{"id":956114,"date":"2026-11-03T00:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T00:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956114\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T00:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T00:40:08","slug":"moicano-wants-to-leave-ufc-to-beat-up-people-that-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956114\/","title":{"rendered":"Moicano wants to leave UFC to &#8216;beat up people that don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renato Moicano is nearing the end of his UFC career &#8211; and he has a plan for what could come next.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran lightweight suffered a TKO loss to Tom Nolan in this past weekend&#8217;s UFC Fight Night main event in Las Vegas. He said Monday on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/2117355451675500666?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Ariel Helwani Show<\/a>&#8221; that he wants to fight out his contract &#8211; which has three fights remaining &#8211; and then explore opportunities in influencer boxing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to finish my contract,&#8221; Moicano said. &#8220;And once I finish my contract, I don&#8217;t want to fight MMA anymore. I want to do boxing, like influencer boxing. I want to beat up people that don&#8217;t know how to fight &#8211; like this Adin Ross show. &#8230; If they pay me a f&#8212;&#8211;g half a million dollars, a million dollars to box, I would.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Brazilian has been in the UFC since 2014 and has fought 21 times in the promotion, producing a 13-8 record and earning a ranking at both featherweight and lightweight.<\/p>\n<p>Moicano said that since Father Time will catch up to him sooner than later, he&#8217;d rather walk away from MMA on his own terms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be like Tony Ferguson,&#8221; Moicano said. &#8220;Eight fights, trying to be a champion. Forty years old, trying to fight, six-fight losing streak &#8211; I don&#8217;t want to do that. I&#8217;m happy. And sometimes, you have to realize when you&#8217;re done. You have to realize how much gas tank you have, how much love of the sport you have. And for me, it&#8217;s these three more fights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;I think after these three, I&#8217;m done, because they&#8217;re not gonna pay me enough. &#8230; If the deal is good for me, it&#8217;s OK, but I don&#8217;t think it will happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renato Moicano is nearing the end of his UFC career &#8211; and he has a plan for what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-956114","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\/956114","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=956114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}