‘Iron Turtle’ Park Jun-yong (32, Korean Top Team Seong-an Save Co.) will challenge for 4 consecutive wins in the UFC.
On July 16 (Korean time), he will have a middleweight match against Albert Durayev (34, Russia) at UFC Fight Night 224 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, USA.
Park Jun-yong was on the rise with three consecutive wins. He defeated Eric Anders (win by decision) → Joseph Holmes (win by submission) → Dennis Tullin (win by submission). In particular, he is showing off his decisiveness by finishing the last two games with스포츠토토 rear naked chokes.
Now, Park Jun-yong is challenging the UFC record of 4 consecutive wins, which only ‘Stun Gun’ Dong-hyun Kim has. Several fighters such as Jeong Chan-sung, Choi Doo-ho, and Kang Kyung-ho have failed to cross the threshold of four consecutive wins.
Park Joon-yong recently made his name known by showing off his high-level soccer skills in the JTBC entertainment program ‘Come Together to Kick’. Now it is his turn to show the public his martial arts skills that he is much more confident than football.
Park Jun-yong had been preparing for the match against Durayev, who had been scheduled for three to four weeks. He has been analyzing Durayev and continuing custom training.
Durayev is from Chechnya, Russia, and is a wrestler-style fighter like Hamzat Chimaev. He started training wrestling with his friends at the age of 10 and he grew into a strong grappler.
He is a strong player who has won the welterweight and middleweight champions in ACB, the Russian representative body. He entered the UFC in 2021 and has a record of 2 wins and 1 loss. A total of 16 wins and 4 losses.
Ha Dong-jin, CEO of the Korean Top Team, said on the YouTube channel ‘Fight Life’ on the 19th, “Duraev is a player who is more advanced than the opponent Park Jun-yong has faced so far.” “he said.
Park Jun-yong showed anticipation for the match against Durayev.
He said, “If I had met this fighter in his UFC debut, he would have lost. In the meantime, I have accumulated skills, gained experience, and gained know-how, so I wonder what the result will be.”
He then diagnosed that the significance of this match was great. He predicted, “I think the experience I will have in this fight is greater than the experience I had in my 8 UFC fights.”
The UFC Fight Night 224 main event features a women’s bantamweight bout between Holly Holm and Myra Bueno Silva. There will also be a heavyweight fight between Walt Harris and Josh Parisian.