Can Renato Moicano turn things around at lightweight?
For a minute there, it looked like [autotag]Renato Moicano[/autotag] was going to be the next big thing at featherweight. The Brazilian competitor won five of his first six UFC fights, with wins over the likes of Jeremy Stephens, Calvin Kattar, and most impressively, a finish of Cub Swanson.
His only setback in that span was to Brian Ortega, but then he followed the 5-1 run with losses via finish to Jose Aldo and Chan Sung Jung, and that seemed to indicate Moicano hit the wall when he met elite talent.
Now Moicano (13-3-1 MMA, 5-3 UFC) hits the reset button against Bosnian Damir Hadzovic 13-5 MMA, 3-3 UFC) in his lightweight debut. Will Moicano join the ranks of fighters who thrived once they no longer drove their bodies down to the absolute lowest weight it could possibly hit and instead went up to a healthier weight class? A matchup with a fighter who has been perfectly mediocre in the UFC should be a good first step in determining this.
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