{"id":81255,"date":"2025-08-20T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81255\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T01:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:23:08","slug":"khamzat-reinier-de-ridder-vs-anthony-hernandez-set-for-ufc-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81255\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamzat?? Reinier de Ridder vs. Anthony Hernandez set for UFC Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A gigantic Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight fight is going down in \u201cRaincouver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC CEO, Dana White, announced today that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 5-ranked<\/a> Reinier de Ridder will take on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-mma-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 6-seeded<\/a> Anthony Hernandez in the main event of UFC Vancouver on Sat., Oct. 18, 2025, inside Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">De Ridder (21-2) has been red-hot since entering the Octagon, and UFC Vancouver will mark his fourth appearance of 2025. The Dutch standout is coming off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/26\/24471349\/ufc-abu-dhabi-results-live-streaming-updates-robert-whittaker-vs-reinier-de-ridder-espn-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">decision win<\/a> over former Middleweight champion Robert Whittaker. Prior to that, he shocked the MMA world by becoming the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/5\/4\/24423067\/full-fight-video-highlights-ufc-des-moines-results-espn-de-ridder-knockout-bo-nickal-knee-liver\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first man to defeat<\/a> Bo Nickal (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/5\/4\/24423067\/full-fight-video-highlights-ufc-des-moines-results-espn-de-ridder-knockout-bo-nickal-knee-liver\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>), then followed it up with a submission over Kevin Holland at UFC 311.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Meanwhile, Hernandez (15-2) is fresh off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-bonuses-and-awards\/381476\/bonuses-anthony-hernandez-banks-extra-50k-for-main-event-mauling-ufc-vegas-109\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Performance of the Night <\/a>bonus-winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/381467\/highlights-anthony-hernandez-strangles-hapless-roman-dolidze-in-middleweight-masterclass-ufc-vegas-109\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four-round demolition<\/a> and submission of Roman Dolidze. \u201cFluffy\u201d is riding an eight-fight win streak\u2014the longest active run in the Middleweight division. Even more impressive, Hernandez has finished six of those eight victories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In addition to the pivotal headliner, White also announced that Kevin Holland will return for the fifth time this year to face Canada\u2019s own Mike Malott. Holland (2-2 in 2025) is coming off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/20\/24470810\/kevin-holland-transported-to-local-hospital-nicolle-caliari-following-ufc-318-bloodbath\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unanimous decision loss<\/a> to Daniel Rodriguez, while Malott is fresh off a stoppage win over Charles Radtke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here is what UFC Vancouver looks like so far:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gigantic Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight fight is going down in \u201cRaincouver.\u201d UFC CEO, Dana White, announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,51993,40762,785,85,51992,61604,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-81255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-full-results","12":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc-319-du-plessis-vs-chimaev-start-time","16":"tag-ufc-fight-announcements","17":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81255","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=81255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}