{"id":36935,"date":"2026-02-22T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Anthony-Hernandez-releases-statement-after-UFC-Houston-defeat-200219"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:49:09","slug":"anthony-hernandez-releases-statement-after-ufc-houston-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/anthony-hernandez-releases-statement-after-ufc-houston-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Hernandez releases statement after UFC Houston defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/anthony-hernandez-releases-statement-after-ufc-houston-defeat.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Anthony-Hernandez-86783\">Anthony<br \/>\nHernandez<\/a> is taking his loss to <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Sean-Strickland-30452\">Sean<br \/>\nStrickland<\/a> in stride.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFluffy\u201d saw an eight-bout winning streak come to an end in the<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-Strickland-vs-Hernandez-110784\"><br \/>\nUFC Houston<\/a> headliner, as he fell to Strickland via third-round<br \/>\ntechnical knockout on Saturday at the Toyota Center. Hernandez<br \/>\nstruggled to match the volume of his opponent before a knee to the<br \/>\nbody from the ex-middleweight king set the stage for the finishing<br \/>\nsequence. Strickland put the reeling Hernandez away with a barrage<br \/>\nof punches at the 2:23 mark of Round 3.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \u201cFirst things first, thank you guys so much everyone who came out,\u201d<br \/>\nHernandez said in an Instagram Story. \u201cShowing me a lot of love,<br \/>\nthat was f\u2014ing awesome. Players f\u2014k up. I mean, I was on an<br \/>\neight-fight win streak. Felt like things were going smooth until I<br \/>\ngot hit with a f\u2014king body shot. Sh\u2014 happens. Part of the game.<br \/>\nTook six years for someone to finally beat me. I\u2019ll be back.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Paying Respect<\/h2>\n<p>While a victory could have made Hernandez next in line for<br \/>\n185-poundt title shot, instead it\u2019s Strickland who finds himself<br \/>\nright back in championship contention following a year layoff<br \/>\n.During his winning streak, Hernandez bested the likes of <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Roman-Dolidze-240323\">Roman<br \/>\nDolidze<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Brendan-Allen-201703\">Brendan<br \/>\nAllen<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Michel-Pereira-135705\">Michel<br \/>\nPereira<\/a> and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Roman-Kopylov-232601\">Roman<br \/>\nKopylov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for the love Houston,\u201d Hernandez captioned a separate<br \/>\nInstagram post. \u201cThe [energy] was unreal. Congratulations to Sean<br \/>\nStrickland. He was the better man tonight, much respect. I\u2019ll be<br \/>\nback better than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVDGqCKDuUD\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.25\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Hernandez is taking his loss to Sean Strickland in stride. \u201cFluffy\u201d saw an eight-bout winning streak come to an end in the UFC Houston headliner, as he fell to Strickland via third-round technical knockout on Saturday at the Toyota Center. Hernandez struggled to match the volume of his opponent before a knee to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}