LAS VEGAS, Nev. - In an all-Korean title match that highlighted a stepladder finals dominated by players from around the globe, left-hander Yong-Jin Gu defeated Jun-Young Kim, 236-224, to win the PBA Scorpion Championship at South Point Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

The title match turned a battle of nations into a battle of the bands, as Led Zepplin’s “Kashmir” accompanied each of Gu’s strikes while Kim’s were serenaded with AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck.” But thanks to Kim’s costly pocket 7-10 split in the tenth frame of a very close match, the flashy Gu with his dark shades, shaved head and double fist pumps helped put Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” over the top for good—and ensured that he would be the one to take a PBA title back home to Korea.

Gu dominated the stepladder finals for the first three games, vanquishing some of the sport’s hottest stars from both the Unites States and abroad including Canada’s Dan MacLelland, Bill O’Neill of Southampton, Pa. and Jason Belmonte of Australia.

“I was very relaxed because whether I won or not I knew a Korean bowler was going to win the title,” Gu said after the win.

MacLelland opened in the second frame with a 7-10 split, nearly converting it when he smashed the 10 pin so hard that it flew towards the 7 pin, narrowly missing the chance to become just the fourth player in PBA history to convert the 7-10 split on television. Gu responded like any champion does, by pounding the pocket throughout the match for a winning score of 245. MacLelland finished with a 204.

Gu’s next victim was Bill O’Neill, whose dominant performance at the World Series of Bowling thus far, capped by a title yesterday in the Pepsi Viper Championship, came to a crashing halt when he left a 1-2-10 in the opening frame and converted it before leaving the 4-6-7 on his next strike shot for an open frame.

O’Neill left the set before his next shot and stood over his ball bag as he pondered a ball change. He then came back out with a new ball and threw the next four strikes in a row, but Gu’s six-bagger proved too much for O’Neill to overcome, as O’Neill lost by a score of 256-208.

Two-hander Jason Belmonte met a similar fate in the semifinal match, coming out of the gate with several wildly errant shots that culminated in two splits for open frames—a 2-8-10 split on the game-opening shot and a 2-10 split after a three-bagger in the eighth frame that sealed his fate, with Gu taking the match 233-208.

The all-Korean final proved to be the afternoon’s most entertaining contest, as a razor-tight match exploded with suspense when Gu, working on six strikes in a row, left a flat 7 pin in the foundation frame and missed the spare. With an opportunity to jump on Gu’s mistake and take the lead, Kim threw his worst shot of the match, tugging the ball and leaving the 3-6-10.

Despite the mishap, Kim still had a shot to win, and threw a beautiful ball in his opening shot of the tenth frame—and for his efforts, he was rewarded with the disastrous 7-10 split that gave the title to Gu.