Max Holloway spectacularly knocked out Chan Sung Jun at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore, forcing the retirement of the ‘Korean Zombie,’ who left UFC Fight Night Singapore to a standing ovation.
The knockout came in the third round of the featherweight division fight, where despite the aggressiveness of the Korean Zombie, he was connected with a brutal right hand that ended his aspirations.
The fight was hotly contested from the start, with Max punishing the South Korean with kicks, who closed the distance and connected in the face of “Blessed’ Holloway, who did not stay with his arms crossed, moved away from the danger represented by his rival and took the rhythm of the fight to impact with the jab and kicks to the chest of Chan Sung Jung.
In the second round Max surprised his rival and knocked him down with a blow to the head, and tried to finish him with a submission, but the South Korean resisted. The dominance was the American, who did not stop dropping punches and combinations that seemed lethal, but the heart of the Korean Zombie kept him standing.
Brutal knockout of Korean Zombie
But it all ended in the third round, when Chan Sung Jung came out determined to do everything, with a lot of aggressiveness against an opponent who waited for the right moment to end the fight, and that came with a brutal right hand that hit the face of the Korean Zombie, who fell completely liquidated to lose the fight.
Korean Zombie tearfully announces his retirement
Worried about his rival, Holloway approached to see that the South Korean was well, showing his respect to the Asian idol, who at the end of the fight announced his retirement from mixed martial arts, saying goodbye in the least expected way in his return to the octagon after more than a year without doing so.