Chapter Eighty-Four: The Reason for McCullum's Madness
Major American newspapers and magazines reported the match between Wang Lei and McCorlum the next day.
However, these newspapers and media are like Wang Lei, confused about McCallum's madness and speculated whether Wang Lei and McCallum had an irreconcilable grudge. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why the match between McCallum and Wang Lei was completely different from previous games?
In the end, a newspaper revealed the secret.
This newspaper is one of the largest newspapers in the United States.
A reporter from the sports edition of The Washington Post happened to be a fellow villager of McCallum. Not only did he know McCallum, he was also familiar with his coach and assistant.
After the reporter's indirect attack, the reason why McCallum was "crazy" in the game was finally dug out from McCallum's coach and assistant.
McCorlum's self-esteem was hurt!
The reason was that after Wang Lei was rejected in a challenge to Duran last year, he had to change his opponents. His agent Arum successively found ibf boxing champion Jackson and WBA boxing champion McCorlum, but in the end, Wang Lei chose to fight Jackson first.
McCorlum felt uncomfortable because of this.
This guy Jackson was obviously my defeated man, but I just got kosted in two rounds. What does it mean to choose Jackson if you don’t fight me? Do you look down on me?
(Wang Lei is very innocent about this: this is obviously the request of your agent. Can I defeat Jackson first and then fight you?)
What made McCorlum feel even more uncomfortable, and eventually became resentful was what happened after Wang Lei defeated Jackson.
After Wang Lei defeated Jackson, the match with McCorlum was dated, but no media was optimistic about him defeating Wang Lei, and even the odds offered by Fu Cai Company were optimistic about Wang Lei defeating him. The odds of his defeating Wang Lei were so different from 1 to 4.2.
This is really unbearable!
I am also a boxing champion, okay, or a boxing champion with a record of 26 games. I ko rate is as high as 26 games, and I koed Jackson in two rounds, one less round than Wang Lei, this guy. Why don’t you think about me?
(Wang Lei: Why don’t you be optimistic about you? Didn’t that idiot Ben Weston think you are better than me?)
What happened later made McCorlum unable to bear it anymore, because after Leonard defeated Hagler, he raised his right fist to fight against Wang Lei in the audience in the ring, which led to Duran agreeing to Wang Lei's challenge. As a result, all the media began to report on the match between Wang Lei and Duran.
Just buy a newspaper and turn to the sports page to see articles predicting the match between Wang Lei and Duran in August, saying how they were. As for the match between Wang Lei and him in May, basically no newspaper talked about it, as if all media and newspapers have chosen to forget him.
Or he did not take his game with Wang Lei seriously, no one thought he could defeat Wang Lei, and regarded this game as a warm-up match for Wang Lei to face Duran.
McCorlum, who has always had a strong sense of self-esteem, was simply crazy. He could not blame the media and newspapers, so he turned his resentment to Wang Lei, thinking that it was all Wang Lei's fault, and decided to defeat Wang Lei with all his might in the game, so that the media and newspapers would pay attention to him from now on.
So during the game, McCorham realized that he was as crazy as a desperate madman!
It’s a pity that McCorlum did not expect that Wang Lei could not only respond strongly when facing his crazy attack, but also persisted for longer than him.
McCorlum lost in this battle due to Wang Lei's perverted physical fitness. No one expected that Wang Lei could fight him head-on and still be active until the eighth round, and his physical strength did not decrease at all. Instead, his physical strength was completely exhausted.
Wang Lei was speechless when he saw this analysis article on the sports page of the Washington Post.
No wonder that guy McCorham performed so hard in the game, and he thought he was taking drugs!
But this is all my business. If you blame me, it is normal for you to be too low-key in your daily life. The media does not pay attention to you or even ignore you!
Putting the McCorlum incident behind his mind, Wang Lei returned to school and focused on preparing for the college entrance examination.
There are also college entrance examinations in the United States, but unlike the domestic college entrance examinations, there are two types of college entrance examinations in the United States, one is sat and the other is act. They are both one of the admission conditions for American universities, one of the main basis for American universities to issue scholarships and the comprehensive ability test standards for students.
Of course, American students don’t have to take both exams in the college entrance examination, just one exam is enough.
The college entrance examination for Monvena High School that Wang Lei studied is the sat exam.
In the United States, the coastal high schools basically accept the sat test, while the act test is mainly concentrated in the Midwest and South of the United States.
Sat is the English abbreviation for academic ability assessment test and is sponsored by the American University Committee. Sat scores are an important reference for high school students from all over the world to apply for study and scholarships from prestigious American universities.
The sat exam time is only three hours and forty-five minutes, and only three subjects are reading, mathematics and writing, and the full score is 2,400 points.
Although American college students are not as score-only as in China, they value their comprehensive strength and recommendations more. Like Wang Lei, who became a professional boxing champion at the age of 18, wrote a best-selling novel and several blockbuster movie scripts. High-quality students with a net worth of over 100 million, even if their sat scores are low, there are probably a lot of universities who are willing to ask for him.
Unfortunately, Wang Lei agreed to his mother to be admitted to the top 20 prestigious schools in the United States.
This was one of the conditions for Wang Lei to win his mother's support for him in boxing.
My mother’s meaning is: Even if Wang Lei goes to college and doesn’t enroll, he will at least have to get a degree certificate, so that it will be easy for him to find a job after retirement in boxing, and it will also make her face shine. When she returns home in glory and goes to China to check in, she will also have the capital to brag and be very proud!
My mother's thoughts made Wang Lei speechless. It turned out that in my mother's heart, he became the world's boxing champion, wrote several blockbuster movie scripts and novels, and earned nearly 300 million yuan, but his net worth was not as good as an academic certificate from a famous university that could make her feel face!
My mother's other request was to let Wang Lei marry Zhou Yuwei before she was twenty years old and let her hold her grandson as soon as possible.
Wang Lei, who didn't want to get married so early, had to try his best to meet his mother's first condition and strive to be admitted to a top 20 prestigious schools in the United States.
Before boxing, Wang Lei's choice was to be admitted to the University of Southern California. For nothing else, it was because the University of Southern California's film school is the most famous in the United States.
But now he has learned to write scripts and has written several scripts for blockbuster movies, which has changed his idea of being admitted to the University of Southern California.
Anyway, I only write scripts and novels besides boxing, and I don’t plan to be a director or an actor. There is no need to be an attendee at the University of Southern California Film Academy!
Besides, the University of Southern California ranks outside the 20th American universities, and it seems that it has never entered the top 20th, and it cannot meet my mother's requirements.
After careful consideration, Wang Lei targeted Stanford University.
Stanford University is definitely one of the top universities in the United States and is not inferior to Harvard University. Not to mention the top 20 in the United States, even the ranking of universities in the world rarely falls out of the top 10.
Most importantly, Stanford University's campus is located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, very close to home. It is large enough to cover an area of 8,000 acres.
As one of the most well-known universities in the United States, Stanford University has always had high admission requirements. After more than a decade, it was even selected as the hardest American university to apply for.
Wang Lei has investigated that if you want to be admitted to Stanford University, the scores in the sat exam can be at least 2,000. You must get at least 650 to 680% of reading, mathematics and writing.
Sat scored more than 2,000 points, and his identity as world boxing champion Lei and famous screenwriter and novel author, Wang Lei believes that he should be admitted to Stanford University.
The premise is that Stanford University will not be racist and look down on yellow people.
But this should not be possible. I remember that there are many Chinese and Chinese students at Stanford University, including the founder of Yahoo and Li Chaoren's two sons, both seem to be students at Stanford University.
The most important thing is that her future wife, Zhou Yuwei, quietly told him the last time she came to San Francisco that she did not plan to go to Boston after graduating from high school, and wanted to apply to Stanford University in San Francisco.
This means that as long as you get admitted to Stanford University, you will be able to be an alumni with your future wife. At least you don’t have to worry about staying in two places with her for too long in college, which will lead to her changing her mind to fall in love with other men.
Chapter completed!