Brandon Royval is 2-0 in the Octagon, following his fight tonight at UFC 253, as “Raw Dawg” scored a win over Kai Kara-France in an absolute barn burner.
Kara-France planted a hard leg kick not long into the bout that caught Royval off balance. Royval started pressuring and firing hard shots and in an ensuing scramble, he appeared to tag Kara-France with a spinning elbow. Royval also appeared to eat a huge right.
Royval started working an omoplata but Kara-France worked his way out. Royval took the top position but Kara-France eventually worked his way up and out. Royval continued to pressure with combos and Kara-France looked to counter. Great action.
Moments later, Royval cracked Kara-France with a knee and started hunting for a choke. Kara-France defended, however, and got back to his feet. Kara-France threatened with some heavy shots but Royval continued to move forward. Kara-France fired in a huge right that Royval just ate.
The fighters continued to offer a ton of volume in round two. Kara-France changed levels and looked for a takedown, but Royval sunk in a guillotine choke. Moments later Kara-France tapped. What a win. What a fight.
Royval made his UFC debut this past May and submitted Tim Elliott.
Here are the results so far for UFC 253, which is going down on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.
Brandon Royval def. Kai Kara-France via submission (guillotine choke) R2, 0:48
Ketlen Vieira def. Sijara Eubanks via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Hakeem Dawodu def. Zubaira Tukhugov via split decision (28-29, 30-27, 29-28)
Brad Riddell def. Alex da Silva via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Jake Matthews def. Diego Sanchez via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-26, 30-26)
Ludovit Klein def. Shane Young via KO (strikes) R1, 1:16
William Knight def. Aleksa Camur (206) via unanimous decision (29-28-30-27, 30-27)
Juan Espino def. Jeff Hughes via submission (arm-triangle) R1, 3:48
Danilo Marques def. Khadis Ibragimov via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)
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