{"id":702159,"date":"2026-05-29T12:33:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702159\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:33:24","slug":"on-the-up-kasib-murdoch-moves-on-in-road-to-ufc-viet-anh-do-earns-one-championship-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702159\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Up: Kasib Murdoch moves on in Road To UFC; Viet Anh Do earns One Championship contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">It was his investment in body work that ultimately saw Anh Do earn the TKO victory, with a straight kick to Kim\u2019s stomach sending the South Korean to the canvas. It had been a kick-heavy fight from Anh Do, who mixed up his targets well with attacks to the head, body and legs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Anh Do is one of several New Zealand fighters to have featured on the One Championship Friday Night Fights show, which provides a pathway on to the main roster of one of the biggest promotions in combat sports. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Dunedin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/on-the-up-kasib-murdoch-on-teaming-up-with-alexander-volkanovski-and-road-to-ufc-opportunity\/FWH3ZOLTAZHPJBM7WZUCIHYIVI\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/on-the-up-kasib-murdoch-on-teaming-up-with-alexander-volkanovski-and-road-to-ufc-opportunity\/FWH3ZOLTAZHPJBM7WZUCIHYIVI\/\">Kasib Murdoch<\/a> is looking to forge his way on to the main roster of one of the other top promotions, moving into the semi-finals of Road To UFC in Macau on Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">The Australian-based bantamweight overpowered his Japanese opponent Yunosuke Minami to claim a third-round submission via arm triangle choke. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Murdoch, who won a world championship in the amateur ranks, admitted he took a few shots early in the bout but said he expected he would be able to outwork Minami as the fight went on. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI did know he\u2019d have good distance and it would be hard to deal with, and it was at the start,\u201d he said in the post-fight press conference. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI had to get him tired before I could start capitalising on everything, so I suppose they\u2019re just areas on my game I need to work on.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Murdoch will fight against Nepalese athlete Rabindra Dhant in the semi-finals, which are expected to take place later this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">While the Road To UFC cards are not considered proper UFC fights as the athletes are all working towards being signed, they are this year being headlined by a UFC bout. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">In Macau, City Kickboxing-trained Chinese fighter Rongzhu was in that spot and claimed a first-round TKO win over Victor Martinez. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Since making the move to join the Auckland gym in early 2025, the 26-year-old is unbeaten in three bouts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was his investment in body work that ultimately saw Anh Do earn the TKO victory, with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[126038,228235,64,63,120343,9663,3895,13962,8933,786,41261,4717,298936,2990,785,157593,1100,2652,13883,9493,85,320,319,787,4208,8045,341915,23927],"class_list":["post-702159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-anh","tag-appearances","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-banner","tag-championship","tag-contract","tag-do","tag-earns","tag-fighting","tag-five","tag-in","tag-kasib","tag-knockout","tag-mma","tag-moves","tag-murdoch","tag-on","tag-one","tag-road","tag-sports","tag-the","tag-to","tag-ufc","tag-under","tag-up","tag-viet","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}