{"id":493724,"date":"2026-02-21T02:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493724\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T02:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:37:08","slug":"chael-sonnen-disagrees-with-sean-strickland-vs-anthony-hernandez-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493724\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen disagrees with Sean Strickland vs. Anthony Hernandez odds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chael Sonnen doesn’t think the odds are an accurate reflection of how the UFC Fight Night 267 main event will go.<\/p>\n

Sean Strickland<\/a> (29-7 MMA, 16-7 UFC) takes on Anthony Hernandez<\/a> (15-2 MMA, 9-2 UFC) on Saturday (Paramount+<\/a>) at Toyota Center in Houston. According to FanDuel, Hernandez is a sizable -300 favorite against the former UFC middleweight champion, who’s a +235 underdog.<\/p>\n

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“They got Hernandez as a 3-1 favorite. Do you guys see it that way?” Sonnen said on his YouTube channel<\/a>. “Three-to-one? You are three times more confident that Hernandez is going to beat Sean than you are that Sean can stand his ground with Hernandez? That surprised me.”<\/p>\n

Sonnen sees a lot more to lose for Strickland than the streaking Hernandez, which is why he finds the odds troubling.<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t hurt Hernandez that bad if he gets bumped by Sean,” Sonnen said. “Hernandez is a young guy, and he’s got all sorts of paper behind him, and now he’s the main event. Hernandez has got a rocket ship tied to his ass. He’s gonna be a star, but Sean could really fall. The way you look does matter. What the performance looks like does matter.<\/p>\n

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“Hernandez says he’s going to dominate him. He says he’s going to whip him. DraftKings has him as a 3-1, which means they think Sean is about to get whipped. Is Sean about to get whipped? I don’t see this fight this way. I don’t see anybody that can just come in and big brother Sean Strickland. Am I wrong?”<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Sean Strickland vs. Anthony Hernandez odds surprise UFC analyst<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen doesn’t think the odds are an accurate reflection of how the UFC Fight Night 267 main…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[44177,64,63,23734,786,785,43022,85,44865,34466],"class_list":{"0":"post-493724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-anthony-hernandez","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-chael-sonnen","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sean-strickland","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc-fight-night","17":"tag-ufc-middleweight-champion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}