{"id":39689,"date":"2026-08-03T05:56:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Renato-Moicano-taps-former-Bellator-champ-at-BJJ-Stars-19-202191"},"modified":"2026-08-03T05:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:56:55","slug":"renato-moicano-taps-former-bellator-champ-at-bjj-stars-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/renato-moicano-taps-former-bellator-champ-at-bjj-stars-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Renato Moicano taps former Bellator champ at BJJ Stars 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/renato-moicano-taps-former-bellator-champ-at-bjj-stars-19.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Renato-Carneiro-61700\">Renato<br \/>\n\u201cMoney\u201d Moicano<\/a> picked up a quick submission victory in a<br \/>\ngrappling match at BJJ Stars 19 ahead of his return to the<br \/>\nOctagon.<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> lightweight submitted former<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Bellator-MMA-1960\">Bellator<\/a><br \/>\nchampion <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Patricky-Freire-38544\">Patricky<br \/>\nFreire<\/a> in a grappling match in Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Renato Moicano submits Patricky Freire ahead of UFC return<\/h2>\n<p>He needed less than four minutes to secure an arm-triangle choke<br \/>\nafter countering a takedown, advancing to mount and forcing the<br \/>\ntap.<\/p>\n<p>This took Moicano\u2019s submission grappling record to 3-1. He<br \/>\npreviously defeated fellow UFC fighter <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Chase-Hooper-249301\">Chase<br \/>\nHooper<\/a> in 2021 and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Cristian-Guzman-490067\">Cristian<br \/>\nGuzman<\/a> in 2024 before losing to Russia\u2019s <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Yusuf-Raisov-161785\">Yusuf<br \/>\nRaisov<\/a>. Meanwhile, the result marked Freire\u2019s second submission<br \/>\nloss in a grappling match against a UFC athlete, previously losing<br \/>\nto <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Arman-Tsarukyan-213913\">Arman<br \/>\nTsarukyan<\/a> last year. Furthermore, \u201cPitbull\u201d is on a five-five<br \/>\nlosing streak in MMA.<\/p>\n<p>Moicano (21-7-1) returns at UFC 331 on Sept. 18 in Los Angeles,<br \/>\nreportedly set to take on <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Brian-Ortega-65310\">Brian<br \/>\nOrtega<\/a>. The UFC veteran finished <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Chris-Duncan-74346\">Chris<br \/>\nDuncan<\/a> in the second round in his last MMA bout, bouncing back<br \/>\nfrom consecutive defeats to <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Islam-Makhachev-76836\">Islam<br \/>\nMakhachev<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Beneil-Dariush-56583\">Beneil<br \/>\nDariush<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Dbe--V-xqwK\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.28767123287671\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renato \u201cMoney\u201d Moicano picked up a quick submission victory in a grappling match at BJJ Stars 19 ahead of his return to the Octagon. The Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight submitted former Bellator champion Patricky Freire in a grappling match in Sao Paulo. Advertisement Renato Moicano submits Patricky Freire ahead of UFC return He needed less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39689","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\/39689","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=39689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}