Red cornerSeanStricklandXtreme Couture · Anaheim, California
VSSettled
Blue cornerAnthonyHernandez“Fluffy”MMA Gold Fight Team · Dunnigan, California
Middleweight Bout3 rounds21 Feb 2026
The story going in
Has finished 5 of 16 UFC wins.
Comes in on a 8-fight win streak.
23 UFC bouts deep — 12 more than Hernandez.
Has finished 7 of 9 UFC wins.
31-7
Record
15-4
34
Age
−2 yr32
+1″6' 1"
Height
6' 0"
+1″76″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1223
UFC bouts
11
5/1631% of wins
Finishes
+47%7/978% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
MMA Gold Fight Team
Anaheim, California
From
Dunnigan, California
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.
The call vs the fight
What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.
Our call
Anthony Hernandez
76.0% confidentHIGH
Method calledDEC 63%
Vs the market+6.5pp
Market had our pick at70%
The fight
Sean Strickland
LOSS✗
How it endedKO/TKO
Round3 of 3
Clock2:23
MissedWe called Anthony Hernandez at 76.0% — Sean Strickland won. The method call missed as well.
Graded against the official UFC result, from
the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict
is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads
as one. See the full public record →
Round by round
Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes
actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.
UFCStats · per round
3 rounds of tape
Round 15:00 of action
Sean Strickland32 sig landedAnthony Hernandez23 sig landed
32 of 90
Sig. strikes
23 of 48
0 of 0
Take- downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:20
0
Knock- downs
0
Distance 32Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Sean Strickland37 sig landedAnthony Hernandez23 sig landed
37 of 79
Sig. strikes
23 of 47
0 of 0
Take- downs
0 of 0
0:08
Control
0:04
0
Knock- downs
0
Distance 37Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 32:23 of action⚡ 1 KD StricklandEnded 2:23
Sean Strickland41 sig landedAnthony Hernandez9 sig landed
41 of 72
Sig. strikes
9 of 27
0 of 0
Take- downs
0 of 0
0:10
Control
0:08
1
Knock- downs
0
Distance 32Clinch 2Ground 7
Where it happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.
How it ended
This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.
Won inside the distance
Sean Strickland
Round
3
Clock
2:23
Method
KO/TKO
This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Herb Dean.
Still to come on this page
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lands in the next pass of this build-out.
The market story coming in this build-out
What the price did in the week before the cage door shut, with the moment our
pick was frozen marked on it. Where we captured no price history for a bout, this
panel will say so rather than draw a line that was never there.