{"id":332045,"date":"2025-12-07T04:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332045\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:34:07","slug":"ufc-323-live-blog-brandon-moreno-vs-tatsuro-taira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332045\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 323 live blog: Brandon Moreno vs. Tatsuro Taira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is the UFC 323 live blog for Brandon Moreno vs. Tatsuro Taira, the main card flyweight bout Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Moreno (23-8-2) once again defends his No. 5 spot at 125 pounds in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/rankings\/452384\/mma-divisional-rankings-4-ufc-champions-target-2026-to-continue-reigns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting Global Rankings<\/a>. \u201cThe Assassin Baby\u201d is coming off of wins against would-be contenders Steve Erceg and Amir Albazi, and hopes to earn his chance to become a three-time UFC champion. Deep into his career, Moreno remains a threat to the elite of the division after going to split-decision losses against Brandon Royval and champion Alexandre Pantoja prior to his bounce-back win streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Taira (17-1) rebounded nicely from his first loss, defeating Hyun Sung Park this past August to improve to 7-1 inside the octagon. The Japanese grappling specialist doesn\u2019t turn 25 until January and has all the makings of a future champion. The question is whether he\u2019s developed enough at this stage of his career to bump off Moreno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the UFC 323 live blog for Brandon Moreno vs. Tatsuro Taira below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the UFC 323 live blog for Brandon Moreno vs. Tatsuro Taira, the main card flyweight bout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-332045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332045","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=332045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}