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Kron Gracie To Make MMA Debut Vs Kim Hyung Soo on Dec 23

Kron Gracie To Make MMA Debut Vs Kim Hyung Soo on Dec 23

 

 

Kron Gracie will make his MMA debut next month against Hyung Soo Kim.

The bout is set at a catch weight of 161lbs.

The lightweight bout will take place at Real Fight Championship 1, which is scheduled to be held on Dec. 23 in Japan.

Kim has a MMA record of 0-1.

Tapology.com made a feature on Kim, whic shjows how inexperienced he is in MMA:

“Kim was a highly recruited wrestler in South Korea, receiving many scholarship offers. At 13 he was diagnosed with Aplastic Anemia which required him to undergo surgery for bone marrow transplant. He was told he would never wrestle or have a career in sports again. For years he was bedridden and weak, the medication he was prescribed to help with this was deemed performance enhancing and he was banned from wrestling.

He took up a job as a physical therapist, through this he met Dae Hwan Kim (ROAD FC and UFC Korean commentator, fighter for ROAD). Dae Hwan was receiving treatment from Hyung Soo and Hyung Soo began to teach him wrestling leading to Dae Hwan offering him a coaching job at his gym.

After 2 years of MMA training, Hyung Soo made it onto the original season of ROAD’s Crying Fist show. He gained a lot of popularity through the show for his story and personality and was invited back on the show as a wrestling coach.

His tattoo reads “Saved Life” and under it “Wrestling Saved My Life”.

Kim received more notice when news broke of him stopping a pervert that was sexually harassing a girl at a bus stop.

As a kid he was a South Korean national champion in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. He also won the 2013 No-Gi King of Grappling tournament in South Korea.

He was set to make his debut at ROAD 16 against fellow Crying Fist member Park Hyung Geun at Featherweight but was forced out due to injury.

He now makes his debut at REAL 1 against BJJ superstar Kron Gracie at a 161 lb catch weight.”

More information on Kim can be found here: http://languagefight.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/saved-life-my-compadre-hyunsu-kim.html

Two other Jiu-Jitsu champion will also be fighting on the card: brothers Marcos and Roberto ‘Satoshi’ Souza. Marcos will face Kenta Takagi for the Welterweight belt.  Roberto Satoshi will also be on the card and will face Jeong Doo-Jae.

The card will also feature women’s BJJ world champion Gabi Garcia.

The De Souza brothers made their MMA debuts with the promotion. Chinese fighters UFC TUF veterans Zhang LiPeng and Yang JianPing also have been featured.

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REAL 1
December 23, 2014
Ariake Coliseum
Tokyo, Japan
Kron Gracie vs Kim Hyung Soo

Welterweight Championship
Marcos DeSouza vs Kenta Takagi 高木健太

Light Welterweight(-74.2kg)
Roberto Satoshi DeSouza サトシ・ソウザ vs Jeong Doo-Jae

Sanae Kikuta 菊田早苗 vs Song KeNan

Kazuyuki Miyata 宮田和幸 vs TBA Kazakhstan opponent

Taiyo Nakahara vs TBA

Gabi Garcia vs TBA

Megumi Yabushita 藪下めぐみら vs TBA

Carlos Toyota vs TBA