Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion-Chapter 859 - 616: World Championship Champion_3

But his opponent's tactics were not bad either, with a tight defense. Zou Shiming launched multiple attacks, but failed to break his opponent's guard and instead used up a lot of stamina. By the third round, Kazakov leveraged his height and stamina advantages to fight back, scoring several times against Zou Shiming.

In the end, Zou Shiming lost with a score of 19:23, winning the silver medal in the 48kg rank at the World Championships.

While Link was watching from below, agents from several boxing promotion companies approached him to offer their congratulations.

They also expressed their desire to sign him, promising to spend a lot of money to promote him, to help him reach the international stage, and to become a boxing star like Ali, Tyson, and Holyfield, earning millions of US dollars per fight.

The agents talked magnificently, but when Link brought up the signing bonus, they all hemmed and hawed. Some offered 50,000 US dollars, some offered 100,000, while top promotion agents like Sean Gibbons and the promotion person Salita from the competitive room company offered the highest at 500,000 US dollars.

Link was unmoved after hearing their offers, demanding on the spot a signing bonus of 5 million US dollars; as for the income distribution from fights, before becoming a World Boxing Champion of the four major organizations, it should be a fifty-fifty split, after becoming the World Boxing Champion a 70-30 split, and once the income from a single fight exceeds 10 million US dollars, then a 90-10 split.

If they were willing to accept these terms then they could talk further, otherwise they could go back and think it over.

When the likes of Sean Gibbons heard his terms, their faces changed over and over again. Initially, they had come over with a translator, and communication was cumbersome. But after Link started speaking, they discovered his English was even more standard than theirs.

He spoke with great authority, like a shrewd politician.

He also displayed considerable expertise discussing professional boxing, seeming to be quite familiar with the ins and outs of the boxing ring.

This thwarted the plans of many boxers who had hoped to trick Link into a bad deal.

In fact, it was a good thing that Link knew English and was familiar with the professional boxing scene, as it facilitated cooperation. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

But Link's opening demand for a 5 million US dollars signing bonus was just too high, far exceeding their expectations. They were just agents, not the bosses of promotion companies and couldn't make such decisions.

After their conversation with Link, the likes of Sean Gibbons made calls to discuss with their company bosses about Link's terms.

When the bosses of several small promotion companies heard Link's demands, they directly claimed that Link was out of his mind for asking for so much money — a newcomer who had just started making a name for himself in amateur boxing demanding 5 million US dollars, a price not even inferior to what Don King offered Tyson back in the day. No one would accept such an offer.

Agents from small promotion companies therefore had to give up on signing Link.

Sean Gibbons called Bob Arum, founder and boss of the top promotion company, to talk about Link's demands.

Even though Bob Arum had been in the boxing game for over thirty years, he was left speechless by Link asking for a signing bonus of 5 million US dollars. He didn't understand where an amateur boxer from Huaxia got the audacity to ask for such an excessive request when facing an olive branch from the world's number one ranked promotion company.

Arum asked for Shawn Gibbons' opinion.

Shawn Gibbons spoke highly of Link's performance in the finals, praising his great strength and style, stating that his potential was comparable to Pacquiao and that he was worth signing for a significant amount.

Upon hearing this, Bob Arum fell silent, saying he wanted to watch the recordings of Link's matches first.

The World Boxing Championships weren't very influential in the boxing community, and apart from local broadcasting in Thailand, no other country's television had broadcast the event, so watching the championships would have to be done through recordings.

Besides the top promotion, both the competitive room promotion and Queensberry promotion bosses after hearing Link's conditions said they weren't in a rush to sign and preferred to watch the recordings first before deciding.

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After the World Boxing Championships, Link and the Huaxia boxing team took a flight back home.

The Huaxia boxing team had a good performance this time, winning one gold and one silver in the men's categories, and two bronze medals in the women's categories out of the 20 boxing rank competitions. Compared to previous World Boxing Championships, it was a significant breakthrough.

And Link became the first male boxer from the national team to win a championship at the World Championships, also earning a ticket for the Huaxia boxing team to participate in the Boxing event at the Athens Olympic Games.

Upon their return to the Capital City, Link and the boxing team received considerable media attention. Both Link and Zou Shiming were subsequently interviewed by multiple media outlets and television shows. CCTV5 even specifically purchased the recordings of Link's three matches from a Thai television station and broadcasted them over the weekend.

Large media outlets such as "Huaxia Youth Daily", "The People's Daily", "Huaxia Sports Daily" covered the championship to varying degrees.