Road to UFC Season 4

Road to UFC Season 4
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Promotion	Ultimate Fighting Championship
First date aired	May 22, 2025 (2025-05-22)
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Road to UFC Season 4 is the 2025 cycle of Road to UFC, a mixed martial arts (MMA) event series in which top Asian MMA prospects compete to win contracts with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). ^[1]

Background

The event series featured four divisions—flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight, and lightweight—each for which eight fighters compete in a "win-and-advance" tournament format. ^[2] The tournament winner of each division is awarded a UFC contract. Each event within the series contains five bouts, one of which is a non-tournament match-up. ^[3]

The quarterfinal stage of the tournament took place over two days on May 22-23, 2025, at the UFC Performance Institute Shanghai, with two five-bout events for each day for a total of 10 bouts per day. ^[4]

The finals (with the exception of the flyweight finals due to Aaron Tau missing weight) took place at on February 1, 2026 at UFC 325 in Sydney, Australia. ^[5]

Episode 1

Road to UFC: Episode 1
Promotion	Road to UFC
Date	May 22, 2025
Venue	UFC Performance Institute Shanghai
City	Shanghai, China

Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Featherweight	Sebastian Szalay	def.	Baergeng Jieleyisi	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28)	3	5:00	[a]
Flyweight	Yin Shuai	def.	Kai Yoshida	TKO (punches)	1	4:38	[b]
Featherweight	Keiichiro Nakamura	def.	Park Eoh-jin	KO (knee)	2	2:24	[c]
Flyweight	Namsrai Batbayar	def.	Wataru Yamauchi	KO (punch)	2	0:46	[d]
Women's Strawweight	Arisa Matsuda	def.	Feng Xiaocan	Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28)	3	5:00

1. Road to UFC Season 4 Featherweight Tournament Quarterfinal.
2. Road to UFC Season 4 Flyweight Tournament Quarterfinal.
3. Road to UFC Season 4 Featherweight Tournament Quarterfinal.
4. Road to UFC Season 4 Flyweight Tournament Quarterfinal.

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Episode 2

Road to UFC: Episode 2
Promotion	Road to UFC
Date	May 22, 2025
Venue	UFC Performance Institute Shanghai
City	Shanghai, China

Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Featherweight	Li Kaiwen	def.	Seo Dong-hyun	TKO (punches)	2	3:21	[a]
Flyweight	Agulali	def.	Mridul Saikia	KO (punch)	1	0:37	[b]
Featherweight	Yoon Chang-min	def.	Jin Aoi	Decision (split) (30–27, 28–29, 30–27)	3	5:00	[c]
Flyweight	Aaron Tau	def.	Rio Tirto	TKO (punches and elbows)	1	1:26	[d]
Lightweight	Mansher Khera	def.	Aziz Khaydarov	Decision (unanimous) (30–26, 29–28, 29–28)	3	5:00

1. Road to UFC Season 4 Featherweight Tournament Quarterfinal.
2. Road to UFC Season 4 Flyweight Tournament Quarterfinal.
3. Road to UFC Season 4 Featherweight Tournament Quarterfinal.
4. Road to UFC Season 4 Flyweight Tournament Quarterfinal.

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Episode 3

Road to UFC: Episode 3
Promotion	Road to UFC
Date	May 23, 2025
Venue	UFC Performance Institute Shanghai
City	Shanghai, China

Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Bantamweight	Sulang Langbo	def.	Peter Danesoe	KO (punches)	1	3:48	[a]
Lightweight	Park Jae-hyun	def.	Jack Becker	TKO (punches and elbows)	2	3:56	[b]
Bantamweight	Sim Kai Xiong	def.	Kuya Ito	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 29–28)	3	5:00	[c]
Lightweight	Ren Yawei	def.	Deni Daffa	Technical Submission (guillotine choke)	1	2:01	[d]
Welterweight	Kitt Campbell	def.	Shogo Sato	TKO (knee and elbows)	1	0:56

1. Road to UFC Season 4 Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal.
2. Road to UFC Season 4 Lightweight Tournament Quarterfinal.
3. Road to UFC Season 4 Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal.
4. Road to UFC Season 4 Lightweight Tournament Quarterfinal.

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Episode 4

Road to UFC: Episode 4
Promotion	Road to UFC
Date	May 23, 2025
Venue	UFC Performance Institute Shanghai
City	Shanghai, China

Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Featherweight	Zhu Kangjie	def.	Xie Bin	Decision (split) (30–27, 28–29, 29–28)	3	5:00	[a]
Lightweight	Dom Mar Fan	def.	Yuji Yannick Ephoeviga	Decision (unanimous) (29–27, 29–27, 29–27)	3	5:00	[b]
Bantamweight	Lawrence Lui	def.	Zhang Qinghe	Decision (unanimous) (29–27, 29–28, 29–28)	3	5:00	[c]
Lightweight	Kim Sang-wook	def.	Daichi Kamiya	TKO (elbows and punches)	2	3:53	[d]
Bantamweight	Nghiêm Văn Ý	def.	Rui Imura	KO (punches and elbows)	2	4:04	[e]

1. Road to UFC Season 3 Featherweight Tournament Final.
2. Road to UFC Season 4 Lightweight Tournament Quarterfinal.
3. Road to UFC Season 4 Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal.
4. Road to UFC Season 4 Lightweight Tournament Quarterfinal.
5. Road to UFC Season 4 Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal.

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Episode 5

Road to UFC: Episode 5
Promotion	Road to UFC
Date	August 22, 2025
Venue	Shanghai Indoor Stadium
City	Shanghai, China

Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Flyweight	Namsrai Batbayar	def.	Agulali	Submission (rear-naked choke)	1	4:45	[a]
Featherweight	Sebastian Szalay	def.	Yoon Chang-min	TKO (punches)	1	0:47	[b]
Bantamweight	Lawrence Lui	def.	Nghiêm Văn Ý	TKO (punches)	2	1:48	[c]
Flyweight	Aaron Tau	def.	Yin Shuai	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 29–28, 29–28)	3	5:00	[d]
Welterweight	Kitt Campbell	def.	Jang Yun-seong	Decision (split) (28–29, 29–28, 29–28)	3	5:00

1. Road to UFC Season 4 Flyweight Tournament Semifinal.
2. Road to UFC Season 4 Featherweight Tournament SemiFinal.
3. Road to UFC Season 4 Bantamweight Tournament Semifinal.
4. Road to UFC Season 4 Flyweight Tournament Semifinal.

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Episode 6

Road to UFC: Episode 6
Promotion	Road to UFC
Date	August 22, 2025
Venue	Shanghai Indoor Stadium
City	Shanghai, China

Main Card (UFC Fight Pass)
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Women's Strawweight	Bruna Brasil	def.	Shi Ming	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)	3	5:00
Flyweight	Nyamjargal Tumendemberel	def.	Terrance Saeteurn	Technical Submission (anaconda choke)	1	2:53
Featherweight	Keiichiro Nakamura	def.	Li Kaiwen	Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–27)	3	5:00	[a]
Lightweight	Kim Sang-wook	def.	Ren Yawei	Submission (rear-naked choke)	2	3:42	[b]
Bantamweight	Sulang Rangbo	def.	Sim Kai Xiong	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)	3	5:00	[c]
Lightweight	Dom Mar Fan	def.	Park Jae-hyun	Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27)	3	5:00	[d]

1. Road to UFC Season 4 Featherweight Tournament SemiFinal.
2. Road to UFC Season 4 Lightweight Tournament Semifinal.
3. Road to UFC Season 4 Bantamweight Tournament Semifinal.
4. Road to UFC Season 4 Lightweight Tournament Semifinal.

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Tournament brackets

Lightweight

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	Yuji Yannick Ephoeviga	3
	Dom Mar Fan	UD
					Dom Mar Fan	UD
					Park Jae-hyun	3
	Jack Becker	2
	Park Jae-hyun	TKO
									Dom Mar Fan	UD
									Kim Sang-wook	3
	Ren Yawei	SUB
	Deni Daffa	1
					Ren Yawei	2
					Kim Sang-wook	SUB
	Kim Sang-wook	TKO
	Daichi Kamiya	2

Featherweight

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	Keiichiro Nakamura	KO
	Park Eoh-jin	2
					Keiichiro Nakamura	UD
					Li Kaiwen	3
	Li Kaiwen	TKO
	Seo Dong-hyun	2
									Keiichiro Nakamura	TKO
									Sebastian Szalay	3
	Sebastian Szalay	UD
	Baergeng Jieleyisi	3
					Sebastian Szalay	TKO
					Yoon Chang-min	1
	Jin Aoi	3
	Yoon Chang-min	SD

Bantamweight

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	Kuya Ito	3
	Sim Kai Xiong	UD
					Sim Kai Xiong	3
					Sulang Rangbo	UD
	Sulang Rangbo	KO
	Peter Danesoe	1
									Sulang Rangbo	3
									Lawrence Lui	SD
	Zhang Qinghe	3
	Lawrence Lui	UD
					Lawrence Lui	TKO
					Nghiêm Văn Ý	2
	Rui Imura	2
	Nghiêm Văn Ý	KO

Flyweight

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	Agulali	KO
	Mridul Saikia	1
					Agulali	1
					Namsrai Batbayar	SUB
	Wataru Yamauchi	2
	Namsrai Batbayar	KO
									Namsrai Batbayar
									Yin Shuai [a]
	Yin Shuai	TKO
	Kai Yoshida	1
					Yin Shuai	3
					Aaron Tau	UD
	Rio Tirto	1
	Aaron Tau	TKO

1. Batbayar's originally opponent Aaron Tau, but he rested his arms on the box in an effort to manipulate the scale, which announced at 122 pounds and the commission immediately noticed the irregularity and ordered a re-weigh without the box, Tau tipped the scale at 129 pounds, confirming the attempted deception. Therefore, Tau has been released by the promotion and Yin Shuai advanced to final instead.

See also

• Ultimate Fighting Championship
• Road to UFC

References

1. "The world's best MMA group UFC today announced the hosting of ROAD TO UFC Season 4". 매일경제. 2025-03-27. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
2. See single-elimination tournament.
3. Holland, Jesse (2025-03-27). "'Road to UFC' tournament returns, weight classes and full rosters announced for Season 4 on UFC Fight Pass". MMAmania.com. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
4. "Road To UFC Returns For Season 4 With Opening Round On May 22 & 23". www.ufc.com. 2025-03-27. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
5. Matthew Wells (2026-01-30). "UFC 325 weigh-in results: Title fight set; one fight canceled". mmajunkie.usatoday.com. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
6. Sherdog.com. "UFC - Road to UFC Season 4: Shanghai Quarterfinals 1". Sherdog. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
7. Sherdog.com. "UFC - Road to UFC Season 4: Shanghai Quarterfinals 2". Sherdog. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
8. Sherdog.com. "UFC - Road to UFC Season 4: Shanghai Quarterfinals 3". Sherdog. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
9. Sherdog.com. "UFC - Road to UFC Season 4: Shanghai Quarterfinals 4". Sherdog. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
10. Sherdog.com. "UFC - Road to UFC Season 4: Shanghai Semifinals 1". Sherdog. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
11. Sherdog.com. "UFC - Road to UFC Season 4: Shanghai Semifinals 2". Sherdog. Retrieved 2025-08-21.

External links

• Road to UFC