Adrian Pang lands a crushing right hand on Nam

This rematch was booked as a championship bout with Pang’s Legend FC lightweight belt on the line, however it became a non-title affair when Nam failed to make weight on Wednesday after numerous attempts. On the pairs first showdown 12 months ago on Legend FC 1 Nam fought the fight 3kg over the limit after failing to make weight. Legend FC has a very generous 0.5kg allowance so with Nam final attempt coming in at 70.8 kg the former welterweight champions ability to fight at lightweight must be in question.

Feeling each other out with a tense first few minutes, Nam landed a couple of  hard inside low kicks and left hands on the champion. Pang returned fire as the match progressed, hurt Nam with left and right hooks of his own opening a deep gash under Nam’s left eyebrow which would affect the rest of the fight. Both bleeding, Pang and Nam stood toe-to-toe throughout the fight with each man swinging for the fences and taking his turn landing haymakers. Pang targeted the cut above Nam’s left eye and succeeded in forcing the ringside doctor to check on his opponent late in the round. Pang continued with a damaging left hook up elbow combination which swelled the face of the South Korean.

The fight’s pace slowed in the last stanza with both men giving the respect due to such aggressive,powerful striking. Hard punching combinations from both men continued as they picked their shots down the line. In the end, two judges saw the match 29-28 in Pang’s favor, while the dissenting judge gave the same score for Nam.

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Adrian Pang Asia Pacific Champion- Photo by Boyee Siu

edited from Legend FC Website-

June 24, 2010 – Hong Kong’s second professional mixed martial arts event, Legend II at HITEC’s Star Hall, began with fireworks and ended with fireworks with the 1,500-strong crowd roaring their approval as Australian-Chinese hero Adrian ‘The Hunter’ Pang triumphed over Korea’s Yu Woo Sung to take the first Legend FC Asia Pacific MMA Title.

Pang, who had drawn on his Hong Kong debut at Legend I in January, could smell victory early despite MMA specialist Yu having been unbeaten for four years. The match went the full three rounds, after a tough first round which saw Pang held down by his physicaly strong opponent. The battle was intense,  in the second round before THE HUNTER found a chink in his opponents muscle bound armour badly hurting him with a knee to the body. Adrian and his corner saw his opponents reaction to the knee and launched an assault of strikes targeting the body. Coming close to finnishing his opponent on a few occasions Adrian admited that in his weakend state due to a rescent relapse of Malaria, he couldnt quite follow up enough to get the TKO victory in what was an extremely excitng fight.

Adrian Pang was declared Asia Pacific Lightweight Champion and fireworks rained down on the stage. At times Adrian had to be physicaly supported but wouldnt let his new fans down as he signed autographs and posed for photos with the crowd for probably an hour after the fight.

In other Integrated MMA action, it was an emotional win for young professional MMA athlete Tony Rossini who forced a tap-out from China’s Zhang Lipeng, two minutes and 56 seconds into their opening round.

Integrated MMA Welterweight Matt Cain was defeated by his opponent Bae after three rounds.  Bae and Cain both competed in Legend I in January, but had never met in the ring until today.  Bae asserted his physical strength early and the match was very competitive until Matt badly broke his right hand on his opponents head early in the fight.  Many fighters would have not answered the bell but Cain valliantly fought rounds 2 and 3 as best he could before losing by decision.

Edited fron CFC- Cage Fighting Championship is proud to announce CFC 12, at the Hordern Pavilion, Moore Park,Sydney March 12th 2010. Three World Title fights headline the start to the 2010 Cage Fighting Championship series; it’s the biggest event CFC has staged and features Australia’s most talented fighters.

5 time Champion Hector Lombard returns to defend his Middleweight title against Art Santori from Dan Henderson’s Team Quest USA. Lightweight Champion Adrian ‘the Hunter’ Pang from Integrated MMA/Fairtex will be defending his title for the first time when he takes on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu expert Bernardo Trekko. Sydney’s Ritchie Vas, a professional big wave surfer who is currently undefeated in MMA puts it all on the line when he takes on Perth based Brazilian Gustavo Falciroli for the coveted Bantam weight title. This event is supported with a full undercard including another up and coming Integrated MMA standout Tony  “THE JEDI” Rossini.

Big thanks tp Peter Antoine from TAPOUT for sponsoring Adrian Pang and Tony Rossini in the upcoming CFC 12 event. Also thankyou to Integrated MMA sponsors ASN- Australian Sports Nutrition for fuelling the boys with the best in sports supplements and Fairtex the leaders in training equipment. Thanks as always to our team sponsors MMA SPORTS Magazine and All Type Cabinets.

CFC is Australia’s Number 1 MMA Event. This event is proudly sponsored by Tapout http://www.tapout.com , 48HR Rapid Detox http://www.rapiddetox.com.au , Hock’a’car http://www.hockacar.com com, WSII International http://www.wsii.com.au and Lion’s Den Academy http://www.lionsdenacademy.com.au .

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