European famous person Erko Jun is gearing up for the most important combat of his MMA profession as he takes on Alexander Wesner within the BRAVE CF 88 fundamental occasion, on September 28. Past etching his identify into the historical past books, for Erko, the combat will probably be about reaching the one factor lacking from his legacy: an MMA world title.
From spending time in refugee camps as a child to changing into the most important MMA star in Europe, the journey of Erko Jun has been nothing in need of extraordinary. Throughout his journey, together with constructing his identify within the MMA circuit, Erko has donned a number of different roles.
He’s a bodybuilding champion, health mannequin and social media star with a number of endorsement offers. Erko has greater than 5 million mixed followers on Fb and Instagram and his entertaining skits have gained hundreds of thousands of impressions the world over, in flip, establishing his private model and making him one of many wealthiest MMA fighters on the continent.
Though Erko has all of the luxuries in his life together with his stunning household, the Bosnian continues to be out trying to find the one lacking piece within the puzzle: a BRAVE CF world title.
His journey in direction of this purpose began again at BRAVE CF 70 final 12 months when he took on Marko Drmonjic in his BRAVE CF debut. Erko solely required beneath three minutes to finish the combat and introduced his arrival to BRAVE CF in fashion. The Bosnian adopted this up with one other first-round knockout win within the regional circuit earlier than returning to BRAVE CF at BRAVE CF 81.
This time round, Erko was met with one of many greatest challenges of his MMA profession as he was pitted in opposition to former BRAVE CF Gentle Heavyweight title challenger and Arab MMA legend Mohamed Stated Maalem. A lot to the shock of many, Erko made fast work of Stated Maalem as nicely, ending the combat within the first spherical and securing his Gentle Heavyweight title shot.
Now, in his third consecutive fundamental occasion at BRAVE Fight Federation, Erko will face German knockout artist and regional MMA champion Alexander Wesner, who’s on a five-fight profitable streak. If Erko wins this combat and secures the Gentle Heavyweight title, he’ll fulfil his biggest dream and safe his place in historical past.
BRAVE CF 88 takes place on September 28, in affiliation with WFC, marking BRAVE CF’s second occasion in Slovenia this 12 months, following BRAVE CF 81.
Roberto Villa is the CEO, Founder, Government Author, Senior Editor of FightBook MMA. Has a ardour for Fight Sports activities and in addition a podcast host for Sitting Ringside. He’s additionally a former MMA fighter and Kickboxer.
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