Former featherweight title challenger Brian Ortega is moving up to the lightweight division to face Renato Moicano in a rematch at UFC 326, the promotion announced Saturday.<\/p>\n
The event is scheduled to take place March 7 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
Ortega is looking to snap a two-fight losing streak. The 34-year-old is coming off a unanimous decision defeat to former bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling at UFC Shanghai in August. Ortega hasn’t been victorious since he submitted Yair Rodriguez in February 2024.<\/p>\n
His fight against Sterling was moved to a 153-pound catchweight after Ortega experienced a severe weight cut.<\/p>\n
Moicano has also dropped back-to-back fights, losing to then-lightweight champion Islam Makhachev by first-round submission at UFC 311 in January and Beneil Dariush via unanimous decision at UFC 317 in June. The 36-year-old Brazilian’s most recent win came against Benoit Saint Denis in September 2024. Moicano is a former featherweight who moved up to 155 pounds in 2020.<\/p>\n
The UFC also added a middleweight bout between Paulo Costa and Brunno Ferreira and a bantamweight matchup between Cody Garbrandt and Xiao Long to the card.<\/p>\n
UFC 326 will be headlined by a rematch between BMF champion Max Holloway and Charles Oliveira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former featherweight title challenger Brian Ortega is moving up to the lightweight division to face Renato Moicano in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-358197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}