{"id":344493,"date":"2025-12-14T10:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344493\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:44:22","slug":"fighters-react-to-manel-kapes-tko-of-brandon-royval-at-ufc-on-espn-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344493\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighters react to Manel Kape&#8217;s TKO of Brandon Royval at UFC on ESPN 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manel Kape put himself firmly in the flyweight title mix Saturday at <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-las-vegas-december-13-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC on ESPN 73;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC on ESPN 73<\/a> when he beat Brandon Royval.<\/p>\n<p>Kape (21-8 MMA, 6-4 UFC) has now won seven of his past eight fights after a first-round TKO victory over Royval (17-9 MMA, 7-5 UFC) at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, putting himself in strong position going into 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Check below for the top X (formerly Twitter) reactions to Kape beating Royval at UFC on ESPN 73.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/12\/14\/ufc-vegas-112-manel-kape-brandon-royval-social-media-reactions-title\/87754830007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fighters react to Manel Kape&#039;s TKO of Brandon Royval at UFC Vegas 112;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Fighters react to Manel Kape&#8217;s TKO of Brandon Royval at UFC Vegas 112<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manel Kape put himself firmly in the flyweight title mix Saturday at UFC on ESPN 73 when he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[23380,49,48,1161,641,19912,638,1302,82,640,30004],"class_list":{"0":"post-344493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-brandon-royval","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-espn","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-manel-kape","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-mma-junkie","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-ufc","18":"tag-ufc-apex"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344493","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=344493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}