Brandon Royval got an offer to face Kai Asakura at UFC 305 in Perth, but he ultimately turned it down.
Now, Royval will face Tatsuro Taira in the main event of Saturday’s UFC Vegas 98 fight card at the UFC APEX. “Raw Dawg” says the fight with the former RIZIN bantamweight champion excited him, but if he was going to make the 10,000-mile trek, it needed to be worth his while.
“They offered me that fight in Australia,” Royval told MMA Fighting.