Tatsuro Taira came in the promotion in the promotion in the promotion and had much to prove in his third main event at UFC Vegas 108. Val lost to Brandon Royval in October, lost the Japanese sensation both his first fight in the company, as well as the first of his professional career, after the fleeting decision. His opponent for the occasion was the unbeaten South Korean competitor Hyun Sung Park, who filled in for the link after Taira’s original opponent, Amir Albazi, withdrew due to an injury.
Park earned his organizational contract after a very successful run on the road to UFC and made his long -awaited debut at the beginning of 2023 and registered a sensational third round entry. After that, two stop wins recorded, “peace of mind” stepped up for what the biggest test of his mixed martial arts trip would be until that point in the Rebound 125 pound competition.
Although he would not be confronted with a arranged opponent as he was planned, Tatsuro Taira accepted the game with the dangerous park with a lot of driving on the line, including his place in the flying weight of top ten rankings if he lost. By passing the test with flying colors, the 25-year-old, however, dominated the late replacement park and served him in the second round with a brutal face crank and the South Korean handed his first defeat.
Despite the fact that he was a disappointing setback in his last UFC tilt, Taira seemed better than ever to dismantle the then impeccable park in just under ten minutes. Although his emphatic triumph in Vegas may have come a surprise for some, the success he has collected on the largest stage in combat sports is the result of almost ten years of hard work. Taira’s Ascension in the UFC has been tempered by strict opposition in his native Japan and can only be described as a foregone conclusion.
Tatsuro Taira: early start and amateur career
Born in Naha, Okinawa, Japan on January 27, 2000, started the fascination of Tatsuro Taira for Sport in a more traditional way and he recorded baseball while he was still in primary school, but eventually dropped it as soon as he hit Junior High. He then took his first steps in the realm of the martial arts after he was inspired by his brother, who was training at the time in the Palaestra Okinawa, a mixed martial arts gym founded by the Japanese icon Yuki Nakai. Taira came to high school at the establishment itself and came under the guardianship of Ryota Matsune, known by veteran fans as one of the best Bantamweight competitors who once came out of the country.
Tatsuro Taira took his first amateur match in 2016 and took the victory home in his debut with a unanimous decision Kinjo Eitaro. He made only one appearance in the cage that year, returned in 2017 and competed eight times for a period of five months and won all his competitions and scored two separate shooto Flyweight championships.
After an impeccable run as an amateur, Taira made the switch to the professional ranks at the end of 2018, which made a first round hit on Yo Otake. For the next three years he would almost continue to fight under the shooto banner, which gathered a 10-0 record. It was during this period in which he also started to float in various weight classes, including stream weight and bantam weight. Taira made the permanent switch back to flight weight and ended his time in shooto by claiming their 125-pound band and leaving the promotion as one of their greatest athletes.
Tatsuro Taira’s early UFC -Run, steady climb to the flight weight ranking
Tatsuro Taira recorded a last first round entry at Vale Tudo Japan 2021 and received his invitation to connect later that UFC, next year, making his long -awaited debut at UFC Vegas 54. Locking with Carlos Candelario, the Japanese decision came to the Top in his Freshmankind.
Although he has easily nailed his promotion debut in an impressive way, Taira’s performance did not completely put him on the radar of experts and UFC fans. Competing in his second fight with the company five months later, he went against CJ Vergara, a man who had stopped for no more than four years. Although his opponent missed the weight with two pounds, the Japanese nevertheless accepted the game and took the American out in the second round with an arm bar. He also earned his first performance of the night bonus.
Tatsuro Taira started a dominant warpath through the division and fights three more times the following year. In that piece of time he defeated remarkable division height points such as Jesús Santos Aguilar, Edgar Couldez and Carlos Hernandez and ended both the first and the last through the entry and TKO.
Tatsuro Taira: candidate, first loss, becoming current status
Now unmistakably as the next top perspective in the category, Tatsuro Taira was booked to compete for his place in the 125-pound ranks opposite the very experienced Alex Perez, a man who shared the cage with strong names such as Joseph Benavidez, Deiveson FigueIredo and Alexandre Pantoja. Taira took the game to the second round and took Perez’s back while he came up before he brutally finished the fight after he forced him to the floor and injured his knee.
Taira secured his place in the top 15 and stood up to act with the most difficult test of his career at that time in previous title challenge Brandon Royval, who came out of a monumental victory over two-time flight weight champion Brandon Moreno. In what both men of the Night of Night First would have, the scrap went at the full distance of 25 minutes, with Royval lifting his hand by a split decision to give Taira the first loss of his combat sport operations.
The setback was a disappointing one for the young Tatsuro Taira, who seemed to use in the later rounds of the fight. He wanted to improve the mistakes he made during his last trip to the Octagon, he took his first assignment from 2025 against colleague -Graadaas Amir Albazi. That was until the Iraqi fell out of the game due to an injury, leaving the door open for a hungry Hyunsung park to come to Taira as a late replacement.
Regardless of who was in front of him that night in Las Vegas, Taira demonstrated a stunning amount of growth of his struggle with Royval, so that the South Korean dropped in the first stanza before he completed the interruption in the second with a face crank.
Now firmly back in the profit column, Tatsuro Taira has resumed its impeccable run to title conflicts afterwards steal The coveted zero of the park. Although all signs seem to indicate the current flying weight gold standard Pantoja that Joshua takes on somewhere later in the year, the Japanese phenomenon has more than a plea for itself.
If Taira succeeds in overthrowing the apparently invincible Brazilian, he will go into combat history as the first competitor from Japan who wins a UFC championship.
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