Road to UFC (2022)

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Road to UFC
Genre Sports
Created by Dana White
Starring Dana White
Country of origin Singapore
Release
Original release June 9, 2022 (2022-06-09)
Chronology
Preceded by Road to UFC: Japan
External links
[{{#property:P856}} Website]

Road to UFC is a 2022 Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) mixed martial arts (MMA) event series in which top Asian MMA prospects compete in a tournament to win UFC contracts. It features four divisions—flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight and lightweight—each for which eight fighters compete in a "win-and-advance" tournament format.[1] The tournament winner for each division is awarded a UFC contract. Each event in the series is to feature five bouts including one non-tournament bout.[2][3][4]

The opening quarterfinal round of the tournament is to be held across two days, June 9–10, 2022 at Singapore Indoor Stadium, with two five-bout events for each day for a total of 10 bouts per day, ahead of the pay-per-view event UFC 275 on June 11.[2][5] The contestants for the tournament are expected to come from China (through the UFC Academy), India,[6] Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand.[7] The semifinal and final rounds are scheduled for later in 2022, with location and venue to be announced.[8][9][10] Eventually, the semifinals took place on October 23, 2022 – a day after UFC 281 – in Abu Dhabi, UAE.[11] The finals were initially scheduled to take place in Seoul, South Korea on February 4, 2023 at UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Spivak. However, the location for the event was changed to Las Vegas, Nevada with the date kept intact.[12]

The "Road to UFC" branding was previously used in 2015 for Road to UFC: Japan, a similar Japan-based tournament awarding a UFC contract, formatted as a reality competition, and marketed as an Asian-centric analog to The Ultimate Fighter.[2]

Episode 1

Road to UFC: Episode 1
Information
Promotion Road to UFC
Date June 9, 2022
Venue Singapore Indoor Stadium
City Kallang, Singapore
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Weight class Method Round Time Notes
Featherweight Yi Zha def. Keisuke Sasu Submission (rear-naked choke) 1 2:14 [lower-alpha 1]
Lightweight Ki Won Bin def. Jinnosuke Kashimura TKO (elbows) 1 4:45 [lower-alpha 2]
Bantamweight Toshiomi Kazama def. Maimaitituoheti Keremuaili Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28) 3 5:00 [lower-alpha 3]
Flyweight Choi Seung Guk def. Rama Supandhi Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) 3 5:00 [lower-alpha 4]
Light Heavyweight Zhang Mingyang def. George Tokkos KO (punches) 1 3:57
  1. ↑ Featherweight quarterfinals
  2. ↑ Lightweight quarterfinals
  3. ↑ Bantamweight quarterfinals
  4. ↑ Flyweight quarterfinals

[13]

Episode 2

Road to UFC: Episode 2
Information
Promotion Road to UFC
Date June 9, 2022
Venue Singapore Indoor Stadium
City Kallang, Singapore
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Weight class Method Round Time Notes
Featherweight Koyomi Matsushima def. Jun Young Hong Decision (split) (28–29, 30–27, 30–27) 3 5:00 [lower-alpha 1]
Flyweight Qiu Lun def. Wallen Del Rosario Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) 3 5:00 [lower-alpha 2]
Lightweight Jeka Saragih def. Pawan Maan Singh KO (spinning backfist) 3 2:24 [lower-alpha 3]
Flyweight Takeru Uchida def. Shaun Etchell Submission (rear-naked choke) 1 3:26
  1. ↑ Featherweight quarterfinals
  2. ↑ Flyweight quarterfinals
  3. ↑ Lightweight quarterfinals

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Episode 3

Road to UFC: Episode 3
Information
Promotion Road to UFC
Date June 10, 2022
Venue Singapore Indoor Stadium
City Kallang, Singapore
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Weight class Method Round Time Notes
Featherweight Lee Jeong-yeong def. Xie Bin Submission (armbar) 1 0:36 [lower-alpha 1]
Flyweight Topnoi Kiwram def. Yuma Horiuchi Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–27, 29–27) 3 5:00 [lower-alpha 2]
Bantamweight Rinya Nakamura def. Gugun Gusman Submission (keylock) 1 3:24 [lower-alpha 3]
Women's Strawweight Josefine Lindgren Knutsson def. Seo Ye Dam Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–26) 3 5:00
  1. ↑ Featherweight quarterfinals
  2. ↑ Flyweight quarterfinals
  3. ↑ Bantamweight quarterfinals

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Episode 4

Road to UFC: Episode 4
Information
Promotion Road to UFC
Date June 10, 2022
Venue Singapore Indoor Stadium
City Kallang, Singapore
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Weight class Method Round Time Notes
Bantamweight Shohei Nose def. Wuliji Buren TKO (knee injury) 1 1:13 [lower-alpha 1]
Lightweight Kim Kyung Pyo def. Asikeerbai Jinensibieke KO (punches) 1 0:30 [lower-alpha 2]
Featherweight Lu Kai def. Angga Hans TKO (punches) 2 4:33 [lower-alpha 3]
Flyweight Park Hyun Sung def. Jeremia Siregar TKO (punches) 1 3:56 [lower-alpha 4]
Welterweight Han Seul Kim def. John Adajar Submission (triangle armbar) 1 4:37
  1. ↑ Bantamweight quarterfinals
  2. ↑ Lightweight quarterfinals
  3. ↑ Featherweight quarterfinals
  4. ↑ Flyweight quarterfinals

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Episode 5

Road to UFC: Episode 5
Information
Promotion Road to UFC
Date October 23, 2022
Venue Etihad Arena
City Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Weight class Method Round Time Notes
Featherweight Yi Zha def. Koyomi Matsushima Decision (split) (27–30, 29–28, 29–28) 3 5:00 [lower-alpha 1]
Flyweight Choi Seung Guk def. Qiu Lun Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) 3 5:00 [lower-alpha 2]
Lightweight Jeka Saragih def. Ki Won Bin KO (punch) 1 2:41 [lower-alpha 3]
Featherweight Keisuke Sasu def. Balajin Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28) 3 5:00
  1. ↑ Featherweight semifinals
  2. ↑ Flyweight semifinals
  3. ↑ Lightweight semifinals


Episode 6

Road to UFC: Episode 6
Information
Promotion Road to UFC
Date October 23, 2022
Venue Etihad Arena
City Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Weight class Method Round Time Notes
Featherweight Lee Jeong-yeong def. Lu Kai KO (punches) 1 0:42 [lower-alpha 1]
Bantamweight Rinya Nakamura def. Shohei Nose KO (punches) 1 2:21 [lower-alpha 2]
Flyweight Park Hyun Sung def. Topnoi Kiwram Submission (rear-naked choke) 1 3:05 [lower-alpha 3]
Lightweight Anshul Jubli def. Kim Kyung Pyo Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28) 3 5:00 [lower-alpha 4]
Catchweight (175 lbs) Samandar Murodov def. Gian Siqueira Submission (rear-naked choke) 1 4:59 [lower-alpha 5]
  1. ↑ Featherweight semifinals
  2. ↑ Bantamweight semifinals
  3. ↑ Flyweight semifinals
  4. ↑ Lightweight semifinals
  5. ↑ Siqueira missed weight (175 lbs)


Flyweight tournament bracket

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
       
 South Korea Choi Seung Guk  UD
 Indonesia Rama Supandhi  3  
 South Korea Choi Seung Guk  UD
     China Qiu Lun  3  
 China Qiu Lun  UD
 Philippines Wallen Del Rosario   3  
 South Korea Choi Seung Guk  3
   
    South Korea 'Park Hyun Sung  SUB
 Thailand Topnoi Kiwram  UD
 Japan Yuma Horiuchi  3  
 Thailand Topnoi Kiwram  1
     South Korea Park Hyun Sung  SUB  
 South Korea Park Hyun Sung  TKO
 Indonesia Jeremia Siregar  1  
 

Bantamweight tournament bracket

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
       
 Japan Shohei Nose  TKO
 China Wuliji Buren  1  
 Japan Shohei Nose  1
      Japan Rinya Nakamura  TKO  
 Japan Rinya Nakamura  SUB
 Indonesia Gugun Gusman  1  
 Japan Rinya Nakamura  KO
   
    Japan Toshiomi Kazama  1
 South Korea Kim Min Woo*  BYE
 China Xiao Long  —  
 South Korea Kim Min Woo  —
      Japan Toshiomi Kazama**  BYE  
 Japan Toshiomi Kazama  UD
 China Maimaitituoheti Keremuaili  3  
 

* Xiao Long withdrew due to illness during fight week and no replacement was able to be found.
** Min Woo Kim missed weight (139.5 lbs), therefore the bout was canceled and Kazama proceeded to final

Featherweight tournament bracket

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
       
 China Lu Kai  TKO
 Indonesia Angga Hans  2  
 China Lu Kai  1
     South Korea Lee Jeong Yeong  KO


 
 South Korea Lee Jeong Yeong  SUB
 China Xie Bin  1  
 South Korea Lee Jeong Yeong  SD
   
    China Yi Zha  3
 Japan Koyomi Matsushima  SD
 South Korea Hong Jun Young  3  
 Japan Koyomi Matsushima  3
     China Yi Zha  SD


 
 China Yi Zha  SUB
 Japan Keisuke Sasu  1  
 

Lightweight tournament bracket

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
       
 South Korea 'Ki Won Bin  TKO
 Japan Jinnosuke Kashimura  1  
 South Korea Ki Won Bin  1
     Indonesia Jeka Saragih  KO  
 Indonesia Jeka Saragih  KO
 India Pawan Maan Singh  3  
 Indonesia Jeka Saragih  2
   
    India Anshul Jubli  TKO
 India Anshul Jubli*   BYE
 Japan Patrick Sho Usami   –  
 India Anshul Jubli   SD
     South Korea Kim Kyung Pyo   3  
 South Korea Kim Kyung Pyo  KO
 China Asikeerbai Jinensibieke  1  
 

* Patrick Sho Usami suffered weight cut issues the day of weigh ins and no replacement was found.

External links

See also

References

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