{"id":288946,"date":"2018-10-22T19:07:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T02:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=288946"},"modified":"2018-10-22T19:07:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T02:07:23","slug":"renato-moicano-vs-mirsad-bektic-added-to-ufc-231-moicano-expects-to-be-main-event-alternate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/renato-moicano-vs-mirsad-bektic-added-to-ufc-231-moicano-expects-to-be-main-event-alternate\/","title":{"rendered":"Renato Moicano vs Mirsad Bektic added to UFC 231, Moicano expects to be main event alternate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was reported earlier this month that the surging top featherweight contender Renato &#8220;Moicano&#8221; Carneiro (13-1-1) was to face <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/renato-moicano-vs-chad-mendes-in-the-works-for-ufc-231\/\">Chad Mendes<\/a>\u00a0for his next time out. That, however, appears to no longer be the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportv.globo.com\/site\/combate\/noticia\/renato-moicano-encara-o-bosnio-mirsad-bektic-no-ufc-231-em-toronto-de-olho-no-cinturao.ghtml?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=share-bar-desktop&amp;utm_campaign=share-bar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Combate<\/a>\u00a0has now reported that the currently No. 4 ranked contender Moicano will now be facing off against a fellow rising contender, Bosnia&#8217;s Mirsad Bektic (13-1) at UFC 231 on December 8 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. According to the report, Moicano says he expects to act as the alternate fighter if needed in the case of an injury to either man in the night&#8217;s featherweight title fight main event between the champion Max Holloway and the unbeaten challenger Brian Ortega.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/imagesvc.timeincapp.com\/v3\/fan\/image?url=https:\/\/fansided.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/getty-images\/2018\/06\/970630264.jpeg&amp;\" width=\"3200\" height=\"2130\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PhotoCred: FanSided<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Both Moicano and Bektic have been nearly perfect throughout their young careers so far and their continued growth shows more and more evident with each fight.<\/p>\n<p>Their lone career losses both came in come from behind fashion for their opponents who they were very clearly beating beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>For Moicano, his loss came to the previously mentioned next title challenger Ortega two fights ago when the two met at UFC 214 in July 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Bektic&#8217;s loss put him on the wrong end of arguably the greatest comeback of all time when Darren Elkins rallied late at UFC 209 in March 2017 after being thoroughly dominated for two and a half rounds.<\/p>\n<p>As for the rest of the stacked Toronto card, it currently looks like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>FEATHERWEIGHT \u2013 145LBS: (C)MAX HOLLOWAY VS. BRIAN ORTEGA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>FLYWEIGHT \u2013 125LBS: (C) \u2013 VALENTINA SHEVCHENKO VS. JOANNA JEDRZEJCZYK<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT \u2013 205LBS: JIMI MANUWA VS. THIAGO SANTOS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>STRAWWEIGHT \u2013 115LBS: CL\u00c1UDIA GADELHA VS. NINA ANSAROFF<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>MIDDLEWEIGHT \u2013 185LBS: ERYK ANDERS VS. ELIAS THEODOROU<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>LIGHTWEIGHT \u2013 155LBS: OLIVIER AUBIN-MERCIER VS. GILBERT BURNS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>FLYWEIGHT: KATLYN CHOOKAGIAN VS JESSICA EYE<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>BANTAMWEIGHT \u2013 135LBS: BRAD KATONA VS. MATTHEW LOPEZ<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>WELTERWEIGHT \u2013 170LBS: CHAD LAPRISE VS. DHIEGO LIMA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>LIGHTWEIGHT: JOHN MAKDESSI VS. CARLOS DIEGO FERREIRA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>FEATHERWEIGHT: HAKEEM DAWODU VS. KYLE BOCHNIAK<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT: DEVIN CLARK VS. ALEKSANDAR RAKI\u0106<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 10\/22\/2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was reported earlier this month that the surging top featherweight contender Renato &#8220;Moicano&#8221; Carneiro (13-1-1) was to face Chad Mendes\u00a0for his next time out. That, however, appears to no longer be the case. Combate\u00a0has now reported that the currently No. 4 ranked contender Moicano will now be facing off against a fellow rising contender, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54445,"featured_media":288948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[19256,39569,39610,39539],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Renato Moicano vs Mirsad Bektic added to UFC 231, Moicano expects to be main event alternate | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It was reported earlier this month that the surging top contender Renato Moicano was to face Chad Mendes\u00a0at UFC 231. 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