Physical: Asia Finale Crowns Its Champion—Winner Revealed on Netflix
Six quests, 12 episodes, one champion. Netflix’s Physical: Asia has crowned its first-ever winner after a bruising pan-Asian showdown that began with 48 contenders from eight countries and saw a team fall each round—here’s who took the title.
Netflix just wrapped the first season of Physical: Asia, and after 12 episodes of pure punishment, we have a winner. It is the spin-off of Physical: 100, but instead of lone-wolf mayhem, this one started with 48 competitors from eight countries fighting it out as national teams. One team got axed after each round, and the finale boiled down to a head-to-head that felt more like a sports final than a reality show climax.
The showdown
Team Korea beat Team Mongolia in a three-game final series to become the first Physical: Asia champions. The last quest ran through a trio of events: wall-pushing, iron ball dragging, and something called infinite tail tagging. And yes, it is basically exactly what you think it is: chaotic, relentless, and designed to fry your lungs.
Who brought it home for Korea
- Kim Dong-hyun – MMA fighter
- Kim Min-jae – ssireum (traditional Korean wrestling) athlete
- Jang Eun-sil – wrestler
- Amotti – CrossFitter
- Choi Seung-yeon – CrossFitter
- Yun Sung-bin – former skeleton racer
How we got here, fast
The season was built around six quests spread over those 12 episodes, with a clean, simple format: survive the quest, keep your team alive. Lose a round, your whole squad goes home. By the end, Mongolia and Korea were the last two standing, and Korea took the series to seal the title.
The prize and the moment
The winners grabbed 1 billion won, which comes out to about $700,000. The emotional capper belonged to veteran MMA fighter Kim Dong-hyun, who has been chasing big hardware for two decades. He summed up what this meant on the show:
"Maybe I was unlucky, or maybe I just wasn't good enough. I used to beat myself up for it all the time. But winning Physical: Asia on behalf of Korea with this team means more than any medal or belt I could have won on my own. This is truly the honor of my career. I'm just so grateful."
One more flex for Amotti
If Amotti looked particularly at home in the chaos, that is because he has done this before. This is his second title in Netflix's muscle-gauntlet universe after winning Physical: 100 Season 2. Not a bad franchise run.