UFC on ESPN 73 Royval vs Kape

Date
Sat 13th December 2025 (UTC)
Sat 13th December 2025 (Local)

Timestamp
2025-12-13T23:00:00

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23:00:00 UTC (15:00:00 Local)

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League
UFC

Season
2025

Round
53

Status
Not Started

Location
UFC APEX

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Description

UFC on ESPN: Royval vs. Kape (also known as UFC on ESPN 73 and UFC Vegas 112) is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will take place on December 13, 2025, at the UFC Apex in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Valley, United States.

This event is expected to be the final UFC broadcast under the U.S. media rights agreement with ESPN as beginning in 2026, UFC live event coverage will transition to Paramount Skydance.

A flyweight bout between former UFC Flyweight Championship challenger (also former LFA Flyweight Champion) Brandon Royval and former RIZIN Bantamweight Champion Manel Kape is scheduled to headline the event. The pairing was originally expected to headline UFC Fight Night: Kape vs. Almabayev in March 2025, but Royval had to withdraw due to multiple concussions. They were later rebooked to compete at UFC 317 in June 2025; however, Kape withdrew due to a broken foot.

A women's flyweight bout between former LFA Women's Flyweight Champion Jamey-Lyn Horth and Tereza Bledá is scheduled for this event. They were originally scheduled to compete at UFC on ESPN: Usman vs. Buckley in June but Bledá was forced to withdraw from the fight due to a staph infection.

A women's bantamweight bout between Luana Santos and Melissa Croden is scheduled for this event. The pairing was originally set for UFC on ESPN: Bonfim vs. Brown in November, but was moved to this card for undisclosed reasons.

A women's strawweight bout between Gillian Robertson and Iasmin Lucindo was scheduled for this event. However, Lucindo withdrew due to an undisclosed injury and was replaced by former UFC Women's Strawweight Championship challenger Amanda Lemos.

Melsik Baghdasaryan was expected to face Joanderson Brito in a featherweight bout. However, Baghdasaryan pulled out for undisclosed reasons and was replaced by promotional newcomer Isaac Thomson. Baghdasaryan and Brito had previously been scheduled to meet in October 2022 at UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Araújo but Baghdasaryan pulled out of that bout due to a broken hand.

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Fight card:

Main card (ESPN2 / ESPN+)
Flyweight Brandon Royval vs. Manel Kape
Featherweight Giga Chikadze vs. Kevin Vallejos
Middleweight César Almeida vs. Cezary Oleksiejczuk
Featherweight Melquizael Costa vs. Morgan Charrière
Heavyweight Kennedy Nzechukwu vs. Marcus Buchecha
Catchweight (160 lb) King Green vs. Lance Gibson Jr.

Preliminary card (ESPN2 / ESPN+)
Women's Strawweight Amanda Lemos vs. Gillian Robertson
Featherweight Joanderson Brito vs. Isaac Thomson
Welterweight Neil Magny vs. Yaroslav Amosov
Heavyweight Sean Sharaf vs. Steven Asplund
Women's Bantamweight Melissa Croden vs. Luana Santos
Heavyweight Allen Frye vs. Guilherme Pat
Women's Flyweight Jamey-Lyn Horth vs. Tereza Bledá

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