Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion

At the start of the match, Beirut suffered from underestimating Link's punching power and paid the price for his loose defense.

In the subsequent rounds, to avoid being hit again, he intensified his defense.

He tightly guarded his head with both arms and constantly moved his feet to change his position, preventing Link from hitting his ribs and abdomen.

Even while defending, he was looking for opportunities to counterattack and return the punches he had just taken from Link.

Unfortunately, Link's attacking style was a real headache, one set of combination punches followed by another, with relentless force, leaving him no chance to counter.

Moreover, Link's attacking rhythm was extremely annoying, if he just hugged his head and defended without considering a counterattack, Link would only target his arms, attacking his defense line.

If he dared show any hint of counterattacking, Link's punches would suddenly become vicious.

Not only attacking the arms and head, sometimes he would unleash liver blow punches and upper hook punches.

Each move was more dangerous than the last, seemingly warning him not to counter.

Because Link's punching speed was so fast, and the power of his punches was also very heavy.

Every time Link sent out a warning, he had no choice but to suppress his counterattacking moves and defend rigorously.

This made him fight very frustratedly.

It felt like Link was in control of the entire match, and he had to follow Link's rhythm, or he would get beaten up if he didn't.

Beirut was unwilling to accept this.

He was the WBA Light Heavyweight World Champion, having defeated many powerful boxers in his class after countless hardships to obtain this WBA Golden Belt.

He would not easily give up this honor.

Now, he was just waiting for one opportunity, a chance when Link was exhausted.

In boxing, everyone knows one truth, you cannot attack for too long because human stamina is limited, and sustained offense greatly exhausts the body.

Now that Link had been throwing punches continuously for more than eighty times, the greater the continuation of such attacks, the larger the physical toll and the harder it is to maintain.

This was his chance, as long as Link's attacks slowed down even a little, he would spare no mercy, swinging his fists and smashing them fiercely on Link's face to repay the punch from earlier.

At the same time, Link was currently the most popular and influential boxer in the world, and one of the boxers with the highest appearance fees.

As long as he could defeat him, he could become an overnight sensation, a world-famous boxer, and his match prize money could increase many times over.

Just like James Douglas, before defeating Tyson, he was just an unremarkable boxer in the heavyweight division, earning hundreds of thousands per match.

After defeating Tyson, although he ultimately lost to Evander Holyfield, he still took home a prize of 25 million US dollars.

If he could defeat Link in this match, money, beautiful women, mansions, luxury cars, everything would follow.

Now, all he needed was to defeat Link.

Through the gap between his fists, Beirut glared fiercely at Link across from him.

At this moment, his resolve was incredibly firm, believing that defeating Link would realize all his dreams.

If he didn't give his all at this time, he would surely regret it for the rest of his life.

"Ula!"

Sensing that Link's offensive rhythm was slowing down, Beirut didn't waste the opportunity and yelled "Kill" in Russian, swinging his fists hard at Link.

Bang!

Link's right arm caught Beirut's punch, and involuntarily, he stepped backwards.

Beirut truly lived up to his title as Light Heavyweight Champion, his strength indeed far surpassed that of many overhyped champions.

The power emitted in that single punch just now was at least 1200 pounds, not inferior to a heavyweight continental champion.

If he had opted to take that punch without stepping back, he could have withstood it steadily, without retreating a step, but doing so was unnecessary and would have been a waste of energy, a very foolish tactic.

By stepping back, he effortlessly defused the opponent's punch and also made the opponent waste energy.

However, to the ordinary audience, this step was not that simple.

The situation just now was Beirut suddenly counterattacking, his punch forcing Link to step back, almost bumping into the ropes, the situation was extremely intense.

Everyone thought Beirut was ready to use his secret move to recover the disadvantage of the earlier rounds.

"Come on, Beirut!"

"Beirut! Ula!"

Many of Link's detractors in the audience shouted loudly.

These people included fans of Heavenly Immortal, as well as fans from Japan like Sasaki Nozomi and Yui, fans from South Korea of Jun Ji-hyun, and Girls' Generation fans.

Link didn't know where he had offended the fans of Girls' Generation.

Hundreds of boys, holding up support signs for the nine idols of Girls' Generation, cheered loudly for Beirut, hoping he could defeat Link on their behalf.

Bang bang bang!

On the boxing ring, Beirut, biting his mouthguard and with eyes blazing with anger, swung his fists, one after another, toward Link, fully exhibiting the ferocity of Russian boxing and a tank-like offensive approach.

"Too early! The counterattack is too early!"

In the VIP area of the ring, Hoyle slapped his thigh and shouted.

"When should he counterattack if not now?"

Eddie Hearn turned to ask.

"It would be best after three rounds. Link has too much stamina now. If you want to knock him down, it would be better to exhaust his stamina as much as possible in the earlier rounds and look for a chance to counter after the third round," Hoyle said, gripping his fist.

"Are you joking? At the start of the match, Link's punch made Beirut retreat three steps. You could see how powerful his strength was. If he waits three rounds to counterattack, he might get beaten to death.

Counterattacking in the first three rounds, fighting him punch for punch is the best strategy," Eddie Hearn argued.

Ever since Carl Froch lost to Link last time, Matchroom Sport began treating Link as their number one enemy, frequently inviting famous British fighters and gold medal coaches to symposiums to discuss how to defeat Link.