Road to UFC Season 4 | |
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Information | |
Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship |
First date aired | May 22, 2025 |
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]
The event series will be feature 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 will take 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]
Road to UFC: Episode 1 | |
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Promotion | Road to UFC |
Date | May 22, 2025 |
Venue | UFC Performance Institute Shanghai |
City | Shanghai, China |
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
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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 |
Road to UFC: Episode 2 | |
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Promotion | Road to UFC |
Date | May 22, 2025 |
Venue | UFC Performance Institute Shanghai |
City | Shanghai, China |
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
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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 |
Road to UFC: Episode 3 | |
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Promotion | Road to UFC |
Date | May 23, 2025 |
Venue | UFC Performance Institute Shanghai |
City | Shanghai, China |
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
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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 |
Road to UFC: Episode 4 | |
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Promotion | Road to UFC |
Date | May 23, 2025 |
Venue | UFC Performance Institute Shanghai |
City | Shanghai, China |
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
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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] |
Road to UFC: Episode 5 | |
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Promotion | Road to UFC |
Date | August 22, 2025 |
Venue | Shanghai Indoor Stadium |
City | Shanghai, China |
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
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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 |
Road to UFC: Episode 6 | |
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Promotion | Road to UFC |
Date | August 22, 2025 |
Venue | Shanghai Indoor Stadium |
City | Shanghai, China |
Main Card (UFC Fight Pass) | |||||||
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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 (brabo 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] |