They have already been booked twice this year and the UFC will undoubtedly hope that the third time will be the charm for Brandon Royval vs. Manel Kape.
A long-awaited battle of top 10 flight weights, Royval (17-8) versus Kape (21-7) will now give a UFC Fight Night event in Las Vegas in Las Vegas on December 13, 2025. That date will mark the last UFC event on ESPN, because the promotion De Sprong makes to Spring Service+ in 2026.
The competition was originally planned for a Fight Night Card on March 1, 2025 and then shifted to the UFC 317 of June after Royval was injured. The second combination was also mixed; That time was that Kape withdrew because of injury.
Eurosport The third booking was first reported, with Bradon Royval confirming the date on social media. The event of December 13 at the UFC Apex will be UFC Vegas 112 if things are outstanding.
Royval would stand against Joshua van van van UFC 317 in the short term and lost a fight of the nocturnal thriller. Before that he had won back-to-back fights against Tatsuro Taira and former fly weight champion Brandon Moreno.
In 2019, Brandon Royval faced flightweight champion Alexandre Pantoja and lost a unanimous decision after five rounds.
Kape, a former Rizin star, is 6-1 over his last seven battles, with the only loss in that Span that meets Muhammad Mokaev, since banned by the UFC. He is done with Bruno Silva and Asu Almabayev in his last two outings.
Since the arrival at the UFC in 2020, Manel Kape has canceled no fewer than 11 bookings.
Royval is at #3 and Kape at #7 in the Flyweight Division of the UFC.
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