At noon on May 8, Beijing time, the light heavyweight boxing championship between Avarez and Biver will start on time, and the result of this match will be directly related to Avarez's next career trend, so it has received great attention from all parties. In addition, China's heavyweight boxing champion Zhang Zhilei was originally going to appear as a vice-home in the paid live broadcast, competing with IBF heavyweight boxer Hegvic for the legal challenger qualification, but the Croatian suddenly unilaterally announced his withdrawal before the race and released pigeons for Zhang Zhilei, which made Zhang Zhilei suffer a big loss.
It is understood that after unremitting efforts, Zhang Zhilei's team reached an agreement with the promoter Herne, who agreed to arrange a transition opponent for Zhang Zhilei, and Zhang Zhilei also wanted to play a transition match for the purpose of maintaining the state. Eventually, Hearn brought in American boxers Scott Alexander and Zhang Zhilei.
Alexander currently maintains a professional record of 16 wins, 4 losses, 2 draws and 8 KO games, but the boxer's resistance is very good, the 4 games lost are all lost in points, and the strength of the punch is acceptable, with a certain strength, for Zhang Zhilei, looking for Alexander to train troops, will be beneficial to the collision with Hegvic in another slot.
It is understood that due to Hegwich's temporary withdrawal, Zhang Zhilei's preparation costs for finding sparring and physical fitness divisions were all in vain, and the total cost was 110,000 US dollars, about 700,000 yuan, that is to say, Zhang Zhilei lost 700,000 yuan in the preparation period of more than a month. According to Zhang Zhilei's team, the loss has been privately negotiated with Hegwich, and the other party will compensate in another way. What form it is, it is not clear.
From this point, it can be seen that the high cost of professional boxing is also unmatched by other martial arts projects, a heavyweight world gold belt battle, the boxer can get tens of millions of dollars, the challenger can also earn millions or even tens of millions of dollars, while the UFC champion is only hundreds of thousands of dollars, the champion of free fighting is only tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan, it can be said that the commercial value of free fighting, MMA can not be compared with professional boxing, there is a difference between cloud and mud. High income also means high investment, and the two are equal. As for how Zhang Zhilei will perform today, let's wait and see!