Trestle "Jun Minion" Tan: The Showman Who Reached ONE Championship

Some fighters win you over with cold technique. Trestle "Jun Minion" Tan won crowds over with personality. Loud, charismatic and never shy of a moment in the spotlight, the welterweight built a reputation across the Southeast Asian circuit as a showman with real finishing power behind the theatrics. For fans who came up watching MMA in Johor Bahru, he was one of the names that made the early Ultimate Beatdown cards feel like an event.

Who is Trestle "Jun Minion" Tan?

Trestle Tan is a professional mixed martial artist who competed for years across the region's promotions, including Ultimate Beatdown in Johor Bahru. He fights under the nickname "Jun Minion" and earned a name as one of the more entertaining welterweights on the local scene, a striker who liked to let his hands go and was happy to play to the crowd while doing it.

His record across a long career is a mixed one, as is true for many fighters who repeatedly stepped up against rising talent. But what stands out is not a polished win-loss column; it is the willingness to keep taking hard fights against opponents who would go on to make names of their own.

How did Trestle Tan make his name at Ultimate Beatdown?

Ultimate Beatdown was one of the stages where Tan put himself on the map. At Ultimate Beatdown 14, held in Johor Bahru in June 2014, he headlined and stopped Mahmoud Kamal by first-round KO/TKO, the kind of decisive finish that gets a fighter talked about beyond his home crowd. Wins like that, in front of UB's loyal Johor audiences, are exactly the sort of grassroots proving ground that Melvin "Overkill" Yeoh built the promotion to provide.

That is the role a regional promotion plays. A fighter sharpens his craft, builds a following and gives scouts a reason to look. Tan did all three.

How did he reach ONE Championship?

Tan's path to the global stage ran through the regional circuit. After a knockout win over ONE veteran Jeff Huang in Pro FC, he earned his shot in ONE Championship, the world's largest martial arts organisation and a promotion Ultimate Beatdown is proud to partner with through the ONE FC network.

His defining ONE moment came early. At ONE Championship: Tribe of Warriors in Jakarta on 20 February 2016, Tan faced previously-undefeated Indonesian welterweight Djatmiko Waluyo, who entered with a perfect professional record. In front of a partisan home crowd, Tan handed Waluyo his first defeat with a first-round submission. It remains one of the standout results of his career and proof that the showmanship was backed by substance.

Who did Trestle Tan fight in ONE?

Tan shared the cage with some serious operators inside ONE. He faced fellow regional star Agilan "The Alligator" Thani, as well as other dangerous international opponents. These were not easy nights, and several did not go his way, but each one put him across from elite competition on the sport's biggest platform, a long way from where he started on the regional cards.

That trajectory, from local fight nights to the global stage, is the dream every fighter who walks into a gym carries with them. Tan lived it.

What is Trestle Tan's legacy?

Tan's legacy is less about any single belt and more about what he represented: a fighter who treated every walk to the cage as a performance, who finished opponents in emphatic fashion, and who used the regional circuit exactly as it is meant to be used, as a launchpad. For a generation of Johor Bahru fans, "Jun Minion" was simply fun to watch.

Ultimate Beatdown has produced fighters from more than eight countries across 60-plus events and 500-plus bouts since 2010. Trestle Tan's run is part of that story, a reminder that the next fighter to make the leap could be the one stepping onto a UB card this year.

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