Brandon Royval show's he still has a lot left in the tank| UFC Fight Night Reaction

Peter Klein

Did Brandon Royval just prove he’s still a top contender in the UFC? Peter Klein breaks down Royval's performance at UFC Fight Night and what it means for the division. He also wonders what happened to a couple of fighters who had a chance to grab the spotlight.   Apple Pod: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeH... Twitter: twitter.com/primetimeklein IG: instagram.com/primetimeklein Facebook: www.facebook.com/Couchpotatodiary Twitch: twitch.tv/primetimepk Email: couchpotatodiary@yahoo.com We Had No Idea: every Wednesday morning,  instagram.com/wehadnoideapodcast Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands  Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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00:00The crafty vet still has it as Braden Roy Voll with a split decision win over Tatsuro

00:15Taira.

00:1647-48 and 48-47 times two gives him the split decision win.

00:22Also Park Yeon-young with a split decision win over Brad Tavares.

00:27And so what do we take from this?

00:30Brandon Roy Voll is still, I mean, by the hair on his chinny chin chin, which I guess

00:37for me is a bit, but for him to be able to come out and outpoint Taira and get a victory

00:44there shows that I think that there is, I think rumors of his demise were a little bit

00:49exaggerated and people just assuming that this young kid was going to come in and just

00:53blow right through him, I just, I simply didn't believe that.

00:56So he still has something there in the tank.

01:00And I still think championship caliber fighter, maybe, maybe not, but high level fighter in

01:05the flyweight division right now that is still kind of developing.

01:08Yeah, I think he can be that.

01:11And for Park Yeon-young, it's a win.

01:13Brad Tavares has done a lot of losing and he has been finished in a lot of different

01:18spots.

01:19And so again, to lose by split or to win by split decision and to not necessarily have

01:23that real big impactful moment, it just kind of feels like there were opportunities there

01:30for these young fighters this weekend to go out and kind of take the headlines, take that

01:34spotlight and really, um, drive home that, no, I'm, I'm someone to be watched in this

01:40next run here, this next year for the UFC.

01:44And instead they're just like, well, it's a win.

01:46Oh, it's a close loss.

01:47It is what it is.

01:48Um, that that's not, I don't think what these guys, well, obviously it's not what they wanted.

01:52And I think that this does kind of, um, I don't think there's like a bigger picture

01:58thing here or anything like that.

01:59It's a good win for Roy Voll.

02:01Does it get him into title contention?

02:02I don't think so.

02:04It's a good win for Park Yeon-young.

02:06Does it get him into even, I think, top 15 consideration?

02:09Probably not.

02:10And at 33, like, it kind of just has to start going now for him.

02:15But it's a win coming off of a split decision loss, his first fight of the year.

02:19So that that does kind of get you back on track a little bit for him.

02:23And now it's kind of onward and upward.

02:24So maybe that was just it all along.

02:26It was just get in the cage, get some fights in, and start to progress here a little bit

02:31and start to really push this thing forward in the middleweight division.

02:34But it was, like I said, I feel like this weekend was a little bit more, um, a little

02:40bit more about missed opportunities than, oh, wow, this guy came out and really did

02:43the damn thing.

02:44Coming up this weekend, it is Anthony Hernandez taking on Michel Pereira.

02:50You have Hernandez, who is 30 years old.

02:52He is coming off of a pretty good run here.

02:55He beat Roman Koppelov by submission at the beginning part of the year.

02:59He has won five fights in a row.

03:02Taking on Pereira, who has certainly been polarizing, was in the beginning part of his

03:08career, came out, did a whole lot of dancing, a whole lot of a shtick, and then did a whole

03:11lot of losing.

03:13But since then, he has come out, he's won eight fights in a row, and so you have a couple

03:17of really intriguing fighters in the middleweight division stepping up.

03:20And then you have Rob Font fighting in the bantamweight division.

03:23Font is still, I think, a exciting fighter, but the results haven't been there.

03:28Now, the results haven't been there against Figueiredo, Sanhagen, Marlon Vera, and Jose

03:33Aldo.

03:34Tough to get those results.

03:35And so, it is just a question of how far has he fallen, and where does Kyler Phillips rank?

03:41At 29 years old, Phillips has won three fights in a row, and coming off of a win over Pedro

03:45Munoz, this is a good kind of next step for him.

03:48So, a couple intriguing fights on the UFC card this week.

03:52Uh, alright, that is going to do it for the combat sports talk, I think we covered everything.

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