Lightweights Renato Moicano and Chris Duncan are scheduled to clash in the five-round main event at the upcoming UFC Fight Night card at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas on April 4.<\/p>\n
The new matchup was announced during the UFC Houston card on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The main event serves as Moicano\u2019s first fight since June 2025 when he dropped a unanimous decision to Beneil Dariush at UFC 317. That marked a second straight loss for Moicano after he stepped up on short notice to face Islam Makhachev at UFC 311 but fell by submission in the first round.<\/p>\n
Prior to those back-to-back losses, Moicano had rattled off four straight wins including impressive finishes over Benoit Saint Denis and Jalin Turner.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Duncan gets his first crack at a main event while facing off against a fellow fighter from the same gym as both train at American Top Team in Florida.<\/p>\n
With a 15-2 record overall, Duncan has enjoyed plenty of success in recent months after putting together a four-fight win streak with three finishes along the way. Most recently, Duncan dispatched Terrance McKinney with a nasty first-round anaconda choke submission.<\/p>\n
Duncan now attempts to pick up his biggest and most important win as he prepares to clash with Moicano at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
With the main event official, the UFC is expected to add more fights to the lineup on April 4 over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightweights Renato Moicano and Chris Duncan are scheduled to clash in the five-round main event at the upcoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-498364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}