Wilfred Benitez has excellent skills, punching skills, quick footwork, and excellent defensive skills. He is not much worse than Leonard, who has the best defensive skills among the four major kings in the middleweight category. WC Ben Wisson calls him a "defensive master" not to praise him. Secondly, Benitez's physical fitness is also excellent. He is still at the peak at the age of 28, and his physical strength is not much worse than that of the eighteen-year-old Wang Lei.

Moreover, this guy's resistance to attack is also excellent. He can fight with Thomas Hearns, nicknamed "Killer", and Robert Duran, nicknamed "Stone Fist", for fifteen rounds. The resistance to attack is very unusual. Wang Lei feels that it seems a bit difficult to knock him down in three rounds.

After studying for a long time, Wang Lei finally concluded that Benitez is a boxer with first-class attacking skills and defense, and has no weaknesses in technology. His only weakness is probably that his heavy punches are not strong.

Although Benitez's turnover rate is not low, his heavy punches are indeed not as powerful as Hearnes and Duran, and even Leonard is not as good as that. Compared with the magical Marvin Hagler, it is naturally worse than that.

Wang Lei felt that he should fight against Benitez, and relied on his sufficient physical strength to increase the explosive power of the punches and attack Benitez to the end.

Even if Benitez can defend himself for three or five rounds, he can defend for seven or eight rounds, or even ten rounds or a full twelve rounds.

Didn’t Ben Westson say that he was not strong enough? Then I will attack for twelve consecutive rounds to see what you have to say.

Of course, the premise is that Benitez can really defend his attack for twelve rounds.

Wang Lei thinks this is impossible!

Boxing is not a basketball, it is not something you can win by defending.

What professional boxing values ​​most is its attack skills. In history, no one is a famous boxing champion who has strong attack power. No one can win a championship by just defending.

Even the defensive expert of that year, Viley Pipp, won the title by attacking, not simply defense.wc

Wang Lei believed that if he had continuous attacks, if Benitez chose to defend but not fight back, he would be completely defeated by himself for only five rounds.

However, Wang Lei's idea was rejected by Sadler.

Sadler pointed out that Wang Lei's playing style and style are a bit fixed. Since Wang Lei became famous in the professional boxing world, his playing style and style have been thoroughly studied.

For example, Marlon Starling's coach Eddie Fuqi designed a response routine for Wang Lei's playing style, which caused Starling to accidentally knock down Wang Lei.

If Wang Lei hadn't had strong resistance to fighting and had strong recovery ability and had the "Tai Chi breathing technique" he practiced, he would have been kosted in the last game.

What Eddie Fauci can do, Benitez's coach may not be able to do.

Sadler inquired that Benitez's coach is named Teddy Atlas, but he is not an ordinary coach.

In addition to Benitez, he also trained a second lightweight champion with Irish nationality, and Atlas also coached the Swedish boxing team during the 1980s.

In addition to being younger than Eddie Fuqi, Teddy Atlas's coaching ability and experience may not be worse than Eddie Fuqi.

Eddie Fuqi can design coping routines based on Wang Lei's playing style, and Atlas can do it too.

What's more, in the battle with Marlon Starling, Wang Lei has exposed his weaknesses.

What Sadler mentioned about Wang Lei’s weakness is not that he lacks physical strength, but that his playing style is a bit fixed.

Wang Lei has only two styles of playing, one is a combination of heavy punches.

Simply put, it is to quickly advance to the opponent, use heavy punches and combine attacks at close range, and continuously bombard until the opponent is koshe.c

As long as this style of play is successful, opponents with insufficient defensive ability will basically be knocked down by him in a few punches.

But a master of technical flow defense with a sensitive footwork like Benitez is likely to get rid of it easily.

Another way of playing is to change left and right postures and add jab attacks.

This style of playing is a style that Wang Lei will only use when the previous style of playing is invalid or the situation is in bad shape. It mainly controls the opponent's distance and finds opportunities to create conditions for the previous style of playing.

Apart from these two ways of playing, Wang Lei basically has no other way of playing.

Although more than 90% of boxers in the boxing world rely on one style of playing to make a living.

For example, Mike Tyson, George Foreman, Joe Fraser, and middleweight champions such as Thomas Hearnes and Marvin Hagler.

But if the boxing champion who only relies on one style of playing style is thoroughly studied by his opponent or encounters an opponent with a style that is incompatible, the ending will be very bad.

It's like Forman meets Ali, Tyson meets Holyfield, and Hagler meets Leonard.

If Forman, Tyson and Hagler were both defeated by their opponents after they studied their playing style and found a way to deal with it. Then it would be a bit embarrassing that Hearnes was defeated twice by a boxer named Ian Barkley.

Thomas Hearns is nicknamed "Killer" or "Cobra". As one of the four major kings of middleweight, he was named the best boxer of the year in 1980s and 1984. Before retiring, he won the title of world boxing champion seven times and won the title of six levels of boxing champion in middleweight, middleweight, middleweight, light heavyweight and sub-heavyweight.

He was still active in the boxing world at the age of 40. His total record after retirement was 61 wins, 5 losses and 1 draw, 48 knockouts and wins, and his heavy punches were extremely lethal. He once knocked Duran out in two rounds and knocked Leonard twice in the second point with Leonard. In this game, the audience thought that Hearnes won, but was judged as a draw by the referee.

Hearnes ranks third in the top ten welterweight gunners selected by later generations.

Such a strong man who can defeat Benitez and Duran and draw Leonard's "killer", but has a nemesis.

This nemesis is Ian Barkley, a boxer with average record and rough skills. However, this man knocked down Hearnes in three rounds in 1988, next year, in the middleweight defending match of Hearnes.

If it was an accident that Barkley knocked down Hearnes in surprise in three rounds in 2018, then it would be surprising that Hearnes met Barkley again four years later and was defeated by points.

Ian Barkley's professional record is very mediocre, with a record of 43 wins, 19 losses, 1 draw and 27ko's record is not impressive no matter how he beat Hearnes twice and won the boxing champion, but he never defended his title successfully.

Such a person can defeat Hearnes, but it can only be said that the two are incompatible in style. Barkley is Hearnes's natural nemesis.

Sadler was very worried that if Wang Lei’s style of playing was fixed, he would meet his nemesis one day.

Even if you can't meet a nemesis and your playing style is thoroughly studied, you will be defeated sooner or later. It's like the battle between Forman and Ali in the African jungle.

Sadler did not ask Wang Lei to change his playing style, but hoped that Wang Lei's playing style would change. There were only two fixed ones. It was best to develop a killer weapon.

Sadler asked Wang Lei to practice the killer weapon, which was left hook punch. The left hook punch was a good way to break the deadlock when the battle was in a bad situation, and it was also one of the strong tricks to knock down the opponent.

Sadler found Wang Lei a video of a welterweight boxer named Pipino Cuevas. Sadler believed that this man's left hook punch was the most exquisite and powerful he had ever seen.

Wang Lei knew about Pipino Cuevas, a boxer.

He had watched the video of Pipino Cuevas vs. Hearns had only two rounds in that game and completely knocked down Cuevas, snatching him from the title of welterweight champion who took away his title.

However, it cannot prove that Cuevas is not strong enough. You should know that Cuevas is ranked in the list of the top ten heavy gunners in the welterweight category selected by later generations, followed by Trinidad and Hearnes. His career knockout rate was as high as 88%, and his left hook punch was extremely powerful. Before being knocked down by Hearnes, it was recognized as the most terrifying weapon in the welterweight category.

Because Cuevas' opponents were basically beaten to a terrible surprise by him, not only by knocking them down, but by being able to break his skin and even break his bones. The one that achieved this effect was his left hook punch, like an assassin's sharp knife, and if he punched, his opponent would bleeding.

It is said that Leonard chose Benitez and rejected Cuevas when he won the championship, but he did not want to face Cuevas' terrifying left hook punch.

Pipino Cuevas is still in the welterweight division of 154 pounds. It is the end of his career. He won't be able to play for long, and Wang Lei probably won't meet him.

Sadler has watched several games with Pipino Cuevas and highly praised the opponent's left hook, so he hopes that Wang Lei can also practice such a left hook.

Although Wang Lei's heavy punches are very powerful, his opponent basically relies on straight punches and swings on the backhand.

Sadler felt that it was dangerous for Wang Lei to use his backhand straight punch and swing punch to hit his opponent hard, because it was easy to crack or even counterattack when encountering a large movement or a fast reaction when encountering an opponent with a technical flow or fast reaction.

Marlon Starling took advantage of this when he knocked him down in the last game.

But if you use the left hook, you will not have such concerns.

Wang Lei thought Sadler's words were very reasonable, and in addition, the video tape's left hook punch was indeed amazing, extremely sharp, much stronger than his left hook punch.

Wang Lei naturally hoped to practice such a left hook punch, so he followed Sadler's arrangement and carefully honed his left hook punch.

It is impossible to train the left hook to the level of Pipino Cuevas in less than two months, and Sadler does not have such unrealistic ideas, but hopes that the power of Wang Lei's left hook can be increased by one level than before.

But Wang Lei still gave him a surprise!
Chapter completed!