{"id":443150,"date":"2026-08-25T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443150\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:34:11","slug":"gregory-rodrigues-denies-cheating-at-ufc-sacramento-herb-dean-wouldve-said-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443150\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregory Rodrigues denies cheating at UFC Sacramento \u2014 \u2018Herb Dean would\u2019ve said something\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Gregory Rodrigues did not cheat at UFC Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">If Rodrigues was cheating, surely referee Herb Dean would have said something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThe fact is that I beat him with leg kicks, I punched him, he didn\u2019t take me down, he didn\u2019t do anything, he put on pressure and that was good but I didn\u2019t cheat and he knows that,\u201d Rodrigues told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/2091996411550400528\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yahoo Sports<\/a>. \u201cEveryone can say whatever they want, I\u2019m still the same man. I gave a lot of respect to him and I saw his family when I was there, his son was crying in the front row, it\u2019s crazy but that\u2019s the sport. If anything was clear, Herb Dean would\u2019ve said something or everyone would\u2019ve saw it. Sometimes involuntary, my hands grab his gloves but it was nothing that would change the result of the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Dean is probably not the most reliable witness for the Brazilian\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For more UFC Sacramento news and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/465515\/ufc-sacramento-live-results-highlights-streaming-play-by-play-updates-hernandez-vs-rodrigues\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gregory Rodrigues did not cheat at UFC Sacramento. If Rodrigues was cheating, surely referee Herb Dean would have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[152120,121,123,122,152122,152123,174369],"class_list":["post-443150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443150","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=443150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}