Lee Chang-ho will Participate in the Finals of Road to UFC 2’ on February 4th Next Year

Lee Chang-ho (29) will return to the finals of ‘Road to UFC’ Season 2 in February. Last season’s winner ‘Korean Tiger’ Lee Jeong-young (28) will also make his UFC debut on the same day.

On the 15th, UFC announced, “The finals of ‘Road to UFC’ Season 2 will be held on February 4th next year at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, following ‘UFC Fight Night: Dolije vs. Imabov.’” 토사이트

Lee Chang-ho is waiting to participate in the bantamweight finals of ‘Road to UFC’ Season 2. Additionally, in ‘UFC Fight Night: Dolije vs Imabov’, last season’s 1 featherweight winner Lee Jung-young is about to make his UFC debut.

In Season 1 of 'Road to UFC', Anshul Jubli (India, lightweight champion), Lee Jung-young (Korea, featherweight champion), Nakamura Rinya (Japan, bantamweight champion), and Park Hyun-seong (Korea, flyweight champion) received UFC contracts. < /span> ‘Road to UFC’ Season 2 once again consists of four weight classes: flyweight (56.7kg), bantamweight (61.2kg), featherweight (65.8kg), and lightweight (70.3kg). The opening round was held on May 27th and 28th at the UFC Performance Institute Shanghai, China. The semifinals were held on August 27, the day after ‘UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Korean Zombie’ in Singapore. The following eight semifinal winners advanced to the finals.

In addition, three additional participants, Zeka Saragi (Indonesia, light heavyweight runner-up), Kazama Toshiomi (Japan, bantamweight runner-up), and Zhang Mingyang (China, light heavyweight non-tournament) signed with UFC.

In the flyweight finals, 21-year-old Tsuruya Rei (8-0, Chiba Prefecture, Japan), who has won the Japanese Amateur Wrestling National Championship, will face off against 22-year-old tenacious finisher 'Little King Kong' Jiniusyu (13-2, Sichuan, China). /span> In the lightweight final, former UFC fighter Long Zhu (24 wins, 5 losses, Sichuan Province, China) will compete against powerful wrestler Shin Haraguchi (7 wins, 1 draw, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan). In the featherweight finals, seasoned and intelligent strategist Lee Ja (24 wins, 4 losses, Sichuan Province, China) will clash with aggressive striker Kai Wen (12 wins, 5 losses, Hunan Province, China). Lee Ja lost to ‘Korean Tiger’ Lee Jeong-young in the featherweight finals of last season 1, then tried again in season 2 and reached the finals.

In the bantamweight finals, well-rounded grappler Lee Chang-ho (9 wins, 1 loss, Goyang, Gyeonggi-do, Korea) will fight against experienced and aggressive striker Xiao Long (26 wins, 7 losses, Hunan Province, China). At the last press conference, Lee Chang-ho said, “Among the Korean players, I was the only one who survived, but I will do my best to win even for the players who were unfortunately eliminated.”

Lee Jung-young, who is making his UFC debut, will clash with former Cage Fury Fighting Championship (CFFC) champion Blake Bilder (33, USA) at ‘UFC Fight Night: Dolije vs Imabov’.

Lee Jeong-young, who returned from a year-long break to undergo surgery to treat a knee injury suffered throughout the tournament, said, “I got to play for the first time in a year, and I think it was enough time (to recover from the injury and make up for my shortcomings), so I think heaven helped me. He admits that he was disappointed in the previous game, so he is now going back to the beginning and trying to continue improving. I will properly show that the ‘Korean Tiger’ is back. “Please be sure to watch on February 4th.”