{"id":346231,"date":"2025-12-15T06:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346231\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T06:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:51:10","slug":"brandon-royval-releases-statement-following-ufc-vegas-112-knockout-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346231\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Royval releases statement following UFC Vegas 112 knockout loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 2-ranked<\/a> Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight contender Brandon Royval suffered a first-round knockout loss to Manel Kape in the main event of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-live-stream-watch-free\/408672\/ufc-vegas-112-results-video-highlights-royval-vs-kape\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vegas 112<\/a> last night (Sat., Dec. 13, 2025) inside the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-espn-plus-fight-pass-events-schedule-mma\/409590\/watch-ufc-vegas-112-video-highlights-results-espn-mma-kape-knockout-royval\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">One day after the disappointing defeat, Royval released a short message to fans addressing his health and mindset moving forward.<\/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,\u201d Royval wrote on Instagram. \u201cSad about the loss, but my health is okay, and I\u2019ll live to fight another day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Royval (17-9) suffered the first knockout loss of his professional career and is now riding the second two-fight losing streak of his UFC run. The loss also closed out a rough 2025 campaign for \u201cRaw Dawg,\u201d who went 0-2 on the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Still, it\u2019s not all doom and gloom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Royval remains one of the Flyweight division\u2019s elite contenders and is notably the only fighter to defeat Tatsuro Taira \u2014 a win that came just last year and could age very well <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/409998\/manel-kape-makes-the-case-for-next-title-shot-over-japanese-cookie-after-ufc-vegas-112-i-aint-boring\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">if Taira ends up fighting for UFC gold next<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Add in his \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/6\/29\/24458007\/official-post-fight-bonuses-ufc-317-espn-ppv-topuria-oliveira-van-royval-robocop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fight of the Year<\/a>\u2019 war with current champion Joshua Van, and Royval\u2019s standing in the division remains strong despite the setback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Expect \u201cRaw Dawg\u201d to regroup \u2014 and rebound \u2014 in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC Vegas 112 results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-live-stream-watch-free\/408672\/ufc-vegas-112-results-video-highlights-royval-vs-kape\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 2-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight contender Brandon Royval suffered a first-round knockout loss to Manel Kape&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,37644,702,7788],"class_list":["post-346231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346231","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=346231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}