Renato Moicano takes on Frenchman Benoit Saint-Denis this weekend. With a landmark win in Saturdayโs UFC Paris (UFC Fight Night 243) main event, the surging Brazilian means to tread ahead. Hence, the bizarrely witty and animated Moicano means business when he enters the octagon this weekend. However, other than divisional goals, the duo had no rivalry until Thursdayโs Media Day. That necessarily does not mean Moicano is all buddy-bud with his counterpart and the idea of the French Revolution.
The ever-electric character that is Renato Moicano is never out of words or weirdly vibrant callouts. Heย even once hijackedย MMA journoย John Morganโsย commentary at the regionalย Cage Fury Fighting Championshipย to make callouts. The American Top Team (ATT) fighter also keeps the company of books. โMoneyโ Moicano and his aim to โbreak Saint-Denisโ faceโ is pure zeal; however, he explains the no-love policy for the French.
Co-hosts Matty Betss and the returning Gilbert Burns joke if he read about it to get into the pre-fight stage. But the 35-year-old says he read conservative socio-political thinker Edmund Burkeโs โCritique of the Frenchย Revolution.โ The first modern conservative take that started the โPamphlet Warsโ in England. It brought the vicious guillotines and systemic condemnation of the Church to attention. One 1989 Expo design for Eiffel was even to be a guillotine, to mark French Resistance!
Adopting his pro-American rhetoric, Moicano preaches pro-capitalist safeguards withย economic principles from Ludwig von Misesย and the six lessons of theย Austrian economic school. But his scathing take on the anti-humanism and anti-property sentiment had nothing to do with Saint-Denisโ aggressive style or the fight. While the exact number is up in the air, about 16,000 people were executed during the French Revolution in July 1794 alone. Moicano had his own ideas about that.
Renato Moicano gives his take on Monarchy vs. Democracy debate
The weekendโs UFC Paris (UFC Fight Night 243) main card at ESPN+, 3 p.m. ET sees the promotion at Accor Arena in the City of Love. Before the Moicano-led event against Benoit Saint-Denis happens. the Brazilian lightweight had some choice words. Not just about Benoit Saint-Denis; who he thinks beating would open some marquee lightweight bouts in the offering. But also about the city itself, which wasnโt always the tourist attraction it is now.
France and its convoluted lifestyle are never without proper viral controversy. Look to the efforts of the super hub of inclusivity at Paris Olympics 2024 even today. But said controversy had its fair share in the history books as well. The societal unrest from Estates General of 1789, ending in the formation of the French Consulate was one, during the French Revolution.
After the Ancien Rรฉgime was unable to control the state of affairs, it sprouted the newer principles of liberal democracy. Which subsequently many today are fond of. But outspoken viral fighter Renato Moicano presents that โvoice of peopleโ isnโt always that good.
The UFC Paris star alludes to the likes of King Louis XVI and Louis XIII to justify how bad monarchy could get, globally. However, after the execution of Louis XVI in January 1793 came the Reign Of Terror. This is the time of a series of public executions in response to revolutionary fervor and alleged intrigues by the Committee of Public Safety.
Moicano, an avid reader, thus has no love for the landmark of โLoveโ which at one time made the gruesome guillotine a household terror. When he steps onto the headlining stage for the second time this Saturday, Renato Moicano will also have his principles boosting his attire.