Sean Strickland and Anthony Hernandez are set to do battle as the UFC heads back to Texas.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, UFC Houston goes down at Toyota Center, headlined by a middleweight matchup between former champion Strickland and surging contender \u201cFluffy\u201d Hernandez, with middleweight title implications on the line. Strickland is a popular former champion coming off a win over Paulo Costa, and has already laid the seeds for a fight with current champion Khamzat Chimaev, while Hernandez has won eight in a row, positioning himself as one of 185\u2019s biggest bogeymen, but can either surpass top contender Nassourdine Imavov with a standout performance on Saturday?<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting\u2019s Jed Meshew and Alexander K. Lee preview UFC Houston and what\u2019s at stake between Strickland and Hernandez. Additionally, Meshew and Lee discuss Strickland\u2019s controversial pre-fight comments, the banger of a co-main event between Geoff Neal and Uros Medic, Melqi Costa\u2019s rising star, Dan Ige\u2019s status as a featherweight litmus test, the undercard bouts they\u2019re most excited for, and more.<\/p>\n
Catch the UFC Houston preview show video above. An audio-only version of the show can be found below and on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Google Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, and wherever you find your favorite podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland and Anthony Hernandez are set to do battle as the UFC heads back to Texas. On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,1194,70315,4395,38902,38903,15796],"class_list":["post-173815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-latest-news","tag-mmaf-podcast-network","tag-podcasts","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173815","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=173815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}