The development and popularization of judo in North America is still very good. Many kickboxing athletes and even American wrestlers have a certain foundation in judo. In terms of official events, the overall strength of the United States and Maple Leaf is good. Compared with the first echelon Nihong, France, and China are quite different from today's China, but they are not too different from the second-tier countries such as Tsarist Russia, and they often win in world-class competitions.
The Shirou North America Invitational Tournament held this time, in addition to the points and high bonuses, has another attraction, that is, the appearance fee is very high. Eight bonuses.
This has a lot to do with the commercialization of the event in China. The European League, which has always boasted of being excellent in the commercialization of judo, can't match it. Of course, this is mainly because there is only one invitational tournament. Except for the Invitational Tournament, the competitions of other North American softball leagues are still not as good as the European League.
Because the prize money is high, the appearance fee is high, and the treatment is good in all aspects, so the North American Invitational Tournament can invite judo athletes with a high level of competition and ranking every time, even higher than some masters.
Meng Fan didn't come here because of the prize money and the level of the competition, but mainly because of the arrangement of the weightlifting and wrestling center. He didn't care about the prize money, nor did he care about the level of the competition.
In addition, Meng Fan also planned to drop by and visit Pixar. Not only did he come, Shanhai Animation Studio also organized a group to come over later on another flight, and went to Pixar together after Meng Fan finished the competition.
When the Huaxia judo team led by Meng Fan arrived, they were warmly welcomed by the local Chinese at the airport. The scene of the airport pick-up was quite spectacular, and it was no more shy than any Chinese star.
Now, the Huaxia Judo Team has already entered the ranks of the Huaxia Sports Team Tiantuan. In terms of performance, it is temporarily at the bottom of the Tiantuan team. After all, it has been less than a year since it really exerted its strength, but in terms of popularity, it does not belong to table tennis. The judo team, the women's volleyball team and other top teams, who let Meng Fan be responsible for the "flow" in the judo team.
Not only are the local Chinese here, but also the local media. The Olympic hardware king and the latest Lawrence Award winner are enough to make the media crazy. What's more, Meng Fan is also a man who works crazy and is known as the strongest man in the world. .
After finally squeezing out the crowd, the Huaxia Judo team got on the bus and arrived at the hotel. After checking in, they took the bus together to familiarize themselves with the competition venue.
The North American Softball Federation put a lot of effort into the publicity of this event, and the focus of the publicity must be on Meng Fan. From the bus, you can see the big posters of many participating athletes hanging on the outer wall of the gymnasium. The incomparably heroic Meng Fan stood out.
The publicity was successful, or Meng Fan’s appeal was really strong. The 12,000-seat gymnasium has been sold out for the first time since its construction, and many of them have been sold out, and many seats have been added. It's not just Chinese people in the United States snapping up tickets. Many local audiences in North America also participated in the frenzy, and most of them are not judo fans. Incomplete statistics show that female audiences account for a large proportion.
The Huaxia representative team also received very thoughtful guidance when they arrived at the gymnasium. They were given enough time and space to familiarize themselves with the training arrangements on the field. At the same time, there were also quite a few athletes in the stadium who didn't particularly like the media reporters they met before the game.
"The organizers uniformly arranged the pre-match press conference."
The leader of the Huaxia Judo team told Meng Fan and the others that they needed to attend the press conference after they were familiar with the venue, especially athletes with world championship titles including Meng Fan.
"Old man!"
Teddy Reina, who was training and playing in Huaxia, had already been taught badly by the Huaxia players. After arriving with the French team, he greeted Meng Fan from a distance. cavity.
After exchanging pleasantries, Teddy Reina called Meng Fan aside as if he was about to do something bad, and said softly, "You have to be mentally prepared, someone is going to mess with you."
Meng Fan looked puzzled: "What the hell?"
Teddy Reina told Meng Fan everything he knew: "I have a friend who is in the UFC league, and he also heard from others that the UFC executives are going to trouble you. I guess it's because you didn't talk to UFC It's about the group arena."
UFC, the Mixed Martial Arts Championship, is currently the top and largest professional MMA event in the world.
Meng Fan thought about it, but he was a bit impressed.
At first, he became famous because his brother-in-law Wu Ji was beaten in the Neon Budokan, and a group of people beat up multi-national players. Later, he singled out the entire South Korean martial arts world. There was another episode in this. The leading figure in South Korea's martial arts world is a UFC contracted player. When Meng Fan swept all the major boxing gyms in South Korea, the UFC had intended to hold a group arena for Meng Fan and the leader Jin Xuan to fight. The purpose was of course to gain popularity and Expanding ufc's influence in Asia and earning ratings and tickets, but Meng Fan didn't respond at all, and continued to play in the stadium with all his heart.
After that, Meng Fan went further and further in the triathlon of lifting, wrestling and judo, especially in wrestling and judo. The number one in Asia gradually passed to the number one in the world, and he stood firm.
As we all know, ufc is the highest level of mixed martial arts, and mixed martial arts is equivalent to the extreme sports of human fighting under the regular competition system, so Meng Fan has always been dissatisfied with the title of the world's number one and the world's number one fighter. And there have been many ufc players who have expressed dissatisfaction and disdain on the Internet.
It's just that after all, there are still differences between Olympic sports and professional sports, and most people don't pay too much attention to them.
If it used to be said that such a large-scale and top-level event as the UFC intentionally and for no reason found fault, it would be unreasonable. Now that Meng Fan is in full swing in the global sports world, it is really possible to say that the UFC deliberately "touched porcelain". After all, the most important income of UFC events is the event ratings The rate and sale of live broadcast copyrights, and the influence of this area is really few people in the world who can match Meng Fan.
Therefore, Meng Fan believed most of Teddy Reina's nonsensical words. "Well, I'll pay attention." "Why do I have a feeling that you don't want to pay attention at all?"
After getting acquainted with the venue, the well-known athletes, coaches and team leaders of this competition gathered together, as did the media reporters, and the pre-match press conference began.
All kinds of questions and answers soon came to Meng Fan.
Without Meng Fan's eyelids jumping, a reporter with beautiful and generous lips who can cause trouble at a glance stood up and asked: "Hi Huaxia Meng, what do you think of the title of the world's number one? Do you know that in UFC also has a player with this title?"