Road to UFC Season 1 is the 2022 cycle of Road to UFC, a

mixed martial arts Mixed martial arts (MMA), sometimes referred to as cage fighting, no holds barred (NHB), and ultimate fighting, and originally referred to as Vale Tudo is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, inc ...

event series in which top Asian MMA prospects compete to win contracts with the

Ultimate Fighting Championship The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Zuffa, a wholly owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. It is the largest MMA ...

(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

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, 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 ''UFC 275: Teixeira vs. Procházka'' was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on June 12, 2022, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. Background A UFC Light Heavyweight Champi ...

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 ''UFC 281: Adesanya vs. Pereira'' was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on November 12, 2022, at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, United States. Background A UFC Middle ...

– in

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. The finals were initially scheduled to take place in

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on February 4, 2023 at UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Spivak. However, the location for the event was changed to

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with the date kept intact.

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Flyweight tournament bracket

Bantamweight tournament bracket

''* 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

Lightweight tournament bracket

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

External links

Road to UFC

References

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