Legend Welterweight champion Rod MacSwain will have his first title defense against Korean Myung Ho Bae. The two were supposed to have faced each other for the title at Legend FC 4 but Bae pulled out due to an injury and MacSwain defeated the replacing Hoon Kim to capture the title. I have always talked highly of Bae and think he has the potential to fight at a high level. I expect him to win this one.
Another Korean who I have written about for a while is 20 year old Nam Jin Jo. He will face Chinese Honggang Yao in the Legend Bantamweight tournament final. The winner of the fight will be crowned the first Legend Bantamweight champion. Yao defeated Michael Mortimer in the semifinal of the tournament, not a bad win for your first fight. Very interesting fight.
It’s good to see Yui Chul Nam back in action. He will take on Australian Rob Hill in a Lightweight fight. The winner of the fight should get to a position near Legend Lightweight champion Adrian Pang.
A Featherweight tournament will start at the event. Pancrase veteran Yusuke “Bancho” Kawanago will take on Korean Yeong Gwang Choi in one semifinal and Indonesian Fransino Tirta will face Cheng Jie Wu in the other.
“Bancho” just fought at a Pancrase event where he drew with the very solid Kensaku Nakamura. He should defeat Choi but Choi has had good results (2-0) in Legend so he might be in the middle of turning his career around.
Tirta is undefeated but doesn’t fight MMA very consistently. It’s good to see that he might become more active with Legend FC and their Featherweight tournament. Several of his fights are available on YouTube…
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