On November 29 last year, ONE Championship Chairman and CEO Chatry Syuto announced the signing of Akiyama Seiho, most people expected him to appear in Tokyo, the most luxurious lineup in ONE history, but in fact, Akiyama took on the responsibility of opening up the international market, leaving the opportunity for the debut of the round cage in China in 2019. On June 15, ONE Championship: In search of legend, after 1294 days, Asia's sexiest flesh returned to the vision of boxing fans.
Akiyama Seong-hoon, Korean name Aki Sung-hoon, is the fourth Generation of Korean Expatriates in Japan, the 43-year-old he is a winner in the life of a fighter, not only has a brilliant career, but also occupies a place in the Japanese and Korean entertainment industry, married japanese supermodel Yano Shiho, with his daughter Akiyama Saran (Aki Xiaoai) to participate in variety shows, he led the asian fighter star trend, eliminated many people's prejudice against fighters. Akiyama's performance on the field combines the style of Korean players desperate saburo and the solid and delicate technical characteristics of Japanese players, good at small and large, amazing judo techniques combined with explosive boxing attacks, coupled with Mr. Bodybuilder's level of figure, often playing pleasing and wonderful matches, harvesting a large number of fans around the world.
Akiyama, a judo starter, has won a total of 8 national or above judo championships, won the gold medal at the Asian Judo Championships for South Korea in 2001, and won the gold medal in judo at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan after naturalization in Japan. In 2004, Akiyama tested the waters of mixed martial arts, catching up with the "honeymoon period" of K-1 and HERO, two major domestic fighting events, and the first round of arm cross solids was surrendered to South African heavyweight François Botta. In this way, he quickly gained a foothold in the field of mixed martial arts.
In 2009, with a result of 12 wins, 1 loss and no result and K-1 HERO's Grand Prix, he ended his martial arts career in Japan, and in the same year Akiyama received an invitation to compete in North America, at the age of 34, he was still cultivated as a hero of the Asian level, and the North American arena was up and down for six years, although Akiyama's results did not meet expectations, he contributed many of the best matches to make more Asian audiences realize the charm of fighting sports.
Climbing to the top, experiencing lows, truce for nearly four years, when most people think that the veteran will be glorious retirement, Akiyama Seiho chose to continue to complete the long-cherished championship in the world's top competitions, his world-class influence and fighting level is still at a high level, but Okami Nobubu, Aoki Masaya and other Japanese veterans have successively overturned to prove the consequences of competing with young people. Akiyama doesn't seem to care about outside comments, Agilan Thani is not his ultimate goal, and after conquering the round cage sub-middleweights, he is willing to challenge the current middleweight and light heavyweight double champion Anra Ensang. You can look down on the veteran, but you can't ignore the determination to win the title behind his 15-year successful career.