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Road to UFC Season 1
| Road to UFC Season 1 |
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| UFC |
| June 9, 2022 (2022-06-09) |
Road to UFC Season 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. The tournament winner for each division is awarded a UFC contract. Each event in the series features five bouts including one non-tournament bout.
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. The contestants for the tournament came from China (through the UFC Academy), India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand. The semifinals took place on October 23, 2022 – a day after UFC 281 – in Abu Dhabi, UAE. 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.
| Road to UFC: Episode 1 |
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| Road to UFC |
| June 9, 2022 |
| Singapore Indoor Stadium |
| Kallang, Singapore |
| Main Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
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| Featherweight | Yi Zha | def. | Keisuke Sasu | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 2:14 | |
| Lightweight | Ki Won Bin | def. | Jinnosuke Kashimura | TKO (elbows) | 1 | 4:45 | |
| Bantamweight | Toshiomi Kazama | def. | Maimaitituoheti Keremuaili | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Flyweight | Choi Seung Guk | def. | Rama Supandhi | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Light Heavyweight | Zhang Mingyang | def. | George Tokkos | KO (punches) | 1 | 3:57 |
| Road to UFC: Episode 2 |
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| Road to UFC |
| June 9, 2022 |
| Singapore Indoor Stadium |
| Kallang, Singapore |
| Main Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
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| Featherweight | Koyomi Matsushima | def. | Jun Young Hong | Decision (split) (28–29, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Flyweight | Qiu Lun | def. | Wallen Del Rosario | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Lightweight | Jeka Saragih | def. | Pawan Maan Singh | KO (spinning backfist) | 3 | 2:24 | |
| Flyweight | Takeru Uchida | def. | Shaun Etchell | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 3:26 |
| Road to UFC: Episode 3 |
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| Road to UFC |
| June 10, 2022 |
| Singapore Indoor Stadium |
| Kallang, Singapore |
| Main Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
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| Featherweight | Lee Jeong-yeong | def. | Xie Bin | Submission (armbar) | 1 | 0:36 | |
| Flyweight | Topnoi Kiwram | def. | Yuma Horiuchi | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–27, 29–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Bantamweight | Rinya Nakamura | def. | Gugun Gusman | Submission (keylock) | 1 | 3:24 | |
| Women's Strawweight | Josefine Lindgren Knutsson | def. | Seo Ye Dam | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–26) | 3 | 5:00 |
| Road to UFC: Episode 4 |
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| Road to UFC |
| June 10, 2022 |
| Singapore Indoor Stadium |
| Kallang, Singapore |
| Main Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
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| Bantamweight | Shohei Nose | def. | Wuliji Buren | TKO (knee injury) | 1 | 1:13 | |
| Lightweight | Kim Kyung Pyo | def. | Asikeerbai Jinensibieke | KO (punches) | 1 | 0:30 | |
| Featherweight | Lu Kai | def. | Angga Hans | TKO (punches) | 2 | 4:33 | |
| Flyweight | Park Hyun Sung | def. | Jeremia Siregar | TKO (punches) | 1 | 3:56 | |
| Welterweight | Han Seul Kim | def. | John Adajar | Submission (triangle armbar) | 1 | 4:37 |
| Road to UFC: Episode 5 |
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| Road to UFC |
| October 23, 2022 |
| Etihad Arena |
| Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
| Main Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
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| Featherweight | Yi Zha | def. | Koyomi Matsushima | Decision (split) (27–30, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Flyweight | Choi Seung Guk | def. | Qiu Lun | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Lightweight | Jeka Saragih | def. | Ki Won Bin | KO (punch) | 1 | 2:41 | |
| Featherweight | Keisuke Sasu | def. | Balajin | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 |
| Road to UFC: Episode 6 |
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| Road to UFC |
| October 23, 2022 |
| Etihad Arena |
| Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
| Main Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
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| Featherweight | Lee Jeong-yeong | def. | Lu Kai | KO (punches) | 1 | 0:42 | |
| Bantamweight | Rinya Nakamura | def. | Shohei Nose | KO (punches) | 1 | 2:21 | |
| Flyweight | Park Hyun Sung | def. | Topnoi Kiwram | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 3:05 | |
| Lightweight | Anshul Jubli | def. | Kim Kyung Pyo | Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Catchweight (175 lbs) | Samandar Murodov | def. | Gian Siqueira | Submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 4:59 |
** 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*
** Patrick Sho Usami suffered weight cut issues the day of weigh ins and no replacement was found.*
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