Road to UFC Season 5

The event series featured four divisions—women's strawweight, flyweight, bantamweight, and featherweight—each for which eight fighters compete in a "win-and-advance" tournament format.^[2] The tournament winner of each division is awarded a UFC contract. Each event within the series contains five bouts, one of which is a non-tournament match-up.^[3]

The quarterfinal stage of the tournament is scheduled to take place over two days on May 28-29, 2026, at the Galaxy Arena in Macau, China, with two five-bout events for each day for a total of 10 bouts per day.^[3]

The Road to UFC Season 4 flyweight final between Namsrai Batbayar and Yin Shuai is scheduled to take place on May 29, 2026.^[4] Yin Shuai, who originally lost to Aaron Tau in the semifinals, was added to the final after Tau missed weight for the February 2026 event tied to UFC 325.^[5] Tau's weight miss resulted in his removal from the bout and his subsequent release, allowing Yin to step in as the replacement finalist.^[6]

Two UFC bouts will take place as well: a bantamweight bout between Rong Zhu and Victor Martinez, and a women's strawweight bout between Road to UFC Season 3 women's strawweight winner Shi Ming and Puja Tomar.^[4]