{"id":220399,"date":"2025-10-17T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220399\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:44:09","slug":"anthony-hernandez-answers-stricklands-ufc-callout-prefers-du-plessis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220399\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Hernandez answers Strickland\u2019s UFC callout, prefers Du Plessis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIf he wants to fight me, then run it,\u201c Hernandez told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TU-d1rpTvxY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weighing In podcast<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/10\/17\/ufc-anthony-hernandez-callout-sean-strickland-but-thinks-better-options-middleweight\/86743083007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201dI don\u2019t give a f*ck. But I would like to fight [Dricus du Plessis] because that would get me to the f*cking belt, guaranteed. Either way, I think both fights get me to the f*cking belt, so I really don\u2019t care. At the end of the day, whoever the matchmakers make the fight with or call me for, I\u2019m going to sign the waiver and run it.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI think both fights would be fun,\u201d Hernandez continued. \u201cBoth fights would be very bloody, and I think we both get a lot of money for those fights. So I don\u2019t give a f*ck. I would like to fight DDP because he did like a lot of good sh*t as a champion. He beat a lot of big-name guys. So I think if you beat him, it would be a good champion to beat \u2013 like, a once-proven champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Expect some answers to these 185-pound questions in early 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIf he wants to fight me, then run it,\u201c Hernandez told Weighing In podcast (via MMA Junkie). \u201dI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,4454],"class_list":["post-220399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}