{"id":331172,"date":"2025-12-07T22:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/331172\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T22:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:40:07","slug":"strickland-vs-hernandez-headlines-ufc-houston-feb-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/331172\/","title":{"rendered":"Strickland vs. Hernandez headlines UFC Houston Feb. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A big Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight fight is coming to Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-323-fight-card-start-time-live-results-merab-vs-yan-2-mma\/405914\/ufc-323-results-highlights-play-by-play-merab-vs-yan-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 323 broadcast<\/a> last night, the promotion announced that former UFC Middleweight champion Sean Strickland will collide with surging title hopeful Anthony Hernandez in the main event of UFC Houston on Sat., Feb. 21, 2025, inside Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The outspoken 34-year-old is 2-2 in his last four outings, with signature wins over Israel Adesanya and Paulo Costa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/5\/27\/24165756\/sean-strickland-ready-to-die-against-paulo-costa-ufc-302-bloodbath-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mixed in between setbacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hernandez (15-2) was on the doorstep of a title shot before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/389863\/huh-reiner-de-ridder-vs-brendan-allen-is-ufc-vancouvers-new-main-event-with-anthony-hernandez-pulled\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">withdrawing from a scheduled main event<\/a> against Reinier de Ridder. Now, \u201cFluffy\u201d gets a chance to secure his championship opportunity the hard way \u2014 by beating a former champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No other bouts have been announced for UFC Houston just yet, but expect more matchups in the coming weeks, likely featuring plenty of Texas-based talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To checkout UFC\u2019s upcoming schedule of events click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/pages\/ufc-mma-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A big Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight fight is coming to Texas. During the UFC 323 broadcast last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,49483,702],"class_list":["post-331172","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-fight-announcements","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331172","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=331172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}