Joe Son

Son Hyung-min
Hangeul	손 형민
Revised Romanization	Son Hyeong-min
McCune- Reischauer	Son Hyǒngmin
See also : Korean name

Joseph "Joe" Son (born November 22, 1970 ; born 손 형민 , Son Hyung-min ) is a former mixed martial arts martial artist and actor.

life and work

Born in South Korea in 1970 , Son came to the United States at a young age, where he settled in the US state of California . In the 1990s he devoted himself to martial arts and became an MMA fighter, albeit with moderate success. He lost all of his four fights. Then he was briefly in Puroresu , the Japanese professional wrestling, active.

In the early 1990s, he also appeared as an actor in front of the camera. One of his best-known roles is certainly the impersonation of the henchman Randomtask by Dr. Evil in Austin Powers - The Hottest Her Majesty has to offer - a parody of the James Bond character Oddjob from Goldfinger .

Son as a sex criminal

It has been established that Joe Son and a friend committed sexual assault on a 19-year-old in 1990. The victim was threatened with a gun on Christmas Eve, dragged into a car, then raped and tortured several times for hours . After the ordeal, the young woman was abandoned naked on a street. The case remained unsolved for almost two decades until Son rioted in 2008 and was taken into police custody. A DNA sample was taken, which later found him to be a sex criminal.

On September 9, 2011, Son was finally sentenced to life imprisonment. The judgment also precludes early parole.

On August 30, 2017, Son was sentenced to 27 years in prison for the murder of a fellow inmate. On October 10, 2011, Son killed another inmate with his bare hands in his cell.

Web links

• Joe Son in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Battle stats of Joe Son on sherdog.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richard Winton in 'Austin Powers' henchman gets life in prison in rape-torture case , LA NOW, September 9, 2011 - accessed September 14, 2011
2. ↑ Matt Coker in Joseph Hyungmin Son, Dr. Evil Henchman Random Task in Austin Powers, Gets Life for Torture ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on ocweekley.com, September 9, 2011; accessed on September 13, 2011 (English) 
3. ^ Jason Kotowski: Austin Powers' actor Joseph Son sentenced to 27 years for killing Kern County cellmate. The Bakersfield Californian, August 30, 2017, archived from the original on February 18, 1018 ; accessed on August 31, 2017 .  

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Son is the family name here, Hyung-min is the first name.