{"id":379758,"date":"2026-06-29T21:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/379758\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:13:17","slug":"anthony-hernandez-trains-with-sean-strickland-for-ufc-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/379758\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Hernandez trains with Sean Strickland for UFC Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 29, 2026, 2:40 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Anthony Hernandez is putting ego aside as he attempts to get back on track in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-285-hernandez-vs-rodrigues\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Fight Night 285<\/a> main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Hernandez (15-3 MMA, 9-3 UFC) had his seven-fight winning streak snapped in February when he <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/02\/21\/ufc-houston-results-sean-strickland-tko-anthony-hernandez\/88806624007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffered a TKO loss<\/a> to <a data-autotag=\"16818cdf-3265-4bdc-a8a8-f2d91f3af900\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/sean-strickland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Sean Strickland<\/a> (31-7 MMA, 18-7 UFC) in a middleweight title eliminator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Strickland went on to claim UFC gold from <a data-autotag=\"c5b88654-509f-404f-9fe8-44a61e2d4a41\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/khamzat-chimaev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Khamzat Chimaev<\/a> in his next fight, while Hernandez looks to rebound when he takes on Gregory Rodrigues (19-6 MMA, 10-3 UFC) in the Aug. 22 headliner at Golden 1 Center\u00a0in Sacramento, Calif. (<a href=\"https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/6yoorr\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-afl=\"\" data-t-l=\"\u2691f:b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Paramount+<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Hernandez has been in some training with Strickland in advance of the fight, noting he got some &#8220;tips and tricks&#8221; from the current 185-pound king that he hopes will put him back on the right path (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaD9A6GBLAh\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em_ig_bl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaD9A6GBLAh\/?igsh=Y2VldDhyNnFha2Mx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" aria-label=\"view Instagram post: \"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Hernandez, No. 5 in the latest USA TODAY Sports\/MMA Junkie <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/rankings\/middle\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">middleweight rankings<\/a>, will have to defend his spot against No. 8-ranked Rodrigues in the five-round bout at UFC Fight Night 285.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">For Strickland, meanwhile, he said he is targeting the first defense of his second UFC title reign to happen in December, potentially against Nassourdine Imavov or a rematch with Chimaev.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/89562185007-imagic-1418-x-2048-20260411-t-012354.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 29, 2026, 2:40 p.m. ET Anthony Hernandez is putting ego aside as he attempts to get back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[243,121,123,122,138614,152808,152809,153603,121738,508,13493,152812,377,246],"class_list":["post-379758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-accessfree","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sourcemma-junkie","tag-sstssportsufc","tag-sstsnufc","tag-tagkhamzat-chimaev","tag-tagmartial-arts","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsacramento","tag-tagsean-strickland","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379758","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=379758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}