Taylor stood on the scale, staring at the number on it.
"Why have I lost so much weight in such a short period of time? Am I sick? Didn't I just have a physical examination two months ago? The report shows that I am very healthy. Could it be that the scale is broken?" Taylor I couldn't help but stare at the scale with suspicion.
"What, do you think the scale is broken?" Dai Li's voice sounded from the side, and Taylor turned to look at Dai Li, with an expression that seemed to say: How do you know what I am thinking.
Taylor's expression made Dai Li feel very helpless. The so-called thirty-two-year-old Taylor is already thirty-two years old, but his mind does not look like a thirty-two-year-old at all. It can even be said that he has no aura at all. What is on your mind is immediately shown on your expression.
"No wonder this guy was swindled out of 500 million US dollars by his agent. He's like a child who hasn't grown up. He has to help count the money after being sold by others!"
Dai Li thought about it and said, "Don't worry, this scale is good. You have really lost so much weight."
"I've never lost so much weight in such a short period of time," Taylor said.
"Do you think it's amazing?" Li Dai smiled and continued: "So you should have confidence in me. Although I am not a professional boxing coach, except for boxing techniques, I don't know how to train in other aspects. Worse than any boxing coach. As for the technical aspects of boxing, I think you are the best in the world, right?"
After all, Taylor has been a professional boxer for thirteen years, and he has stood at the top of the world boxing world and won several heavyweight boxing championship gold belts. In terms of boxing skills, he will definitely not be better than any boxer. Poor coaching. Moreover, Taylor's style of play originally tends to be "one-wave flow". As long as he has mastered his "Cheng Yaojin Three-Blade Ax", other skills are not very important, and they may not be used during the game anyway.
"I have confidence in you. But I have no confidence in myself." Taylor said in a low voice.
"You have lost more than ten pounds in such a short period of time and are almost reaching the 20-pound goal we set originally. This is a good start. You should have confidence in yourself." Li Dai encouraged.
Taylor nodded, but there was still no confidence in his eyes. He hesitated for a few seconds, and then said: "Actually, I can feel that my body functions have really deteriorated a lot compared to when I was young. I feel My muscles are not as energetic as they were when I was young, and although my condition is slowly coming back, the speed of recovery is very slow."
Taylor said, punched a few times in the air, and then shook his head: "I have become weaker, much weaker than before. I don't have the explosive power I had when I was young, and my combination punches are not what they were when I was young. My power, and more importantly, my physical fitness, are no longer what they used to be.”
"Leave the physical training to me. Don't forget that I am the physical coach. Training physical fitness is my special skill." Li Dai said with confidence.
"That's not what I mean. What I mean is that the problem of my upper limit of physical fitness cannot be solved through training if the upper limit of physical fitness is lowered."
Taylor lowered his voice and continued: "In fact, even in my most glorious years in my early twenties, my physical fitness could not support twelve rounds. At that time, I fought for about ten rounds. , I have lost the ability to attack. The game I lost that year was also delayed until ten rounds later. Don’t you think it’s ridiculous? A heavyweight boxing champion who holds several gold belts is not physically fit enough. A twelve-round match?”
"It's a bit beyond my expectation." Dai Li nodded.
As a professional boxer, it really sounds like a joke that he is not physically fit enough to play the whole game, not to mention that Taylor is still a top boxing champion in the world.
However, in the boxing world, Taylor is really an anomaly. He always knocks out his opponents in the first three rounds. For him, fighting to the 12th round is really far away.
Taylor on the opposite side continued: "I know that the peak age of boxers should be between 25 and 30 years old, but at that stage, I was in prison. When I came out of prison, I was 30 years old. At that time, I was already It’s not what it used to be, I’m no longer at my peak.”
"I remember that after you came out of prison, it only took you half a year to win the WBA gold belt." Li Dai said.
"Yes, but actually at that time, my physical fitness dropped to the point where I could not hold out for ten rounds. My physical fitness at that time could only allow me to fight seven or eight rounds. The game in which I won the WBA gold belt was also in the third round. He knocked down his opponent." Taylor sighed and said with some shame: "You should know the game where I bit Hayfield's ear, right?"
Dai Li nodded. He knew that that game could be described as "shame" for Taylor. At that time, the ear-biting game attracted worldwide attention. Taylor was not only sentenced to lose, but also banned for two years. , he even lost his dignity as a boxing champion and became the object of ridicule.
Dai Li didn't know if that game would irritate Taylor, so he never mentioned that game, but now Taylor himself talked about the game that made him a laughing stock.
Just listen to Taylor say: "Actually, at that time, I thought I would win. I thought I just needed to keep attacking, and Highfield would be knocked down by me soon. At that time, most people also thought, My probability of winning will be higher, which can be seen from the odds offered by the bookmaker."
"However, the reality is not what I imagined. Highfield is very cunning. He knows that my physical strength cannot last long, so he is always avoiding it and does not have direct contact with me. If it is really unavoidable, he will He would come up and hug me, and then the referee would separate us."
"What makes me even more angry is that he always uses some insidious tricks. He is taller than me, so he will always hit my face with his head secretly. Well, actually this is also a kind of trick in boxing matches. It’s a very common trick that many people will use, but before that, my opponent never had the chance to use it and was knocked down by me.”
"Now that I think about it, he was actually deliberately irritating me. He was tempting me to attack and make my energy drain faster. I really fell into the trap. I fought harder and harder, and as time went by As time goes by, my physical strength is depleted faster and faster, and I know that if I continue, my physical strength will be exhausted and I will lose the game!"
"I was eager to attack, but he started to frequently use hugs to stop my attacks. This made me very impatient. During one of the attacks, while he hugged me, he secretly hit my eyebrow with his head. , the impact hurt me, it really hurt! The pain was completely different from being hit in the face by a boxing glove. At that moment, I lost my mind and I bit his ear directly."
Dai Li nodded suddenly: "So this was the situation back then. It seems that Highfield is also an old fox!"
"He is a well-known old fox in the boxing world. He is very good at using various tricks and deceiving the referee. What I mean by deceiving the referee is using some dirty tricks that the referee cannot see. This is what I mean. Not good at it." Taylor smiled bitterly.
Dai Li could feel Taylor's helplessness in his heart. It is normal for a simple-minded and impulsive athlete like Taylor to be fooled around when he meets an old fox like Highfield.
Taylor continued: "I was 30 years old at that time, and my physical fitness could only support seven or eight rounds of competition. Now I am 32 years old, and my body has deteriorated even more seriously. I don't know if I can survive it." 5 rounds! And my fists are not as powerful as before. I am not sure that I can knock out my opponent within three rounds like before."
"Physical issues, is this why you don't have confidence in yourself?" Li Dai asked.
Taylor opposite nodded, and then fell into silence.
Dai Li finally understood that the reason why Taylor lost confidence was due to his understanding of his physical condition. On the surface, he seemed to be a simple-minded person, but in fact, his judgment of himself was very accurate. He was not He doesn't know how high the sky is, but on the contrary, he is more self-aware than anyone else when it comes to boxing.
Dai Li suddenly remembered that sentence: God closes a door for you, but also opens a window for you. Taylor is probably such a person. He is a complete idiot when it comes to finances. He has no concept of financial management. He was cheated by his agent and lost 500 million yuan in just a few years. However, when it comes to boxing, he is a real genius!
"If you were twenty-six or seventeen years old, you should be able to fight for twelve rounds, right? You should be at your peak by then." Dai Li asked.
"I don't know." Taylor shook his head: "I was in jail at that time."
"Didn't you try to continue practicing boxing while you were in jail?" Li Dai asked.
"It's a bit embarrassing to say that when I was in prison, I was beaten." Taylor said with another wry smile on his face, "I was in a prison in Indianapolis at the time. That day, all the mortals in the prison were cheering, they were not welcoming me, they had found a new opponent, and they couldn't wait to kick my ass to gain fame."
"Is there such a thing?" Li Dai asked curiously.
"Yes, I can feel the hostility from all directions in any corner of the prison. I know that everyone around me is very eager to get rid of me." Taylor replied.
"You said you were beaten by someone. You couldn't beat them, right?" Dai Li asked cautiously.
"I originally thought that I could knock them down with one punch, but I didn't expect that there were really crouching tigers, hidden dragons in that prison. Among them was a famous black market boxer who once kicked his opponent to death in the black market boxing ring; There is also a karate champion on the West Coast; in addition, there are many people who are keen on boxing. Prisoners usually have nothing to do, so there is a gym in the prison just for those prisoners with muscular muscles to vent their energy. Their energy!” Taylor said.
"In this regard, our country is much better. Prisoners in our country are very busy while serving their sentences. They have to participate in labor reform, study politics, and improve their ideological consciousness. Of course, they also have time to exercise, but they will not have nowhere to vent. Energy." Dai Li said with a smile.
"Yeah, it's not a good thing for the prisoners who are serving their sentences to have too much energy. I'm used to being the king in the boxing ring, so I didn't take those prisoners seriously at all. I thought they were just street gangsters, but it turned out I almost suffered a loss. I witnessed a big prisoner having an argument with a prison bully, and then the big prisoner was beaten to the ground. When the prison guards arrived, he was already dead," Taylor said.
"If you kill someone in prison, the prison bully won't get any good results, right?" Li Dai asked.
"Indiana has abolished the death penalty, and the prison bully's cumulative sentence has reached 85 years. He will never be able to get out for the rest of his life, so for him, it doesn't matter if he kills another person. At most, he will be locked up in the felon zone. And in any prison, small conflicts such as skin-breaking and bone-breaking occur almost every day."
Taylor's tone seemed helpless, and he continued: "I'm not a desperado, I still want to come out and enjoy life, so I have been very cautious in dealing with all kinds of provocations. I don't dare to practice boxing because I'm worried that I will be looked down upon. To show off, I didn’t even dare to go to the gym. Every time I passed by the gym, I would see prisoners frantically hitting the sandbags to show off to me. I didn’t even dare to do squats.”
"In other words, during those five years, you didn't practice boxing at all?" Li Dai didn't expect it to be like this at all. His original intention was that if a person like Taylor went to prison, he would definitely dominate and no one would dare to mess with him. , but I didn’t expect that Taylor was a complete coward who hid when he saw anyone in prison.
Then, Dai Li realized another problem, and he said, "You haven't practiced boxing for five years, but it only took you half a year to regain the WBA gold belt after you were released from prison. In terms of boxing, you What a genius!”
"It's not that I didn't practice boxing at all. In fact, after two years of being imprisoned, I had already begun to resume training." Tyson pointed to a scar on his head and continued: "Remember the one I mentioned about kicking someone to death? Black market boxing champion? This is what he left on me. He broke the bridge of my nose and broke three ribs. I was sent directly to the hospital and lay there for a month."
"Is there really anyone who can beat you?" Dai Li was a little surprised.
"He is a master who has experienced life and death fighting. I have never seen such a powerful person." Taylor seemed unwilling to mention the black market boxing champion who injured him. He continued: "When I came back from the hospital, my manager I gave the black market boxing champion a sum of money and gained his understanding, which was regarded as paying protection money to let him protect me. Then my agent spent money to hire a group of prisoners to be my bodyguards, and also paid I rented a single room in the prison. I don’t know how much money he blackmailed me during this process, but at least my safety was guaranteed and I could train. During that time, I also picked up a Female prison guard! He is not pretty, he is old, has a bad figure, and even has a lot of fat, but you know, in prison, as long as you are a woman, you will become the desire of men! "
Speaking of women, Taylor became elated again, obviously showing off.
Dai Li, on the other hand, had a dumbfounded expression: "Did that topic go astray? What I want to know now is, what is your strength at the age of twenty-six or seven?"
"Is this important?" Taylor asked.
"It's very important!" Li Dai continued: "Or you could just tell me directly. If you didn't go to jail, but had been practicing boxing, when do you think your body was at its peak?"