ROAD TO UFC Season 4 will feature men’s flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight, and lightweight divisions. To provide additional opportunities for top MMA prospects in Asia Pacific, there will also be four non-tournament bouts. The participants and bouts include:
Flyweight (>56.7kg)
- Aaron Tau (New Zealand)
- Agulali (China)
- Kai Yoshida (Japan)
- Mridul Saikia (India)
- Namsrai Batbayar (Mongolia)
- Rio Tirto (Indonesia)
- Wataru Yamauchi (Japan)
- Yin Shuai (China)
Bantamweight (>61.2kg)
- Chungreng Koren (India)
- Kuya Ito (Japan)
- Peter Danesoe (Thailand)
- Rui Imura (Japan)
- Sim Kai Xiong (Singapore)
- Sulang Rangbo (China)
- Ti Haitao (China)
- Van Y Nghiem (Vietnam)
Featherweight (>65.8kg)
- Ahejiang Ailinuer (China)
- ChangMin Yoon (Korea)
- DongHyun Seo (Korea)
- EohJin Park (Korea)
- Jin Aoi (Japan)
- Li Kaiwen (China)
- Keiichiro Nakamura (Japan)
- Sebastian Szalay (Australia)
Lightweight (>70.3kg)
- Daichi Kamiya (Japan)
- Deni Daffa (Indonesia)
- Dom Mar Fan (Australia)
- Jack Becker (Australia)
- JaeHyun Park (Korea)
- Ren Yawei (China)
- SangWook Kim (Korea)
- Yuji Yannick Ephoeviga (Japan)
Participants in non-tournament bouts will be announced at a later date.
Each round of ROAD TO UFCSeason 4 will take place in front of a live audience, with location and venue details announced in advance of each event. The finals will be featured bouts on a UFC Fight Night, at which time UFC contracts will be awarded to the winners from each division.
Kevin Chang, UFC Senior Vice President and Head of Asia, said: “Entering our fourth season, with nearly a third of Asia’s UFC rostered fighters coming from Road to UFC, we can definitively say that the tournament has been a resounding success. Each year, the level of talent in Asia continues to improve, and RTU gives these prospects the opportunity to rise to the top and prove they are ready for the big stage of UFC. We’re excited to welcome participants from Australia and New Zealand who will raise the bar even further.”
Each episode of ROAD TO UFC will air in Asia-Pacific primetime GMT +8, so audiences can get to know the athletes via in-event features and competitions.
UFC Asia broadcast partners:
All events are broadcast internationally on UFC Fight Pass.
CHINA: MIGU
HONG KONG: NOW SPORTS
CHINESE TAIPEI: VIDEOLAND
INDIA: SONY TEN 2
INDONESIA: MOLA
JAPAN: U-NEXT
SOUTH KOREA: TVN, TVN SPORTS, TVING
MALAYSIA: ASTRO SUPERSPORT 5, UNIFI TV, MOLA
MONGOLIA: PREMIER SPORTS
MYANMAR: CANAL+
PHILIPPINES: BLAST TV, PREMIER SPORTS
SINGAPORE: HUB SPORTS, MIO SPORTS, MOLA
THAILAND & CAMBODIA: TRUE SPORTS HD3
VIETNAM: K+ SPORTS
AUSTRALIA: UFC Fight Pass
NEW ZEALAND: UFC Fight Pass
