{"id":211142,"date":"2025-10-13T21:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211142\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T21:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:32:07","slug":"brandon-moreno-returns-against-top-flyweight-contender-at-ufc-323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211142\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Moreno returns against top flyweight contender at UFC 323"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former UFC flyweight champion Brandon Moreno has his next assignment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He\u2019s expected to face Tatsuro Taira in an intriguing matchup added to the UFC 323 lineup on Dec. 6 from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in the final pay-per-view broadcast of 2025. Multiple people with knowledge of the promotion\u2019s plans confirmed the news to MMA Fighting following an initial report from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAJunkie\/status\/1977828235619844575\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Junkie.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Following back-to-back losses, Moreno returned to form with consecutive wins over Steve Erceg and Amir Albazi as he started to climb his way towards title contention again. Recognized as one of the top 125-pound fighters in the world, Moreno has fallen to reigning champion Alexandre Pantoja on three occasions (including an exhibition bout on The Ultimate Fighter) so he might have some work to do to get another title shot but winning in December definitely helps the cause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As for Taira, he\u2019ll look for the biggest win of his career as the 25-year-old flyweight tries to establish himself as a future title contender. After coming up short in a back-and-forth war with Brandon Royval, Taira got a win over Park Hyun-sung in August to move his record to 17-1 overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now Taira clashes with Moreno on the same card as the flyweight title fight between Pantoja and Joshua Van.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC 323 is headlined by a bantamweight title fight as reigning champion Merab Dvalishvili takes on Petr Yan in a rematch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mike Heck contributed to this report<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC flyweight champion Brandon Moreno has his next assignment. He\u2019s expected to face Tatsuro Taira in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-211142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}