posted a video on his Youtube channel<\/a> hours later send a message to his fans and first react to what unfolded inside the octagon on Oct. 31.<\/p>\n\u201cAll respect to Tom Nolan, an excellent guy,\u201d Moicano said. \u201cI thought I was going to beat him because I had watched [his] videos. I thought I would take his back very easily, and I thought I would be making another video today, a celebration video. \u2026 We make plans, we want things to happen, but things don\u2019t always happen the way we want them to. What am I going to do? Get angry at the world? Curse out the referee? Start a war?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst of all, I want to congratulate Tom Nolan and say that he is not responsible for the reset in any way,\u201d he added. \u201cHe went out there and did his job. He was far superior to me on the feet. I think I\u2019m better than him on the ground, but I also wasn\u2019t able to effectively execute my attacks. I couldn\u2019t get the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n
And even though Moicano called the 12-1 Australian lightweight \u201can excellent guy,\u201d he followed it up by saying \u201cI still think he\u2019s bad\u201d as a top-level fighter in the most Moicano way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI lost to a guy who\u2019s bad,\u201d Moicano said. \u201cI still think he\u2019s bad. He\u2019s good on the feet. But despite being good on the feet, he has a lot of weaknesses, especially in wrestling. But what can I do about it? It\u2019s actually a difficult situation. So instead of thinking about what\u2019s next, I\u2019m going to take a step back and thank God for my life, thank God for my family, thank God for the opportunity to have fought today and to have tried again.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish I were making a video here celebrating a win because I\u2019m competitive. I don\u2019t want to lose at anything, so it\u2019s fucking tough to go out there and lose to a young kid I thought I was going to beat. I was absolutely convinced I was going to take him down and submit him in the first round. Fuck! He trained his ass off and put up an excellent defense. What can we do? Thank him, congratulate him, get better for next time, and be grateful to this audience. Learn this, brother. Nothing is set in stone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moicano has two fights left in his current deal with the UFC, and said prior to the fight he was hoping to fight out of his contract and test free agency. The setback won\u2019t lead the 37-year-old to an early retirement, though.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to stop, I\u2019m not going to get discouraged, and I\u2019m not going to let anyone bring my head down,\u201d Moicano said. \u201cIt\u2019s always a risk, brother. When you step into an MMA fight, there\u2019s no such thing as an easy fight. The matchup may be favorable, like Tom Nolan\u2019s was, but at every moment I knew a knee could come. I saw him training and knew a kick could come, but I took the risk, I tried, and unfortunately, I failed. And this is the side of life nobody shows. Life is made up much more of mistakes than successes, so don\u2019t give up.<\/p>\n
\u201cLife goes on. There will be other fights. I will get better. The whole point of this video is to tell you one thing: it\u2019s either win or improve. I have a lot to improve on. One thing I need to work on, for example, is this: when I got into the jiu-jitsu exchange, took him down, and got his back, I had never seen anyone defend that way before. So I need to improve that. I need to improve my striking. I need to improve everything. Everything. So look at the bright side, look at the areas where you can improve in every aspect of your life, and I will do the same. Be grateful for the things that happened, because if you don\u2019t improve, they will happen again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we win, we think we\u2019re great. We think we\u2019re really good. That\u2019s human nature. And when you lose, you tend to think you\u2019re a piece of shit. \u2018Oh, I\u2019m a piece of shit, I\u2019m no good at anything.\u2019 No, no. I\u2019m here to tell you something: you\u2019re not as good as you think you are when you win, and you\u2019re not as bad as you think you are when you lose. We tend to put too much value on the moment. I won, I\u2019m the man. I lost, I\u2019m a piece of shit. No, I\u2019m still the same person.<\/p>\n
\u201cI honor my commitments, I provide for my family. I have two more kids on the way, so I\u2019ll have four wonderful children with the wife I love, a house I built through the sweat of my labor, a gym, and friends I\u2019ve made over the years. So this loss doesn\u2019t define me, just like a win doesn\u2019t define you, you understand? You have to learn to keep your professional life separate from everything else. Otherwise, I wouldn\u2019t even be able to make this video.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renato Moicano was stopped by Tom Nolan in the main event of UFC Vegas 123, which went down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-954626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954626","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=954626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}