{"id":173680,"date":"2026-02-21T01:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173680\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T01:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:26:13","slug":"tension-rises-during-final-ufc-houston-faceoffs-sean-strickland-tells-crowd-f-k-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173680\/","title":{"rendered":"Tension rises during final UFC Houston faceoffs, Sean Strickland tells crowd \u2018f\u2014k you\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will return to the \u201cLone Star State\u201d to stage <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\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Houston;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Houston<\/a> tomorrow night (Sat., Feb. 21, 2026)\u00a0LIVE on\u00a0<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=[sb0220awD][423181][][r][][][][][][][mmamania.com]\" data-i13n=\"elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paramount+;elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Paramount+<\/a>\u00a0from inside Toyota Center in Houston, Tex. as Sean Strickland meets Anthony Hernandez in the main event of the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Luckily, UFC Houston will pack a bunch from the opening bell to the last fight on the card. This includes Octagon appearances by notable veterans like Geoff Neal, Dan Ige, Serghei Spivac, Michel Pereira, Punahele Soriano, and Phillip Rowe. Fight fans should have something to cheer about the whole way through.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Friday, fighters took to the stage for UFC Houston\u2019s ceremonial weigh ins (watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-paramount-plus-news-hub-fight-cards-schedule\/423181\/live-watch-ufc-houston-ceremonial-weigh-ins-video-stream-strickland-vs-hernandez-paramount\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:HERE;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">HERE<\/a>) and some last-second staredowns. Check out the biggest faceoffs below and let us know who has the edge heading into Saturday\u2019s card on <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=[sb0220awD][423181][][r][][][][][][][mmamania.com]\" data-i13n=\"elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paramount+;elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Paramount+<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sean Strickland vs. Anthony Hernandez<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cYour f\u2014king guy wrestles! I fight more like a Mexican than that motherf\u2014ker! F-k you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Geoff Neal vs. Uros Medic<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dan Ige vs. Melquizael Costa<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Serghei Spivac vs. Ante Delija<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For more UFC Houston fight card news click\u00a0<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\" data-ylk=\"slk:HERE;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will return to the \u201cLone Star State\u201d to stage UFC Houston tomorrow night (Sat.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[38922,66028,56,58,57,38921,70272,27,48535,69884],"class_list":{"0":"post-173680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-anthony-hernandez","9":"tag-geoff-neal","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-sean-strickland","14":"tag-serghei-spivac","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-toyota-center","17":"tag-ufc-fight-night"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173680","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=173680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}