I will practice more in the United States

Chapter 199 Special Training after the Game

In this game, Li Ang earned a total of more than 30,000 US dollars, which included Li Ang's appearance fee and the bonus for winning the game. If he could win the best game after the other games were over, he would also receive a bonus.

However, for real star players, there will be an additional share of paid live PPV sales. The income from this part is quite considerable. You know, for the top matches, the income from paid online live broadcasts can even reach hundreds of millions of dollars.

In the next few games, Li Ang also watched and learned carefully from the audience. Proficiency in skills does not necessarily require hands-on practice, thinking and learning can also be achieved. It’s just that combining learning and practice will be more efficient.

After watching the next few matches, Li Ang's [Mixed Martial Arts] level directly advanced to proficient. This is mainly related to his solid fighting foundation. Most of the physical skills and techniques, at their core, are the same.

【Mixed Martial Arts】

21/200 (skilled)
(Feature: Increases damage by 10%)

The features added by this new skill are extremely simple, but the effects are extremely powerful.

This means that any damage caused by Leon can be affected by this blessing, which is more universal than those bonuses that are limited to a certain aspect.

And in the judging of several games tonight, Li Ang surprisingly won the best game award.

Originally, he saw a group knock out their opponent with a spinning kick within one minute, and thought that they would not be the ones to receive the award.

This is indeed the case. The selection committee considered everything carefully before deciding whether Li Ang would receive the prize.

As a newcomer, he has a certain advantage in the selection process, and his debut competition is also the one in which the official has invested the most resources.

In addition, out of a compensatory mentality, Dana White had originally promised Leon that he would not use ground techniques, but he still did. Although Leon won in the end, they had broken their promise after all.

In fact, Le Ang didn't care that much about these bonuses. After earning millions of dollars at one time, these small bonuses would not cause him much trouble.

However, a tall building is built from the ground up, and this competition is also a necessary step.

Before this, he didn't have too many goals and requirements for making money. He only had a simple wish, which was to have enough money for himself to spend and do whatever he wanted.

For now, with his several million dollars in savings and an annual income of over a million dollars, it is actually enough for him as long as he doesn't play around with yachts, planes, or top-of-the-line supercars.

However, after the last martial arts exchange conference, he finally had a new goal, which was to spend money, go to the Shaolin Temple, and publish the "Xisui Jing".

The main thing is that there is no way to clearly mark the price of this thing, and he himself has no idea how much it will cost.

Le Ang roughly set a budget, within a small target, which is about 17 million US dollars. If he still can't get it after reaching this amount, then he doesn't plan to spend the money on them.

He just didn't believe that he wouldn't be able to find a top team to accomplish this task for him after spending millions or even tens of millions of dollars on the black market.

The end of Li Ang’s debut does not mean the end of the promotion. On the contrary, the real promotion has just begun.

After all, the number of people on site is limited, so if we really want to create hype, we have to do it on the Internet.

Moreover, Li Ang's game itself is also quite interesting.

What netizens discussed most was Li Ang's terrifying ability to withstand blows.

The clips of the confrontation between him and Drake were edited and reposted by a large number of video accounts.

In the video, neither of them actually defended themselves, and both of them were hit by more than twenty punches. This in itself is a rare and famous scene.

The most crucial thing is the comparison between the two. Drake was almost beaten into a pig's head, but Leon's defense was not broken at all.

A large number of netizens' comments are also very appropriate:

"Leon: I was afraid of the pain so I focused on defense."

"Drake: No buddy, if I had known this would happen, I would have just held my head."

"I saw in the introduction that this player is also the honorary chairman of the Chinese Wushu Association. Could he really have practiced the Vajra Indestructible Kung Fu?"

"I think his ability to withstand blows is completely comparable to 'Iron Blood'."

"Compared to 'Iron Blood', he's still a bit behind. He's a heavyweight fighter and has never been knocked out in a heavyweight match. Miocic's punches are so heavy that they made him tired, but he's fine."

"Indeed, after all, we have only just experienced one game, which doesn't explain too much."

"As for the ability to withstand blows, it depends on the opponent. Don't brag."

Most people agree that Li Ang has the ability to withstand blows, but there are also many people who think that his opponents are not strong enough, his record is too few, and is not convincing enough.

Until someone discovered another video of Li Ang on the Internet.

Leon in the video is about the same size as he is now, but his opponent is not Drake, who is just a light heavyweight. Instead, his weight is at least twice as heavy as Drake's. It's not wrong to describe him as a mountain of meat.

"Oh my god! At the beginning of the video, I suspected that the giant in front of him would slap his head off."

"Does the person who said earlier that he was just that strong in taking blows feel humiliated?"

"After watching this video, it's hard for me to think of anyone else who can knock out Li Ang. It seems like the only way to win is by points, or by dragging the fight to the ground."

The appearance of this video directly pushed Li Ang's popularity to a new climax. In just two days, Li Ang's newly created certified account added more than 10,000 subscribers.

You have to know that these are real people without any dilution. If this data is transferred to the domestic Douyin, it is equivalent to gaining 100,000 followers in one or two days.

After seeing the video online, Jiang Dahai found his master Zhao Zhengxi and asked expectantly:

"Master, how long do I have to practice to reach Master Li's level?"

Zhao Zhengxi finished watching the video, looked at his apprentice, then looked down at himself, sighed and replied:

"You should ask God to lend you another 500 years."

He knew very well that his ability to withstand blows was limited. He could only fight with amateur boxers. If he really fought a professional boxer, he would hardly last more than a minute. And this was the result of more than 20 years of training. He could break rocks, split bricks, and break sticks with his chest, but he would never let someone punch him in the face.

It was not until this moment that he truly realized the importance of talent, which was something he could never catch up with no matter how hard he tried.

His body has now reached a period of decline. Even if he practices for another twenty years and acquires forty years of skills, his ability to withstand blows will most likely be worse than it is now.

Li Ang didn't pay too much attention to the news on the Internet. Now that he had his own team, he just let them handle the operations. If he had to do these jobs before hiring people, and if he had to do these jobs after hiring people, then he would have hired them in vain.

At this time, Li Ang was in a professional training hall, preparing for his special training.

Generally speaking, players need to pay for this kind of private coaching themselves, and the price is quite high.

Add to that the expenses of professional nutritionists, health managers, training costs, food expenses, etc., and an ordinary UFC player actually doesn't have much money left.

However, Li Ang did not have to pay a penny for the professional training team. This condition was already included in the contract when he signed it.

From this aspect, it can be seen that Dana White recognizes his potential.

"Train well. The president asked me to tell you that yesterday's match was just an appetizer. In order to help you grow as quickly as possible, the opponents I'll arrange for you later will only become stronger and stronger."

The assistant patted Li Ang on the shoulder and encouraged him.

Li Ang nodded. This was exactly what he expected. He would win no matter who he fought, so of course he would fight the one with higher benefits.

These days, his main training items are wrestling and jiu-jitsu.

The coaches assigned to him by the authorities are all very experienced masters who have trained a large number of UFC players and taught many champions.

"My name is Billy Walls, and I'm a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coach. I heard from them that you seem to have never learned this technique, so you may suffer a lot in the next training. I hope you can be mentally prepared and don't cry and shout to go home when the time comes."

The person who was speaking was very burly, with a black belt tied around his waist. He was a third-degree black belt holder in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu originated from Japanese Judo, which means "the law of softness". The characteristic of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is to make full use of leverage rather than resisting or competing with the opponent.

Therefore, different colored belts are used to distinguish the ranks.

Adult belt grades from low to high are white, blue, purple, brown, black, red-black, and red.

A black belt means that one has correctly mastered all the techniques of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and has achieved perfection, is qualified to teach, and can correctly guide others in their studies.

Although the black belt is the pinnacle in Taekwondo, and there is a red belt above the black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, but in fact, the black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is of very high value and is also the most powerful level.

For example, Coach Li Ang is a third-degree black belt and is almost at the peak of his physical and technical skills. His overall combat capability is definitely among the strongest.

Above seventh degree black belt, you will get a red-black belt, which basically represents the pinnacle of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills.

For holders of red belts, it is more of a symbol of honor and can only be obtained by masters who have made special contributions to the development of jiu-jitsu.

The youngest red belt holder currently obtained it at the age of 67. Those who were able to obtain it are the founders and pioneers of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Obviously, in Billy Walls's opinion, since Li Ang has not yet reached his entry level, he does not need a coach of his level at all. This is a complete waste of talent.

He hasn't trained a newcomer like this for many years.

Although the salary is the same, teaching new people requires more patience and tolerance for their stupid things, which is exactly what he lacks.

He has decided to treat him with the strictest requirements, and it would be best if he could not bear the pressure and actively apply for a change of coach.

"The main purpose of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is to allow small, light and weak players to protect themselves from being attacked by big, heavy and strong players. So it emphasizes force, but does not overemphasize explosive brute force. Every time you use force, there is a clear point of force, fulcrum and focus, which is very controllable and can defeat the strong with the weak."

Before the fight officially started, the coach briefly explained to Li Ang the core essence of this fighting technique and some of its technical features.

Perhaps many new students are not very interested in these things, and they are eager to learn the winning tricks right away and enter actual combat directly.

But Li Ang, who possesses many master-level skills, knows very well that when a fighting technique reaches a high level, it is necessary to grasp the core essence of the technique. This is the key to further progress. Its importance is no less than the internal strength of martial arts.

Seeing that Leon was listening so seriously, Billy Walls' impression of Leon changed. At least he was not an arrogant person.

Weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is.

After the theoretical knowledge, it is time to move on to basic movements.

Generally speaking, it can be divided into wrestling techniques, upper suppression techniques, back control techniques, submission techniques based on various advantageous positions, escape techniques when in unfavorable positions, and defensive postures in the lower position, etc. It can be said to be a fairly systematic technique.

Ten minutes later, Billy Walls had figured out why he was specifically asked to teach the newcomer.

No matter what the action was, simple or difficult, this seventeen-year-old young man could always perform it perfectly within three times, and even he could not find any fault with it.

You know, even for some famous players, Billy Walls could always find some minor flaws in them, but not Leon. His body control was almost perfect, so much so that Billy Walls often wondered whether this guy was a newly developed robot in the United States.

Due to Li Ang's amazing learning ability, the course progressed quite quickly.

For example, normally, after teaching a move, he would let the student practice on his own for ten minutes, and then point out the problems in his movements and ask him to improve them. However, Li Ang is able to compress this process to within one minute and then go directly to the next move.

Therefore, in just over an hour, Li Ang almost completed the distance that other students would take a week to complete.

Now Billy Walls is only worried about one thing, that is whether Li Ang can maintain such terrifying body control and execution in actual combat. After all, he has seen many players who performed very well in the practice stage, but performed poorly in actual combat.

"Hey, Mike, come over here and practice a few moves with your junior."

Billy Walls shouted to a tall white youth who was throwing a dummy on his back not far away.

(End of this chapter)