{"id":702912,"date":"2026-05-29T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702912\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:35:08","slug":"video-ming-shi-quickly-finishes-puja-tomar-in-road-to-ufc-main-roster-headliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702912\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Ming Shi quickly finishes Puja Tomar in Road to UFC main roster headliner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shi is her.<\/p>\n<p>Though the promotion is holding its Macau event Saturday, two UFC bouts headlined the Road to UFC events earlier in the week. In Friday&#8217;s Road to UFC headliner, Ming Shi bounced back into the win column with a 3:12 submission win via arm-triangle choke against Puja Tomar. The strawweight bout took place at Galaxy Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Shi (18-6 MMA, 2-1 UFC), who is also a medical doctor in addition to being a fighter, picked up her first win since a devastating Road to the UFC final head kick knockout of Xiaocan Feng in November 2024. Her sophomore UFC appearance came in August when she lost a unanimous decision to Bruna Brasil.<\/p>\n<p>Tomar (9-6 MMA, 1-2 UFC), the first woman from India ever to compete in the UFC, falls into a two-fight skid.<\/p>\n<p>The other main-roster fight took place atop the Road to UFC card Thursday. Rong Zhu (28-6 MMA, 4-3 UFC) defeated Victor Martinez (13-7 MMA, 0-3 UFC), who missed weight by two pounds, via first-round knockout in 70 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Full Road to UFC results from Friday include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ming Shi def. Puja Tomar via submission (arm-triangle choke) \u2013 Round 1, 3:12<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Namsrai Batbayar def. Shaui Yin via TKO (knee and punches) \u2013 Round 1, 1:48<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jiniushiyue def. Kaito Oda via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Farida Abdueva def. Xiaocan Feng via TKO (punch) \u2013 Round 1, 2:02<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Joseph Larcinesse def. Ryoga Arimoto via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bo Meng def. Arisa Matsuda via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Takaya Suzuki def. Otgonbaatar Boldbaatar via TKO (punches) \u2013 Round 1, 4:36<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bo Hyun Park def. Huaxiang Dong via split decision (28-29, 29-28, 29-28)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Takeru Uchida def. Eros Baluyot via submission (rear-naked choke) \u2013 Round 1, 1:18<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Machi Fukuda def. Anelya Toktogonova via TKO (punches) \u2013 Round 2, 1:53<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/05\/29\/road-to-ufc-ming-shi-vs-puja-tomar\/90316558007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Video: Main roster fight atop Road to UFC ends in quick finish;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Video&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Video: Main roster fight atop Road to UFC ends in quick finish<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shi is her. Though the promotion is holding its Macau event Saturday, two UFC bouts headlined the Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,342174,785,283687,85,787,9222],"class_list":["post-702912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-ming-shi","tag-mma","tag-puja-tomar","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-unanimous-decision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702912","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=702912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}