{"id":58501,"date":"2025-08-10T05:51:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58501\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T05:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:51:03","slug":"dricus-du-plessis-vs-khamzat-chimaev-winner-called-out-by-contender-on-8-fight-streak-after-ufc-vegas-109-mauling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58501\/","title":{"rendered":"Dricus du Plessis vs. Khamzat Chimaev winner called out by contender on 8-fight streak after UFC Vegas 109 mauling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anthony Hernandez called for a title shot after making it eight wins in a row at UFC Vegas 109.<\/p>\n<p>The middleweight contender squared off against <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/roman-dolidze\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1038\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roman Dolidze<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/08\/09\/former-title-challenger-survives-early-knockdown-to-end-three-fight-losing-skid-at-ufc-vegas-109\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Erceg snapped his losing streak<\/a> in the co-main event. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/anthony-hernandez\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"2119\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Hernandez<\/a> was utterly dominant en route to a fourth round submission victory on Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p>Post-fight at <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/ufc-vegas-109\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"6972\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vegas 109<\/a>, \u2018Fluffy\u2019 called for a shot at the 185lb belt, which will be on the line when <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/dricus-du-plessis\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"907\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dricus du Plessis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/khamzat-chimaev\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"255\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khamzat Chimaev<\/a> headline <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/ufc-319\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"6733\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 319<\/a> on August 16.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2229310513-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Hernandez reacts after a submission victory against Roman Dolidze\" \/>Photo by Jeff Bottari\/Zuffa LLCAnthony Hernandez calls for title shot <\/p>\n<p>Hernandez mixed his wrestling and strikes well to win round one, but he really stepped his game up several levels when the second stanza began. <\/p>\n<p>Dolidze was overwhelmed on the feet and the ground during a five-minute frame that ended with Hernandez on the verge of scoring a TKO victory.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Fluffy\u2019 team thought the fight had been waved off by veteran referee <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/herb-dean\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"2245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Herb Dean<\/a>, but the horn sounded to save Dolidze and allow him to see another round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was more of the same in the third frame. Hernandez scored a big knockdown and battered his opponent, who did well to make it to the championship rounds. <\/p>\n<p>The mauling continued in round four. Hernandez eventually locked up a standing arm triangle choke to get the tap and stretch his win streak to eight in a row. <\/p>\n<p>During his post-fight interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/daniel-cormier\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"284\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Cormier<\/a>, he called to fight for the middleweight title. <\/p>\n<p>Hernandez said: \u201cI want a title shot. What the f\u2014 have I got to do?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive me a title shot and I promise I\u2019ll be the next champ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to prove I can take a title\u2026 I want to prove I\u2019m the best in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UFC Vegas 109 weigh-in drama<\/p>\n<p>One of the headliners found themselves at the center of weigh-in drama on Friday<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/08\/08\/headliner-among-three-fighters-to-strip-naked-and-still-miss-weight-ahead-of-ufc-vegas-109\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Three fighters stripped naked<\/a> and still missed weight on their first attempt ahead of UFC Vegas 109.<\/p>\n<p>Most notably, Hernandez initially came in 0.5lbs over the 186lb middleweight limit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Fluffy\u2019 and the other two fighters who missed their mark were given an hour to put things right.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, all three of them made weight on the second attempt to avoid a fine and all controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Hernandez called for a title shot after making it eight wins in a row at UFC Vegas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18064,43,638,44,36543,41,39,42,40,640,35935],"class_list":{"0":"post-58501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-anthony-hernandez","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-mma","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-roman-dolidze","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories","17":"tag-ufc","18":"tag-ufc-vegas-109"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58501","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=58501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}