{"id":36939,"date":"2026-02-22T18:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/American-Top-Team-training-partners-to-clash-in-UFC-Fight-Night-272-headliner-200217"},"modified":"2026-02-22T18:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:27:05","slug":"american-top-team-training-partners-to-clash-in-ufc-fight-night-272-headliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/american-top-team-training-partners-to-clash-in-ufc-fight-night-272-headliner\/","title":{"rendered":"American Top Team training partners to clash in UFC Fight Night 272 headliner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <center><!--PICTURE R--><\/p>\n<div class=\"pointer\">\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/american-top-team-training-partners-to-clash-in-ufc-fight-night-272-headliner.jpg\" width=\"640\" class=\"Picture\"\/><\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Chris Duncan will get his first main event opportunity on April<br \/>\n4. | Getty\/UFC<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--\/PICTURE R--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A pair of <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fightfinder.php?search=yes&amp;association=American%20Top%20Team\"><br \/>\nAmerican Top Team<\/a> stablemates will lock horns in the <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-272-April-4-111271\"><br \/>\nUFC Fight Night 272<\/a> main event.<\/p>\n<p>The Las Vegas-based promotion announced on Saturday that <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Renato-Carneiro-61700\">Renato &#8220;Moicano&#8221; Carneiro<\/a> will lock horns with <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Chris-Duncan-74346\">Chris<br \/>\nDuncan<\/a> in a five-round featherweight bout on April 4 at the UFC<br \/>\nApex in Las Vegas. UFC Fight Night 272 also includes a women\u2019s<br \/>\nstrawweight showdown between <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Virna-Jandiroba-137557\">Virna<br \/>\nJandiroba<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Tabatha-Ricci-152919\">Tabatha<br \/>\nRicci<\/a> and will air on Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoicano\u201d was initially slated to face <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Brian-Ortega-65310\">Brian<br \/>\nOrtega<\/a> at UFC 326 on March 7 before his opponent withdrew from<br \/>\nthe bout. After winning four straight fights from November 2022 to<br \/>\nSeptember 2024, Carneiro found himself in a short-notice<br \/>\nlightweight title tilt against <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Islam-Makhachev-76836\">Islam<br \/>\nMakhachev<\/a> at UFC 311. The Brazilian was submitted in the first<br \/>\nround of that contest. He returned at UFC 317 this past June, where<br \/>\nhe dropped a unanimous verdict to <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Beneil-Dariush-56583\">Beneil<br \/>\nDariush<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan, meanwhile, has been victorious in six of his seven<br \/>\npromotional appearances. During his current four-bout winning<br \/>\nstreak, \u201cThe Problem\u201d has received \u201cFight of the Night\u201d bonuses for<br \/>\nvictories over <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Bolaji-Oki-276669\">Bolaji Oki<\/a><br \/>\nand <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Mateusz-Rebecki-146417\">Mateusz<br \/>\nRebecki<\/a> while also securing finishes against <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Terrance-McKinney-232591\">Terrance<br \/>\nMcKinney<\/a> and Jordan Vecenic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Duncan will get his first main event opportunity on April 4. | Getty\/UFC A pair of American Top Team stablemates will lock horns in the UFC Fight Night 272 main event. The Las Vegas-based promotion announced on Saturday that Renato &#8220;Moicano&#8221; Carneiro will lock horns with Chris Duncan in a five-round featherweight bout on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}