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A general view of the UFC Performance Institute prior to the Road to UFC 3 event on May 18, 2024 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
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How To Watch The First Round Of Road To UFC Season 4

Find Out Where You Can Watch Asia Pacific's Top MMA Talent Collide For Another Season Of The Road To UFC Tournament

The fourth season of ROAD TO UFC, a "win and advance" tournament and the most significant opportunity for Asia's top MMA prospects to make it to the world stage, gears up with the opening round. The first round will take place across two days, Thursday and Friday, May 22 and 23, at the UFC Performance Institute (UFC PI) in Shanghai, China. 

Along with athletes from China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, Season 4 will also include prospects from Australia and New Zealand.

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)
  • Sulangrangbo (China)
  • Zhang Qinghe (China)
  • Van Y Nghiem (Vietnam)

Featherweight (>65.8kg)

  • Baergeng Jieleyisi (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)

*Non-tournament bouts will include: 

  • Strawweight: Feng Xiaocan (China) vs Arisa Matsuda (Japan) 
  • Lightweight: Aziz Khaydarov (Tajikistan) vs Mansher Khera (India)
  • Welterweight: Shogo Sato (Japan) vs Kitt Campbell (Australia)

**The RTU Season 3 Featherweight finale between Zhu Kangjie (China) and Xie Bin (China) will take place as the main event of episode 4

What Time Does Road To UFC Season 4 Start?

The first rounds of Road to UFC begins on May 22 (Thursday, CST) and May 23 (Friday, CST) at the following times and channels:

UNITED STATES: 4am PT / 7am ET on UFC FIGHT PASS

CANADA: 4am PT / 7am ET on UFC FIGHT PASS

EUROPE: 11am GMT on UFC FIGHT PASS

CHINA: 7pm CST on MIGU

HONG KONG: 7pm HKT on NOW SPORTS

CHINESE TAIPEI: 7pm CST on VIDEOLAND

INDIA: 4:30pm IST on SONY TEN 2

INDONESIA: 6pm CST on MOLA

JAPAN: 8pm JST on U-NEXT

SOUTH KOREA: 8pm KST on TVN, TVN SPORTS, TVING

MALAYSIA: 7pm MYT on ASTRO SUPERSPORT 5, UNIFI TV, MOLA

MONGOLIA: 6pm on PREMIER SPORTS

MYANMAR: 5:30pm MMT on CANAL+

PHILIPPINES: 7pm on BLAST TV, PREMIER SPORTS

SINGAPORE: 7pm on HUB SPORTS, MIO SPORTS, MOLA

THAILAND & CAMBODIA: 6pm on TRUE SPORTS HD3

VIETNAM: 6pm on K+ SPORTS

AUSTRALIA: 9pm AEST / 7pm AWST on ESPN, UFC Fight Pass

NEW ZEALAND: 11pm NZST on ESPN, UFC Fight Pass