{"id":762967,"date":"2026-06-26T18:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762967\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:16:12","slug":"report-hernandez-rodrigues-to-headline-ufc-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762967\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Hernandez-Rodrigues to headline UFC Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A middleweight bout between Anthony &#8220;Fluffy&#8221; Hernandez and Gregory Rodrigues will headline a UFC Fight Night event in Sacramento on Aug. 22, sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/496481\/anthony-hernandez-vs-gregory-rodrigues-set-to-headline-ufcs-return-to-sacramento?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dhtwitter&amp;utm_content=app.dashsocial.com\/mma-fighting\/library\/media\/689684999\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting&#8217;s Mike Heck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez is looking to get back on track from a TKO loss to current champion Sean Strickland at UFC Houston in February. The 32-year-old California native was previously riding an eight-fight winning streak and on the cusp of a title shot.<\/p>\n<p>Rodrigues has won three in row with knockouts of Brunno Ferreira and Jack Hermansson and a decision over Roman Kopylov. The 34-year-old Brazilian is 6-1 in his last seven Octagon appearances, his lone loss during that stretch coming against Jared Cannonier in a January 2025 main event.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez and Rodrigues are No. 7 and No. 9 in the UFC&#8217;s new Meta rankings, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion is returning to Sacramento for the first time since July 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A middleweight bout between Anthony &#8220;Fluffy&#8221; Hernandez and Gregory Rodrigues will headline a UFC Fight Night event in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-762967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762967","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=762967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}