List of Road FC champions

List of Road FC (Road Fighting Championship) champions is a list of fighters who have won Road FC championships.

Current champions

Men
DivisionChampionSinceDefenses
Openweight American Samoa Mighty Mo 09. 24. 2016 2
Middleweight South Korea In Jae La 07. 28. 2018 0
Lightweight South Korea A Sol Kwon 08. 17. 2014 2
Featherweight South Korea Mu Gyeom Choi 02. 09. 2014 3
Bantamweight (vacant) - -
Flyweight South Korea Min Jong Song 10. 09. 2015 0
Women
DivisionChampionSinceDefenses
Atomweight South Korea Seo Hee Ham 06. 10. 2017 1

Men's championship history

Openweight championship

no weight limit

No.NameEventDateReign
(total)		Defenses
1 American Samoa Mighty Mo
def. Hong Man Choi		 Road FC 033
Seoul, South Korea		 September 24, 2016 749
(incumbent)		 1. def. Carlos Toyota at Road FC 035 on December 10, 2016
2. def. Dong Kook Kang at Road FC 040 on July 15, 2017

Middleweight championship

~ 84 kg (185.2 lb)

No.NameEventDateReign
(total)		Defenses
1 Japan Shungo Oyama
def. Hye Suk Son		 Road FC 006
Seoul, South Korea		 February 5, 2012 294 days
2 South Korea Eun Soo Lee Road FC 010
Busan, South Korea		 November 24, 2012 585 days
Lee vacated the title in July 2014 after dropping down to welterweight.[1]
3 Japan Riki Fukuda
def. Uh Jin Jeon		 Road FC 024
Tokyo, Japan		 July 25, 2015 190 days
4 South Korea Jung Hwan Cha Road FC 028
Seoul, South Korea		 January 31, 2016 890 days 1. def. Young Choi at Road FC 035 on December 10, 2016
- South Korea Young Choi
def. Hoon Kim for interim title		 Road FC 043
Seoul, South Korea		 October 28, 2017 254 days
Cha was stripped off the title in July 2018 due to injury.
5 South Korea Young Choi July 9, 2018 20 days
6 South Korea In Jae La Road FC 048
Wonju, South Korea		 July 28, 2018 77
(incumbent)

Lightweight championship

~ 70 kg (154.3 lb)

No.NameEventDateReign
(total)		Defenses
1 South Korea Yui Chul Nam
def. Takasuke Kume		 Road FC 011
Seoul, South Korea		 April 13, 2013 295 days
 1. def. Takasuke Kume at Road FC 013 on October 12, 2013
Nam vacated the title in February 2014 after signing a contract with Las Vegas based Zuffa's Ultimate Fighting Championship.[2]
2 South Korea A Sol Kwon
def. Takasuke Kume		 Road FC 017
Seoul, South Korea		 August 17, 2014 1518
(incumbent)		 1. def. Kwang Hee Lee at Road FC 022 on March 21, 2015
2. def. Shinji Sasaki at Road FC 035 on December 10, 2016

Featherweight championship

~ 65.5 kg (144.4 lb)

No.NameEventDateReign
(total)		Defenses
1 South Korea Mu Gyeom Choi
def. Bae Yong Kwon		 Road FC 014
Seoul, South Korea		 February 9, 2014 1707
(incumbent)		 1. def. Doo Won Seo at Road FC 021 on February 1, 2015
2. def. Marlon Sandro at Road FC 029 on March 12, 2016
3. def. Murat Kazgan at Road FC 034 on November 19, 2016

Bantamweight championship

~ 61.5 kg (135.6 lb)

No.NameEventDateReign
(total)		Defenses
1 South Korea Kyung Ho Kang
def. Andrew Leone		 Road FC 008
Wonju, South Korea		 Jule 16, 2012 16 days
Kang vacated the title in July 2012 after signing with Ultimate Fighting Championship.[3]
2 South Korea Kil Woo Lee
def. Min Jong Song		 Road FC 012
Wonju, South Korea		 June 22, 2013 540 days
3 South Korea Yoon Jun Lee Road FC 020
Seoul, South Korea		 December 14, 2014 593 days
 1. def. Je Hoon Moon at Road FC 023 on May 2, 2015
Lee vacated the title in July 2016 suffering cerebral infarction.
4 South Korea Soo Chul Kim
def. Min Woo Kim		 Road FC 038
Seoul, South Korea		 April 15, 2017 253 days
Kim vacated the title in December 2017 due to retirement.[4]

Flyweight championship

~ 57 kg (125.7 lb)

No.NameEventDateReign
(total)		Defenses
1 South Korea Nam Jin Jo
def. Min Jong Song		 Road FC 016
Gumi, South Korea		 July 27, 2014 439 days
- South Korea Min Jong Song
def. Takeshi Kasugai for interim title		 Road FC 021
Seoul, South Korea		 February 1, 2015 250 days
2 South Korea Min Jong Song Road FC 026
Seoul, South Korea		 October 9, 2015 1100
(incumbent)

Women's championship history

Women's Atomweight championship

~ 48 kg (105.8 lb)

No.NameEventDateReign
(total)		Defenses
1 South Korea Seo Hee Ham
def. Mina Kurobe		 Road FC 039
Seoul, South Korea		 June 10, 2017 490
(incumbent)		 1. def. Jinh Yu Frey at Road FC 045 on Dec. 23, 2017

Tournament winners

Road FC held its first tournament in the middleweight division in 2012. Since then, it has held tournaments in the bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight and openweight divisions, which have all led to a championship.

Event Date Division Winner Runner-up
Road FC 006: Final 4 Feb 5, 2012 Middleweight Japan Shungo Oyama South Korea Hye Seok Son
Road FC 008: Final 4 Bitter Rivals Jun 16, 2012 Bantamweight South Korea Kyung Ho Kang United States Andrew Leone
Road FC 011 Apr 13, 2013 Lightweight South Korea Yui Chul Nam Japan Takasuke Kume
Road FC 012 Jun 22, 2013 Bantamweight South Korea Kil Woo Lee South Korea Min Jong Song
Road FC 014 Feb 9, 2014 Featherweight South Korea Mu Gyeom Choi South Korea Bae Yong Kwon
Road FC 033 Sep 21, 2016 Openweight American Samoa Mighty Mo South Korea Hong Man Choi

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ROAD FC Middleweight Champ Lee Eun-Su relinquishes title, plans drop to welterweight - Asia MMA". Asia MMA. 2014-07-23. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  2. ↑ "More new fighters?". Bloody Elbow. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  3. ↑ "Report: UFC Signs Korean Bantamweight Champ, Kyung Ho Kang For Macau Event". Bloody Elbow. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  4. ↑ "2017 ROAD FC Awards Ceremony Winners". roadfc.com. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
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