Tai Tuivasa’s eighth straight loss changes the betting questions around his heavyweight profile

Tai Tuivasa’s latest defeat did more than attach an unwanted record to his name. Bloody Elbow reported that Robelis Despaigne beat Tuivasa by split decision at UFC 331, with scores of 29-28, 28-29 and 29-28, leaving Tuivasa tied with Tony Ferguson at eight consecutive UFC losses.

The result pushes Tuivasa’s record to 15-10 and complicates the way bettors should evaluate him if he receives another booking. His historical identity remains clear: a dangerous heavyweight puncher with seven knockout or TKO victories among eight wins in PropBetEdge’s 18-bout archive. But the recent mechanism of defeat has shifted. He is no longer losing exclusively through short, violent collapses. More opponents are surviving his early threat, extending him and winning rounds.

That change touches totals, distance markets and method-of-victory props. It does not create an automatic bet without an opponent, and the current archive has not yet incorporated UFC 331 into its displayed round-level sample.

The losing streak has changed shape

Tuivasa’s last five archived bouts show two distinct phases. Alexander Volkov submitted him in the second round in September 2023, and Marcin Tybura submitted him in the first round in March 2024. Tuivasa then lost three consecutive decisions: a split decision to Jairzinho Rozenstruik, followed by unanimous decisions against Tallison Teixeira and Louie Sutherland.

UFC 331 adds another extended fight to that sequence. The relevant betting development is not simply that Tuivasa keeps losing. It is that his losses are increasingly reaching the scorecards after a career built around compressed finishing windows.

That matters because his archived win profile remains extremely finish-heavy. Seven of his eight victories in the 18-bout sample came by knockout or TKO, one came by decision and none came by submission. The resulting 88% finish rate applies only to those eight archived wins; it should not be treated as a broad prediction that every future Tuivasa fight ends early.