Moicano wants money… and “T-City.”
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight title challenger Renato Moicano got back on track in a big way, submitting Scottish slugger Chris Duncan in the second round of their UFC Vegas 115 main event last night (Sat., April 4, 2026) inside the Meta Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada (watch highlights).
While Moicano didn’t call out a specific opponent during his in-cage interview — instead thanking Jesus Christ — he had a much clearer target in mind a couple
of minutes later.
And it’s a familiar one.
“There is one motherf—ker who I have bad blood with and his name is Brian Ortega,” Moicano said. “He ran the first time. You know, I was beating him the first time, but he got me the first time, okay, fair enough, it was my first defeat. But now I want revenge. I want his head. I want to kill this motherf—ker.”
The rivalry dates back to 2017, when the two first met at UFC 214.
Moicano was winning on the scorecards before Ortega pulled off a late guillotine choke in the third round, handing the Brazilian his first professional loss. Nearly a decade later, the UFC attempted to run it back — booking the rematch for UFC 326 earlier this year — but Ortega withdrew for undisclosed reasons, leaving Moicano without his revenge.
Instead, he took the fight with Duncan.
Now, with a statement win under his belt, Moicano wants to pick up right where things left off.
“Dan Hooker would be even easier,” Moicano said. “But at the same time, Ortega was my first loss. Especially now that he’s moving up to Lightweight, I like that fight. We were supposed to fight — I don’t know what happened, he just pulled out. We have unfinished business.”
Moicano did float other potential matchups — including Dan Hooker, Paddy Pimblett, and Benoit Saint Denis — but made it clear Ortega sits at the top of his list.
He even added a potential location to sweeten the deal.
Moicano wants the fight to happen in Brazil, where he says the UFC is expected to return multiple times later this year — setting the stage for a high-stakes, bad-blood rematch.
After snapping a two-fight skid, Moicano is looking to build momentum again.
And for him, there’s only one fight that makes sense.
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