UFC Vegas 108 Fight Card Set With Late Main Event Change

The UFC has not held a fight card at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas since late May. That changes on Saturday, when the promotion heads back to the facility for UFC Vegas 108. The August 2 UFC Fight Night card got its main event on short notice as Hyun Sung Park has agreed to replace the injured Amir Albazi against Tatsuro Taira in a flyweight scrap.

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UFC Vegas 108 Main Card

Tatsuro Taira vs. Hyun Sung Park – Flyweight

Chris Duncan vs. Mateusz Rebecki – Lightweight

Elves Brener vs. Esteban Ribovics – Lightweight

Nora Cornolle vs. Karol Rosa – Women’s bantamweight

Neil Magny vs. Elizeu Zaleski – Welterweight

Danny Silva vs. Kevin Vallejos – Featherweght

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UFC Vegas 108 Preliminary Card

Nathan Fletcher vs. Rinya Nakamura – Bantamweight

Tresean Gore vs. Rodolfo Vieira – Middleweight

Nick Klein vs. Andrey Pulayev – Middleweight

Felipe Bunes vs. Rafael Estevam – Flyweight

Piera Rodriguez vs. Ketlen Souza – Strawweight

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UFC Vegas 108 Main Event: Tatsuro Taira vs. Hyun Sung Park

Tatsuro Taira (16-1) rose through the UFC flyweight ranks fairly quickly. He joined the UFC in May 2022 with a record of 10-0, and after winning the Shooto flyweight title.

Taira opened his UFC career with a unanimous decision win over Carlos Candelario in May 2022. He followed that with back-to-back submission wins in contests where he earned “Performance of the Night” bonuses, defeating C.J. Vergara and Jesús Santos Aguilar.

Wins over Edgar Chairez and Carlos Hernandez in 2023 followed.

In June, Taira got the first true test of his UFC career when he faced Alex Perez in a main event on a UFC Fight Night card at the Apex. At the time, Taira was the No. 13 ranked fighter in the UFC’s flyweight division, and Perez, who had fought Deiveson Figueiredo for the UFC 125-pound title in 2020, was ranked No. 5.

The fight ended when Taira took the back of his opponent in the center of the Octagon and forced him to the mat, putting enormous pressure on Perez’s knee and causing an injury that brought the fight to a halt in the second stanza. From all appearances, and judging from his comments after the victory, the move that finished the contest was a designed technique.

That win put Taira at No. 5 in the UFC rankings, earning him a shot at former UFC flyweight title challenger Brandon Royval, who entered the October 2024 contest as the No. 1 ranked in the UFC’s 125-pound division.

Royval and Taira put on a “Fight of the Night” bonus-winning scrap, but the more experienced Royval took home the split-decision win, handing Taira the first loss of his professional career.

The 25-year-old Taira is currently the No. 6 ranked UFC flyweight.

Hyun Sung Park (10-0) won Road to UFC in early 2023 with a knockout of Seung Guk Choi. He followed that with a knockout of Shannon Ross in late 2023. Park did not compete in 2024 having had fights against Andre Lima and Nyamjargal Tumendemberel cancelled. He returned to the Octagon in March, scoring a first-round submission win over Carlos Hernandez at UFC Vegas 106.

I wrote of the 29-year-old at the time, “HyunSung Park looked excellent at UFC Vegas 106, moving to 3-0 in the UFC’s flyweight division. Park used effective striking to hurt Carlos Hernandez against the fence. That striking made Hernandez move to the clinch, but Park showed his overall MMA ability in scoring a takedown, which led to a back take and a rear naked choke sub at 2:26 of Round 1. The 29-year-old Park looks ready for a test in his next outing as he has picked up three finishes in three UFC outings.”

He gets that test in a big way and on short notice on Saturday night.

Park has only gone the distance once in his MMA career.

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We will have more on the UFC Vegas 108 fight card as fight night nears, including betting odds, picks, predictions and more. As well as full fight card results, reactions and highlights on fight night.