{"id":377364,"date":"2026-06-27T16:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377364\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T16:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:55:12","slug":"middleweight-contenders-to-headline-ufc-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377364\/","title":{"rendered":"Middleweight contenders to headline UFC Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Hernandez will attempt to return to the win column at UFC Sacramento. | Getty\/UFC<\/p>\n<p>Battle-tested middleweights are set to trade leather at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-Hernandez-vs-Rodrigues-113260\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Sacramento;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;UFC Sacramento&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> UFC Sacramento<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Anthony-Hernandez-86783\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Anthony Hernandez;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Anthony Hernandez&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Anthony Hernandez<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Gregory-Rodrigues-176275\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Gregory Rodrigues;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Gregory Rodrigues&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Gregory Rodrigues<\/a> are scheduled to headline a UFC Fight Night on Aug. 22 at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/496481\/anthony-hernandez-vs-gregory-rodrigues-set-to-headline-ufcs-return-to-sacramento\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MMAFighting.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;MMAFighting.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">MMAFighting.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking to Bounce Back<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez (15-3) was on an eight-fight winning streak with six finishes leading up to his last matchup against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Sean-Strickland-30452\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sean Strickland;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sean Strickland&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sean Strickland<\/a>. While \u201cFluffy\u201d was a sizeable favorite going into the fight, Strickland neutralized his wrestling and picked him apart on the feet to score a third-round stoppage win. Hernandez is currently training with Strickland for his upcoming fight against Rodrigues (19-6).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Rodrigues is 10-3 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;UFC&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> UFC<\/a> and currently on a three-fight winning streak. \u201cRoboCop\u201d has gone through the trenches of the middleweight division, mostly emerging victorious. The Brazilian knocked out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Bruno-Ferreira-448297\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bruno Ferreira;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Bruno Ferreira&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Bruno Ferreira<\/a> in his last outing this past March to avenge a loss dating back to 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Hernandez will attempt to return to the win column at UFC Sacramento. | Getty\/UFC Battle-tested middleweights are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[152077,152078,121,123,122,152783,18873,32031],"class_list":["post-377364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-anthony-hernandez","tag-gregory-rodrigues","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sean-strickland","tag-ufc","tag-winning-streak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}