Lion Championship 23 – The event witnessed the second belt match in the 2025 season between the 56kg champion Pham Van Nam and rival Le Van Tuan, ending a scenario of not many viewers.
In the focus confrontation, the champion Pham Van Nam was highly appreciated when he had successfully protected the belt in front of a notorious standing hand like gold medal Wushu Asia Dinh Van Huong. Meanwhile, Le Van Tuan showed the progress in the locking lock – the array of Van Nam skills was relatively good.
When everyone thought about a struggle, Le Van Tuan made the whole Tay Ho stadium exploded with an accurate high kick. The feet of the boxer from C88 made Pham Van Nam stunned, immediately a punch later and a series of rice pounding of Van Tuan made Van Nam lose consciousness. The 56kg championship belt officially changed the owner.
Le Van Tuan's throne helped him get the first championship in his career after the three Lion Championship seasons, officially blocking the hope of holding the permanent belt of Pham Van Nam.
The story will be very interesting when the next chance of painting in the 56kg weight class can belong to Phan Thanh Tung – a teammate of Pham Van Nam. The possibility of Le Van Tuan to 60kg to compete with another teammate Tran Ngoc Luong was also opened by the BTC of the tournament at the press conference.
In the main battle, “old general” Tran Trong Kim continued to show the skill of fighting excellent and full of alertness to the young talent Bui Dinh Khai. The exhausted scenario was repeated with Dinh Khai when his strategy of creating pressure was not effective.
Tran Trong Kim's stone and sharp attacks made Dinh Khai gradually lose his resistance. Everything officially ended with a victory for Trong Kim after the referee intervened to stop the match at the end of the third half.
In the match between Van Minh Van and Russian boxer Mikhail Gritsaneko, dramatic was pushed from the first half. After Gritsaneko torn his eyes with a sharp blow, the boxer from Son La also responded with a stunning situation in the end of the half. Add two fierce matches to witness each of the two fighters, Van Van Minh won close to the examination of the examination.
The only female match of the event between Dao Thi Nhu Quynh and Russian boxer Karina Veis ended with an equally unexpected scenario. It seemed that Karina could overwhelm Karina with the Jujitsu forte on the floor, Nhu Quynh from a situation in the second half had a misconception, creating opportunities for Karina to end the match with a series of rice in the second half.
In the two matches opening the MMA Pro format, the shots when hitting were “unlocked” in the Lion Championship 2025 season, it was effective. From Pha overturned Bui Van Hung's flag in front of Le Quang Minh, to the overwhelming situation of Nguyen Phu Thinh before Huynh Ngoc Tin, the sharp attacks helped representatives from Lien Phong and Happy Club to win resounding victories.
The only MMA Ground Fight match of the event witnessed the top technique of Adel IAbbarov (Russia) when defeating Pham Kim Quoc Huy with a combination of falling – summary back – neat neck lock. The series of MMA Striking witnessed the victory of Pham Binh Minh (vs. Le Van Vu), Nguyen Van Lam (Knockout Tran Quang Khai).
In the remaining international friendly match under the MMA Striking law, Dinh Van Huong only needed a half to make opponent Jhaymie Gayman give up. The sharp kicks of the Wushu gold medal to force the Asian who forced the Philippine boxer to stop the match just before the second half of the bell rang.
