Top lightweight contender Renato Moicano made quick work of his opponent Saturday night at UFC Fight Night 272, further solidifying his standing in the division.<\/p>\n
Moicano locked in a face crank and forced Chris Duncan to tap in the main event live on Paramount+. The event took place from the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n
The win got Moicano back on track after a pair of losses to Beneil Dariush and Islam Makhachev. He is now 21-7-1 overall, with 11 of those 21 victories coming by way of submission.<\/p>\n
Virna Jandiroba with co-main event triumph<\/p>\n
In the co-feature bout of the evening, Virna Jandiroba did enough to withstand the challenge of Tabatha Ricci, claiming a decision. Jandiroba, a former Invicta FC champion, was coming off a loss to Mackenzie Dern for the vacant UFC strawweight crown.<\/p>\n
Ethyn Ewing and Tommy McMillen both scored finishes with strikes while Abdul-Rakhman Yakhyaev earned a submission victory. The other main card winner was Jose Mauro Delano via decision.<\/p>\n
Four finishes highlight preliminary action<\/p>\n
Alessandro Costa, Darrius Flowers, Alice Pereira and Tresean Gore were all winners by finish on the preliminary card for the night. Pereira, a top prospect in the women’s bantamweight division, knocked out Hailey Cowan with a knee strike deep in the second round.<\/p>\n
Costa and Pereira scored “Performance of the Night” bonuses while Tommy McMillen and Manolo Zecchini was declared the “Fight of the Night.” All four picked up $100,000, with the other winners by KO or submission – outside of Flowers, who missed weight – earning $25,000.<\/p>\n
UFC 327 is up next, as Jiri Prochazka and Carlos Ulberg meet for the vacant light heavyweight crown on Saturday, April 11 from the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida. A co-main event between Joshua Van and Tatsuro Taira for Van’s flyweight belt was scrapped after the champion was injured.<\/p>\n
UFC Fight Night 272 Results<\/p>\n
Renato Moicano def. Chris Duncan via submission (face crank) at 3:14 of Round 2Virna Jandiroba def. Tabatha Ricci via unanimous decisionAbdul-Rakhman Yakhyaev def. Brendson Ribeiro via submission (rear-naked choke) at 2:52 of Round 1Ethyn Ewing def. Rafael Estevam via KO (strike) at 1:44 of Round 3Tommy McMillen def. Manolo Zecchini via TKO (strikes) at 3:57 of Round 1Jose Mauro Delano def. Robert Ruchala via unanimous decisionThomas Petersen def. Guilherme Pat via majority decisionAlessandro Costa def. Stewart Nicoll via KO (strike) at 4:56 of Round 2Darrius Flowers def. Lando Vannata via TKO (strikes) at :52 of Round 2Alice Pereira def. Hailey Cowan via KO (strike) at 4:24 of Round 2Tresean Gore def. Azamat Bekoev via technical submission (guillotine choke) at 3:27 of Round 3Dione Barbosa def. Melissa Gatto via majority decisionKai Kamaka III def. Dakota Hope via split decisionMore Combat Sports News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top lightweight contender Renato Moicano made quick work of his opponent Saturday night at UFC Fight Night 272,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-583284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583284","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=583284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}