“Starboy” wants to prove a point.
No. 2-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight Manel Kape returns to action in a rematch nine years in the making against ******* anese star Kyoji Horiguchi in the main event of UFC Vegas 119 this weekend (Sat., June 20, 2026) inside the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada.
While it has not been made official, Kape vs. Horiguchi will most likely serve as a ******* le eliminator to determine who fights for the belt next after champion Joshua Van rematches Alexandre Pantoja later this year.
But according to Kape, he did not even have to take this fight.
Kape is coming off a first-round knockout of former ******* le challenger Brandon Royval, which earned him a ******* le shot against Van. However, he couldn’t make weight in time for UFC 327 in Miami, so Tatsuro Taira got the opportunity instead. That fight was later moved to UFC 328.
No. 2-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Flyweight Manel Kape returns to action in a rematch nine years in the making against ******* anese star Kyoji Horiguchi in the main event of UFC Vegas 119 this weekend (Sat., June 20, 2026) inside the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada.
While it has not been made official, Kape vs. Horiguchi will most likely serve as a ******* le eliminator to determine who fights for the belt next after champion Joshua Van rematches Alexandre Pantoja later this year.
But according to Kape, he did not even have to take this fight.
Kape is coming off a first-round knockout of former ******* le challenger Brandon Royval, which earned him a ******* le shot against Van. However, he couldn’t make weight in time for UFC 327 in Miami, so Tatsuro Taira got the opportunity instead. That fight was later moved to UFC 328.
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