{"id":37541,"date":"2026-04-01T20:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Renato-Moicano-calls-it-difficult-to-face-ATT-training-partner-at-UFC-Vegas-115-200693"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:44:19","slug":"renato-moicano-calls-it-difficult-to-face-att-training-partner-at-ufc-vegas-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/renato-moicano-calls-it-difficult-to-face-att-training-partner-at-ufc-vegas-115\/","title":{"rendered":"Renato &#8216;Moicano&#8217; calls it &#8216;difficult&#8217; to face ATT training partner at UFC Vegas 115"},"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\/04\/renato-moicano-calls-it-difficult-to-face-att-training-partner-at-ufc-vegas-115.jpg\" width=\"640\" class=\"Picture\"\/><\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Renato &#8216;Moicano&#8217; will look to snap a two-fight skid on Saturday.<br \/>\n| Getty\/UFC<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--\/PICTURE R--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>While <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Renato-Carneiro-61700\">Renato<br \/>\nCarneiro<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Chris-Duncan-74346\">Chris<br \/>\nDuncan<\/a> haven\u2019t been all that close in recent years while<br \/>\nsharing the gym at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fightfinder.php?search=yes&amp;association=American%20Top%20Team\"><br \/>\nAmerican Top Team<\/a>, that doesn\u2019t make the matchup against a<br \/>\nformer training partner any easier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoicano\u201d and Duncan will square off in the <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-272-April-4-111271\"><br \/>\nUFC Vegas 115<\/a> main event on Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las<br \/>\nVegas. Carneiro recalls training with Duncan in the past \u2014 but it<br \/>\nwas quite some time ago.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \u201cIt is difficult; it is the first time [I\u2019ve faced a teammate],\u201d<br \/>\nCarneiro told <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/news\/money-moicano-focused-more-victory-weekend-ufc-vegas-115\">UFC.com<\/a>. \u201cBut at the same time, everybody wants<br \/>\nto win, everybody wants to win their next fight, and that\u2019s what I<br \/>\nwant too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack in the day, we trained together a couple years ago, but I<br \/>\ndon\u2019t remember the last time I trained with him; I think it was a<br \/>\nlong time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duncan faced another ATT stablemate, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Mateusz-Rebecki-146417\">Mateusz<br \/>\nRebecki<\/a>, last August at UFC on ESPN 71. \u201cThe Problem\u201d emerged<br \/>\nwith a unanimous decision triumph in what turned out to be one of<br \/>\nthe year\u2019s most entertaining fights. That is the type of fight<br \/>\n\u201cMoicano\u201d wants to avoid when he steps into the Octagon with<br \/>\nDuncan, who has won six of his seven <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUFC<\/a> outings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to [have a long brawl],\u201d Carneiro said. \u201cI think I\u2019m<br \/>\nmore technical than him, I think I can do a different fight because<br \/>\nRebecki is small and he always fights like that. He is a dangerous<br \/>\nfighter, but I think he\u2019s a guy that is not supposed to be 155<br \/>\n\u2014he\u2019s too short \u2014but he still manages to get good wins, to fight<br \/>\ngood fights. I think it will be different, but we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>No Pressure, Just Love<\/h2>\n<p>As for Carneiro, he will be looking to right the ship after the<br \/>\nsecond two-fight skid of his professional career. After suffering a<br \/>\nfirst-round submission defeat in a short-notice lightweight title<br \/>\nbout at UFC 311, the Brazilian dropped a three-round verdict to<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Beneil-Dariush-56583\">Beneil<br \/>\nDariush<\/a> at UFC 317 this past June. He was slated to face<br \/>\n<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.<br \/>\nCarneiro says he doesn\u2019t feel any additional pressure to return to<br \/>\nthe win column on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot really \u2014I\u2019m not feeling too much pressure because at the end<br \/>\nof the day, I do this because I love it, I love to compete, I love<br \/>\nto fight, and I just want to have a good performance for myself,\u201d<br \/>\nhe said. \u201cOf course, I want to get the double check, and if I can,<br \/>\nthe triple check, but let\u2019s see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to make money. I want to beat Chris Duncan and get another<br \/>\nfight soon, but I\u2019m not thinking about that. I need to beat Chris<br \/>\nDuncan first, and this is a dangerous fight.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renato &#8216;Moicano&#8217; will look to snap a two-fight skid on Saturday. | Getty\/UFC While Renato Carneiro and Chris Duncan haven\u2019t been all that close in recent years while sharing the gym at American Top Team, that doesn\u2019t make the matchup against a former training partner any easier. \u201cMoicano\u201d and Duncan will square off in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37541","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\/37541","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=37541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}