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

Current champions

Men
Division Champion Since Defenses
Openweight American Samoa Mighty Mo 09. 24. 2016 2
Middleweight South Korea Hae Jun Yang 06. 15. 2019 0
Lightweight France Mansour Barnaoui 05. 18. 2019 0
Featherweight South Korea Jung Young Lee 11. 03. 2018 1
Bantamweight South Korea Min Woo Kim 02. 23. 2019 1
Flyweight South Korea Min Jong Song 10. 09. 2015 0
Women
Division Champion Since Defenses
Atomweight South Korea Seo Hee Ham 06. 10. 2017 2

Men's championship history

Openweight championship

no weight limit

No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 American Samoa Mighty Mo
def. Hong Man Choi 		Road FC 033
Seoul, South Korea 		September 24, 2016 2858
(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. Name Event Date Reign
(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 of 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 323 days
7 South Korea Hae Jun Yang Road FC 054
Wonju, South Korea 		June 15, 2019 1864
(incumbent)

Lightweight championship

~ 70 kg (154.3 lb)

No. Name Event Date Reign
(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 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 France Mansour Barnaoui Road FC 053
Jeju, South Korea 		May 18, 2019 1892
(incumbent)

Featherweight championship

~ 65.5 kg (144.4 lb)

No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 South Korea 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 South Korea Jung Young Lee Road FC 050
Seoul, South Korea 		November 3, 2018 2088
(incumbent) 		1. def. Hae Jin Park at Road FC 055 on September 8, 2019

Bantamweight championship

~ 61.5 kg (135.6 lb)

No. Name Event Date Reign
(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]
5 South Korea Min Woo Kim Road FC 052
Seoul, South Korea 		February 23, 2019 1976
(incumbent) 		1. def. Ik Hwan Jang at Road FC 056 on Nov 9, 2019

Flyweight championship

~ 57 kg (125.7 lb)

No. Name Event Date Reign
(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 3209
(incumbent)

Women's championship history

Women's Atomweight championship

~ 48 kg (105.8 lb)

No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 South Korea Seo Hee Ham
def. Mina Kurobe 		Road FC 039
Seoul, South Korea 		June 10, 2017 2599
(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 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
Road FC 052 Feb 23, 2019 Lightweight France Mansour Barnaoui[5] Russia Shamil Zavurov

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.
  5. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRGAj8oIY6Y&t=480s
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