No. 12-ranked<\/a> Brazilian knockout artist Gregory Rodrigues in the main event of UFC Sacramento on Sat., Aug. 22, 2026, inside Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, Calif.<\/p>\n\u201cFluffy\u201d will now compete in his third UFC main event, and he gets to do it in front of a home crowd. Hernandez lives and trains in Northern California, making this a major opportunity for him to rebound in friendly territory.<\/p>\n
Rodrigues (19-6), meanwhile, has been on a roll.<\/p>\n
Now, Rodrigues gets another headline spot and a chance to jump into the top of the Middleweight division.<\/p>\n
On paper, this is an awesome fight.<\/p>\n
Everyone knows Hernandez is a relentless wrestler who drowns opponents with pace, pressure and grappling. Rodrigues, meanwhile, is known for his scary knockout power, but he is also an eight-time national Brazilian jiu-jitsu champion, which makes this matchup even more intriguing.<\/p>\n
No other fights have been announced for UFC Sacramento just yet, but expect the promotion to stack the card with local California talent.<\/p>\n
To checkout UFC\u2019s upcoming schedule of events click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middleweights are headed to NorCal. No. 6-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight Anthony Hernandez returns to action in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,49483,139445,702,4454],"class_list":["post-761481","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-on-paramount","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761481","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=761481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}