In his second fight for the promotion, Moreno returned to face Ryan Benoit on December 3, 2016, at The Ultimate Fighter: Tournament of Champions Finale. The win also earned Moreno his first Performance of the Night bonus award. Moreno won the fight via submission in the first round. He faced Louis Smolka at UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. In a rare move, Moreno debuted in the UFC while his season of The Ultimate Fighter was still airing. He faced Alexandre Pantoja in the opening stage and lost the fight via submission. Moreno was selected as a member of Team Benavidez. In July 2016, it was revealed that Moreno was a participant on The Ultimate Fighter: Tournament of Champions. He would go undefeated in the promotion at 5–0 and would eventually win the Flyweight championship, which led to him being cast in the Flyweight tournament on the 25th season of The Ultimate Fighter. In 2014, Moreno would debut for the World Fighting Federation promotion. Over the next two years, he amassed a record of 6 wins and 3 losses. Moreno made his professional MMA debut in his native Mexico in April 2011. Despite earlier intentions to attend law school and become a lawyer, Moreno decided to focus solely on his mixed martial arts career. At the age of twelve, he wanted to lose weight so his mother enrolled him in the local Entram Gym where he started training mixed martial arts. Moreno was born and raised in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, in a modest family with a piñata business.
As of April 18, 2023, he is #9 in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings. A professional since 2011, Moreno also competed for the Legacy Fighting Alliance, where he was the Legacy Fighting Alliance Flyweight Champion. He currently competes in the Flyweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is the current and two-time UFC Flyweight Champion. Black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Raúl Arvizu īrandon Carrillo Moreno (born December 7, 1993) is a Mexican professional mixed martial artist.
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