The Road to UFC semifinals are set to commence this Friday, but first, all twenty athletes will hit the scale to make the fights official.
Road to UFC is a UFC-hosted tournament pitting the top Asian fighters against each other for the prize of a UFC contract. The opening round already took place last May in Shanghai, and the semifinals are teed up for this Friday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The weigh-ins will take place on Thursday, August 22nd, at 2pm EST / 10am PST. MMA Ecosystem is on the scene at the Apex to provide live weigh-in results and a live stream of the proceedings.
ROAD TO UFC: SEMIFINALS WEIGH-IN RESULTS
Strawweight (115lbs): Dong Huaxiang (115 lbs) vs. Shi Ming (115.5 lbs)
Strawweight (115lbs): Feng Xiaocan (116lbs) vs. Miki Motono (116lbs)
Featherweight (145lbs): Masuto Kawana (146lbs) vs. Xie Bin (146lbs)
Featherweight (145lbs): Shin Haraguchi (146lbs) vs. Zhu Kangjie (145lbs)
Welterweight (170lbs): Samandar Murodov (170lbs) vs. Jonathan Piersma (174lbs)*
Bantamweight (135lbs): Tokitaka Nakanishi (136lbs)** vs. Baergeng Jieleyisi (136lbs)
Bantamweight (135lbs): Yoo Soo Young (136lbs) vs. Daermisi Zhawupasi (135lbs)
Flyweight (125lbs: Ruel Panales (126lbs) vs. Kiru Singh Sahota (125.5lbs)
Flyweight (125lbs): Choi Dong Hoon (125lbs) vs. Angad Bisht (125lbs)
Flyweight (125lbs): Yan Qihui (125lbs) vs. Danni McCormack (126lbs)
*Jonathan Piersma missed the welterweight limit of 171lbs by three pounds and will not continue cutting weight. The fight will proceed as a 174lbs catchweight bout and Piersma will forfeit a percentage of his purse.
**Tokitaka Nakanishi originally missed the bantamweight limit of 136lbs by one pound, but made weight on his second attempt.
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