{"id":212342,"date":"2025-10-14T09:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/212342\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:06:22","slug":"brandon-moreno-vs-tatsuro-taira-set-for-ufc-323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/212342\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Moreno vs. Tatsuro Taira set for UFC 323"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A big Flyweight fight is going down in \u201cSin City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former two-time Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight champion Brandon Moreno returns to action against top Japanese prospect Tatsuro Taira at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/395815\/merab-vs-petr-yan-2-headlines-ufc-323-henry-cejudo-jan-blachowicz-dec-6-ppv-card\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 323<\/a> on Sat., Dec. 7, 2025, inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeBohn\/status\/1977821828052922589\" rel=\"nofollow\">MMA Junkie<\/a> first reported the matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Moreno (23-8-2) has looked rejuvenated since dropping back-to-back split decisions to Alexandre Pantoja and Brandon Royval. Late last year at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/11\/2\/24281323\/ufc-edmonton-full-results-live-streaming-updates-brandon-moreno-vs-amir-albazi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Edmonton<\/a> (Nov. 2024), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/11\/2\/24281323\/ufc-edmonton-full-results-live-streaming-updates-brandon-moreno-vs-amir-albazi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he dominated<\/a> Amir Albazi over five rounds. Then, in the main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/3\/29\/24391762\/ufc-mexico-city-results-live-streaming-updates-brandon-moreno-vs-steve-erceg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Mexico City<\/a> earlier this year, Moreno defeated Steve Erceg via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/3\/29\/24391762\/ufc-mexico-city-results-live-streaming-updates-brandon-moreno-vs-steve-erceg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unanimous decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Moreno always seems to be one win away from reclaiming his title \u2014 and that may very well be the case again, especially if he delivers another eye-opening performance in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Currently sitting at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 5 in the rankings<\/a>, Taira could punch his ticket to a title shot with a win over Moreno \u2014 particularly with champion Pantoja running low on fresh challengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here is what UFC 323 looks like so far:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the rest of the UFC\u2019s upcoming schedule of events click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/pages\/ufc-mma-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A big Flyweight fight is going down in \u201cSin City.\u201d Former two-time Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight champion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,61604,1396],"class_list":["post-212342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-fight-announcements","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212342","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=212342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}