by this.

“Shit!”

As a member of the boxing field, no one wants to watch boxing become more and more popular and become a popular sport.

Other stages include event negotiation, pre-match hype and publicity, post-match promotion, etc., which are the result of mutual cooperation between boxers and boxers, promotion companies and promotion companies.

The purpose of Coach Brooks asking this question is to see what problems there are in Link's boxing from the perspective of Link's opponent.

A promotion company without a spirit of cooperation cannot gain a foothold in the boxing world, which also leads to the fact that in the field of boxing, connections are extremely important.

In fact, in the boxing industry, except when two boxers fight on the stage, there is a little conflict between the two sides.

De La Hoya was first a boxer in a top promotion company. He founded Golden Boy Promotion in 2005 and has developed well in recent years.

While training on Coach Brooks's podium, De La Hoya walked in from the outside, wearing a suit, pointed shoes, hair combed back, dressed like a business elite.

Coach Brooks looked at him doubtfully, and De La Hoya shrugged, "I should have gone to Miami in person last year to persuade Link and give him 100 million U.S. dollars. He would be happy to join Golden Boy Promotions. With him here, I bet , in the future, only one company, Golden Boy Promotions, can make a lot of money in the boxing world.”

Muscle Beach Boxing Stadium is one of the training facilities under Golden Boy Promotions, and De La Hoya is also a shareholder here.

Coach Brooks glanced at him and nodded as a greeting.

Coach Brooks shook his head and felt that what he said was useless. If time could be turned back, De La Hoya would not be the only one willing to spend $100 million to sign Link. A powerful agency in the boxing world would be happy to do so.

Despite the competition between Golden Boy Promotions and Dynasty Promotions and Main Events, De La De La Hoya is Link's next opponent, and the two sides look like rivals, friends and foes.

Golden Boy Promotion has gradually become a more powerful promotion company.

 Last month, after Golden Boy Promotions and Dynasty Promotions negotiated and initially finalized the match between him and Link, De La Hoya often came over to watch Link train, euphemistically calling it ‘observation’.

“Of course there is, there are many questions, don’t ask what they are, you will know after I defeat him.”

The more people choose this path, the smaller the road becomes a broad road.

In addition to promoting his own games, he also has more than ten professional boxers under his banner, and has cooperated with major events and top promotions many times, including the match between De La Hoya and Pacquiao, the WBA/De La Hoya and Sean Mosley The battle for the WBC middleweight title.

“Have you found Link’s flaws after watching it so many times?”

De La Hoya looked at the training on the stage and suddenly uttered obscenities.

De La Hoya stroked the stubble on his chin and showed a confident expression.

Coach Brooks frowned and looked at him, "Are you sure you're not joking?"

“Of course, when have you ever seen me joke about something like this?”

Hoya spread his hands and smiled.

Coach Brooks thought for a moment and nodded. He had known De La Hoya for more than a year or two, and had guided De La Hoya's training in 2004-05. Apart from being a bit lustful, this man did take boxing seriously.

"Then tell me what are his shortcomings? Tell me one and I'll listen."    "emm, for a boxer of Morales' level, Link is an invincible opponent. His technique, speed , punching weight, all at the top level, but for me and Mayweather, Pacquiao, and even Bernard Hopkins, he has a lot of problems.

Let me give you an example, lest you think I’m bragging.

 It's his combination punches. Viewed individually, there is no problem with his combination punches, but the transition and connection between the combination punches are not as flexible and smooth as those of me and Pacquiao, and there will often be delays of one and a half seconds.

In professional competitions, five or six attacks can be output in one second. If you are one second slower, you will miss the opportunity and give your opponent a chance to defend.

This is one of the reasons why Link often uses violent storm attacks in games, but cannot destroy his opponents.

Another point is that Link relies more on heavy punches in competitions and likes to win by KO. In a super middleweight competition, this style of play looks cool.

After moving up to light heavyweight, this style of fighting will make him very embarrassed. If you don’t believe it, just wait and see. "

Hoya crossed his arms and smiled lightly.

Coach Brooks looked at Link's training and nodded.

Link has a little problem with combo boxing, but it's not entirely his problem. It's because his opponent doesn't put enough pressure on him, which also causes him to think too much during the game and not be able to fully devote himself to the game.

If in a match, the opponent is too strong and cannot think too much, and most of his punches are reaction to stress, his combo punches will not get stuck.

This is also the reason why most top boxers like to compete with masters. They can discover their own problems during the competition and improve their boxing level.

Coach Brooks believes that this problem is not a big problem for Link.

 Link plans to move up to the light heavyweight class after winning the super middleweight Grand Slam. There are many light heavyweight players and the competition will be more stressful. Those problems can be slowly corrected.

There is also the issue of punch weight.

By moving up to light heavyweight, Link can add a few pounds of muscle and punch heavier.

With the boxing weight he currently displays, if he adds a few dozen pounds to the light heavyweight field, he will still have a huge advantage.

Thinking of this, Coach Brooks glanced at Hoya unhappily. This guy talked for a long time and only talked about two unsolvable problems, without getting to the point at all.

Hoya laughed, spread his hands and said, "Link is my opponent. I won't say it now, but you should be able to understand. After I defeat Link, how about I write you a PPT to explain Link's shortcomings?"

“No need. If you really found Link’s flaw and were confident of defeating him, you wouldn’t come to the training ground wearing a suit every day.”

Coach Brooks shook his head and walked away with his hands behind his back.

“What do you mean? I’m wearing a suit because I just had a meeting.”

De La Hoya retorted.

Bang bang!

The training in the boxing ring was temporarily over. Link shook the sweat from his hair and waved his fist at De La Hoya in the audience. "Oscar, how about a fight? Let me see how fast your punches are. quick."

De La Hoya's full name is Oscar de la Hoya, a Hispanic boxer.

“No, I’m not comfortable wearing a suit.”

Hoya waved his hand and said.

“Can’t you take it off? The suit doesn’t grow on you.”

Morales grinned and joked.

“Stop talking nonsense, continue to practice with Link. When you can defeat Link, I will reward you one million US dollars. I will do what I say.”

Hoya shook a finger and said proudly.

Morales rolled his eyes. If he could defeat Link, a mere million would be nothing. He could earn ten million or ten million.

Link smiled lightly and continued to sparring with Morales.

(End of this chapter)