Royval vs Taira Prediction, Fight Odds & Betting Tips - UFC FN

💯 Royval vs Taira Betting Odds

According to the pre-fight odds, the unbeaten Taira is the heavy betting favourite to defeat Royval at the UFC APEX. The Japanese star can be backed to prevail at around 1.46, implying a 68.49% probability of this outcome occurring. As for the more seasoned Royval, he’ll enter the bout as a 2.62 underdog. These odds imply just a 38.16% probability of a victory for ‘Raw Dog’, highlighting his occasional inability to control bouts and recent run of three defeats in seven UFC outings.

However, it should be noted that Taira’s perfect 16-0 record has largely been built on victories over lower tier opposition. Although he defeated the sixth-ranked flyweight contender Alex Perez on June 15th, the latter withdrew with a knee injury just three minutes into the second round.

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Brandon Royval	2.64	2.54	2.53	2.62
Tatsuro Taira	1.49	1.44	1.46	1.50

🏆 Royval vs Taira Prediction

This is a truly fascinating bout, and one that’s worthy of headlining any UFC event. Intriguingly, both competing fighters have questions to answer in their quest to become the promotion’s flyweight champion, with Royval having lost three of his previous seven bouts and Taira lacking stellar names on his resume.

Fans of Royval will point to the fighter’s higher work rate, as he attempts far more significant strikes and lands 4.33 per minute on average (compared to 3.56 for his opponent). However, he also also absorbs significantly more strikes during this period (3.42 vs 1.70), while his strike defence is almost twice as porous as Tairo’s.

Tairo’s greater accuracy and technical superiority is also borne out by the grappling statistics. He boasts an impressive takedown average of 2.35 per 15 minutes, for example, highlighting his versatility and ability to ground opponents. Royval’s takedown average is just 0.47 per five-round bout, while he has proven to be less capable of preventing his opponents from grounding him in the UFC.

Tairo’s submission average is also noticeably higher (2.09 vs 1.10). What’s more, 106 of the 205 significant strikes he has landed have been delivered on the ground (52%), so he likes to dominate opponents once he has taken them down. The tale of the tape shows that Taira has a two-inch reach advantage too, and this could help him to negate Royval’s high punch output and counter effectively. Ultimately, I believe that Taira’s superior technical skills will see him ground Royval at some point in the bout. He’ll then find a way to submit his opponent, potentially setting up a title shot against champion Pantoja in 2025!

⚡ Brandon Royval Overview

Royval is now 32-years-old, although he only made his UFC debut on May 30th, 2020 (when he submitted Tim Elliott with an arm-triangle choke). Overall, he has won six of his nine UFC bouts and recorded 16 wins in 23 outings during his MMA career (69.56%), although a run of three defeats in seven fights will be concerning for any fans of Raw Dog. Interestingly, nine of Royval’s 16 career wins have been achieved by way of submission (56.25%), while he has only lost once via the same method. However, the Denver-born fighter isn’t renowned as a particularly skilled or technical grappler, with Royval’s aggression and intensity central to his standout successes as he often looks to overwhelm opponents.

However, his occasionally wild fighting style has also landed him in hot water against technically superior opponents. He was submitted inside two rounds by current flyweight champion Pantoja in August 2021, for example, while the rematch saw Royval drop a unanimous decision despite starting at a frenetic pace and attempting a high volume of strikes. Royval’s occasional lack of control and technical proficiency could prove his undoing against Taira, especially when you consider his lack of striking accuracy and questionable takedown defence. He has landed just 412 of 1124 attempted significant strikes in the UFC (36.65%), while repelling a meagre 40% of his opponent’s takedown attempts. He’ll certainly need to improve on these numbers if he’s to defeat the up-and-coming Taira in Las Vegas!

⭐ Tatsuro Taira Overview

Notwithstanding Taira’s relative lack of top level experience and opponents, the rising Japanese star has compiled a perfect 16-0 record in his MMA career so far. This includes six wins under the promotional banner of the UFC, while seven of Taira’s total career victories (43.75%) have been achieved via submission. However, Taira is a relatively well-rounded fighter, who has also stopped five of his opponents by knockout or TKO and earned four decisions (all unanimous). This highlights his impressively broad skillset, which is predominantly characterised by a superb defence and high level of accuracy in his work.

To underline this, Taira has connected with 205 of the 311 significant strikes he has attempted in the UFC (65.91%). He also absorbs just 1.70 significant strikes per minute on average, making him one of the hardest fighters to catch clean in any weight class. This may prove problematic for Royval, who could struggle to land unless he’s able to control his aggression when fighting on his feet or in a clinch.

Taira also succeeds with 47% of his takedown attempts on average, and although this is an area of his game that he’s still capable of improving, he’s capable of submitting opponents on top and his back. What’s more, his takedown defence of 63% means that he repels most attempts to ground him, so Royval may also find it difficult to dominate the bout on the ground.

So, it’s easy to see why Taira is the favourite here, even if he has yet to fully prove himself against elite-level opposition.

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