{"id":20356,"date":"2025-07-31T05:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/taira-changes-opponent-hyunsung-park-replaces-albazi-at-ufc-fight-night\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:32:11","slug":"taira-changes-opponent-hyunsung-park-replaces-albazi-at-ufc-fight-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/taira-changes-opponent-hyunsung-park-replaces-albazi-at-ufc-fight-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Taira Changes Opponent: HyunSung Park Replaces Albazi at UFC Fight Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Last-minute change in the UFC Fight Night main event<\/h2>\n<p>The UFC has made changes to the main event of Saturday&#8217;s UFC Fight Night at the Apex in Las Vegas. Flyweight contender Tatsuro Taira will face a new opponent, HyunSung Park, as announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Taira (16-1) was originally scheduled to face Amir Albazi (17-2) in a five-round main event. However, Albazi was forced to withdraw for undisclosed reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Park (10-0), who was scheduled to fight Steve Erceg on August 9, will now compete a week earlier in the main event on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Taira, from Japan, is ranked sixth in the UFC flyweight rankings. He comes into this fight after the first loss of his career, a split decision loss to Brandon Royval in October.<\/p>\n<p>Park, who entered the UFC in 2023, has finished three consecutive opponents inside the octagon. He has managed to finish his opponents in his last seven fights, since 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last-minute change in the UFC Fight Night main event The UFC has made changes to the main event of Saturday&#8217;s UFC Fight Night at the Apex in Las Vegas. Flyweight contender Tatsuro Taira will face a new opponent, HyunSung Park, as announced on Monday. Taira (16-1) was originally scheduled to face Amir Albazi (17-2) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4274,1083,2961,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-20356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-fight-night","9":"tag-flyweight","10":"tag-tatsuro-taira","11":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}