The opening round matchups for the “Road to UFC” have been set.
The eight-man tournament, which consists of mixed martial artists fighting in four men’s weight classes, takes place on June 9 and 10 at Singapore Indoor Stadium ahead of UFC 275. The semifinals and finals are tentatively scheduled for later this year.
On Monday, promotion officials announced the matchups, which feature top MMA prospects from Japan, Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, India, and the UFC Academy in China.
Check out the opening round matchups below:
Spotlight is on Asia’s top prospects!
Here are the tournament brackets for the 𝙍𝙊𝘼𝘿 𝙏𝙊 𝙐𝙁𝘾! Who will emerge victoriously and realize their Octagon dreams?
Opening round of #RoadToUFC kicks off this June 9-10 during #UFC275 fight week!
— UFC_Asia (@UFC_Asia) May 23, 2022
The current UFC 275 lineup includes:
- Champ Glover Teixeira vs. Jiri Prochazka – for light heavyweight title
- Champ Valentina Shevchenko vs. Taila Santos – for women’s flyweight title
- Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Zhang Weili
- Silvana Gomez Juarez vs. Na Liang
- Brendan Allen vs. Jacob Malkoun
- Danaa Batgerel vs. Kyung Ho Kang
- Orion Cosce vs. Blood Diamond
- Jack Della Maddalena vs. Ramazan Emeev
- Seungwoo Choi vs. Josh Culibao
- Rogerio Bontorin vs. Manel Kape
- Andre Fialho vs. Jake Matthews
