{"id":175589,"date":"2026-02-22T17:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175589\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:26:10","slug":"fighters-react-to-sean-strickland-beating-anthony-hernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175589\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighters react to Sean Strickland beating Anthony Hernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Houston: Fighters react to Sean Strickland beating Anthony Hernandez<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Feb. 21, 2026Updated Feb. 22, 2026, 12:19 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__yt_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VVxc3DWYdb0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-g-r=\"vp_tg\" aria-label=\"Play YouTube video\" data-v-t=\"Sean Strickland targets &#039;bully&#039; Khamzat Chimaev after upset of &#039;Fluffy&#039; | UFC Houston\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img gnt_em_vp_img__yn\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/VVxc3DWYdb0\/maxresdefault.jpg\" onload=\"if(this.naturalWidth&lt;200){this.setAttribute('onload','this.classList.remove(\\'gnt_em_vp_img__yn\\')');this.src=\" https:=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/sean-strickland\/\" data-autotag=\"16818cdf-3265-4bdc-a8a8-f2d91f3af900\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Sean Strickland<\/a> is back in the middleweight contender mix after a significant upset of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/anthony-hernandez\/\" data-autotag=\"8faaa23e-63f5-46d9-a4b6-410b56523f76\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Anthony Hernandez<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-houston-strickland-vs-hernandez\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Fight Night 267<\/a> main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Former champion Strickland (30-7 MMA, 17-7 UFC) returned from a yearlong layoff on Saturday at Toyota Center in Houston and ended the winning streak of Hernandez (15-3 MMA, 9-3 UFC) by third-round TKO to put his name in the conversation for another opportunity to compete for 185-pound gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Check below for the top X (formerly Twitter) reactions to Strickland beating Hernandez at UFC Fight Night 267.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em_ig_bl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVDGqCKDuUD\/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" aria-label=\"view Instagram post: \"><\/a><a class=\"gnt_em_ig_bl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVDHiSyDY9A\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" aria-label=\"view Instagram post: \"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 mmajunkie.usatoday.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771781170_918_p.gif\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden\"\/><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Houston: Fighters react to Sean Strickland beating Anthony Hernandez Feb. 21, 2026Updated Feb. 22, 2026, 12:19 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,56,58,57,58842,58843,67369,2518,44407,42,184,58844,46,9025,67368,216,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-175589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-sstssportsufc","13":"tag-sstsnufc","14":"tag-taganthony-hernandez","15":"tag-taghouston","16":"tag-tagmartial-arts","17":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","18":"tag-tagoverall-positive","19":"tag-tagsean-strickland","20":"tag-tagsports-news","21":"tag-tagtwitter","22":"tag-tagufc","23":"tag-tx","24":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175589","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=175589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}