Sexyama has been famous for over two decades.
First as a gold medal-winning judoka — he won gold for South Korea at the 2001 Asian Championships, and for Japan at the 2002 Asian Games — in the early noughties, before moving on to mixed martial arts where he was named world champion in 2006.
By the time the 2010s came along, he was a reality star, thanks to his hugely popular stint on The Return of Superman with his unbelievably cute daughter Sarang, then just 20 months old, from 2013 to 2017. The show made Sexyama, who is married to Japanese model, Shiho Yano, a household name across Asia.
This year, he cemented his status as an age-defying fitness legend with Netflix’s Physical:100, the reality fitness competition that has introduced him to a whole new generation of fans and has turned him into an inspiration for those over 40.
When we meet Sexyama backstage at a dressing room in the Indoor Stadium, it was already half past noon, and after the main event, which saw Thai kickboxer Superlek — another awesome name — retain his world title over Aussie Danial Williams.
A protein shake of a man, Sexyama, in person, is as muscled and tanned as you would expect.
He’s wearing a crisp white jacket that emphasises his caramel-coloured skin. Underneath the jacket is a tight black T-shirt that barely contains that famous body.
He’s also in shades, which makes him look very intimidating. He is also not smiling. We would not want to go up against him in a death match. Though we wouldn’t mind being that boulder he pushes up and over a hill every 40 secs.
But as he poses for our photos, someone from his team teases him in Japanese, which we don’t understand but we do recognise the word “sexy”, which was said in English a few times.
He laughs, clearly feeling a bit embarrassed by the myriad of poses he’s giving our photographer.
When we finally get to talking — we communicate with the help of a Korean interpreter — Sexyama whips off his shades and flashes a smile.
We don’t feel intimidated anymore. In fact, if he tells us to move a 1500kg ship across a sand-filled arena with him right now, we would totally do it.
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