post-fight press conference<\/a>. \u201cI hit him a few times, I rocked his shit, he\u2019s a tough son of a b*tch. I hit him with everything and the kitchen sink, hit him with some hard elbows, f*cker was cheating and grabbing the inside of my gloves and I told [referee] Herb [Dean] that.<\/p>\n\u201cI fight clean, so it is what it is. Maybe I should be more dirty.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hernandez made it clear he did his best to communicate the issue with Dean mid-fight, but other than a warning to Rodrigues, there was no penalty for the alleged foul.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told f*cking Herb, \u2018This motherf*cker\u2019s grabbed my glove, like, four times. Hey, he\u2019s grabbing my gloves,\u2019 and he told him, \u2018Hey, stop,\u2019\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cBut I mean, whatever. Don\u2019t take a point, whatever. I guess people like to cheat, so it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Outside of that complaint, Hernandez had mostly positive things to say about Rodrigues, who earned a unanimous decision with a 49-46 score and a pair of 48-47s. Hernandez did plenty of damage of his own, but it wasn\u2019t enough to overcome Rodrigues\u2019 potent boxing and leg kicks that had Hernandez stumbling for much of the contest.<\/p>\n
Hernandez told reporters he dealt with a shoulder injury in training camp that limited his preparation time, but he takes responsibility for the fight itself going south.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure there\u2019s a f*ck-ton of mistakes I made,\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cBut f*ck, hurt my leg early, had to make adjustments, and I had to do what I had to do to survive at that point.<\/p>\n
\u201cGregory\u2019s a tough son of a b*tch. He hits f*cking hard. You\u2019ve seen what he does to people. He hits them and puts them to sleep. I was still smiling, I was still coming forward. I told you guys, I love people trying to hurt me. I don\u2019t know what it is. I\u2019m a sick f*ck in the head, I know that, but I love this shit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Hernandez enjoyed performing in front of a hometown crowd at UFC Sacramento, but there\u2019s one aspect of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1979,121,123,122,18873,152122],"class_list":["post-441633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-latest-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441633","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=441633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}