VIDEO: BTS member Jungkook spar with ONE Championship star Yoshihiro Akiyama

03 July 2022

Two worlds crossed over the last day as ONE Championship star Yoshihiro Akiyama was seen training with BTS Member Jungkook.

Akiyama made a post on his Instagram where he was seen sparring with the BTS sensation. As we reported earlier, Akiyama had earlier invited Jungkook for a sparring session back in April.

“Please tell him for me that we should have a sparring session next time. ^__^” Akiyama had noted.

Jungkook apparently accepted the invitation and although the complete video of the sparring session is not available, Akiyama has indeed posted a portion where the two hug it out.

Interestingly, Akiyama has Korean ancestors and is known to Korean fans as Choo Sung Hoon. He is of Korean descent and is a fourth-generation Japanese. In fact, he has represented Korea in the Asian Games for Judo, winning a gold medal in 2001. Following this, Akiyama represented Japan in the following year, winning another Gold medal, this time defeating South Korean Ahn Dong-Jin in the finals.

Meanwhile, Jungkook is BTS's youngest member and vocalist, and he was the most-searched male K-Pop Idol in Google in 2019 according to the company's mid-year chart. He also topped the charts in 2020 and was the most searched K-Pop Idol on YouTube in both 2019 and 2020. He is said to be worth more than $20 million and had the most retweeted tweet on Twitter in 2019 and the second most retweeted tweet in 2020, demonstrating his popularity.

You can see the post from Akiyama below. What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments below.

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