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UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie

UFC mixed martial arts event in 2023

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ120108099 ↗
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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

Bonus awards

The following fighters received $50,000 bonuses.

Fight of the Night: Max Holloway vs.

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Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Fight, Night and Holloway can be independently traced.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q120108099. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.