{"id":58203,"date":"2025-08-10T18:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T18:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58203\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T18:24:07","slug":"mick-maynards-shoes-whats-next-for-anthony-hernandez-after-ufc-on-espn-72-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58203\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Maynard&#8217;s Shoes: What&#8217;s next for Anthony Hernandez after UFC on ESPN 72 win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Hernandez established his dominance against another relevant name in the middleweight division on Saturday when he beat Roman Dolidze in the <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-aug-9-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC on ESPN 72;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC on ESPN 72<\/a> main event.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez (15-2 MMA, 9-2 UFC) put all 185-pound fighters on notice once again when <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-espn-72-results-anthony-023547434.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:he overwhelmed and submitted;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he overwhelmed and submitted<\/a> Dolidze (14-5 MMA, 8-5 UFC) in the fourth round at UFC Apex in Las Vegas. He&#8217;s now put together a winning streak to the tune of eight in a row, and afterward he called for a championship fight.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Dricus Du Plessis, who puts gold on the line against Khamzat Chimaev on Saturday in the <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 319;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 319<\/a> headliner, gave praise to &#8220;Fluffy&#8221; after the fight. However, it remains to be seen how everything will unfold in a middleweight division with growing intrigue.<\/p>\n<p>Where will Hernandez ultimately fit in? Watch the video above for thoughts and analysis on his future after the UFC on ESPN 72 main event.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/10\/ufc-vegas-109-matchmaker-anthony-hernande-next-fight-title-shot-win-video\/85597005007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Vegas 109 matchmaker: Who&#039;s next for Anthony Hernandez after win?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Vegas 109 matchmaker: Who&#8217;s next for Anthony Hernandez after win?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Hernandez established his dominance against another relevant name in the middleweight division on Saturday when he beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[44177,64,63,20207,794,786,785,47679,44178,85,787,4908],"class_list":["post-58203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-anthony-hernandez","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dricus-du-plessis","tag-espn","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-relevant-name","tag-roman-dolidze","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-apex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58203","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=58203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}