UFC Paris happened on Saturday, Sept. 28 with an essential light-weight battle between Renato Moicano and Benoît Saint-Denis.
It took simply seconds for the battle to hit the canvas with Moicano taking Saint-Denis right into a grappling battle to start out. On the canvas, Saint-Denis was dominated with floor and pound with Moicano opening up a reduce on Saint-Denis. It appeared like Moicano was going to complete the battle with huge strikes a number of occasions however in some way Saint-Denis survived the spherical regardless of being battered and bruised from the domination.
Within the second spherical, Saint-Denis’ eyes had been practically swollen shut already, leaving many questioning if he might even battle one other spherical, not to mention one other 4. The battle stayed on the toes for a lot of the second with Moicano piecing up Saint-Denis on the toes. However regardless of the face of Saint-Denis, he was nonetheless touchdown precisely and stopped the takedown makes an attempt in spherical two.
Spherical three begins with the physician inspecting Saint-Denis’ accidents. He took a very long time checking Saint-Denis’ sight and instructed the referee that he couldn’t see out of his proper eye and so they waved off the battle.
Moiciano earned the second-round TKO.
Moicano was coming into the battle on a three-fight successful streak with latest victories over Jalin Turner, Drew Dober, and Brad Riddell. He was coming into enemy territory with hopes of extending his steak to 4 and placing himself into a greater place to battle for the light-weight title finally.
Saint-Denis, the hometown hero, was trying to rebound from a disappointing loss to Dustin Poirier at UFC 299. Previous to that, he’d been on a five-fight win streak successful matches with Matt Frevola, Thiago Moises, Ismael Bonfim, Gabriel Miranda, and Niklas Stolze.
After the battle, Moicano was requested who he wished to battle subsequent however he took the microphone to name out democracy as an alternative. Then he stated he’d take Dan Hooker however would not take any ‘bullsh*t” fights.
Saint-Denis spoke after the battle to the Paris crowd thanking them for the help, defined he was “sleepy” and apologized for his efficiency.
