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Chris Presnell

@mmaecosystem

1 year

Looks like the UFC will use new gloves on Saturday that try to prevent eye pokes, slightly bending the fingers downward.

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2 years

Being in the media, you have to learn how to cover athletes you personally don’t like without channeling your rage (I’m wrestling w/this a lot btw). There’s a place to criticize athletes in a professional way, but this comes off as amateurish.

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Terrance McKinney Gets Knocked Out Cold Just Hours After Claiming Barstool Didn't Know Sports

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After winning at Shooto last Monday, the UFC has signed 🇯🇵Yamato Nishikawa (21-3-6) to fight Magomed Mustafaev at UFC 280, per MMA Fight Universe. #UFC280

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Zhang Weili announces she’s earned her BJJ brown belt from Pedro Jordão in Beijing, after being a purple belt for seven years.

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🚨Breaking: 🇨🇳Song Yadong vs. 🇷🇺Petr Yan in the works to serve as the main event of UFC Fight Night on December 9th, per sources! No official location yet but still the hope for Shanghai, China. #MMA #UFC #UFCNews #MMANews

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Omg what a stare down with Jeka Saragih and Anshul Jubli 😃🎆 #UFCVegas68 #RoadtoUFC

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Bigfoot Silva fighting Haim Gozali at a BRAVE event in Israel on March 9 😔

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2 years

🚨Breaking: Light heavyweight Zhang Mingyang has signed with the UFC following his first round knockout of George Tukkos, per his management. #UFC #MMA #RoadToUFC

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OMG. Xia Lianyang just unloaded twelve punches on a standing, unconscious Cheng Jin against the ropes while the ref was clearly checking his phone or something. Scary. #MMA

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🇰🇷Cho Joon Gun is only 16 years old and is annihilating dudes. This from AFC 22 today. #AFC

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15-2 Uzbek flyweight Ramazan Temurov signs with RIZIN, hoping to debut on May 6. #RIZIN

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9 months

Ariel Helwani reporting on the MMA Hour that the UFC Riyadh card for March 2nd is being postponed to June. The reason he mentioned is that the Saudis wanted a stronger card.

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2 years

Breaking: 🇨🇳Zhang Mingyang makes his UFC debut opposite 🇦🇺Tyson Pedro at UFC 284 in Perth on February 11th (the 12th locally), per multiple sources. #UFC284

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2 years

Here’s the full list of fighters added to the UFC website, guessing for Road to UFC, in addition to the Chinese fighters I’ve already announced. S/o to @hellowhosthat for pointing it out. #RoadToUFC #UFC #MMA

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1 year

🚨Breaking: The UFC is targeting a return to Singapore on August 26 for a UFC event and Road to UFC semis, multiple sources have told me. Not set in stone yet. #UFCSingapore #RoadToUFC

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2 years

I announced fifteen fighters for Road to UFC 2023 on my podcast today, here they are: #RoadToUFC

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2 years

Argentinian bantamweight Ailin Perez (7-1) has signed with the UFC, per her IG. She’s the Samurai Fight House champion and essentially undefeated except for a DQ loss. #MMA #UFC

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4 months

🇯🇵Kai Asakura signs with the UFC, per the RIZIN broadcast! The biggest signing in gosh, a long freaking time. Full story: #RIZIN47

Kai Asakura signs with the UFC, targets top-five bantamweights for debut

Kai Asakura joins the world's largest MMA promotion in the UFC's biggest signing in months.

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2 months

Duuuuude this sequence from Ze Wang. Imagine fighting out of a deep triangle after getting lit up by this flying knee.

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6 months

🇻🇳An Tuan Ho announces on IG that he’ll fight on Dana White’s Contender Series on August 13th! #DWCS #MMA

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6 months

Jon Anik confirms that no smelling salts were used and the cornerman just put his finger on Yan's nose. DC and Rogan going on for minutes about Yan's corner cheating by using salts.

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6 months

A loooot of speculation going on from the commentary booth here #UFC300

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6 months

Looks like Korean Zombie is launching a Korean MMA promotion! Zombie Fight Night launches June 29th.

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2 years

Breaking: Keremuaili Maimaitituoheti🇨🇳 vs. Kazama Toshiomi🇯🇵 added to Road to UFC on June 9th, per sources. #MMA #RoadToUFC

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2 years

BREAKING: Following a strong win last weekend, 🇰🇷Park Jun Yong in the works to return home to South Korea to fight 🇷🇺Denis Tiuliunin at UFC Seoul on Feb 4th, per multiple sources. #UFCSeoul #UFCNews

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2 years

Breaking: 🇨🇳Balajin (24-4) vs. 🇯🇵Keisuke Sasu (9-2-1) takes place as a Road to UFC featherweight non-tournament bout on October 23rd in Abu Dhabi, per multiple sources.

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4 months

🇨🇳Wang Cong (5-0) has signed to the UFC, per the promotion! She’s going to be a terror in the flyweight division. #RoadToUFC #RTU3

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2 years

People forget the top of a cage was not built for humans to stand and celebrate on. Teymur Zhaparov learned that today at Octagon 41.

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2 years

I’ve got confirmation that both sides have signed the contract for Carla Esparza vs. Zhang Weili at #UFC281 Nov. 12 in New York. Ariel Helwani first reported the fight was in the works for this event.

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2 years

Here are all of the Chinese fighters competing in Road to UFC in Singapore June 9-10. #UFC275 #UFC #RoadtoUFC

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2 years

🇰🇷Yoon Tae Young def. Lee Young Chul via KO (Head Kick) in R1 #ROADFC62

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Kim Soo Chul: “Last fight, my wife promised if I won she would buy me a Nintendo Switch. I won the fight, but she did not buy a Switch. So I hope to win this fight to secure that she will buy me a Nintendo Switch.” #RIZIN40

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11 months

Someone must be out of UFC Vegas 82 this weekend, because it looks like the promotion has signed 11-1-1 Kyrgyz fighter Myktybek Orolbai to fight this Saturday, per Orolbai’s and .Kyrgyzstan’s IG. #UFCVegas82

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1 year

Another Kazakh flyweight joins the UFC- undefeated Azat Maksum (16-0) has been signed.

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10 months

It was cancelled for issues with getting permits to hold an event in Shanghai, from what I understand. Entirely behind-the-scenes bureaucratic stuff, had nothing to do with the card or ticket sales. #UFCVegas83

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10 months

Did they ever mention why UFC Shanghai was cancelled

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30 days

🇮🇳Digamber Singh Rawat continues to build the hype as he pulverizes Abdul Kahaf and moves to 4-0! #MFN15

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2 years

And to break another fighter for #RoadToUFC , 21 year-old Japanese welterweight Yusaku Kinoshita (4-1) will participate, according to sources. He’s a Pancrase and Rizin vet. #MMA

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3 years

Game over, lightweights. Pink hair Rong Zhu has entered the building. #UFCVegas49

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2 months

🇨🇳Ding Meng has a fight lined up for DWCS next week! He’ll fight 🇱🇧Rami Hamed- who replaces Islam Dulatov- on the first episode of the season, multiple sources confirm. #DWCS #MMA

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8 months

Japanese promotion Gladiator announces a partnership with LFA to send fighters to compete in LFA. Some notable fighters that have competed for them recently include Shuya Kamikubo, Lee Seung Chul, and Choi Dong Hoon.

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7 months

Kai Asakura continues to tease UFC things

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2 years

Eternal MMA flyweight champion Stephen Erceg has signed with the UFC, per Eternal MMA.

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2 years

Dana is already phoning the hospital to take Luke Rockhold away from the post-fight press conference. #UFC278

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8 months

@Grabaka_Hitman As far as I know, they don't even put tickets on sale to the general public beyond pricy VIP packages for any Apex events, which that makes no sense to me. Even though the gate wouldn't be much, at least get some noise in there.

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11 months

I want to become friends with the Indonesians who run the Mola Sport IG account

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2 years

Breaking: Topnoi🇹🇭will fight Yuma Horiuchi🇯🇵 at Road to UFC on June 10th in Singapore, per sources. #RoadtoUFC #MMA

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1 year

Meanwhile in Jakarta: #OnePrideMMA

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2 years

Devastating spinning elbow KO from Keisuke Sasu against Tateo Iida at Shooto. Gotta think a UFC call up comes soon. #Shooto

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1 year

I can confirm that 🇯🇵Shuya Kamikubo (12-1-1) will fight in the Road to UFC bantamweight tournament.

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2 years

I can confirm that 🇨🇳Li Kaiwen (10-5) will compete in Road to UFC’s featherweight tournament.

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1 year

🇰🇿Zhalgas Zhumagulov posts on his IG story that he’s signed to fight at Naiza FC on December 2nd in Astana, Kazakhstan. The event- likely Naiza FC 55- takes place in the Barys Arena.

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3 months

🇯🇵Seigo Yamamoto just got the knockout at #BlackCombat11 , pulled back the soccer kick, but then just couldn’t resist.

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10 months

The UFC has a specific plan for developing Indian fighters starting next quarter. UFC panelist Somesh Kamra, speaking with InsideSport, said:

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2 years

Breaking: The UFC is targeting February 4, 2023, as a return date to the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Seoul, South Korea, multiple sources tell me.

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1 year

At one point the UFC was exploring going to Kazakhstan this fall after their initial June 2020 plan was cancelled. The time is way more ripe now than it was then, so wouldn't be surprised if that becomes a thing in the next year.

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2 years

With that, I’ve been able to confirm all of the #RoadToUFC fights. Here’s where we stand:

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2 years

Justine Kish beat Ilima-Lei Macfarlane by unanimous decision, but still ranked five spots under her 🤦🏼‍♂️

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1 year

🇰🇷Yoo Sang Hoon finishes off heavy handed🇨🇭Chris Hofmann in the third round with this sequence #RoadToUFC

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2 years

I stumbled across this Tofiq Musayev fight against PFL veteran Bao Yincang today, that previously wasn’t on his record. He even got to meet a Bruce Lee lookalike after, what’s better than that. #TofiqMusayev #BruceLee

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7 months

Can’t understate how massive of a win this was for Sanjeet Budhwar, this was arguably a fight between the top two South Asians outside the UFC. He threw the punch so hard against Badakhshi that they both got dropped. #MFN14

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2 years

To accommodate Asian fans, UFC Vegas 68 on Feb 4 starts at 7pm PST / 10pm EST, which is noon in Korea. #UFCVegas68

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1 year

9-0 French heavyweight Oumar Sy signs with the UFC, per his management

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2 years

@AlexBehunin “He’s way too young…get some more fights and we’ll talk in a few years”

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OMG filthy uppercut KO from Lu Kai slumps Askhat Akimov in just over a minute over at JCK!

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7 months

Lazy King vs. Grant #PFLParis

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3 months

After an action-packed Road to UFC final last Saturday, Chinese bantamweight Xiao Long (26-9) has signed a five-fight contract with the UFC! (video via my friend Vane)

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1 year

Start times for UFC Singapore: Prelims at 5am EST/2am PST, Main Card at 8am EST/5am PST on 8.26 Road to UFC Semis: 4am EST/1am PST on 8.27 Per UFC .com

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1 year

As far as the main event on December 9th goes, there was a plan to have Song vs. Yan in that spot (hence my use of the word "targeted"), but Petr Yan is no longer in that plan. The search continues for an opponent for Song Yadong.

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Breaking: the ONE interim atomweight title fight between Ham Seo Hee and Stamp Fairtex is set for ONE Fight Night 14 on September 1st (2nd locally) in Bangkok. #ONEChampionship

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2 years

Yoooo twister sub for Zhahaer. Another guy that got into the PI last week.

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2 years

Alpha Male Chinese squad keeps growing. Lü Kai, Song Kenan, and Maheshate join Song Yadong and Yan Xiaonan. (via Song’s IG)

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1 year

UFC pushing so hard for turnover in the middleweight division. By the end of July, Ikram Aliskerov, Bruno Silva, Abus Magomedov, and Paul Craig could all be ranked middleweights.

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2 years

Road to UFC will take place on May 26 and 27 this year in a TBA location. In addition to last year’s weight classes, I’ve heard welterweight and strawweight and women’s flyweight will join. Non-tournament bouts again too. #RoadToUFC

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Flyweight non-tournament fight added to Road to UFC semifinals on August 23rd! 🇨🇳Yan Qihui (25-4) fights former Invicta FC strawweight champion 🇮🇪Danni McCormack (8-2) at flyweight, per the UFC. #RoadToUFC

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4 months

Talked about this on the pod last week, but the UFC was planning a show for the end of August in Hangzhou, China. That event is no longer happening, and being replaced by a US show. Similar reasons as last time, more red tape.

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9 months

Lovely flying knee from Feng Tianhao against Ryuichi Miki at WLF today. This guy has won 13 straight 😳

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2 years

🚨BREAKING🚨 These fights will take place at Road to UFC: June 10- Lu Kai vs. Angga Hans June 9- Balajin vs. Ki Won Bin June 10- Yi Zha vs. Keisuke Sasu Hong Jun Young vs. Koyomi Matsushima (date unknown) Wulijiburen vs. Shohei Nose (date unknown) #RoadToUFC #MMA #UFC

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🇨🇳Daermisi Zhawupasi (8-1) takes on 🇯🇵Ren Ozaki (6-0-2) in the Road to UFC bantamweight tournament beginning May 18/19 in Shanghai. First reported by zhekpe_zheek on IG, and sources confirmed to me.

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Here we go! Confirmed Jiniushiyue (13-3) fights Choi Dong Hoon (6-0) in the first round of Road to UFC season three, flyweight tournament, per sources. #RoadToUFC

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1 year

On Douyin, Song Yadong confirmed that Petr Yan was the plan for December 9th, and revealed a text from his manager claiming that Yan is injured.

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1 year

As far as the main event on December 9th goes, there was a plan to have Song vs. Yan in that spot (hence my use of the word "targeted"), but Petr Yan is no longer in that plan. The search continues for an opponent for Song Yadong.

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1 year

@oscarswillis @lthomasnews Wait Saddam was on PEDs? The pieces are indeed coming together… 😮

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I could really see the UFC fast-tracking Wang now that she’s had fulfilled the hype in her debut, akathe Alex Pereira treatment. She’s got it all.

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5 months

Tatsuro Taira will be the first Japanese fighter in nearly seven years to fight in a UFC main event. The last was Yushin Okami vs. OSP in Sep. 2017.

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2 years

Korean Zombie injured his shoulder in wrestling practice on Dec 7 and won’t be fighting in Seoul Feb 4. The status of the card is still up in the air, with nothing decided yet. Could be moved to a different location. #UFCSeoul

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4 months

The Road to UFC semifinal matchups are official (as determined by the bracket). Hearing a date and location already but not official yet.

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11 months

Jeka Saragih needs a new opponent for UFC Fight Night on November 18th, as Jesse Butler is out with an injury, Mola Sport reports.

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2 months

Taiyilake Nueraji does it again at Shui Combat 1, finishing Kirill Karpekin with left hooks in R1. Shavkat Rakhmonov had clearly already seen this movie many times before.

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🇮🇩Jeka Saragih has a new opponent! He’ll fight Charlie Campbell on November 18th, per Mola Sport. #UFCVegas83

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2 years

Here’s some more name that I’ve been able to confirm for Road to UFC. Keep in mind that some fighters could also be selected for non-tournament fights. 🇮🇳Gary Mangat (17-3/FLW) 🇮🇳Rana Rudra Pratap Singh (11-1/BW) 🇯🇵Shin Haraguchi (5-0/LW)

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🇹🇭Loma Lookboonmee (7-3) signs a new multi-fight deal with the UFC

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17-1 Kazakh bantamweight Bekzat Almakhan has signed with the UFC, per his management. He’s on a nine-fight win streak and recently fought at Octagon last November.

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2 years

Lovely pic by the LFA’s photographer #LFA144

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2 years

Road to UFC is likely to start in July/August, hopefully kicking off in China. I’ve heard weight classes men’s flyweight to welterweight, and probably women’s divisions too. #RoadtoUFC

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2 years

MolaSport has announced three more Indonesians confirmed for Road to UFC: Wendris Patilima (8-0, WW), Eperaim Ginting (6-0, FW), and Rheza Arianto (5-0, LW). #RoadtoUFC

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10 months

The head kick started the finishing sequence for Team MAD’s Choi Dong Hoon (5-0), TKOing Kenta Kubo in the final minute; #GLADIATOR024

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7 months

Here’s an Indonesian to put on your radar: Rio Tirta moved to 6-0 with a :22 KO of Road to UFC vet Jeremia Siregar, aired by One Pride today. 😳

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1 year

Per his management at First Round, 🇰🇿flyweight Asu Almabaev (17-2) has signed with the UFC. He's recently gone 4-0 with BRAVE CF and is on a thirteen-fight win streak.

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2 years

BREAKING: According to multiple sources, Qiu Lun is your first confirmed fighter to participate in Road to the UFC. He fights June 7th, likely at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. #RoadtotheUFC #UFC275

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1 year

From JCK today: Tenglige BODIES Asikeerbai with this fifth-round knee:

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3 months

@9h6st21_mma I believe you because you capitalized OUT, a fighter is not out of a fight until they are OUT.

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2 years

Jeka Saragih is by far the most popular fighter in this tournament. He’s gotten swarms of media in Indonesia and could be a pivotal star for the UFC of successful. #RoadToUFC

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