UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie
| UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 The poster for UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie | ||||
| Information | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | August 26, 2023 | |||
| Venue | Singapore Indoor Stadium | |||
| City | Singapore | |||
| Attendance | 10,263 | |||
| Total gate | $1,288,777 | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
| ||||
UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie (also known as UFC Fight Night 225 and UFC on ESPN+ 83) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on August 26, 2023, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore.
Background
The event marked the promotion's sixth visit to Singapore and first since UFC 275 in June 2022.
A featherweight bout between former UFC Featherweight Champion Max Holloway and former title challenger Jung Chan-sung served as the event's headliner.
A women's flyweight bout between former UFC Women's Flyweight Championship challenger Taila Santos and Erin Blanchfield took place at this event. They were previously scheduled to headline UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Blanchfield but Santos withdrew after her cornermen were denied visas into the United States.
Results
| Main card (ESPN+) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Featherweight | Max Holloway | def. | Jung Chan-sung | KO (punch) | 3 | 0:23 | |
| Light Heavyweight | Anthony Smith | def. | Ryan Spann | Decision (split) (28–29, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Featherweight | Giga Chikadze | def. | Alex Caceres | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Bantamweight | Rinya Nakamura | def. | Fernie Garcia | Decision (unanimous) (30–26, 30–27, 30–27) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Women's Flyweight | Erin Blanchfield | def. | Taila Santos | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Heavyweight | Junior Tafa | def. | Parker Porter | KO (punch) | 1 | 1:24 | |
| Preliminary card (ESPN+) | |||||||
| Heavyweight | Waldo Cortes-Acosta | def. | Łukasz Brzeski | KO (punches) | 1 | 3:01 | |
| Bantamweight | Garrett Armfield | def. | Toshiomi Kazama | TKO (punches) | 1 | 4:16 | |
| Middleweight | Michał Oleksiejczuk | def. | Chidi Njokuani | TKO (punches) | 1 | 4:16 | |
| Welterweight | Song Kenan | def. | Rolando Bedoya | Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Welterweight | Billy Goff | def. | Yusaku Kinoshita | TKO (punches) | 1 | 3:49 | |
| Women's Flyweight | JJ Aldrich | def. | Liang Na | TKO (punches and elbows) | 2 | 4:49 | |
| Featherweight | Choi Seung-woo | def. | Jarno Errens | Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 29–28, 29–28) | 3 | 5:00 | |
Bonus awards
The following fighters received $50,000 bonuses.
- Fight of the Night: Max Holloway vs. Jung Chan-sung
- Performance of the Night: Junior Tafa and Michał Oleksiejczuk