This Saturday, a superlative MMA event takes place in Frankfurt with Octagon 62 with Eckerlin vs. Jungwirth, and the UFC fight of Royval vs. Taira takes place in Las Vegas.
When is UFC Fight Night 244 with the flyweight duel between Brandon Royval and Tatsuro Taira, who is broadcasting Royval vs. Taira live and which fights are on the fight card for this event?
Royval vs. Taira: Date, broadcast, time
Date, time, broadcast: When is the UFC fight Brandon Royval vs. Tatsuro Taira?
In the 2024 UFC calendar, UFC Fight Night 244 takes place this weekend at the UFC’s own Apex Center in Las Vegas. The headliner comes from the featherweight division and is Brandon Royval vs. Tatsuro Taira.
Who is showing Royval vs. Taira live?
Royval vs. Taira will be streamed live on DAZN. The UFC Fight Night broadcast starts on the sports streamer at 1:00 a.m. on Sunday night (Oct. 13).
Elias Stefanescu will be on commentary for the main event and prelims.
In addition to the DAZN broadcast, UFC Fight Night 244 will of course also be available this weekend on the paid UFC Fightpass.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s in-house streaming service will show all fights of the event, including the main card and the prelims.
UFC Fightpass also offers comprehensive background and preview coverage. In contrast to DAZN, however, the broadcast there is only available with an English commentator.
Royval vs. Taira: Prediction & Betting odds
This weekend’s UFC Fight Night 244 will see the flyweight duel between Brandon Royval and Tatsuro Taira.
Royval is ranked 5.
Brandon Royval has won four of his last five UFC fights. His only defeat in this period came in December 2023 – in a featherweight title fight against Alexandre Pantoja.
The 32-year-old American from Denver then immediately returned to winning ways. He won his next fight against Brandon Morena in February of this year. That was also the last Octagon appearance to date for the “Raw Dawg”, who has been active in the UFC division since 2020.
With another win at the upcoming UFC Fight Night against Tatsuro Taia, he wants to recommend himself for another title fight. However, the Japanese fighter is anything but an easy task.
The 24-year-old Asian has won all of his previous MMA fights! Taira has been in the Octagon 16 times and emerged victorious 16 times! Most recently in June of this year against Alex Perez. That was also his sixth win at UFC level.
The man from Okinawa – older Karate Kid fans know his name – is currently ranked 5th in the flyweight rankings of the MMA premier class.
With an unblemished record of 17 wins from 17 fights, a duel against Pantoja for the flyweight crown could be on the cards if he wins against Royval.
What is impressive about Taira is that he is very variable and is very strong both in stand-up fighting and on the ground. He has seven wins by submission, five by knockout and four by decision. With 65% significant strikes, he will certainly be dangerous for Royval.
This is probably why the Royval vs. Taira betting odds of the sports betting providers see the Japanese as the heavy favorite!
But: Royval can also do everything, especially on the ground: 9 of his 16 MMA victories came by submission, four times he won by KO.
Royval vs. Taira head-to-head comparison
Fight Card: Which fights are still scheduled for October 12th?
There are still five preliminary fights on the Royval vs. Taira fight card for UFC Fight Night 244 on October 12th.
Abdul Razak Alhassan and Josh Fremd from the middleweight division will kick things off. After that, Daniel Rodriguez and welterweight Alex Morono will step into the cage.
The UFC Fight Night 244 main card
Fight 3 on the UFC Fight Night 244 main card features light heavyweights Grant Dawson and Rafa García. When the two are done with each other, the welterweight duel of Chidi Njokuani vs. Jared Gooden will take place.
After that, Brad Tavares and Park Jun-yong will clash in the final middleweight preliminary bout.
As soon as the winner of this fight is determined, the headliner of this UFC Fight Night will follow with Brandon Royval and Tatsuro Taira
