Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion

"Link, what are you looking at?"

On the highway outside Kennedy International Airport in New York, agent Simon Curtis asked while driving.

Link watched the drizzly rain outside the window, drenching the road wetly, like a woman longing for spring.

"Before coming here, I checked the weather forecast, it said it was sunny in New York, but the moment I got off the plane, it started to rain. I feel like the weather here is against me," he said.

"Haha, it’s just passing showers. It’ll stop in a bit."

"I hope so. How’s the fight schedule?"

Link asked, leaning back in his seat.

This trip to New York was mainly for three things: to attend the rehearsals for MJ’s concert, to record his second music album, and for boxing matches.

"There are three fights planned, two are confirmed to take place within the year. Here’s the information, have a look."

Link opened it and took a look.

The first one was a WBA championship challenge, against Andre Rael, the Middleweight bronze medalist from the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. In March, in the championship challenge qualifier, he defeated Jermain Taylor to earn the right to challenge him.

This match would be in New York, scheduled for June.

The second opponent was Roy Jones Jr.

After defeating Tyson last year, Franco had started making fight arrangements for him.

He had reached out to Roy Jones Jr., Joe Calzaghe, Bernard Hopkins, James Toney, John Ruiz, Mayweather, and other star boxers with match invitations.

So far, only Roy Jones Jr. had accepted.

Calzaghe was planning to retire and it was uncertain if he would fight one last match with him.

Hopkins said he wanted to see his fight with Roy Jones before making a decision.

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The fight negotiations for his match with Roy Jones, including the fight promotion rights and prize money, were still underway, with the date to be determined.

The third match was originally arranged to be a unification bout with the WBO-WBF dual champion Andre Ward.

But during the negotiation process, the four major organizations proposed a plan called the Super Six.

The idea was to have super middleweight champions from various organizations compete against each other, similar to the round-robin battles of the Middleweight Four Kings in the eighties.

Link had heard of this competition. There were twelve boxers participating in the "Super Six," including Mikkel Kessler, Carl Froch, Arthur Abraham, Jermain Taylor, Andre Ward, Andre Rael, Lucian Bute, Allan Green, and others.

All were top three ranked super middleweight boxers from the four major organizations, acclaimed as a fierce competition for supremacy.

After three years of intense competition, Andre Ward emerged with six wins out of six fights, securing all the Golden Belts and also rising to second place on the P4P ranking, just behind Mayweather.

Now, due to Link’s emergence, Mikkel and Jermain Taylor had been defeated by him consecutively, and the WBA Golden Belt had been taken by him. The other champions weren’t as famous as he was, and the super middleweight scene had developed into a scenario of ’one super, many strong.’

Nevertheless, the four major organizations still proposed the ’Super Six’ concept.

This clearly showed they didn’t believe he had the strength to dominate the super middleweight division on his own.

"Simon, a tournament is too troublesome, and the cycle of matches is too long. Communicate with the four major organizations and either arrange a Super 1+5, bringing in a few of the golden belt champions to challenge me, or proceed with the original plan of unifying the title fights. I plan to get all the golden belts from the four organizations within the year."

"Okay, I’ll talk to Franco about it later."

Simon nodded his head.

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True to his words, as the car traveled from Queens to Manhattan Island, the sky gradually cleared, and the sun peeked out from the clouds with a brilliant, goofy smile, as if playing hide and seek with Link.

When the sun came out, the bustling streets of Manhattan came alive again. Skyscrapers stood tall and proud under the clear sky, while pedestrians put away their colorful umbrellas, strolling on the damp, yet Spring-infused streets, no longer in such a hurry.

Upon returning to Manhattan, Link first stopped by the Metropolitan area’s Link Music Company and handed over the data for more than a dozen songs to Mr. Graham Goodall, asking him to adjust the music before proceeding to record his second album.

"Link, are these songs not love songs?"

Mr. Graham flipped through them and asked.

"No, they are mainly about life experiences. Take a look and see what you think. If you agree they’re good, we can include them in the third album," said Link, pointing to several songs marked with red pen.

After a while, Graham expressed his admiration: "These are very good; all of these songs are of high quality. Link, I have to say, you are a true genius at songwriting."

Link laughed, "You flatter me. I’m new to the music industry, so I have a lot to learn from you and my colleagues."

Graham waved his hand dismissively and said with a smile, "Your growth is rapid, and that’s your talent speaking, not much to do with us. However, the style of these songs is similar to ’Give me reason,’ lyrical and alternative rock, which could be released as a separate album."

Graham paused for a moment, pondering, "Right now ’Give me reason’ is very popular, and the controversies with Kanye, Lil and others haven’t completely died down. The heat is still on, so my advice is to release this album first and then the ’love’ album next year. Love is an eternal theme, and there’s no rush to put it out."

Link thought it over, and the arrangement seemed fine to him. The songs he had copied were mostly released after 2013, so a delay of six months to a year wasn’t a big deal.

"That works. Here are two rap songs, a new experiment for me. I’m planning to invite Eminem to collaborate. What do you think?"

Eminem is a famous white rapper who debuted in ’96 and has released six albums, selling over a hundred million worldwide. His notable works include ’My Name Is’ and ’Lose Yourself,’ and he also starred in the film ’8 Mile.’

His rapping skills are strong; in the song ’Rap God,’ he spoke 1560 words in 6 minutes and 3 seconds, setting a Guinness World Record.

Graham shook his head after hearing Link’s idea, "It’s going to be tough. Eminem has good relations with rappers like Kanye, Lil, and 50 Cent, having released several albums together, and your relationship with them is pretty bad. He probably won’t agree to work with you."

Link was aware of this, but the new song had a significant rap portion, requiring someone proficient in rap. Apart from the well-known Eminem, he couldn’t think of another suitable candidate.

"Link, don’t just focus on Eminem and a few others. There are many rappers in the United States. Take Snoop Dogg and Akon, for example, who are West Coast rappers. East Coast and West Coast rappers compete with each other and view each other as rivals. These two rap songs are of good quality; I think they’d be interested," Mr. Graham suggested.

Link nodded, agreeing with the suggestion.

East Coast rappers are mainly from New York and Chicago, with leading figures like JAY-Z, 50 Cent, Eminem, and Kanye.

The West Coast rap stronghold is in Los Angeles and San Francisco, with iconic rappers such as Snoop Dogg and 2Pac.

In the eighties and nineties, East and West Coast rappers briefly joined forces, sparking a global hip-hop trend and pushing rap music worldwide.

However, style differences and mutual animosity led to the representative figures of both sides, 2Pac and B.I.G, being shot and killed in ’96/’97 respectively.

Having some discord with East Coast rappers, the West Coast could also be a possible collaboration for Link.

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