🎃👻 HAPPY HALLOWEEN, FIGHT FANS! No tricks, just fights tonight! 💀🔥 Renato Moicano and Tom Nolan headline UFC Vegas 123 in a five-round lightweight showdown at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas! 💰 Moicano looks to defend his spot among the division’s elite, while Nolan enters his first UFC main event riding a five-fight winning streak! 🥊 Prelims: 5 PM ET 🔥 Main Card: 8 PM ET Will Money Moicano spoil Nolan’s Halloween, or will the Australian deliver a terrifying upset? 👀🎃 Enjoy the fights, stay spooky, and please consider following @mmasterclass_ for more UFC content! #ufc #mma #fight #halloween #sports
Renato Moicano and Tom Nolan meet in a five-round lightweight main event at UFC Vegas 123 on Saturday, October 31, at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas. Prelims begin at 5 PM ET, with the main card following at 8 PM ET.
Moicano, 37, brings a 21-7-1 record and sits at number 12 in the lightweight rankings. The Brazilian is coming off a second-round submission of Chris Duncan on April 4, his most recent recorded fight, which followed back-to-back losses: a unanimous decision to Beneil Dariush in June 2025 and a first-round submission loss to Islam Makhachev in a title fight at UFC 311 in January 2025. He lands 4.1 significant strikes per minute at 49 percent accuracy and averages 1.68 takedowns per 15 minutes.
Nolan, a 26-year-old Australian fighting out of Team Compton Training Centre, is 10-1-0 and ranked 14th at lightweight. The southpaw is making his first UFC main event, and his most recent recorded fight was a unanimous decision win over Fares Ziam on June 6. Before that, he finished Charlie Campbell by first-round submission in September 2025 and beat Viacheslav Borshchev on the scorecards in February 2025. He lands 5.87 significant strikes per minute at 45 percent accuracy and averages 1.9 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Why it matters
- Rankings: Moicano is two spots above Nolan, so the result could shift the order of the lower half of the lightweight top 15.
- Age and size: Moicano is 11 years older than Nolan. Nolan has a two-inch edge in reach (185 cm to 183 cm) and stands three inches taller at six-foot-three.
- Style: Nolan out-volumes Moicano by 1.77 significant strikes per minute, while Moicano takes the fight to the mat at more than twice Nolan's takedown rate (1.68 to 0.74 per 15 minutes). Nolan's submission-attempt rate, though, is more than three times Moicano's 0.6.
- Format: The five-round distance is new territory for Nolan, whose recent recorded fights have all been scheduled for three rounds or ended early.
Renato Moicano vs Tom Nolan
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