Gregory Rodrigues Takes Unanimous Decision Over Anthony Hernandez in Sacramento
Gregory Rodrigues won a five-round unanimous decision over Anthony Hernandez in the UFC Sacramento main event. The judges scored it 48-47, 49-46, and 48-47 for Rodrigues after 25 minutes at Golden 1 Center.
The official result at UFC Fight Night: Hernandez vs. Rodrigues went the full distance. Referee Herb Dean’s middleweight headliner ended at 5:00 of Round 5.
Rodrigues improved to 20-6 overall and 11-3 in the UFC. Hernandez fell to 15-4 with one no-contest and 9-4 inside the promotion.
The scorecards show how close it stayed. Two judges had it 3-2 for the Brazilian, while the wider 49-46 card gave him four rounds.
Rodrigues, 34, brought the size edge at 6-foot-3 to Hernandez’s 6-foot even. Both men listed the same 75-inch reach and weighed 185 pounds.
Hernandez tried to make it a wrestling fight from the start. He shot early, pinned Rodrigues to the fence, and looked for the pressure that built his eight-fight winning streak before this year.
Rodrigues answered with knees in the clinch and the heavier kicking game. Late in the fight he put Hernandez down with a leg kick, worked from top position, and forced “Fluffy” to elbow off his back before a late reversal.
It was a home-area main event for Hernandez, who lives in El Dorado Hills. The Northern California crowd did not get the rebound he wanted after a costly spring.
Hernandez entered ranked No. 6 at middleweight. He was coming off a third-round TKO loss to Sean Strickland on Feb. 21 at UFC Houston, a fight that ended an eight-fight winning streak and a title-eliminator run.
Strickland is the UFC middleweight champion. Saturday did not put Hernandez back in that conversation.
Rodrigues entered at No. 11 on a three-fight winning streak. He had knocked out Brunno Ferreira, stopped Jack Hermansson, and beaten Roman Kopylov, going 6-1 in his previous seven Octagon appearances.
The Gregory Rodrigues decision makes it four in a row. It is also his first UFC main-event win, a statement over a higher-ranked wrestler who had been viewed as the safer path back toward the top five.
The win does not create an immediate title fight. Strickland holds the belt, and the rest of the 185-pound list still includes Khamzat Chimaev, Dricus Du Plessis, and Nassourdine Imavov above both men.
It does scramble the next layer. Rodrigues can move into the top 10 when the rankings update, while Hernandez is now 0-2 in 2026 after arriving as a wrestler who rarely lost rounds.
Rodrigues leaves Sacramento 20-6, with a 25-minute win over a ranked contender and a clearer seat in the middleweight mix.