At three o'clock in the afternoon on September 3, the three major promoters held a press conference in Los Angeles.
There were so many media present that the press conference hall, which could accommodate hundreds of people, was packed, and many people couldn't squeeze in at all.
Unfortunately, Zhou Quan did not attend this press conference, but Klitschko did in order to increase his influence through this press conference.
At the press conference, the three major promoters announced some specific details of the boxing match, such as appearance fees and other information.
On September 4th, at Wizards headquarters in Washington, Jordan walked out of the office of big boss Leonsis.
Just now, Leonsis discussed something with him, asking him to come back in order to save the Wizards' market.
He didn't agree immediately, but he didn't insist on refusing because the boss promised him that as long as the Wizards' market picks up, he would sell 5% of his shares back to him after he retires.
However, because of the existence of King of Iron Fist, he doesn't really want to come back, but this is related to his career, so he still needs time to think about it.
On September 11, 2001, at almost nine o'clock, Zhou Quan was attending class at UCLA.
Suddenly, a college student sitting next to him received a text message. He read it, smiled, and then whispered to Zhou Quan:
"Hey, Tekken King, my cousin in New York said that a plane just hit the World Trade Center, haha! This joke is really good, very creative and very funny."
"It's indeed a good joke." Zhou Quan nodded and smiled.
It was now nine o'clock, and it was time for this class. After the professor left, another student said loudly: "Hey, ladies and gentlemen, you know, just now, a plane hit the World Trade Center."
"..."
Zhou Quan heard this and immediately frowned, feeling that this was not a joke.
There was a gourmet coffee store near the World Trade Center. He took out his mobile phone and dialed the number of the director of the New York branch of the gourmet coffee company.
The call was quickly connected, and a somewhat anxious voice rang: "King of Iron Fist, this is Hans. There is a big incident in New York. An accident just happened. A passenger plane hit the World Trade Center, and the glass in our store was exploded. Already..."
From the phone call, Zhou Quan also heard a lot of very clear screams, shouts and car horns mixed together. It was obvious that Hans was now in an unstable environment.
"Hans, ensure the safety of you and your employees, do you understand? If anything happens, notify the company immediately." He said loudly.
"OKOK, I'm moving employees and evacuating guests."
Zhou Quan immediately hung up the phone. There were already many college students around him who were about ten years younger than him and were looking at him. He said to them: "It's a very bad thing. It is indeed a large passenger plane that hit the World Trade Center."
"Oh, God!"
"This is really troublesome. Did they fly the plane with their eyes closed?"
Everyone was surprised and started discussing.
Zhou Quan was about to leave and go to the next classroom when his cell phone rang again. When he saw it was Hans' call, he hurriedly answered the call.
As soon as he connected the phone, he heard more screams and shouts. The noise was very loud, and he asked quickly: "Hey, Hans, are you okay?"
"King of Iron Fist, it's too bad. Just now, another passenger plane hit another World Trade Center building." Hans said in a panic.
"What?"
Zhou Quan felt that something was wrong. This was not a simple accident. It must have been intentional. Could this be the so-called...terror...attack?
"Hans, take everyone out of there right away, do you understand?"
"OK OK."
"Notify all stores in New York and ask them to be safe."
"OK OK."
Soon, the terrorist attack in New York was confirmed, and the world was shocked.
Fortunately, no employees at Fine Coffee were injured or injured in the attack, and business resumed the next day.
The two World Trade Center buildings are home to a large number of large companies in the financial and insurance industries. According to current statistics, more than 3,000 people are missing, including a large number of financial professionals, many financial elite executives, and missing firefighters, a total of four Five thousand people disappeared,
Zhou Quan is also very lucky that the store is not located in the two World Trade Center buildings because the rent there is too expensive, otherwise the loss will be even greater this time.
After the 9/11 attacks, U.S. stocks immediately experienced panic selling, plummeting and suffering heavy losses.
The stocks held by Zhou Quan, including Exquisite Coffee and Amazon.com, also fell one after another, and they also suffered heavy losses.
At noon, Roger Philippe contacted Zhou Quan.
"Roger, please discuss with Arum and Tang Jin whether to postpone or cancel the boxing match." Zhou Quan said.
Philip said: "Zhou, I just told you the result of our discussion."
"you say."
"What we mean is that the boxing match must not be cancelled. Although something very unfortunate has happened, the world will turn around and the boxing match will continue. We are not in a hurry to postpone the boxing match. We can wait for a while. If the subsequent situation allows, the boxing match will continue." The match date will not change."
"That's okay."
On the 12th, Zhou Quan returned to Seattle and held a meeting at the Exquisite Coffee headquarters to stabilize the company's situation.
After discussing with Zeng Li, he decided that Exquisite Coffee Company will mobilize one billion US dollars in cash. Once the company's stock is affected and plummets, the company will repurchase a part of the stock in the secondary market to stabilize investor confidence.
He didn't let Zeng Li come from China. After this incident, he was still a bit mentally disturbed by flying now.
On the 17th, six days after the incident, the three major U.S. stock indexes have fallen by 14.5%, 16%, and 11% respectively, and the U.S. stock market has lost $1.3 trillion.
He and Zeng Li also lost nearly 10% of their net worth, with billions of dollars in losses on their books.
Some stocks with poor performance have reduced their positions, but whether it is Exquisite Coffee or Amazon, it is not just a simple investment for him, but also related to the company's control and voice. Neither of these two companies will easily reduce their positions.
On Monday, the 17th, the U.S. stock market continued to fall after the market opened, and the decline simply could not be stopped.
On the 19th, U.S. stocks fell to their lowest point in three years.
Zhou Quan has returned to Los Angeles. He ordered Jingjing Company to start entering the market and mobilize up to one billion US dollars in cash to repurchase the company's shares in the secondary market.
This move not only stabilized the stock price of Jingjing Company immediately, but even began to rebound. Selling orders decreased significantly and buying orders increased significantly.
His repurchase action also received praise from the financial community. Even newly inaugurated US President George W. Bush praised Zhou Quan and Fine Coffee Company at a White House briefing the next day.
After that, many large companies also announced stock buybacks. With the large amount of funds from the U.S. government and major companies entering the market, the U.S. stock market began to stabilize, and investor confidence began to be re-established.
On September 25, Jordan announced his comeback at Wizards headquarters.
"I came back to revitalize the U.S. economy and the NBA."
This was the slogan shouted by Jordan at the press conference, which was widely praised by the media.
On the 26th, Zhou Quan reduced the amount of boxing training and began to enter the rhythm of boxing matches.
On the 28th, he and Klitschko held a joint press conference in Los Angeles.
A large group of friends came to support him, including NBA stars and Hollywood stars. The entire press conference was made star-studded, and it was like walking on a red carpet when friends appeared.
After the question-and-answer session began, countless hands immediately rose.
The host clicked on a reporter from the Los Angeles Times. He took the microphone and immediately asked: "Iron Fist King, you haven't had a boxing match in two years. How is your current condition?"
Zhou Quan said with a smile: "I have boxing training every day, but the amount of training is not large. When I was in Seattle, it was one hour a day, no away games, and it has never been interrupted. It has become a part of my life.
My boxing team has never disbanded. They think I am in good shape now and no worse than two years ago. "
"Oh ho!"
There was a burst of excited cheers at the scene.
…
On the 29th and 30th, Zhou Quan increased the training volume, and the training volume was larger than normal to activate the body to the maximum extent.
October 1st, boxing day.
In the past two days, with a large number of private planes landing, many billionaires from all over the world came to Los Angeles.
These wealthy people flew on private jets, and their travel was not affected by 911, but it was very obvious that everyone had stepped up security and was surrounded by a large number of security personnel.
Zhou Quan did not let Zeng Li come over and asked them to stay in the country for a while longer.
On the evening of the 1st, at six o'clock, Zhou Quan and his team arrived at the familiar Staples Center and entered his lounge.
O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Rodman, Ben Wallace, Oakley, Isiah Thomas, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, etc., a large number of current and retired NBA stars were waiting for him outside the lounge in advance.
At seven o'clock, the Staples Center was full.
In the first few rows, there were a large number of celebrities and billionaires, as well as a large number of sports stars from all walks of life, including Jordan and Magic Johnson.
There are also many professional boxing champions, including Tyson, Lewis, Holyfield, Riddick Bowe, Foreman, the rising star Klitschko, Pacquiao, golden boy De La Hoya, who have already plummeted in popularity. Mayweather, etc., dozens of well-known boxers.
Three back-up games were played first, and it was not until 9:45 that it entered the main game time.
"Ladies and gentlemen, now we invite our challenger, the red square boxer, the great unified king, the unstoppable iron fist king..."
Under the constant call of the host, Zhou Quan appeared.
"boom!"
As a challenger, he was the first to appear. When he appeared, the entire Staples Center was completely boiling, like a hundred aircraft engines roaring. He had not boxed in two years, and boxing fans had accumulated too much desire for him. , I got vent at this time.
From the entrance to the boxing ring, everyone in the front row stood up and bumped fists with him.
"Now let us welcome the defending champion, WBA world boxing champion, black boxer, Vitali Klitschko. He is from Ukraine. He is 202 centimeters tall, has a wingspan of 203 centimeters, and weighs 112 kilograms..."
As the host shouted, Dake walked out of the channel.
"Pa bang bang..."
The Staples Center burst into fairly warm applause, after all, this was the opponent of the Unified King of Iron Fist, but compared with when Zhou Quan just appeared on the stage, it was a day and a day away.
Dake witnessed this change with his own eyes, and a violent emotion emerged in his heart. He vowed to win this game, to step on the Iron Fist King, and to make boxing fans around the world cheer for him and go crazy for him.
Standing first is Xiao Ke, currently the heavyweight leader of the four major boxing organizations WBO. He is extremely powerful. Together with Dake, the two brothers have the momentum to sweep the professional heavyweight boxing world.
"Brother, come on, defeat him! We are the strongest."
He gave Dak a strong hug and shouted loudly in his ear.
"Um."
Dake nodded seriously.
The two got into the ring, and their respective coaches and an assistant also climbed up.
"Michael, who did you buy?" Magic Johnson asked.
Jordan said: "The odds of Iron Fist are too low, and I don't think much of the Ukrainian. I bought some Iron Fist to join in the fun, just for fun."
"Aren't you afraid of being upset? This Ukrainian is still very strong. The Iron Fist King hasn't had a boxing match for two years." Magic Johnson asked.
Jordan glanced sideways at the magician. Is this old friend trying to trick him?
In the ESPN commentary box, commentator John Ngum said extremely excitedly: "The PPV sales data just received is 5.72 million."
"The historical record of 5.8 million will be in the next minute." Carl Lewis said even more excitedly.
Thirty seconds later, Engem shouted excitedly: "5.81 million, broken. The King of Iron Fist broke his own PPV sales record of 5.8 million set in his last unification battle two years ago."
"Oh ho!"
Staples Center erupted into extremely enthusiastic cheers and shouts, and all the boxing fans felt a sense of honor from this number.
"6 million, it will definitely exceed 6 million this time." Lewis said excitedly.
Two minutes later, when the boxing match was about to begin, Engum shouted loudly: "It's broken, 6 million! 6 million! 600..."
"Oh ho!"
Even louder cheers rang out at Staples Center.
Lewis said excitedly: "With 6 million and a single payment of 100 US dollars, the PPV revenue of this boxing match will reach a terrifying US$600 million."
Engam said excitedly: "There are 120 million households in the United States, 6 million, which means that nearly 5% of households are watching this boxing match, and at least 15 million Americans are paying to watch this boxing match."
"when!"
Just then, the bell rang for the first round.
"Box!"
The referee shouted loudly, and the boxing match officially began.
(End of chapter)
