{"id":347894,"date":"2025-12-14T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347894\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:42:09","slug":"brandon-royval-releases-statement-after-disappointing-ufc-vegas-112-knockout-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347894\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Royval releases statement after disappointing UFC Vegas 112 knockout loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Brandon Royval\u2019s title hopes took a big hit after a loss to Manel Kape in the UFC Vegas 112 main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The perennial top 5 contender had hoped to keep his name in the mix at 125 pounds when he fought Kape on Saturday, but he instead suffered just the second knockout loss of his career <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/461682\/manel-kape-calls-for-title-shot-after-flattening-brandon-royval-in-ufc-vegas-112-main-event\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as he was blitzed by Kape<\/a> in a bout that lasted a little over three minutes. Royval is now just 2-2 since losing a championship bout to Alexandre Pantoja in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Following his latest loss, Royval shared a message on Instagram:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThank you for all who checked up on me, sad about the loss but my health is OK and live to fight another day,\u201d Royval wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Had Royval won, it\u2019s unlikely he would have received a title shot next as he recently lost a thrilling decision to recently crowned flyweight champion Joshua Van. It\u2019s Kape who could be granted the opportunity as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/461735\/manel-kape-sends-message-to-joshua-van-im-going-to-be-the-worst-nightmare-hes-going-to-have-in-his-life\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he later declared himself Van\u2019s \u201cworst nightmare\u201d<\/a> and Van responded he\u2019s open to the fight, especially if it\u2019s booked to take place in his hometown of Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Royval, 33, has fought twice a year since 2022 and consistently against top competition, including Kape, Van, Pantoja, Brandon Moreno, and Tatsuro Taira. This most recent setback could see \u201cRaw Dawg\u201d take some time off before jumping back into the fray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Royval\u2019s title hopes took a big hit after a loss to Manel Kape in the UFC Vegas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347895,"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-347894","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\/347894","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=347894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}