Brandon Royval vs Kai Kara-France

Brandon Royval is 18-9-0; Kai Kara-France is 25-12-0 (1 NC). Brandon Royval is 1 year older than Kai Kara-France. Kai Kara-France has a 1" · 3 cm reach advantage over Brandon Royval. Brandon Royval is 5" · 13 cm taller than Kai Kara-France. They have met once: Brandon Royval 1, Kai Kara-France 0.

Brandon Royval

“Raw Dawg” · 18-9-0

SUBTKOUD

FlyweightMet once

Kai Kara-France

“Don't Blink” · 25-12-0 (1 NC)

SUBTKOSD

Style & credentials

Brandon Royval

No background on record

Camp · FactoryX Muay Thai · United States

Kai Kara-France

No background on record

Camp · City Kickboxing · New Zealand

Sig. strikes by zone

Where each fighter lands, as a share of significant strikes

79%

Head

64%

14%

Body

15%

Leg

21%

Time in position

Share of fight time at distance, in the clinch and on the ground

Brandon Royvallast 7 fights

59%12%29%

Kai Kara-Francelast 4 fights

69%14%17%

■ Distance■ Clinch■ Ground

How good, really

Each stat against every UFC fighter, in plain words

Brandon Royval Kai Kara-France

Strikes landed / min

5.604.46

PoorBelow avgAverageGoodElite

Brandon Royval · Elite · better than 93% of UFC fightersKai Kara-France · Good · better than 78% of UFC fighters

Strikes taken / minfewer is better

4.243.24

PoorBelow avgAverageGoodElite

Brandon Royval · Below avg · better than 25% of UFC fightersKai Kara-France · Average · better than 54% of UFC fighters

Takedowns landed / 15 min

0.890.56

PoorBelow avgAverageGoodElite

Brandon Royval · Below avg · better than 38% of UFC fightersKai Kara-France · Below avg · better than 24% of UFC fighters

Takedown accuracy

64%30%

PoorBelow avgAverageGoodElite

Brandon Royval · Elite · better than 92% of UFC fightersKai Kara-France · Below avg · better than 31% of UFC fighters

Takedown defence

45%83%

PoorBelow avgAverageGoodElite

Brandon Royval · Below avg · better than 20% of UFC fightersKai Kara-France · Elite · better than 88% of UFC fighters

Submission attempts / 15 min

1.200.00

PoorBelow avgAverageGoodElite

Brandon Royval · Elite · better than 86% of UFC fightersKai Kara-France · Poor · better than 0% of UFC fighters

Ranked against 1499 UFC fighters with five or more UFC fights.

Striking & grappling

Same scale left and right on every row

5.60

Strikes landed / min

4.46

4.24

Strikes taken / minfewer is better

3.24

0.89 / 1.4

Takedowns landed / 15 min

0.56 / 1.9

64%

Takedown accuracy

30%

45%

Takedown defence

83%

1:06

Control time / fight

1:04

1.20

Submission attempts / 15 min

0.00

Bars in a row share one scale. The stronger side is solid; the pale tail behind takedowns is attempts.

Where the strikes land

Range × target

Brandon Royval13 UFC fights · 852 landed

Head

Body

Leg

Distance

66%564/1591

13%109/157

7%56/82

Clinch

4%37/51

1%10/11

0%0/0

Ground

8%72/104

0%4/5

0%0/0

Kai Kara-France13 UFC fights · 712 landed

Head

Body

Leg

Distance

50%357/1246

14%102/168

21%153/188

Clinch

2%16/25

0%0/0

Ground

12%82/140

0%2/2

0%0/0

Share of significant strikes landed by range and target · landed / attempted in each cell.

When it ends

Every early finish of their careers, placed at the minute it ended

Brandon Royval17 of 27 ended early · 63%10 went the distance

R1R2R3R4R5

Kai Kara-France22 of 37 ended early · 59%15 went the distance

R1R2R3R4R5

5 early stoppages have no logged time

finished the opponent got finished· placed at the minute the fight ended

Recent form · last 5

Brandon Royval3-2

W
Lone'er Kavanagh
UFC 329: McGregor vs Holloway 2 · Jul 11, 2026
Submission · R3 · 3:40 · Flyweight
L
Manel Kape
UFC Fight Night: Royval vs Kape · Dec 13, 2025
TKO · R1 · 3:18 · Flyweight
L
Joshua Van
UFC 317: Topuria vs Oliveira · Jun 28, 2025
Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Flyweight
W
Tatsuro Taira
UFC Fight Night: Royval vs Taira · Oct 12, 2024
Split Decision · R5 · 5:00 · Flyweight
W
Brandon Moreno
UFC Mexico City · Feb 24, 2024
Split Decision · R5 · 5:00 · Flyweight

Full record · 27 fights

L
Alexandre Pantoja
UFC 296: Edwards vs Covington · Dec 16, 2023
Unanimous Decision · R5 · 5:00 · Flyweight
W
Matheus Nicolau
UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs Allen · Apr 15, 2023
TKO · R1 · 2:09 · Flyweight
W
Matt Schnell
UFC 274: Oliveira vs Gaethje · May 7, 2022
Submission · R1 · 2:14 · Flyweight
W
Rogerio Bontorin
UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs Chikadze · Jan 15, 2022
Split Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Flyweight
L
Alexandre Pantoja
UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs Gastelum · Aug 21, 2021
Submission · R2 · 1:46 · Flyweight
L
Brandon Moreno
UFC 255: Figueiredo vs Perez · Nov 21, 2020
TKO · R1 · 4:59 · Flyweight
W
Kai Kara-France
UFC 253: Adesanya vs Costa · Sep 27, 2020
Submission · R2 · 0:48 · Flyweight
W
Tim Elliott
UFC Fight Night: Woodley vs Burns · May 30, 2020
Submission · R2 · 3:18 · Flyweight
W
Nate Williams
LFA 79: Royval vs. Williams · Nov 22, 2019
Submission · R1 · 0:23 · Flyweight
W
Joby Sanchez
LFA 65: Royval vs. Sanchez · May 3, 2019
Submission · R1 · 3:17 · Flyweight
L
Casey Kenney
LFA 53: Royval vs. Kenney · Nov 9, 2018
Unanimous Decision · Flyweight
W
Charles Johnson
LFA 48: Stots vs. Lilley · Sep 7, 2018
Unanimous Decision · Flyweight
W
Jerome Rivera
LFA 39: Heinisch vs. Checco · May 4, 2018
TKO · R1 · 0:40 · Flyweight
W
Demetrius Wilson
LFA 22: Heinisch vs. Perez · Sep 8, 2017
Submission · R2 · 2:00 · Flyweight
L
Nick Urso
LFA 10: Heinisch vs. Rota · Apr 21, 2017
Split Decision · Flyweight
W
Rakan Adwan
LFA 5: Edwards vs. Townsend · Feb 24, 2017
Submission · R1 · 1:54 · Flyweight
W
Angel Torres
SCL 53 · Oct 15, 2016
Submission · R1 · 0:34 · Flyweight
L
Ricky Palacios
Combate 7 · May 9, 2016
Unanimous Decision · Bantamweight
W
Danny Mainus
WSOF 29: Gaethje vs. Foster · Mar 12, 2016
TKO · R1 · 2:48 · Bantamweight
W
Joey Welch
SCL: Mile High Mayhem · Aug 23, 2014
Submission · R1 · 0:51 · Bantamweight
L
Ben Vom Baur
Kickdown 104 · Oct 19, 2012
Unanimous Decision · Bantamweight
W
Sammy Rind
Kickdown 102 · Aug 17, 2012
TKO · R1 · 1:45 · Catchweight

Kai Kara-France2-3

L
Alexandre Pantoja
UFC 317: Topuria vs Oliveira · Jun 28, 2025
Submission · R3 · 1:55 · Flyweight
W
Steve Erceg
UFC 305: Du Plessis vs Adesanya · Aug 18, 2024
TKO · R1 · 4:04 · Flyweight
L
Amir Albazi
UFC Fight Night: Kara-France vs Albazi · Jun 3, 2023
Split Decision · R5 · 5:00 · Flyweight
L
Brandon Moreno
UFC 277: Peña vs Nunes · Jul 30, 2022
TKO · R3 · 4:34 · Interim Flyweight
W
Askar Askarov
UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs Daukaus · Mar 26, 2022
Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Flyweight

Full record · 38 fights

W
Cody Garbrandt
UFC 269: Oliveira vs Poirier · Dec 11, 2021
TKO · R1 · 3:21 · Flyweight
W
Rogerio Bontorin
UFC 259: Blachowicz vs Adesanya · Mar 6, 2021
TKO · R1 · 4:55 · Flyweight
L
Brandon Royval
UFC 253: Adesanya vs Costa · Sep 27, 2020
Submission · R2 · 0:48 · Flyweight
W
Tyson Nam
UFC Fight Night: Felder vs Hooker · Feb 23, 2020
Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Flyweight
L
Brandon Moreno
UFC 245: Usman vs Covington · Dec 14, 2019
Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Flyweight
W
Mark De La Rosa
UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs Zhang · Aug 31, 2019
Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Flyweight
W
Raulian Paiva
UFC 234: Adesanya vs Silva · Feb 10, 2019
Split Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Flyweight
W
Elias Garcia
UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs Tuivasa · Dec 2, 2018
Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Flyweight
W
Xiaoyu Shi
Glory of Heroes · Mar 4, 2018
Submission · Bantamweight
W
Huyixibai
WLF W.A.R.S. 19 · Nov 11, 2017
Unanimous Decision · Bantamweight
W
Aoriqileng
WLF W.A.R.S. 14 · May 20, 2017
Unanimous Decision · Catchweight
W
Ze Wu
WLF W.A.R.S. 13 · Apr 22, 2017
TKO · R1 · 2:01 · Bantamweight
W
Rodolfo Marques
Hex Fight Series 8 · Mar 31, 2017
TKO · R3 · 2:59 · Bantamweight
L
Tatsumitsu Wada
Rizin 3 - Rizin Fighting World Grand Prix 2016: 2nd Round · Dec 29, 2016
Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 · Flyweight
W
Crisanto Pitpitunge
PXC 52 · Mar 18, 2016
TKO · Flyweight
W
Josh Duenas
PXC 50 · Dec 4, 2015
TKO · R1 · 1:28 · Flyweight
W
Shantaram Maharaj
Bragging Rights 7 · Sep 27, 2015
TKO · R1 · 1:33 · Flyweight
W
Dindo Camansa
Mixed Martial A'rr · Jun 1, 2015
TKO · R1 · 0:12 · Flyweight
W
Ik Hwan Jang
PRO Fighting 10 · May 9, 2015
TKO · R1 · 0:09 · Bantamweight
L
Ayideng Jumayi
Kunlun Fight 18 · Jan 18, 2015
Unanimous Decision · Bantamweight
L
Mark Striegl
Malaysian Invasion 2 · Oct 25, 2014
Submission · R1 · 2:10 · Bantamweight
L
Gustavo Falciroli
Australian FC 9 · May 17, 2014
Submission · R1 · 4:55 · Bantamweight
W
Tieying Wu
Kunlun Fight 1 · Jan 25, 2014
Unanimous Decision · Bantamweight
NC
Gustavo Falciroli
Australian FC 7 · Dec 13, 2013
NC · R2 · 3:20 · Bantamweight
W
Tieying Wu
Philippines Regional · Oct 23, 2013
Submission
W
Yudi Cahyadi
Indonesia Regional · Sep 29, 2013
DEC
W
Ho Jun Kim
PRO Fighting 8 · Aug 4, 2013
TKO · R1 · 3:44 · Bantamweight
L
Batgerel Danaa
Legend FC 11 · Apr 27, 2013
Unanimous Decision · Bantamweight
W
Caleb Lally
New Zealand Regional · Oct 13, 2012
DEC
W
Sam Chan
Legend FC 10 · Aug 24, 2012
Submission · R1 · 3:21 · Bantamweight
L
Augustin Delarmino Jr.
Legend FC 8 · Mar 30, 2012
TKO · R3 · 0:29 · Bantamweight
L
Chad George
New Zealand Regional · Dec 2, 2011
TKO
W
Ray Kaitiana
Supremacy Fighting Championship NZ · Nov 27, 2010
TKO

Head-to-Head History

UFC 253: Adesanya vs Costa
Sun, Sep 27, 2020
Brandon Royval
Submission · ROUND 2 · 0:48

Common Opponents

How each fared against the same opponents.

Brandon RoyvalKai Kara-France

Frequently asked questions

Have Brandon Royval and Kai Kara-France ever fought?

Yes, once. Most recently at UFC 253: Adesanya vs Costa (Sun, Sep 27, 2020), where Brandon Royval won by Submission.

What are the records of Brandon Royval and Kai Kara-France?

Brandon Royval is 18-9-0 and Kai Kara-France is 25-12-0 (1 NC).

Who has the longer reach, Brandon Royval or Kai Kara-France?

Kai Kara-France has the longer reach: 69" · 175 cm against 68" · 173 cm for Brandon Royval, a 1" · 3 cm advantage.

Who is taller, Brandon Royval or Kai Kara-France?

Brandon Royval is taller at 5'9" · 175 cm; Kai Kara-France stands 5'4" · 163 cm.

Who is older, Brandon Royval or Kai Kara-France?

Brandon Royval is 34 and Kai Kara-France is 33.

Who has more finishes, Brandon Royval or Kai Kara-France?

Brandon Royval has 14 wins inside the distance (4 by KO/TKO, 10 by submission); Kai Kara-France has 15 wins (12 by KO/TKO, 3 by submission).

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