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Road to UFC Day 2 Results and Highlights

Day 2 of the UFC’s “Road to UFC” tournament is in the books, and the next bouts of the tournament have been determined.

The show that highlights the top talent of Asian MMA released its third and fourth episodes last night which resulted in the following:

Episode 3:

Featherweight: Jeong Yeong Lee def. Xie Bin via first-round submission

Flyweight: Topnoi Kiwram def. Yuma Horiuchi via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-27 x2)

Bantamweight: Rinya Nakamura def. Gugun Gusman via first-round submission

Women’s Strawweight (non-tounrnamnet): Josefine Lindgren Knutsson def. Seo Ye Dam via unanimous decision (30-27 x2, 30-26)

Episode 4: 

Bantamweight: Shohei Nose def. Wuliji Buren via first round TKO

Lightweight: Kim Kyung Pyo def. Asikeerbai Jinensibieke via first-round KO

Featherweight: Lu Kai def. Angga Hans via second-round TKO

Flyweight: Park Hyun Sung def. Jeremia Siregar via first-round TKO

Welterweight (non-tournament): Han Seul Kim def. John Adajar via first-round submission

Check out some highlights: 

Kim lands a stiff left that put Jinensibieke down in just 30 seconds.

Lu lands heavy ground and pound just before the end of the first round to put a close on the fight.

First-round finish for Park as he reigns heavy shots on Siregar.

Slick triangle armbar for Kim as he submits Adajar in the first-round

Lee slips in a tight armbar that forced Xie to tap in just under a minutes.

As the first and second day of the tournament has come to a close, as has the quarter-finals.

Here are the matchups for the semi-finals of the Road to UFC tournament: 

Flyweight:

Choi Seung Guk vs. Qiu Lun

Topnoi Kiwram vs. Park Hyun Sung

Bantamweight:

Shohei Nose vs. Kim Min Woo

Rinya Nakamura vs. Kazama Toshiomi

Featherweight:

Lu Kai vs. Lee Jeong Yeong

Koyomi Matsushima vs. Yi Zha

Lightweight:

Ki Won Bin vs. Jeka Saragih

Anshul Jubli vs. Patrick Sho Usami

 

What did you make of the quarter-finals of the Road to UFC tournament?

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As a recent graduate from Lewis-Clark State College with a B.S. in History, Bjorn first fell in love with mixed martial arts when he watched UFC 196. As a contributor for MyMMANews, Bjorn matches his love for MMA, history, and writing.