The cornerstone event of the past weekend in MMA went down in France with UFC Fight Night 243 in Paris, which featured a significant lightweight fight in the main event.
Brazil’s [autotag]Renato Moicano[/autotag] continued his run of success with a sixth consecutive victory at 155 pounds when he battered Benoit Saint Denis into a second-round doctor’s stoppage TKO at Accor Arena.
Moicano demanded a sizeable jump in the lightweight hierarchy after the fight, but he was met with zero movement in the official UFC rankings, which got him angry. He won’t get a leap quite as high as he wants in our latest update, but he did make upward progress nonetheless.
There was some other noteworthy results in Paris, including Nassourdine Imavov beating Brendan Allen in a key middleweight co-main event fight.
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