Can Yoon Chang-min (29) rise again in Asia’s largest martial arts organization ‘ONE Championship’?
ONE Championship will hold ‘ONE Friday Fights 9’ on March 17 at Lumpini Stadium (capacity 5000) in Bangkok, Thailand. Yoon Chang-min will face Kirill Gorovets (29, Ukraine) in mixed martial arts.
ONE Friday Fights is a brand launched by One Championship in Thailand in January this year. On Fridays, competitions featuring kickboxing and mixed martial arts, centering on Muay Thai, the symbol of Lumpini Stadium, are being presented.
In 2018, Changmin Yoon participated as a disciple of Seonghun Choo (48) of ‘Love is Dad’ in Season 2 of the Japanese reality program ‘War of Fighting Proxy’ and won the championship, thus obtaining the right to contract for the One Championship. He is a fighter belonging to ‘Team Stun Gun’, led by former UFC broadcaster Kim Dong-hyun (42).
His One Championship record is 6 wins and 2 losses. After 4 consecutive wins in his debut, he repeated defeats and victories. If Yoon Chang-min beats Gorobets, his mixed martial arts winning streak will resume after 1198 days (3 years, 3 months and 12 days). 메이저사이트
Gorovets was the 2019 interim champion and the 2020 regular champion in the Ukrainian event’World Warriors’ lightweight. After advancing to One Championship last year, he moved down to featherweight and went 1-1.
Yoon Chang-min is also a mixed martial arts lightweight fighter and featherweight fighter. In One Championship he has played more at featherweight (5 fights) than at lightweight (2 fights).
The remaining one match was a contract weight condition that exceeded the one championship featherweight standard by about 2.42%. Changmin Yoon and Gorobets agreed to fight at a weight 2.58% heavier than One Championship Featherweight.
At the One Championship, Yoon Chang-min was forced to surrender 4 times with his strangle technique and won 1 victory with a punch. It has been a hot game that only won once by decision.
Gorobets’ greatest strength is his hitting, which has a KO win rate of 41.6% (5/12) in mixed martial arts, such as knocking down an opponent three times by hitting a kick to the head.
It is also noteworthy that he won the submission with joint and choke techniques that are not commonly seen in mixed martial arts, such as the ‘Banana Split’ and ‘Peruvian Tie’.
One Championship has hosted 229 events in 24 countries since 2011. In Korea, it will be broadcast on Coupang Play.