Flyweight contenders square off in the Ultimate Fighting Championship main event, as Brandon Royval awaits the unbeaten Tatsuro Taira on Saturday in Las Vegas.
on Saturday returns to the UFC Apex in Las Vegas for a decent enough event. The headliner serves as the clear standout forhaving little in the way of obvious next challengers, so this would be a nice time for Taira to earn his breakthrough win and become a true contender. Taira has been one of the top prospects out of Japan since the UFC has pivoted back to recruiting talent from that country, and he has lived up to that billing thus far as both an accurate striker and an excellent grappler.
Royval has been frustrating to track, as even despite his success, he has the potential to be a much better fighter. Royval came to the UFC in 2020 as an absolute whirlwind of violence, pressing aggressive ideas until his opponents were unable to keep up and eventually got finished. After Royval’s aggression charged him directly into losses againstand the aforementioned Pantoja, “Raw Dawg” has been much less committed to those concepts.
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