{"id":31493,"date":"2025-07-29T09:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31493\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:20:13","slug":"tatsuro-taira-to-now-face-hyunsung-park-at-ufc-fight-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31493\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatsuro Taira to now face HyunSung Park at UFC Fight Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brett OkamotoJul 29, 2025, 01:32 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. He was also a producer on the 30 for 30 film: “Chuck and Tito,” which looked back at the careers and rivalry of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. He lives in Las Vegas, and is an avid, below-average golfer in his spare time.<\/p>\n

The UFC has reshuffled its main event for Saturday’s UFC Fight Night at the Apex in Las Vegas, as flyweight contender Tatsuro Taira<\/a> will now face a new opponent in HyunSung Park<\/a>, it was announced Monday.<\/p>\n

Taira (16-1) was supposed to face Amir Albazi<\/a> (17-2) in a five-round main event, but Albazi was forced to withdraw due to undisclosed reasons. Park (10-0) was scheduled to face Steve Erceg<\/a> on Aug. 9, but he will now compete a week earlier in Saturday’s main event.<\/p>\n

Taira, of Japan, is the UFC’s No. 6-ranked flyweight contender. He is coming off the first defeat of his career, a split decision loss to Brandon Royval<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n

Park fought his way into the UFC in 2023 and has finished three consecutive opponents inside the Octagon. He has recorded a finish in his last seven bouts, dating to 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brett OkamotoJul 29, 2025, 01:32 AM CloseBrett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-31493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}