Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion

The global box office is expected to be around 400 million US Dollars.

The film + advertising cost of this movie is 115 million US Dollars.

As one of the distributors and producers, Lionsgate Films anticipates a profit of about 100 million US Dollars.

There are both praise and criticism when it comes to reputation.

The media's composite score is 73 points, Rotten Tomatoes freshness rating is 64%, with 46 votes in favor and 23 against, and a B+ from Yahoo audiences.

Fans consistently praise and support Link for his performance, believing his action scenes are very cool and that his acting has greatly improved from the previous installment, making him a rare highlight of the film.

Regarding Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and Bruce Willis, fans think they are too old and oily in their acting, often delivering greasy lines and outdated, tiresome jokes, which are extremely boring.

Audiences have also re-ranked the order of the movie's stars, believing that Link should be the lead, Jason Statham the second male lead, with Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and others best suited as supporting roles.

Audiences were interested in the easter egg revealed at the end of the movie.

At the end, Schwarzenegger's character is injured, expressing his intent to leave The Expendables and introducing a new team member to Link, mentioning it's his daughter.

The new team member is played by Scarlett Johansson as Jessica, who appears with blonde hair, dressed in leather, beautiful and with a stunning figure.

Seeing the stunning Jessica, Link, who plays the Playboy, couldn't help but whistle, giving an expression of attempting to hook up.

The stunning Jessica directly comes up with a flying kick, taking him down with a grounded cross hold.

She comes across as incredibly strong and cold.

The audience eats it up, applauding and cheering when they see this scene.

During the promotion of the film, the production team announced Scarlett Johansson would be the female lead in the next installment.

Fans were happy to hear the news, eagerly expressing their support and curiosity about the sparks that Link and Scarlett would ignite in the next movie.

After 12 days of release, the North American box office broke 100 million, making it Lionsgate Films' first movie to break 100 million in North America in 13 years.

The overseas box office totaled 185 million US Dollars after 12 days, with the Huaxia region alone reaching 32 million US Dollars.

Distribution in the Huaxia region was managed by Wanda Film Industry.

Wanda Film Industry, also a producer of this film, made great efforts in advertising and promotion, additionally, Jet Li and Alice Lee have fairly high box office drawing power in the Huaxia region.

This forces the producers to consider keeping one or two Huaxia actors for the sequel.

In mid-March, Link went to Huaxia for promotions and took the opportunity to accompany Chris Liu at Hong Kong Island Hospital for the birth of a girl, a beautiful little one just born. Chris Liu wanted to name the little one Liu Ruonan or Liu Tienan, but was smacked by Mother Liu and told to think of a nicer name.

Link and Chris Liu flipped through the New Chinese Dictionary in the hospital room and named the child Liu Jianni; Jianni means a good girl, and Amor is a beautiful French woman, so surely when the little one grows up, she'll be more beautiful than Amor.

After hearing the name, Mother Liu looked at them with eyes one might use to look at illiterates, deciding to take that as a nickname and have someone educated to give a proper name; it must not be worse than 'Yifei'.

After staying with Chris Liu and little Jianni for three days on Hong Kong Island, Link continued with the promotional tour with the film team.

At the end of March, he returned to the United States to participate in the WBO Light Heavyweight Boxing King challenge match, facing old acquaintance Andrea Berto.

In the 2008 National Golden Gloves amateur championship finals, Link and Andrea represented the East-West regions in a fight.

Andrea entered professional boxing in 2010, participating in a total of 16 professional fights with a current record of 15 wins and 1 loss, having been defeated by Chad Dawson in last year's IBF Light Heavyweight challenge.

This year, Andrea defeated four opponents in the WBO Light Heavyweight Boxing King qualifier to earn the chance to challenge Link.

As the two were old opponents, the match garnered much attention from boxing enthusiasts due to media promotion.

The match between Link and Andrea Berto took place at the Gila River Arena in Phoenix City, Arizona, a venue that often hosts boxing matches, with Arizona also having a significant fan base.

On the day of their match, the venue was filled with 38,000 spectators, mostly Link's fans, along with many familiar faces from amateur matches, including Andzeje Methodra, Jones Fullos, Mario Morales, among others.

Everyone was eager to see if there would be any surprises in their battle after five years, such as Andrea Berto overthrowing Link to become the new Light Heavyweight champion.

Of course, that was not going to happen.

Link and Andrea's match went on for two rounds.

In two rounds, Link knocked down Andrea four times in a row, displaying a huge gap, and Link smoothly secured this title defense match.

"Link is getting stronger and stronger. I really don't know who can defeat him."

'Mantis' Andzeje said while looking at Link on the boxing ring.

"Time!"

Morales said with his arms crossed.

"What?"

"Time can defeat Link. In another twenty or thirty years when Link gets old, I'll let my son come to defeat him."

Morales chuckled.

"Haha, that's a good plan."

"Going by what you say, Link would dominate the boxing ring for over twenty more years. God, what will the boxing ring be like after more than twenty years? I think Link will retire in a few years after he has made enough money."

The little dark-skinned Jones Fullos said.

"Impossible, this guy's net worth is now over ten billion. He's the richest professional boxer in boxing history. If he wanted to retire, he would have done it already."

Morales said.

"Tsk tsk, ten billion US dollars, that's a super exaggerated number. If I had that kind of money, I would definitely not stay in the ring to get hit."

Andzeje smacked his lips and sighed.

"That's because you're not strong enough. You'd get hit in the ring. Link is far too strong. In the ring, only he gets to hit others. Earning money while beating people up, there's no better profession than this."

Morales said enviously.

In the boxing ring, after the referee finished counting down, Link helped Andrea Berto to his feet and smiled, "Buddy, how do you feel?"

"I'm okay."

Andrea Berto wiped the sweat from his face with his arm and, leaning against the ropes, said, "Link, you've improved too much. In 2008 when you fought me you still needed tactics, but now, whether it's strength or speed, you have the power to completely overpower me. I'm no match for you."

"You're not bad either, you've made some progress since 2008. Once I give up the Light Heavyweight Golden Belt, you'll have the strength to fight for the World Boxing Champion title."

"Well, I hope I can do it."

Andrea Berto said helplessly.

When Link was in the Super Middleweight class and didn't give up the Golden Belt, nobody else could get a touch of it. The same goes for Light Heavyweight. With him around, all boxers would be suppressed.

There was no helping it.

Even when Link said such things, no one thought it was arrogant but an ironclad reality.

"Let's go, Andzeje and the others are there. Let's go have a drink."

Link invited.

"That sounds very nice."

After the match ended, Link and Andrea hung out in Phoenix City for half a day before they went their separate ways.

With this match's victory, Link's professional record reached an impressive 31 fights, 31 wins, 31 KO victories.

His earnings from this match were 68 million US dollars, slightly lower than the last few matches of the previous year. The main reason being the large gap in strength between the two sides making the outcome predictable, and also that Link's matches tend to be quite short, affecting the PPV revenue.

However, he's now a superstar with a large fanbase, managing to earn some money from ticket sales, advertising sponsorships, and merchandise sales at each match.

This match also set several new records, such as the highest-valued professional boxer in boxing history, the professional match with the highest earnings, and the most consecutive KO victories in history, among others.

After returning to Los Angeles, Link continued to train, preparing for the upcoming Heavyweight match.