{"id":329591,"date":"2025-12-07T04:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/329591\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:19:09","slug":"strickland-hernandez-to-headline-ufc-houston-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/329591\/","title":{"rendered":"Strickland-Hernandez to headline UFC Houston in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former middleweight champion Sean Strickland will face Anthony Hernandez in the main event of UFC Fight Night on Feb. 21 at Toyota Center in Houston, the promotion announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Strickland will enter the Octagon for the first time since a title-fight loss to Dricus Du Plessis earlier this year. The 34-year-old is 1-2 in his last three appearances. Strickland is ranked No. 3 in the 185-pound division.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez, the No. 4-ranked contender, is looking to secure his first title shot with a win over Strickland. He&#8217;s coming off a dominant victory against Roman Dolidze in an August main event, which extended his winning streak to seven.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion is returning to Houston for the first time since UFC 271 in February 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former middleweight champion Sean Strickland will face Anthony Hernandez in the main event of UFC Fight Night on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-329591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329591","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=329591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}