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 Mighty Mo 09. 24. 2016 2
Middleweight Hae Jun Yang 06. 15. 2019 0
Lightweight Mansour Barnaoui 05. 18. 2019 0
Featherweight Jung Young Lee 11. 03. 2018 1
Bantamweight Min Woo Kim 02. 23. 2019 1
Flyweight Min Jong Song 10. 09. 2015 0
Women
DivisionChampionSinceDefenses
Atomweight Seo Hee Ham 06. 10. 2017 2

Men's championship history

Openweight championship

no weight limit

No.NameEventDateReign
(total)
Defenses
1 Mighty Mo
def. Hong Man Choi
Road FC 033
Seoul, South Korea
September 24, 2016 1590
(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 Shungo Oyama
def. Hye Suk Son
Road FC 006
Seoul, South Korea
February 5, 2012 294 days
2 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 Riki Fukuda
def. Uh Jin Jeon
Road FC 024
Tokyo, Japan
July 25, 2015 190 days
4 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
- Young Choi
def. Hoon Kim for interim title
Road FC 043
Seoul, South Korea
October 28, 2017 254 days
Cha was stripped of the title in July 2018 due to injury.
5 Young Choi July 9, 2018 20 days
6 In Jae La Road FC 048
Wonju, South Korea
July 28, 2018 323 days
7 Hae Jun Yang Road FC 054
Wonju, South Korea
June 15, 2019 596
(incumbent)

Lightweight championship

~ 70 kg (154.3 lb)

No.NameEventDateReign
(total)
Defenses
1 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 A Sol Kwon
def. Takasuke Kume
Road FC 017
Seoul, South Korea
August 17, 2014 1735 days
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
3 Mansour Barnaoui Road FC 053
Jeju, South Korea
May 18, 2019 624
(incumbent)

Featherweight championship

~ 65.5 kg (144.4 lb)

No.NameEventDateReign
(total)
Defenses
1 Mu Gyeom Choi
def. Bae Yong Kwon
Road FC 014
Seoul, South Korea
February 9, 2014 1728 days 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
2 Jung Young Lee Road FC 050
Seoul, South Korea
November 3, 2018 820
(incumbent)
1. def. Hae Jin Park at Road FC 055 on September 8, 2019

Bantamweight championship

~ 61.5 kg (135.6 lb)

No.NameEventDateReign
(total)
Defenses
1 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 Kil Woo Lee
def. Min Jong Song
Road FC 012
Wonju, South Korea
June 22, 2013 540 days
3 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 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]
5 Min Woo Kim Road FC 052
Seoul, South Korea
February 23, 2019 708
(incumbent)
1. def. Ik Hwan Jang at Road FC 056 on Nov 9, 2019

Flyweight championship

~ 57 kg (125.7 lb)

No.NameEventDateReign
(total)
Defenses
1 Nam Jin Jo
def. Min Jong Song
Road FC 016
Gumi, South Korea
July 27, 2014 439 days
- Min Jong Song
def. Takeshi Kasugai for interim title
Road FC 021
Seoul, South Korea
February 1, 2015 250 days
2 Min Jong Song Road FC 026
Seoul, South Korea
October 9, 2015 1941
(incumbent)

Women's championship history

Women's Atomweight championship

~ 48 kg (105.8 lb)

No.NameEventDateReign
(total)
Defenses
1 Seo Hee Ham
def. Mina Kurobe
Road FC 039
Seoul, South Korea
June 10, 2017 1331
(incumbent)
1. def. Jinh Yu Frey at Road FC 045 on Dec. 23, 2017
2. def. Jung Eun Park at Road FC 051 on Dec. 12, 2018

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 Shungo Oyama Hye Seok Son
Road FC 008: Final 4 Bitter Rivals Jun 16, 2012 Bantamweight Kyung Ho Kang Andrew Leone
Road FC 011 Apr 13, 2013 Lightweight Yui Chul Nam Takasuke Kume
Road FC 012 Jun 22, 2013 Bantamweight Kil Woo Lee Min Jong Song
Road FC 014 Feb 9, 2014 Featherweight Mu Gyeom Choi Bae Yong Kwon
Road FC 033 Sep 21, 2016 Openweight Mighty Mo Hong Man Choi
Road FC 052 Feb 23, 2019 Lightweight Mansour Barnaoui[5] Shamil Zavurov

See also

References

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