{"id":578385,"date":"2026-04-01T11:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578385\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:03:11","slug":"renato-moicano-explains-how-att-handled-teammate-clash-with-chris-duncan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578385\/","title":{"rendered":"Renato Moicano explains how ATT handled teammate clash with Chris Duncan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight title challenger Renato Moicano returns to action this weekend (Sat., April 4, 2026), taking on surging Scottish standout Chris Duncan in the main event of UFC Vegas 115<\/a> inside the Meta Apex<\/a> in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n

What makes this matchup unique? Both fighters share the same home gym.<\/p>\n

Moicano and Duncan train out of the legendary American Top Team<\/a> \u2014 one of the biggest and most talent-rich camps in all of MMA \u2014 which naturally created an unusual dynamic heading into fight week.<\/p>\n

Instead, things got\u2026 complicated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe gym \u2014 I\u2019m not going to say was divided, but some guys that helped him were not training with me and some guys that helped me weren\u2019t helping him,\u201d Moicano told Full Send MMA<\/a>. \u201cAt the end of the day, we\u2019re fighting each other. How can you train with both guys? But at the same time, some guys were training with both Chris and me. So, it was kind of confusing. This is a sport. I don\u2019t hate him. I have nothing against him \u2014 it\u2019s just a sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a delicate balance, but not unheard of at a gym as massive as ATT, where multiple elite fighters often prepare for overlapping fights.<\/p>\n

Duncan is no stranger to that dynamic, either.<\/p>\n

For context, Moicano has been part of ATT since around 2017, while Duncan joined the gym after earning his UFC contract on Contender Series in late 2022.<\/p>\n

Despite the shared training room \u2014 and the occasional awkwardness that comes with it \u2014 both men are promising fireworks.<\/p>\n

With Moicano\u2019s No. 10 ranking<\/a> on the line and Duncan looking to break into the Top 10, there\u2019s plenty at stake \u2014 teammate or not.<\/p>\n

To checkout the latest and greatest UFC Vegas 115: \u201cMoicano vs. Duncan\u201d news and notes be sure to hit up our comprehensive event archive right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight title challenger Renato Moicano returns to action this weekend (Sat., April 4,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-578385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578385","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=578385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}