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The WBA Light Heavyweight World Championship challenge had ended.

Challenger Link knocked out the former champion, Belrut Shumenov, in 128 seconds, becoming the new WBA Light Heavyweight World Champion.

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Link also successfully moved up from Super Middleweight to Light Heavyweight.

After the match, Link announced at the press conference that he was relinquishing his four Super Middleweight World Champion belts and would focus on Light Heavyweight matches in the future, aiming to acquire all the belts in that rank.

Upon hearing the news, all the professional boxers in the Super Middleweight class were overjoyed to tears.

Since Link entered the professional Super Middleweight boxing scene in 2008, he had dominated by snatching all the organization's belts, ruling the Super Middleweight division for over two years.

During his reign, he had so overwhelmed everyone that no matter who faced him on the stage, no one could last more than three rounds against him.

The top-tier experts in the field, including Mikkel Kessler, Carl Froch, Andre Ward, and Jermain Taylor, had all failed against him more than once, and no one had any solution to him.

Now Link had finally left.

The dark clouds overhead had dispersed, and the sun had come out.

Everyone was eagerly rubbing their hands together, preparing to contend for the vacated titles of the four major organizations.

And the boxers in the Light Heavyweight division, having watched the live broadcast of Link vs. Belrut Shumenov, all grimaced in pain.

Link's boxing was too perfect.

His offense and defense were nearly flawless, and whether it was punch power, speed, technique, or tactics, there were no apparent weaknesses.

Also, his style of fighting—acting like a gentleman when it was gentle and treating someone like a punching bag when it was ruthless—made it completely unclear how to fight him.

The professional boxers in the Light Heavyweight division all looked to the champions of the WBC, IBF, and WBO organizations, Bernard Hopkins, Chad Dawson, and Nathan Cleverly, to see how they would deal with him.

Actually, everyone secretly hoped that the three champions could halt Link's advance and prevent him from dominating the Light Heavyweight division.

Hopkins and the other two champions admitted they were under tremendous pressure.

Particularly after receiving the new tactics arranged by the promotion company, their pressure had only increased.

Fighting Link as a gentleman would at most get them knocked out by Link.

With these new tactics against Link, would they become the next Belrut?

Just thinking about it was enough to make their teeth ache.

Hot reports on this match, besides Link relinquishing the Super Middleweight belts, also include the PPV sales of this match in Asia.

A total of 1.42 million units were sold, with 870,000 in high-definition live and 550,000 in standard-definition live, setting a new record for PPV income from a boxing match in Asia.

Including the yet uncounted PPV sales in Europe and the United States, the total PPV sales of this match are expected to surpass 3 million units, placing it in the top three of all-time PPV sales, with income approximately 75 million US dollars.

The reason for the high PPV sales but not very high total revenue is that the price of cable television subscriptions in Asia is cheaper than in Europe and America, with high-definition live broadcasting at about 38 US dollars per unit and standard-definition at 28 US dollars.

However, during the boxing match, the hotels around Hung Hom Stadium were fully booked, with prices three times higher than usual.

In terms of ticket sales at the stadium, the revenue was approximately one hundred million Hong Kong dollars, with advertising sponsorships around three hundred million Hong Kong dollars, and additional revenue from other sources of two to three hundred million Hong Kong dollars.

Based on preliminary post-match statistics, this match brought about 1.2 billion Hong Kong dollars in GDP value to Hong Kong Island, an effect not inferior to the six concerts Link held last year at Hung Hom.

This match also showcased the potential of the Asian boxing market and Link's strong drawing power in the global boxing market.

"Boxing Arena" magazine commented that Link had become a global entertainment, culture, and sports superstar—no matter on which continent he fought, there was no way to lose money if Link participated.

And Link's earnings for this match were roughly 48 million US dollars.

After becoming the Light Heavyweight champion, according to his contract with Dynasty Promotions, his bonus income ratio was increased from seventy-thirty to eighty-twenty, making his actual income from this match 38.4 million US dollars.

Although it was less than the first two matches, achieving this figure in a match in Southeast Asia had never been done before on the boxing scene.

Including the 1975 "Thrilla in Manila" in the Philippines between Ali and Frazier, the third fight between the two, the combined prize money at the time was 7 million US dollars.

And the Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, whose high-earning matches were mainly held in Las Vegas, United States, typically had moderate income performances in other regions.

After this match, Link's fame and influence rose to a new level in Huaxia and Southeast Asia.

People's impression of him went from a top singer with great vocals to a world champion who was not only an excellent singer but also incredibly skilled at boxing.

Link's albums and photo collections once again climbed into the top ten bestsellers in various countries across Asia.

"Link is really awesome!"

In the airplane's first-class cabin, Chris Liu muttered to herself while flipping through the "Hong Kong Island Business News" front-page photo of Link.

"Feifei, here, drink some water."

Mom Liu passed a cup of warm water and said.

Chris Liu quietly looked at the transparent cup, which emitted wisps of white steam from the mouth, yet the bottom had some powdery granules.

"Feifei, drink some warm water, your face color looks a bit off."

Mom Liu looked at her delicate cheeks, which appeared rather pale and even more translucent and charming.

Chris Liu blinked her beautiful phoenix eyes and gazed quietly at Mom Liu, asking softly, "What did you add to the water?"