King Of Sports

By the time he hit the canvas, he had long lost consciousness.

Xiong Haojie was directly knocked out by Tang Yan!

Liu Lianglong quickly jumped into the boxing ring. First, he reached out and felt the pulse of Xiong Haojie followed by pouring water on him and lightly tapping his face.

After a while slowly Xiong Haojie came to, but his face was pale, he obviously wasn"t feeling good.

Seeing that Xiong Haojie woke up, Liu Lianglong sighed in relief and helped him out of the boxing ring to the infirmary.

Seeing that Xiong Haojie was fine, Tang Yan was also relieved.

Compared with other people, Xiong Haojie wasn"t too hostile to him, he didn"t wish him any harm.

.....

He looked over at Liu Lianglong and said, "Now, can I partic.i.p.ate in the trials?"

"You, come with me." Liu Lianglong said to Tang Yan.

After that, without waiting for Tang Yan"s answer, he strode away.

Tang Yan gave Lu Yun a look, then followed after him.

The other boxers consciously gave way.

Boxing was a sport that definitely looked at strength. Tang Yan directly defeated Xiong Haojie. This was enough to establish his strength. No one had the idea of looking down on Tang Yan anymore.

Tang Yan followed Liu Lianglong and entered a small office. Inside, he saw the man who was stood by Liu Lianglong earlier.
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Sitting on the sofa, with a cup of tea on the coffee table in front of him, when he saw him come in, he had a smile on his face, but didn"t stand up.

"Old Qin, I"ve brought him to you." said Liu Lianglong after he entered, then he sat down on the sofa.

"Sit, sit." The man on the sofa waved at him with a smile.

"Thank you." Tang Yan said and followed by sitting in the chair opposite them.

"Tan Yan, the future of archery, hahaha. That"s what those old guys from the Archery Committee are calling you."

"So I"m a little curious, how come your here, boxing of all things?" The person on the sofa said whilst sitting up straight, with a smile, "I don"t mean to doubt you. I"ve just rarely seen a boxer like you."

Tang Yan showed a bitter smile. He followed up and said: "It"s a hobby of mine."

"Hobby..." The man on the sofa glanced at him then couldn"t help but laugh.

"So..., can I partic.i.p.ate in the trials?" Tang Yan wasn"t interested in playing about.

"Yes and no." The man on the sofa stopped smiling and looked at him.

Tang Yan brows wrinkled up, he turned his head and glanced at Liu Lianglong.

This was not the same as what they discussed before.

.....

"It"s true with your strength you can hold your own in the trials. But the selection process has it"s own rules. Only boxers who have acc.u.mulated a certain number of fight wins under their belt can apply. That is to say, we are gonna have to get some fights under your belt. But your lucky, there"s just the perfect opportunity to do so. You"ll fight in the [Alibaba Boxing Tournament]

"In fact, considering that the Asian Games is fast approaching. Shouldn"t you be preparing for the archery event. Tian Zhenzhe, doesn"t know what your up to does he?"

Tang Yan was silent for a while and then nodded.

This was indeed a problem. Although he had a 100% confidence that this wouldn"t affect his archery, Tian Zhenzhe might not necessarily think so.

"Okay, that"s also another thing we have to sort out, but I"m looking forward to you joining our team." The man on the sofa smiled and stood up.

"Oh, yeah, I forgot to introduce myself. I am the head coach of the national boxing team, Qin Hailong." After Qin Hailong got up, he reached out and said to Tang Yan.

Listening to Qin Hailong"s words, Tang Yan was a little surprised. Although he had guessed that this person"s ident.i.ty wasn"t simple, he didn"t expect that he was the head coach of the national boxing team. It seemed that what Lu Yun said wasn"t false, although Liu Lianglong was just a provincial team coach, his network of connections was really wide.

"Thank you, Coach Qin." Tang Yan said politely.

Qin Hailong nodded with a smile and then left the office with Liu Lianglong.

Tang Yan followed and went out.

When he went out, most of the boxers had already began practice, and only Lu Yun was waiting for him outside.

"How was it?"

"Not the same as I expected, I still need to fight in a tournament." Tang Yan said slightly frowning.

"What tournament?"

"The Alibaba Boxing Tournament"

Out of Tang Yan"s expectations, Lu Yun smiled and clapped at this.

"Why are you celebrating?" Tang Yan looked puzzled at Lu Yun.

"Hahaha." Lu Yun said with a very positive tone. "This tournament is basically full of greenhorns. In terms of strength, they are nothing compared to Xiong Haojie, winning will be a breeze for you.

"Really?"

"Absolutely." Lu Yun said affirmatively with a smile.

.....

In the following week, Liu Lianglong gave special training to Tang Yan.

He taught him: how to correctly take a punch effectively, common strategies and tricks to look out for, basically filling in any gaps in his knowledge and advising him how to improve based on his mistakes from the Xiong Haojie fight.

Tang Yan was able to quickly grasp everything.

In this process, Tang Yan"s progress made Liu Lianglong marvel.

Tang Yan himself benefited a lot. Although the power of Jeet Kune Do was strong and the boxing elements from it were excellent, but because of the relations.h.i.+p between the times and modern day boxing had changed a decent amount. Liu Lianglong"s training helped actually make up for these aspects.

A short week of training had quickly made him a qualified amateur boxer.

Just after the preparations for this week, Tang Yan, Lu Yun and Liu Lianglong took the plane to Shanghai.

The venue of the tournament was there.

Unlike the national boxing champions.h.i.+ps, the tournament had a big difference in both the number and quality of the boxers.

This time the tournament had a total of 86 contestants who were recommended by more than a dozen provinces. Of course, these 86 boxers were scattered in different weight cla.s.ses, so in fact, the number of boxers per cla.s.s was quite small.

Take the 49kg cla.s.s that Tang Yan wanted to partic.i.p.ate in. In total, there were only 13 boxers partic.i.p.ating in this cla.s.s. He could win it all by winning at most three fights.

13 boxers competed, so one person was given a free pa.s.s in the first round after a random selection.

Unfortunately Tang Yan wasn"t so lucky, he didn"t get the free pa.s.s.

His first round opponent was a boxer from the Fujian Province, named Song Nan a 19-year-old boxer.

After going to his boxing ring, he saw a nervous cold sweat coming from Song Nan"s forehead.

Because it was a formal match, the biggest difference compared to his previous two sparring sessions was the addition of a referee.

The referee called them to the center and said: "Let"s have a clean fight, touch gloves, okay back to your corners"

Then he signaled the start of the fight.

The first round officially started.

After the official start of the fight, the sweat on Song Nan"s forehead increased.

Tang Yan obviously didn"t have any compa.s.sion for his opponent"s nervousness. He accelerated forward and closed the distance between them.

Song Nan saw that Tang Yan was going to attack and stepped back and then his hands were up directly in a basic guard position

But maybe due to his nerves, the positioning of his hands was obviously wrong and the distance between his hands was more than half the normal distance.

Sure enough, Chinese boxing itself was very weak.

The guard position was the most common defensive posture in boxing, with the goal of protecting the most vulnerable part of the human body.

The lower jaw was one of the most vulnerable parts.

Song Nan"s way of position his arms directly exposed this vulnerable section.

Tang Yan was unceremonious and his right hand directly shot out for a uppercut.

Song Nan noticed this and both hands tried to shrink in to resist this punch.

But in terms of speed, Tang Yan was obviously faster.

Before the formation of Song Nan"s defense, his right uppercut directly hit his jaw.

"Boom!"

A m.u.f.fled sound, Song Nan as if his whole person was. .h.i.t, violently trembled and leaning back fell down.

All this happened too quickly.