Brandon Royval defeats Tatsuro Taira in UFC Vegas 98 fundamental occasion
The Final Preventing Championship returned to us tonight, October 12, 2024, for UFC Vegas 98, taking place reside 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 12 months in February, whereas 24-year-old Taira got here in off his fundamental occasion win over former title challenger Alex Perez (TKO) in June.
Proceed studying to see how our UFC Vegas 98 flyweight fundamental occasion of the night went down:
Official Consequence: Brandon Royval def. Tatsuro Taira by way of break up choice (47-48, 48-47, 48-47)
Taira caught Royval with a strong proper hand about one minute into the bout earlier than Royval appeared to search out his vary halfway via it, touchdown his spherical kick to the physique and straight left seemingly at will. Taira then caught Royval off stability along with his proper hand once more, taking him down quickly after although Royval was proper again to his toes following.
Taira timed a fantastic takedown as Royval was coming in early on within the second, holding again mount for the overwhelming majority of the spherical.
This one actually was a struggle within the third; Royval stuffed Taira’s early takedown try and gave the impression to be taking the struggle over because the Japanese prodigy was fading. Taira began to get tagged up badly on this one, capturing in on quite a few 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 along with his dominant grappling once more.
Spherical 5 alternatively was a special 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 struggle going for the end.
This was a detailed one which the previous title challenger was simply barely in a position to edge the younger undefeated stud, who’s seemingly a positive future world champion.
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