The UFC recently announced a matchup at UFC 326 between Renato Moicano and Brian Ortega. Here’s what you need to know ahead of the rematch.<\/p>\n
Renato Moicano vs. Brian Ortega 2Records: Moicano (20-7-1 MMA, 12-7 UFC), Ortega\u00a0(16-5 MMA, 8-5 UFC)Division: LightweightRankings:\u00a0Moicano No. 14 lightweight, Ortega No. 12 featherweight (MMA Junkie); Moicano No. 10 lightweight, Ortega No. 9 featherweight (UFC)\u00a0What’s at stake for Moicano<\/p>\n
Moicano will be after vengeance. He lost by third-round guillotine to Ortega at UFC 214 in 2017 \u2013\u00a0the first setback of his career. Moicano got a one-day-notice title shot against Islam Makhachev<\/a> in January, but was submitted in the first round. After that, he lost to Beneil Dariush in June for his first skid in six years.<\/p>\n What’s at stake for Ortega<\/p>\n More than eight years ago, Ortega hooked up with Moicano at UFC 214 when both were unbeaten. Ortega finished the Brazilian with a guillotine choke midway through the final round in a Fight of the Night winner on his way to an eventual title shot. These days, it\u2019s much rougher sledding. Ortega has dropped four of his past five fights starting with a featherweight title shot against Alexander Volkanovski<\/a>. He\u2019ll be more than two years without a win when he steps in against Moicano.<\/p>\n Statistically speaking<\/p>\n Of his 11 stoppage wins, Ortega has eight by submission. Moicano has 10 of his 12 stoppage wins by submission, but he hasn\u2019t gotten a post-fight bonus in more than seven years.\u00a0<\/p>\n Make your pickScreening room<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC recently announced a matchup at UFC 326 between Renato Moicano and Brian Ortega. Here’s what you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[7335,28981,76,49,48,641,9463,23591,35796,4225,1262,638,2034,44,1333,2042,82,865,142930],"class_list":["post-358698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-alexander","tag-alexander-volkanovski","tag-arts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-islam","tag-islam-makhachev","tag-makhachev","tag-martial","tag-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-volkanovski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358698","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=358698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}