Former UFC flyweight champion Brandon Moreno has his subsequent task.
He’s anticipated to face Tatsuro Taira in an intriguing matchup added to the UFC 323 lineup on Dec. 6 from the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas within the ultimate pay-per-view broadcast of 2025. A number of folks with information of the promotion’s plans confirmed the information to MMA Combating following an preliminary report from MMA Junkie.
Following back-to-back losses, Moreno returned to type with consecutive wins over Steve Erceg and Amir Albazi as he began to climb his means in direction of title competition once more. Acknowledged as one of many prime 125-pound fighters on this planet, Moreno has fallen to reigning champion Alexandre Pantoja on three events (together with an exhibition bout on The Final Fighter) so he might need some work to do to get one other title shot however successful in December positively helps the trigger.
As for Taira, he’ll search for the most important win of his profession because the 25-year-old flyweight tries to ascertain himself as a future title contender. After arising brief in a back-and-forth battle with Brandon Royval, Taira received a win over Park Hyun-sung in August to maneuver his document to 17-1 total.
Now Taira clashes with Moreno on the identical card because the flyweight title combat between Pantoja and Joshua Van.
UFC 323 is headlined by a bantamweight title combat as reigning champion Merab Dvalishvili takes on Petr Yan in a rematch.
Mike Heck contributed to this report
