{"id":148831,"date":"2026-02-03T08:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/148831\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:51:14","slug":"civil-war-ufc-houston-poster-featuring-strickland-vs-hernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/148831\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War? UFC Houston poster featuring Strickland vs. Hernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Strickland (29-7) has not competed since losing his championship rematch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/2\/9\/24361621\/video-highlights-dricus-du-plessis-vs-sean-strickland-2-ufc-312-results-espn-ppv-nose-broke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to Dricus du Plessis at UFC 312 last year in Sydney<\/a>. The former welterweight holds victories over some of the biggest names in the division, including Israel Adesanya, Nassourdine Imavov, and Paulo Costa, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hernandez (15-2, 1 NC) has looked unstoppable over the last five years, racking up eight straight wins with six nasty finishes. That includes his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/381467\/highlights-anthony-hernandez-strangles-hapless-roman-dolidze-in-middleweight-masterclass-ufc-vegas-109\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">submission victory over veteran bruiser Roman Dolidze<\/a> last August in Las Vegas. A big performance over Strickland is likely to land \u201cFluffy\u201d the next middleweight title shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC Houston will also feature the welterweight showdown between 170-pound fan favorites Geoff Neal and Kevin Holland. Elsewhere on the card, heavyweight hurters Ante Delija and Serghei Spivac collide at 265 pounds while Michel Pereira and Zach Reese get busy at middleweight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the latest UFC Houston fight card and <a href=\"https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/c\/482924\/175360\/3065?subId1=SBNation&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paramountplus.com%2Frecommended%2Fnews%2F1010954%2Fufc-paramount-plus-streaming-deal&amp;subId2=[sb0202awD][411624][][r][][][][][][][google.com]\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount+<\/a> lineup click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/412214\/ufc-houston-fight-card-start-time-date-location-strickland-vs-hernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strickland (29-7) has not competed since losing his championship rematch to Dricus du Plessis at UFC 312 last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,62026,38903,62027,62028,62029],"class_list":["post-148831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-posters","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}