"For the first time ever in UFC", the two-man Asian title match is successful! Let's try the Thai champion belt... I'm going to have a showdown with Joshua

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The first Asian male fighter-to-fighter title match has been held in UFC history. Flyweight champion Joshua Van (24, Myanmar/USA) will play his first defense match against No. 3 Tatsuro Tyra (26, Japan).

UFC officially announced that the title match between flyweight champion Joshua Van and challenger Tyra Tatsuro will take place at UFC 327 at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida on April 12 (Korea time).

This is the first monumental match in UFC history between Asian-born male athletes for the championship belt.

Champion Joshua Van (16-2) is the first UFC champion born in the 2000s and the second-youngest genius fighter in history to reach the top. In 2025, he succeeded in the fourth defense at the 'UFC 323', beating Alessandri Pantoza, who was in power for a long time, to the throne. Ban, who raised his ranking at light speed just two years after entering the UFC, is currently winning six consecutive games.

Ban, who has eight knockouts and two submission wins, silenced Pantoja, Brandon Roybal, Bruno Silva and Tsuruya Rei in turn. In particular, it boasts an overwhelming batting ability to hold the record of KO in the shortest time in the UFC flyweight title race and the record of the most effective hits per minute.

Challenger Tatsuro Tyra (18-1) is also tough. Tyra won the title challenge with a TKO victory over former champion Brandon Moreno at last year's UFC 323. It was Moreno's first career finish loss.

Tyra is the first fighter to win the UFC main event in the 2000s, showing a near-perfect well-rounded side with eight submissions and six KO wins.

Tyra is also well-known as a Korean killer to domestic fans. He is the one who gave the first defeat in his life to Park Hyun-sung (29), the hope of Korean flyweight, at the main event of "UFC Fight Night" in the past. At that time, Park Hyun-sung sought to enter the UFC Ranker for the second time in Korean history with 10 consecutive wins, but suffered a submission loss by the second round rear-naked choke, struggling with Tyra's elaborate strike and overwhelming grappling.

Tyra, who solidified her ranking position by beating Park Hyun-sung, has been aiming for Asia's first male UFC champion by defeating Alex Perez and Carlos Hernandez one after another.

The title match between Asia and Asia, which will go down in UFC history, is also significant in that it is a battle between two young stars representing those born in the 2000s.

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