Lim Hyun-Gyu

Lim Hyun-Gyu stands out to me first for his frame: 188 cm is unusually tall for a welterweight, and that reach must have shaped his entire approach to distance and timing inside the cage. Reaching the UFC welterweight division is no small thing, and he did it as part of that hungry wave of Korean fighters pushing onto the global stage. The record speaks quietly here, but simply standing in the sport's top promotion is achievement enough. I picture a rangy, physically imposing fighter.

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Name (English)

Lim Hyun-Gyu

Name (Japanese)

イム・ヒョンギュ

Reading

いむ・ひょんぎゅ

Born

January 16, 1985 (age 41)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Height

187 cm

Occupation

mixed martial arts fighter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Ox

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lim%20Hyun-gyu
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A5
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6378997

Tags

• mixed martial arts fighter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.