Brandon Royval defeats Tatsuro Taira in UFC Vegas 98 foremost occasion
The Final Combating Championship returned to us tonight, October 12, 2024, for UFC Vegas 98, happening stay from the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Headlining the UFC Vegas 92 occasion was a flyweight affair between no. 1 ranked former title challenger Brandon Royval (17-7) and no. 5 ranked Tatsuro Taira (16-1).
Brandon Royval got here into the bout contemporary off his win over former two-time UFC flyweight champion Brandon Moreno (SD) earlier this yr in February, whereas 24-year-old Taira got here in off his foremost occasion win over former title challenger Alex Perez (TKO) in June.
Proceed studying to see how our UFC Vegas 98 flyweight foremost occasion of the night went down:
Official End result: Brandon Royval def. Tatsuro Taira through break up choice (47-48, 48-47, 48-47)
Taira caught Royval with a stable proper hand about one minute into the bout earlier than Royval appeared to seek out his vary halfway by way of it, touchdown his spherical kick to the physique and straight left seemingly at will. Taira then caught Royval off stability together with his proper hand once more, taking him down quickly after although Royval was proper again to his toes following.
Taira timed an attractive takedown as Royval was coming in early on within the second, holding again mount for the overwhelming majority of the spherical.
This one actually changed into a battle within the third; Royval stuffed Taira’s early takedown try and gave the impression to be taking the battle over because the Japanese prodigy was fading. Taira began to get tagged up badly on this one, capturing in on quite a lot of takedowns, all of which he failed on.
Royval took his again and proceeded to go for the armbar, which Taira simply escaped earlier than once more taking Royval’s again, ending the spherical in a dominant place.
Taira had an distinctive first spherical 4 of his profession, largely controlling the motion together with his dominant grappling once more.
Spherical 5 however was a distinct story.
Taira secured a takedown about 90 seconds in earlier than he was reversed, spending a while on his again. After returning to his toes the 2 traded strikes earlier than Brandon Royval ended up on his again within the remaining minute of the battle going for the end.
This was an in depth one which the previous title challenger was simply barely in a position to edge the younger undefeated stud, who’s seemingly a certain future world champion.
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