Brandon Royval
13 UFC Fights | 62% Win Rate | 5 Finishes (63%)
Brandon Royval UFC Record & Pro MMA Record
Brandon Royval is 8-5 in the UFC across 13 fights, with 1 win by knockout, 4 by submission and 3 by decision. The full pro MMA record is 18-9, 10-4 of it outside the UFC. Royval competes at flyweight as a southpaw volume striker, standing 5'9" with a 68" reach at 34 years old. The last bout was a win over Lone'er Kavanagh by submission in Jul 2026.
Best attribute: striking volume (significant strikes landed per minute) — 97th percentile among 115 flyweight fighters (5.6 sig. strikes/min).
Brandon Royval's UFC win rate is 62% (8 of 13 fights), and 63% of those wins came by finish. Royval averages 0.7 takedowns per fight at 64% accuracy and stops 45% of opponents' takedown attempts.
- Pro MMA Record
- 18-9
- UFC Record
- 8-5
- Height
- 5'9"
- Reach
- 68"
- Age
- 34
- Stance
- Southpaw
- Last Fight
- W vs Lone'er Kavanagh · Submission · Jul 2026
Pro record from Sherdog (snapshot 2026-07-03) plus every UFC bout since; UFC record from UFCStats.
Brandon Royval's Last 5 Fights
Royval is 3-2 in the last five UFC fights.
- Win vs Lone'er Kavanagh · Submission · R3 3:40 · UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2 · Jul 2026
- Loss vs Manel Kape · KO/TKO · R1 3:18 · UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Kape · Dec 2025
- Loss vs Joshua Van · Decision · R3 5:00 · UFC 317: Topuria vs. Oliveira · Jun 2025
- Win vs Tatsuro Taira · Decision · R5 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Taira · Oct 2024
- Win vs Brandon Moreno · Decision · R5 5:00 · UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2 · Feb 2024
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Round-by-Round Output
Sig. Strikes Landed per Round — Brandon Royval vs Average
Brandon Royval lands 18.7 strikes in R1 but 35.9 in R3+ — output increases in later rounds.
Brandon Royval's UFC Fight History
13 UFC fights on record (8-5), most recent first.
| Result | Opponent | Method | Rd · Time | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Lone'er Kavanagh | Submission | R3 · 3:40 | UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2 | 2026-07-11 |
| L | Manel Kape | KO/TKO | R1 · 3:18 | UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Kape | 2025-12-13 |
| L | Joshua Van | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC 317: Topuria vs. Oliveira | 2025-06-28 |
| W | Tatsuro Taira | Decision | R5 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Taira | 2024-10-12 |
| W | Brandon Moreno | Decision | R5 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2 | 2024-02-24 |
| L★ | Alexandre Pantoja | Decision | R5 · 5:00 | UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington | 2023-12-16 |
| W | Matheus Nicolau | KO/TKO | R1 · 2:09 | UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Allen | 2023-04-15 |
| W | Matt Schnell | Submission | R1 · 2:14 | UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje | 2022-05-07 |
| W | Rogerio Bontorin | Decision | R3 · 5:00 | UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Chikadze | 2022-01-15 |
| L | Alexandre Pantoja | Submission | R2 · 1:46 | UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Gastelum | 2021-08-21 |
| L | Brandon Moreno | KO/TKO | R1 · 4:59 | UFC 255: Figueiredo vs. Perez | 2020-11-21 |
| W | Kai Kara-France | Submission | R2 · 0:48 | UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa | 2020-09-26 |
| W | Tim Elliott | Submission | R2 · 3:18 | UFC Fight Night: Woodley vs. Burns | 2020-05-30 |
How Royval Ranks at Flyweight
Percentile among the 115 flyweight fighters in our database (higher is better; absorbed strikes are inverted).
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