Specifically, AFC 23 will take place on the evening of March 10 here at The Grand Ho Tram Strip (Ba Ria – Vung Tau). The event was organized by Cocky Buffalo, a martial arts training company, organizing a professional martial arts event in Vietnam in collaboration with AFC. The event will have 8 pairs of matches (6 matches of men and 2 women's matches), gathering top names with dense experience in the regional and international martial arts arena.
Angel's Fighting Championship (AFC) is a professional MMA tournament held periodically in Korea gathering many quality international boxers to compete. AFC applies a very different competition format, which helps optimize the advantage of martial artists specializing in grappling and restricting the striking fighters. This is quite new for Vietnamese boxers who are familiar with the forms of the previous MMA tournaments.
Accordingly, AFC allows the use of HEEL, Hook and Twist attacks (breaking the knees, breaking the heel, breaking the spine) in the grappling. In Vietnam, these locking techniques are considered very dangerous and banned from playing at the MMA Lion Championship championship. This makes AFC considered the most dangerous and also most attractive MMA in Asia because of the damage and surprise in each match.
At the end of October last year, this prestigious tournament had the first time in Vietnam with the AFC 21 event very successfully, creating opportunities for many Vietnamese boxers to first experience the international MMA competition. After the success of AFC 21, the organizers decided to continue bringing this MMA tournament back to Vietnam with AFC 23 event on the evening of March 10 with 8 attractive pairs. In particular, the focus will be the competition between the representative of Vietnam, Hoang Nam Thang and the Korean professional boxer Oh Su Hwan.
Oh Su Hwan (26 years old) is highly appreciated in terms of experience and bodybuilding with a height of 1m75, 5cm than Nam Thang. Korean boxers are considered a master in material techniques and locked with MMA for many years.
This will definitely be a small challenge for Hoang Nam Thang, a talented martial artist known for its technical and bloody shoe -shoe style that has been shown in the largest professional MMA arena in Vietnam Lion Championship.
Previously, Nguyen Tien Long was the name chosen to compete with Oh Su Hwan. However, right on the day of the floor, the boxer of Lo Quyen King MMA suddenly gave up. According to Mr. Kim Sang Bum – CEO Cocky Buffalo said: “Martial artist Nguyen Tien Long gave up close to the competition day. According to the signed contract, this means that Tien Long has lost and this match may not take place.”
“Because of the full event, the Organizing Committee tried to find another Vietnamese boxer suitable to compete with Oh Su Hwan. We believe that Hoang Nam Thang is a name that deserves to become a challenge for opponents from Korea.
In addition to the match of Nam Thang and OH Su Hwan, the remaining competition also promises extremely attractive, including the confrontation between the unbeaten Korean boxer Song Hyeon Jong and Brazilian fist Felipe Negochadle, Muay Muay Norov Azizbek and the Brazilian Master Pablo Eduardo or the beautiful “beautiful female” Park Si Yoon with the school. The Indonesian boxing player Harma Yesti …