Road to UFC Season 1

Road to UFC Season 1
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Promotion	UFC
First date aired	June 9, 2022 (2022-06-09)
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Road to UFC Season 1^[1] is the 2022 cycle of Road to UFC, a mixed martial arts event series in which top Asian MMA prospects compete to win contracts with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). It features four divisions—flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight and lightweight—each for which eight fighters compete in a "win-and-advance" tournament format.^[2] The tournament winner for each division is awarded a UFC contract. Each event in the series features five bouts including one non-tournament bout.^[3][4][5]

The opening quarterfinal round of the tournament was 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.^[3][6] The contestants for the tournament came from China (through the UFC Academy), India,^[7] Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand.^[8][1] The semifinals took place on October 23, 2022 – a day after UFC 281 – in Abu Dhabi, UAE.^[9] 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.^[10]

Episode 1

Road to UFC: Episode 1
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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	[a]
Lightweight	Ki Won Bin	def.	Jinnosuke Kashimura	TKO (elbows)	1	4:45	[b]
Bantamweight	Toshiomi Kazama	def.	Maimaitituoheti Keremuaili	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28)	3	5:00	[c]
Flyweight	Choi Seung Guk	def.	Rama Supandhi	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)	3	5:00	[d]
Light Heavyweight	Zhang Mingyang	def.	George Tokkos	KO (punches)	1	3:57

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Episode 2

Road to UFC: Episode 2
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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	[a]
Flyweight	Qiu Lun	def.	Wallen Del Rosario	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)	3	5:00	[b]
Lightweight	Jeka Saragih	def.	Pawan Maan Singh	KO (spinning backfist)	3	2:24	[c]
Flyweight	Takeru Uchida	def.	Shaun Etchell	Submission (rear-naked choke)	1	3:26

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Episode 3

Road to UFC: Episode 3
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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	[a]
Flyweight	Topnoi Kiwram	def.	Yuma Horiuchi	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–27, 29–27)	3	5:00	[b]
Bantamweight	Rinya Nakamura	def.	Gugun Gusman	Submission (keylock)	1	3:24	[c]
Women's Strawweight	Josefine Lindgren Knutsson	def.	Seo Ye Dam	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–26)	3	5:00

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Episode 4

Road to UFC: Episode 4
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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	[a]
Lightweight	Kim Kyung Pyo	def.	Asikeerbai Jinensibieke	KO (punches)	1	0:30	[b]
Featherweight	Lu Kai	def.	Angga Hans	TKO (punches)	2	4:33	[c]
Flyweight	Park Hyun Sung	def.	Jeremia Siregar	TKO (punches)	1	3:56	[d]
Welterweight	Han Seul Kim	def.	John Adajar	Submission (triangle armbar)	1	4:37

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Episode 5

Road to UFC: Episode 5
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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	[a]
Flyweight	Choi Seung Guk	def.	Qiu Lun	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)	3	5:00	[b]
Lightweight	Jeka Saragih	def.	Ki Won Bin	KO (punch)	1	2:41	[c]
Featherweight	Keisuke Sasu	def.	Balajin	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28)	3	5:00

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	[a]
Bantamweight	Rinya Nakamura	def.	Shohei Nose	KO (punches)	1	2:21	[b]
Flyweight	Park Hyun Sung	def.	Topnoi Kiwram	Submission (rear-naked choke)	1	3:05	[c]
Lightweight	Anshul Jubli	def.	Kim Kyung Pyo	Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28)	3	5:00	[d]
Catchweight (175 lbs)	Samandar Murodov	def.	Gian Siqueira	Submission (rear-naked choke)	1	4:59	[e]

Flyweight tournament bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	Choi Seung Guk	UD
	Rama Supandhi	3
					Choi Seung Guk	UD
					Qiu Lun	3
	Qiu Lun	UD
	Wallen Del Rosario	3
									Choi Seung Guk	3
									Park Hyun Sung	SUB
	Topnoi Kiwram	UD
	Yuma Horiuchi	3
					Topnoi Kiwram	1
					Park Hyun Sung	SUB
	Park Hyun Sung	TKO
	Jeremia Siregar	1

Bantamweight tournament bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	Shohei Nose	TKO
	Wuliji Buren	1
					Shohei Nose	1
					Rinya Nakamura	TKO
	Rinya Nakamura	SUB
	Gugun Gusman	1
									Rinya Nakamura	KO
									Toshiomi Kazama	1
	Kim Min Woo*	BYE
	Xiao Long	—
					Kim Min Woo	—
					Toshiomi Kazama**	BYE
	Toshiomi Kazama	UD
	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
	Lu Kai	TKO
	Angga Hans	2
					Lu Kai	1
					Lee Jeong Yeong	KO
	Lee Jeong Yeong	SUB
	Xie Bin	1
									Lee Jeong Yeong	SD
									Yi Zha	3
	Koyomi Matsushima	SD
	Hong Jun Young	3
					Koyomi Matsushima	3
					Yi Zha	SD
	Yi Zha	SUB
	Keisuke Sasu	1

Lightweight tournament bracket

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

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

External links

• Road to UFC

See also

• Ultimate Fighting Championship
• Road to UFC

References