Matches to make after Royval vs Taira

[GibsterMMA]

Brandon Royval vs Pantoja/Asakura winner
Tatsuro Taira vs Nicolau/Almabayev winner
Jun Yong Park vs Joe Pyfer
Brad Tavares vs Michal Oleksiejczuk
Chidi Njokuani vs Daniel Rodriguez
Jared Gooden vs Kevin Jousett
Grant Dawson vs Myktybek Orlando (with win)
Rafa Garcia vs Joaquim Silva
Alex Morono vs Li Jingliang
Ramazan Temirov vs Daniel Barez
CJ Vergara vs Sumudaerji (with loss)
Pat Sabatini vs William Gomis
Jonathan Pearce vs Bill Algeo
Themba Gorimbo vs Santiago Ponzinibbio
Niko Price vs Salikhov/Song loser
Junior Tafa vs Nzechukwu/Barnett winner
Sean Sharaf vs Mario Pinto (DWCS)
Julia Polastri vs Talita Alencar
Cory McKenna vs Polyana Viana
Cody Haddon vs Armfield/Sidey winner
Dan Argueta CUT
Clayton Carpenter vs Alessandro Costa
Lucas Rocha vs Jose Johnson

 

[NicholasJBasile]

Very nice selections, thank you for posting. I'd like to see Dawson get someone in the top 15. His only UFC loss is still his KO loss to Green -- he is being severely overlooked imo.

 

[HuskySamoan]

Brandon Royval vs Pantoja/Asakura winner
Tatsuro Taira vs Nicolau/Almabayev winner
Jun Yong Park vs Joe Pyfer
Brad Tavares vs Michal Oleksiejczuk
Chidi Njokuani vs Daniel Rodriguez
Jared Gooden vs Kevin Jousett
Grant Dawson vs Myktybek Orlando (with win)
Rafa Garcia vs Joaquim Silva
Alex Morono vs Li Jingliang
Ramazan Temirov vs Daniel Barez
CJ Vergara vs Sumudaerji (with loss)
Pat Sabatini vs William Gomis
Jonathan Pearce vs Bill Algeo
Themba Gorimbo vs Santiago Ponzinibbio
Niko Price vs Salikhov/Song loser
Junior Tafa vs Nzechukwu/Barnett winner
Sean Sharaf vs Mario Pinto (DWCS)
Julia Polastri vs Talita Alencar
Cory McKenna vs Polyana Viana
Cody Haddon vs Armfield/Sidey winner
Dan Argueta CUT
Clayton Carpenter vs Alessandro Costa
Lucas Rocha vs Jose Johnson

Taira could fight Asu/Nicolau loser too, there's a million good fights for him. He's 24 and clearly needs to develop more as a fighter, I think he should focus on that....development and not focus on getting back to contention yet, he can cook for like 2 years and then fight for the belt kinda deal. I think if he fought someone like Kape or Moreno he'd probably have gotten knocked out. Let him cook.

 

[joey gerbils]

Brandon Royval vs Pantoja/Asakura winner
Tatsuro Taira vs Nicolau/Almabayev winner
Jun Yong Park vs Joe Pyfer
Brad Tavares vs Michal Oleksiejczuk
Chidi Njokuani vs Daniel Rodriguez
Jared Gooden vs Kevin Jousett
Grant Dawson vs Myktybek Orlando (with win)
Rafa Garcia vs Joaquim Silva
Alex Morono vs Li Jingliang
Ramazan Temirov vs Daniel Barez
CJ Vergara vs Sumudaerji (with loss)
Pat Sabatini vs William Gomis
Jonathan Pearce vs Bill Algeo
Themba Gorimbo vs Santiago Ponzinibbio
Niko Price vs Salikhov/Song loser
Junior Tafa vs Nzechukwu/Barnett winner
Sean Sharaf vs Mario Pinto (DWCS)
Julia Polastri vs Talita Alencar
Cory McKenna vs Polyana Viana
Cody Haddon vs Armfield/Sidey winner
Dan Argueta CUT
Clayton Carpenter vs Alessandro Costa
Lucas Rocha vs Jose Johnson

Sharaf and Price cut

 

[fortheo]

Taira could fight Asu/Nicolau loser too, there's a million good fights for him. He's 24 and clearly needs to develop more as a fighter, I think he should focus on that....development and not focus on getting back to contention yet, he can cook for like 2 years and then fight for the belt kinda deal. I think if he fought someone like Kape or Moreno he'd probably have gotten knocked out. Let him cook.

Definitely should take a rebound fight. That was about the best way an undefeated young prospect can lose -- a 5 round competitive fight with a top contender where he didn't take much damage. There's plenty he can learn from that, if given time to develop. No need to throw him to the wolves right now. Let him learn his lessons for a while fighting a couple fringe ranked guys again.

 

[RockyLockridge]

Definitely should take a rebound fight. That was about the best way an undefeated young prospect can lose -- a 5 round competitive fight with a top contender where he didn't take much damage. There's plenty he can learn from that, if given time to develop. No need to throw him to the wolves right now. Let him learn his lessons for a while fighting a couple fringe ranked guys again.

I agree lets move him about 3 or 4 fights from a title shot and let him get his momentum back.

This will be his O'malley vs Chito moment. Right now though it's royvals time.

 

[El Fernas]

Royval vs Asakura, no need for a 3rd fight...

 

[HuskySamoan]

Definitely should take a rebound fight. That was about the best way an undefeated young prospect can lose -- a 5 round competitive fight with a top contender where he didn't take much damage. There's plenty he can learn from that, if given time to develop. No need to throw him to the wolves right now. Let him learn his lessons for a while fighting a couple fringe ranked guys again.

Asu and Nicolau are not easy fights for him, they aren't easy fights for Royval either. I'd take a little time off and fight a few fringe ranked guys that are top 11-20. UFC doesn't like doing this since Taira is ranked top 6 right? But he's 24 and parts of his game just aren't quite there yet, he needs time.