A 10-minute endless punchy battle between a 32-year-old champion and a 43-year-old firefighter fighter. The result is the 2-1 champion's victory
Jul 13, 2024
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Park Hae-jin (32, Kingdom MMA) won 2-1 after endless punch exchanges with Shin Dong-guk (43, Road FC Chungju) and continued his hope for a road FC lightweight tournament.
Park Hae-jin beat Shin Dong-guk 2-1 in the ARC 009-78kg contract weight match held at Lotte World Vita 500 Coliseum in Jamsil on the 13th.
Park Hae-jin is considered to have the best grounding skills among MMA players to the extent that he is a standing guard for the national team of Jiu-Jitsu who has a Jiu-Jitsu black belt. Based on this jiu-jitsu technology, it is dominating as a road FC featherweight powerhouse. In 2021, Kim Soo-chul, dubbed the 「Asia's strongest」, was crowned champion with a kilotin choke following a featherweight title book counter punch. Later, he lost to Kim Soo-chul in the first defense match and gave up the championship belt, but he brought the championship belt again in the featherweight title match against Park Seung-mo at the end of 2022.
Last year, he lost to Devana Shutaro in a lightweight tournament and challenged again this year.
Shin Dong-guk is an incumbent firefighter. He also appeared on Netflix 'Physical100' and competed with Choo Sung-hoon in good faith to make his name known to the public. Shin Dong-gook always plays a hot game. He jumps in recklessly and starts a batting battle. So, although his performance is not excellent with six wins and six losses, he became a player who guarantees fun with a hot game. Shin Dong-guk, who made his professional debut in 2017, has even made it to the main event in eight years.
Although he is nearing the end of his career, Shin Dong-guk is determined to play until the age of 50. In particular, he pledged to be a proud father to his twin sons.
It was expected to be a ground fight between Shin Dong-guk and Park Hae-jin, but the two fought a batting fight.
Shin Dong-guk put Park Hae-jin in a corner at the beginning. Park Hae-jin was takedown after hitting a flying knee kick following the punch. He then continued to press by blowing the foundation. After getting up for a while, he jumps to Park Hae-jin on the ground and throws a foundation, receiving applause from fans. Even in standing, Shin Dong-guk continued to throw punches and did not back down from the match against Park Hae-jin.
After that, Park Hae-jin started attacking Shin Dong-guk. Shin Dong-guk's movement, which stormed for two minutes, fell, and Park Hae-jin did not miss it and continued to hit it. However, Shin Dong-guk also fought back with punches and a knee kick. But he's not as strong as he was in the beginning.
Park Hae-jin's punch was accurately stuck in Shin Dong-guk's face, but no clear shot came out. Shin Dong-guk, who is 43, also continues to punch and resist, ending the first round.
At the beginning of the second round, Park Hae-jin's punch was accurately inserted into Shin Dong-guk's face, and Shin Dong-guk's lower body seemed to be loosened. Park Hae-jin seemed to immediately rush in and end the game, but Shin Dong-guk resists it as he punches more. After that, the two continued to exchange punches. But Shin Dong-guk's punch has definitely slowed down. Park Hae-jin did not rush to see this and hit accurately with ease. However, he couldn't finish the game, and Park Hae-jin also seemed to be losing strength.
At the signal that there was a minute left, Shin Dong-guk kept throwing punches with his last strength. The game ends by exchanging punches until the end. The referee gave Park a 2-1 victory.
Fans gave generous applause not only to Park Hae-jin, who won, but also to Shin Dong-guk, who lost and came down.
indyk@sportschosun.com
