{"id":43955,"date":"2025-08-04T06:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43955\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T06:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:18:07","slug":"hyun-sung-park-issues-statement-following-ufc-vegas-108-submission-loss-i-had-a-lot-of-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43955\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyun Sung Park issues statement following UFC Vegas 108 submission loss &#8211; \u2018I had a lot of problems\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"W3TgBP\">\u201cPeace of Mind\u201d will be back &#8230;<\/p>\n<p id=\"XtvnYM\">Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight finisher Hyun Sung Park suffered his first professional loss on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/28\/24475907\/new-ufc-vegas-108-main-event-taira-park-albazi-apex-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">short notice<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/8\/2\/24475651\/ufc-vegas-108-results-live-streaming-updates-tatsuro-taira-vs-hyun-sung-park-espn-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vegas 108<\/a> last night (Sat., Aug. 2, 2025). The South Korean was submitted in the second round by top contender Tatsuro Taira inside the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/8\/3\/24479586\/watch-video-highlights-results-espn-ufc-vegas-108-taira-submission-park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p id=\"7URNEo\">Following the defeat, Park took to Instagram to address the setback with resilience and determination.<\/p>\n<p id=\"SlPR54\">\u201cAbsolutely lost,\u201d Park wrote in Korean. \u201cIt\u2019s hard, indeed. I faced many challenges, but I\u2019ve learned valuable lessons. I will grow from this experience and won\u2019t give up. I\u2019m climbing back up. This was a learning opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"zYIlAm\">\u201cI\u2019ll show you my best in the next match soon,\u201d he continued. \u201cI\u2019m not frustrated. Thank you all for your support. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/28\/24475907\/new-ufc-vegas-108-main-event-taira-park-albazi-apex-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">no more 7-day rush offers<\/a>! Lmfao.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"4OCKel\">Park (10-1) saw his impressive ten-fight win streak snapped, but his youth and talent suggest a strong comeback is imminent. \u201cPeace of Mind\u201d holds a 3-1 UFC record, all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/5\/17\/24432180\/video-highlights-ufc-vegas-106-results-espn-park-submission-hernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three wins by finish<\/a>, which include a submission win over Carlos Hernandez (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/5\/17\/24432180\/video-highlights-ufc-vegas-106-results-espn-park-submission-hernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highlights<\/a>) and a knockout of Shannon Ross.<\/p>\n<p id=\"K8BE9N\">The 29-year-old\u2019s willingness to take on Taira <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/28\/24475907\/new-ufc-vegas-108-main-event-taira-park-albazi-apex-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on short notice<\/a> shows that he\u2019s a fighter with no fear and one to keep an eye on in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p id=\"13Slac\">For complete UFC Vegas 108 results and play-by-play, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/8\/2\/24475651\/ufc-vegas-108-results-live-streaming-updates-tatsuro-taira-vs-hyun-sung-park-espn-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPeace of Mind\u201d will be back &#8230; Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight finisher Hyun Sung Park suffered his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4443,49,48,2185,9461,700,31072,31069,2833,8891,701,7964,13527,2184,2177,11525,21746,82,24694,31071,31070,640,29965,702,7788,1459],"class_list":["post-43955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-a","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-com","tag-following","tag-front-page","tag-had","tag-hyun","tag-i","tag-issues","tag-latest-news","tag-loss","tag-lot","tag-mmamania","tag-of","tag-park","tag-problems","tag-sports","tag-statement","tag-submission","tag-sung","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-espn-fight-night-events-schedule-mma","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-results","tag-vegas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}