“Raw Dawg” is going back to the pound. No. 1-ranked flyweight contender, Brandon Royval, has withdrawn from his Manel Kape main event, previously scheduled for the UFC Vegas 103 card on Sat ...

Last week, Royval (17-7 MMA, 7-3 UFC) announced that he had to pull out of his UFC Fight Night 253 flyweight headliner against Manel Kape (20-7 MMA, 6-3 UFC) on March 1 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.

Kape was originally supposed to meet #1-ranked Brandon Royval in a potential flyweight title eliminator fight before Royval suffered an injury, and now “Starboy” will have to hand Almabayev ...

UFC Vegas 103 has a new main event. Yesterday, top flyweight contender and former title challenger Brandon “Raw Dawg” Royval (17-7) took to Instagram to announce that he was out of his ...

The UFC initially booked Kape against former UFC flyweight title challenger Brandon Royval in the headlining spot of this event, but Royval dropped out in early February because of injury.

Orginally scheduled to face former title challenger Brandon Royval before "Raw Dawg" suffered an injury, Kape came into UFC Vegas 103 after stopping Bruno Silva with strikes in December.