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UFC on ESPN 71 Taira vs Park

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Sat 2nd August 2025 Local
Sun 3rd August 2025 12:00am UTC

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League
UFC

Season
2025

Round
Round 26

Status
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Location
UFC APEX

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UFC on ESPN: Taira vs. Park (also known as UFC on ESPN 71 and UFC Vegas 108) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on August 2, 2025, at the UFC Apex in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Valley, United States.

Background
A flyweight bout between Amir Albazi and Tatsuro Taira was scheduled to headline this event. However, one week before the event, Albazi withdrew due to injury and was replaced by Road to UFC Season 1 flyweight winner Park Hyun-sung, who was originally scheduled to compete a week later against former UFC Flyweight Championship challenger Steve Erceg.

A flyweight bout between former LFA Flyweight Champion Felipe Bunes and André Lima was scheduled for this event. However, Lima withdrew from the fight due to an undisclosed injury and was replaced by Rafael Estevam.

A middleweight bout between Torrez Finney and former LFA Middleweight Champion Azamat Bekoev was scheduled for this event. However, Finney withdrew from the fight due to an injury and was replaced by promotional newcomer Yousri Belgaroui. In turn, the bout was scrapped and postponed to October 18 at UFC Fight Night 262 as Belgaroui was unable to get a visa in time.

A welterweight bout between Neil Magny and Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos took place at this event. They were originally reportedly scheduled to face each other in May 2019, at UFC Fight Night: dos Anjos vs. Lee, but the matchup did not materialize as Zaleski dos Santos announced that he had not been contacted by the UFC about it.

A featherweight bout between Austin Bashi and Francis Marshall was scheduled for this event. However, Marshall had to withdraw due to an injury and was replaced by promotional newcomer John Yannis.

A lightweight bout between Grant Dawson and Joel Álvarez was reportedly scheduled for this event. However, for unknown reasons, the bout was not formally announced.

At the weigh-ins, two fighters missed weight:

Tresean Gore weighed in at 189.5 pounds, three and a half pounds over the middleweight non-title fight limit.
Rafael Estevam weighed in at 130 pounds, four pounds over the flyweight non-title fight limit.
Gore and Estevam's bouts proceeded at catchweight. Both fighters were fined 25 percent of their individual purses which went to their opponents Rodolfo Vieira and Felipe Bunes, respectively.

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Result List

01	Tatsuro Taira	UFC Flyweight	WIN
02	Chris Duncan	UFC Lightweight	WIN
02	Mateusz Rębecki	UFC Lightweight	LOSS
03	Esteban Ribovics	_Retired Fighting	WIN
03	Elves Brener	_Retired Fighting	LOSS
04	Karol Rosa	UFC Bantamweight	WIN
04	Nora Cornolle	UFC Bantamweight Women	LOSS
05	Neil Magny	UFC Welterweight	WIN
06	Kevin Vallejos	_Retired Fighting	WIN
06	Danny Silva	_Retired Fighting	LOSS
07	Rinya Nakamura	UFC Bantamweight	WIN
07	Nathan Fletcher	_Retired Fighting	LOSS
08	Rodolfo Vieira	UFC Middleweight	WIN
08	Tresean Gore	UFC Middleweight	LOSS
09	Andrey Pulyaev	UFC Middleweight	WIN
09	Nick Klein	_Retired Fighting	LOSS
10	Austin Bashi	_Retired Fighting	WIN
11	Rafael Estevam	_Retired Fighting	WIN
11	Felipe Bunes	_Retired Fighting	LOSS
12	Piera Rodriguez	UFC Strawweight Women	WIN
12	Ketlen Souza	UFC Flyweight Women	LOSS

Result Description

Main card (ESPN / ESPN+)
Weight class Method Round Time Notes
Flyweight Tatsuro Taira def. Park Hyun-sung Submission (face crank) 2 1:06
Lightweight Chris Duncan def. Mateusz Rębecki Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 30–27) 3 5:00
Lightweight Esteban Ribovics def. Elves Brener Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–27, 30–27) 3 5:00
Women's Bantamweight Karol Rosa def. Nora Cornolle Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 29–27, 29–27) 3 5:00
Welterweight Neil Magny def. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos TKO (punches) 2 4:39
Featherweight Kevin Vallejos def. Danny Silva Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–27, 30–27) 3 5:00

Preliminary card (ESPN / ESPN+)
Bantamweight Rinya Nakamura def. Nathan Fletcher TKO (body kick and punches) 1 1:02
Catchweight (189.5 lb) Rodolfo Vieira def. Tresean Gore Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 30–27, 30–27) 3 5:00
Middleweight Andrey Pulyaev def. Nick Klein TKO (body kick and punches) 2 1:31
Featherweight Austin Bashi def. John Yannis Submission (rear-naked choke) 1 3:39
Catchweight (130 lb) Rafael Estevam def. Felipe Bunes Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28) 3 5:00
Women's Strawweight Piera Rodríguez def. Ketlen Souza Decision (split) (29–28, 28–29, 29–28) 3 5:00

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