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Chapter 402 - 369: Heavyweight Nemesis

Chapter 402: Chapter 369: Heavyweight Nemesis

"The member from the Hua Country Team who went up is called Li San. This member had no prior competition data, it was said that he is a Tai Chi Master specially brought over from the United States by Wu Li."

"Li San is listed as National Martial Arts Eighth Rank on the Nine Grade List of Bo Yuan Martial Arts Hall. You should know that before, only Wu Li and Zhao Lixin held the National Martial Arts Bagua rank in the entire Bo Yuan Martial Arts Hall, and now there’s an additional Li San."

"Li San has entered the fray, oh my god, his weight is only 82kg!?"

"...Li San and his opponent have a whole difference of 76 jin in weight! It’s almost unimaginable that the Hua Country Team would let Li San fight in the heavyweight category!"

...

In the Penguin live broadcast room, both commentators were stunned, not just them, but the netizens as well.

"Holy shit, that intense?"

"Amazing, a Tai Chi Master, is this going to be a David vs Goliath situation?"

"The final round, isn’t this play too risky?"

"If he can win this, then Li San’s strength is probably not inferior to Wu Li’s."

...

No matter what outsiders thought, the match was bound to get started.

On the stage, Li San stood opposite to Prin of the Thailand Team.

Prin had a large waist and thick back, nearly two meters tall, and when Li San stood in front of him, the contrast between their physiques was striking. Especially the visibly explosive muscle mass on Prin that made one worry if a punch from him could kill Li San?

The referee waved his hands to signal the start of the match, and Prin didn’t budge but instead gestured with his hand towards Li San, signalling his opponent to attack at will.

Seeing Li San’s weight, Prin felt very angry; he felt this was an insult and belittlement by the Hua Country Team!

A weight difference of 76 jin had only been seen in the initial UFC matches. And the people who managed to disregard such a weight gap and achieved victory were the ones from the Gracie family, who were known as the God of Jiu Jitsu. Actually, it was mostly because back then people were not well acquainted with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu; nowadays, even the Jiu Jitsu God resurrected might not be able to recreate their past feats.

So Prin was very angry that the Hua Country Team sent Li San out to fight and decided to return that insult!

Facing Prin’s provocation, Li San merely smiled and said in English, "Like you, those who think brute strength assures victory, I’ve killed more than a few in my past."

Prin understood English, and upon hearing this, he became downright furious, stepping forward with a hook that shot towards Li San like a cannonball.

Li San dodged to the side and at the same time grabbed Prin’s incoming wrist, intending to disrupt his center of gravity with a forward pull.

Prin was not just a brute with sheer strength; his Muay Thai was also master level.

He went along with the motion, aiming a fierce knee strike at Li San.

Li San dodged again, drawing with his right hand and palming Prin’s back with his left, performing a simple Jade Girl Wearing Flowers and adding a push to Prin’s force. With his mastery of Tai Chi Fist, this move perfectly disrupted Prin’s center of gravity.

Prin leaned forward, his right foot stomped on the ground, using the force to reclaim his balance. At the same time, he turned, lifted his elbow, and hurled a turning elbow at Li San, and this strike, borrowing the momentum of Prin’s forward charge and Li San’s pulling force, came even faster.

Li San raised his arms to block in front of him, and the moment his arms touched Prin’s elbow, he powered his legs to leap backward, unloading most of the impact force.

At the same time, one hand of Li San grabbed Prin’s elbow joint, the other seized the arm, his legs hitting the ground with force, his whole body’s muscle and bone power bursting.

Swish!

Utilizing the momentum from Prin’s turn, Li San suddenly applied strength, forcefully pulling him forward for five steps.

As Prin charged forward for five steps, he didn’t rush to steady himself but instead continued onward, launching a jab with his left hand.

Li San kept retreating as he struck, each time unbalancing Prin’s center of gravity a bit more, accelerating his own speed, his offensive growing fiercer.

Prin, too, found his rhythm, never having felt so unrestrained and invigorated!

However, as the two drew increasingly close to the edge of the ring, a flicker of unease crossed Prin’s mind. He tried to slow down his pace, but Li San had no intention of letting him do so.

With Prin’s huge body, once he accelerated, the inertia was already significant, let alone with Li San continuing to fan the flames from the side? At this point, Prin was caught in a dilemma, if he forcefully halted the acceleration, he would immediately lose his center of gravity and tumble to the ground, yet if he tried to counter Li San’s Borrowing Force to Strike by accelerating, the speed and power were gradually escaping his control.

In the end, when they reached the edge of the ring, Prin, who had lost control of his speed, was effortlessly tipped off the ring by Li San.

In many spectators’ eyes, Prin chased Li San, throwing elbows, kicking legs, looking fast and fierce, only to overdo it in the end and fall off the ring.

"Ah!"

Quite a few foreign viewers even felt sorry for Prin because in their view, Prin’s attack was like a storm on the sea, while Li San was like a lone boat about to be overwhelmed by the waves, but in the end, it was Prin who fell off the ring, which was a real pity!

But the viewers from Hua Country vaguely recognized it, Li San had used the Tai Chi technique of Four Ounces Moving a Thousand Pounds.

"I’ve seen so many so-called Tai Chi Masters, but today I finally got to see a real master!"

"This, damn it, is Tai Chi!"

"I always thought Four Ounces Moving a Thousand Pounds was just for show, but today I finally saw someone use it in a real fight!"

...

Hua Country’s netizens were all very excited, and many expressed their desire to go to Bo Yuan Martial Arts Hall to learn Tai Chi immediately. It was foreseeable that after today’s battle, Li San had significantly elevated the reputation of Tai Chi!

Wu Li also silently admired Li San’s choice, as fighting in that way was indeed the most energy-efficient; otherwise, in the situation where vital points could not be targeted, given Prin’s resistance to hits and martial arts level, even if Li San wanted to take him down, it would probably not be easy.

Prin fell off the platform and returned to it quickly with a dark expression on his face.

"So, you think you can defeat me in this manner, how naive!" Prin said to Li San.

Li San’s expression remained calm, without responding.

The referee quickly signaled for the match to continue, and Prin still took the initiative to attack.

After several punches, he forcefully halted himself, not giving Li San the chance to ’accelerate.’

Li San coldly laughed, "You think you can control this?"

During the moment Prin adjusted his stance, Li San slightly gathered his strength; his muscles and bones resonated in harmony as he stepped forward to Prin’s left side, clenched his fists, and forcefully struck out!

Bang!

Prin raised his arms to block Li San’s two punches but was pushed back two steps by a tremendous force.

He actually pushed Prin back!

The crowd issued bursts of astonishment; after all, with such a difference in body weight, for Li San to push Prin back went against common knowledge.

Prin also didn’t expect that Li San’s seemingly slight frame could burst with such strong power, a force that was even comparable to his own!

Prin finally put away his contempt and concentrated wholeheartedly on the fight; however, he quickly found himself helpless as he discovered Li San’s fighting method was too ’shameless.’

Whenever Prin initiated an attack, Li San would seize the opportunity to shift his center of gravity, forcing Prin’s body to move in one direction involuntarily; whenever Prin chose to defend or stop to adjust, Li San would unleash tremendous power, forcing Prin back!

"This..."

"Shocked, the power of someone practicing Tai Chi is so fierce?"

"They say lifting a weight as light as a feather, you need the power of a ton first; otherwise, it’s a joke. Looking at it now, Li San’s strength is astonishing!"

"Damn, such light body weight, yet so powerful. If he fought in the middleweight or even lightweight class, wouldn’t he just dominate?"

"Not necessarily, the previous match between Zhao Lixin and Siti saw both their movement speed and strike speed clearly faster than Prin’s just now, in the lower weight class matches, mere strength is not enough."

"But Li San’s speed should also be fast, with that strength, going into the lower weight classes seems to give him a huge advantage!"

...

Netizens watching the live broadcast were all shocked by the power Li San had unleashed; many felt that with his strength, Li San should fight in the lower weight classes, which would be a complete domination.

But in reality, while Li San would be fine in the lower weight classes, he wouldn’t be able to crush opponents like Siti.

Because the power he now unleashed came after charging up, combining both muscle and bone power. Against an opponent fast enough, he might not have the chance to build up this power.

If Prin wasn’t defending passively or stopping to adjust his balance, he wouldn’t give Li San the time to gather power, but every time he launched consecutive attacks, it would be like before, with Li San ’accelerating’ him unintentionally.

On stage, Prin was begrudgingly knocked off the platform by Li San again.

At this point, everyone understood Li San’s tactics, and if Prin fell off the platform once more, he would automatically lose.

In the Thailand Team’s prep area, with a furrowed brow, the head coach was racking his brain for a counter-strategy but soon found that Li San’s method of fighting seemed unbeatable for Prin.

Defend or proactively stop to adjust the balance, and you’ll be pushed back by Li San; take the offensive, and the opponent’s way of ’borrowing force to strike’ for acceleration was too cunning. Prin’s weight and his large body inertia would not work in his favor; perhaps a lightweight fighter wouldn’t be so passive, but Prin was utterly out of control.

"This person, he’s simply the bane of heavyweight fighters!"

The Thailand Team’s head coach was taken aback and subconsciously had this thought.

The strength that could push back heavyweight fighters, and techniques that specifically targeted heavyweight fighters, combined with the rules of the match, a complete counter!

No wonder Hua Country Team had sent him up, it truly wasn’t underestimating the opponent!

In that moment, the Thailand Team’s head coach fully understood why Hua Country Team had chosen Li San.

On the other side, looking at Li San who was about to make Prin fall from the platform for the third time, Wu Li’s face revealed a smile.

With Li San’s mastery of Tai Chi, combined with the competition rules, he indeed could be called the bane of the heavyweight class!

In truth, there were ways to break Li San’s method of fighting: either with an overpowering force that Li San couldn’t neutralize at all, or possessing the realm of a ’mercury-like center of gravity,’ naturally preventing ’loss of control;’ the last method would be a skill counteracting skill, being technically equal to Li San so as not to be continuously led by the nose.

But all these three methods were not easy, especially for heavyweight fighters. At this Combat World Cup, in Wu Li’s view, there were no more than five heavyweights who could break Li San’s method.

So, Li San was indeed the most suitable person for Hua Country Team to compete in heavyweight contests, the undisputed bane of the heavyweight class!

"The seventh match, victory for Hua Country Team!"

On the platform, as Prin was knocked down for the third time by Li San, the referee announced Li San as the winner.