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Events · UFC 328: Chimaev vs Strickland · Tatsuro Taira vs Joshua Van
Red corner TatsuroTairaThe Blackbelt Japan · Naha, Okinawa
VSSettled
Blue corner JoshuaVan“The Fearless”4oz. Fight Club · Hakha, Chin
Flyweight5 rounds9 May 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 9 UFC wins.
18-2
Record
17-2
26
Age
−2 yr24
+2″5' 7"
Height
5' 5"
+5″70″
Reach
65″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
9
UFC bouts
+110
+42%6/875% of wins
Finishes
3/933% of wins
The Blackbelt Japan
Gym
4oz. Fight Club
Naha, Okinawa
From
Hakha, Chin
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Tatsuro Taira
59.1% confidentLOW
Method calledDEC 58%
Vs the market−4.7pp
Market had our pick at64%
The fight
Joshua Van
LOSS
How it endedKO/TKO
Round5 of 5
Clock1:32
Missed We called Tatsuro Taira at 59.1%Joshua Van won. The method call missed as well.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Tatsuro Taira16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 22BODY6%1 of 1LEGS19%3 of 3
Joshua Van7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
16 of 26
Sig.
strikes
7 of 13
4 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:40
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Van
Tatsuro Taira5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 15BODY40%2 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
Joshua Van21 sig landed
HEAD95%20 of 31BODY0%0 landedLEGS5%1 of 1
5 of 19
Sig.
strikes
21 of 32
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:53
Control
0:27
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 6
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Van2 sub attempts
Tatsuro Taira14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 46BODY0%0 of 2LEGS7%1 of 1
Joshua Van57 sig landed
HEAD95%54 of 85BODY5%3 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
14 of 49
Sig.
strikes
57 of 89
2 of 7
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:42
Control
0:50
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 41Clinch 4Ground 12
Round 45:00 of action
Tatsuro Taira13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 29BODY0%0 of 2LEGS23%3 of 3
Joshua Van19 sig landed
HEAD100%19 of 37BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
13 of 34
Sig.
strikes
19 of 37
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:15
Control
0:04
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 51:32 of actionEnded 1:32
Tatsuro Taira7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 19BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 of 2
Joshua Van27 sig landed
HEAD67%18 of 29BODY33%9 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 23
Sig.
strikes
27 of 38
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:08
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 3Ground 0

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Joshua Van

Round
5
Clock
1:32
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Vitor Ribeiro.

Still to come on this page

Named rather than hidden. It is built from data already on disk and lands in the next pass of this build-out.

The market story coming in this build-out

What the price did in the week before the cage door shut, with the moment our pick was frozen marked on it. Where we captured no price history for a bout, this panel will say so rather than draw a line that was never there.

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