{"id":555010,"date":"2026-03-23T09:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555010\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:25:10","slug":"on-sunday-march-22-the-mma-mma-competition-acf-121-was-held-at-the-okinawa-hall-in-osaka-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555010\/","title":{"rendered":"On Sunday, March 22, the MMA (MMA) competition ACF 121 was held at the Okinawa Hall in Osaka, Japan…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lightweight champion Moon Hong-beom title 1st defense
Actor Kim Bo-sung overwhelmed Tetsuo Kondo who beat him
Seo Soo-hyuk overpowered 7 professional games with bantamweight away games
Director Yang Sung-hoon said, “We will produce content for entering UFC.” <\/p>\n

On Sunday, March 22, the MMA (MMA) competition ACF 121 was held at the Okinawa Hall in Osaka, Japan. Lightweight champion Moon Hong-beom (New MMA) succeeded in defending the title difference against challenger Tetsuo Kondo (Dotonbori MMA).<\/p>\n

ACF lightweight champion Moon Hong-beom knocked over Tetsuo Kondo to take the upper position and grabbed Tetsuo Kondo’s back trying to turn around and run away, ending the match with a rear-naked choke 48 seconds into the first round.<\/p>\n

\"Moon \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 Moon Hong-beom is taking a commemorative photo with Round Girl after succeeding in the first defense of the ACF lightweight title at the Okinawa Hall in Osaka, Japan, in March 2025. Photo = Member of the Popeye Union, KMMA Fighter Agency <\/p>\n

Seo Soo-hyuk (TeamMad Main Hall), the undefeated champion of the KMMA featherweight division, played his first match as a mixed martial arts professional in ACF 121. He beat Nakajima Shinnosuke (Ojiyama MMA) in a bantamweight away game with a TKO victory of 2:55 of the first round.<\/p>\n

\u25b2Tetsuo Kondo is famous for his 2016 and 2024 MMA and boxing exhibition matches with actor Kim Bo-sung. \u25b3 Team Mad head coach Yang Sung-hoon said, “We will release content containing all the processes until the day the student Seo Soo-hyuk challenges the UFC on the YouTube channel ‘Director Yang TV’ with 58.1 million subscribers.”<\/p>\n

\"Seo \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 Seo Soo-hyuk, the undefeated champion of the KMMA featherweight division, is taking a photo to commemorate the victory of Round Girl and his professional debut in mixed martial arts at ACF 121 at Okinawa Hall in Osaka, Japan, in March 2025. Photo = Member of the Popeye Union, KMMA Fighter Agency <\/p>\n

KMMA is a group formed by UFC commentator Kim Dae-hwan and former UFC, Road FC, ONE, and Spider Jiu-Jitsu commentator Jung Yong-joon. It has been held every month since October 2022 to provide Korean amateur mixed martial artists with as much experience as overseas.<\/p>\n

Kim Sung-bae, CEO of the KMMA Fighter Agency and chairman of the Popeye Association, who made the expedition to Japan, said, “It’s good that all of our players win. There are many promising KMMA members. I will not spare any support to promote national prestige on overseas stages in the future,” he said.<\/p>\n

\"ACF \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 ACF lightweight champion Moon Hong-beom gives up his surrender by hanging a rear-naked choke to challenger Tetsuo Kondo at the Okinawa Hall in Osaka, Japan, in March 2025. Photo = Member of the Popeye Union, KMMA Fighter Agency <\/p>\n

ACF lightweight champion Moon Hong-beom is also from KMMA. Popeye Union Member KMMA Fighter Agency is the largest mixed martial arts agency in Korea operated by KMMA, which has established itself as the No. 1 amateur organization in Korea, and Popeye, the main sponsor. It supplies players to all competitions in Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the full cost of operation paid by the Popeye Union Member, the Popeye Union Member KMMA Fighter Agency also has a public interest character that does not receive additional fees, including commissions, from its players.<\/p>\n

Moon Hong-beom said, “Any challenger is fine. Please take good care of me so that I can play the second title defense match in Japan as the ACF lightweight champion,” he said. Seo Soo-hyuk also said, “It was an honor to make my MMA professional debut in a great competition. I will be the ACF champion,” he vowed.<\/p>\n

Efforts to foster domestic amateur mixed martial arts, such as “Popey Union Member KMMA39 Daegu” on March 28 and “Popey Union Member KMMA40 Daegu” on April 18, will continue in the spring of 2026.<\/p>\n

Jung Yong-joon, co-chairman of KMMA, said, “As participants flock to the competition held once a month, the work fatigue of staff, leaders, and commentators is increasing. “We plan to hold it every three weeks from now on to give the players more opportunities,” he explained.<\/p>\n

KMMA will be provided with support from the main sponsor Popeye, Manjane, Mountain Miseong Pork Soup, OPMT, Dongseong-ro Cartoon Cafe Golbang, Wedding Studio Semiangdaegu, Vitalmu Aejujido Bok, Kingdom Jiujitsu, Shin Jae-young, head of the Dojang Insurance team, Samsung Life Insurance’s corporate consulting business team, Ilmere Dam, Advide, Circle Cookie, Chador, and Live On Media.<\/p>\n

[Kang Daeho, MK Sports Reporter]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightweight champion Moon Hong-beom title 1st defenseActor Kim Bo-sung overwhelmed Tetsuo Kondo who beat himSeo Soo-hyuk overpowered 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-555010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555010","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=555010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}