Watch the full fight between Michel Pereira and Anthony Hernandez from UFC! This explosive matchup delivered non-stop action, with Pereira’s unorthodox striking against Hernandez’s relentless grappling. Who came out on top? Relive every moment here!
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00:00all right gentlemen we've been over the rules protect yourself at all times follow my instructions
00:16gonna keep it clean touch gloves let's do it there has been a healthy dose dose of respect
00:23between these two now it's time to leave that outside the octagon michelle pareda
00:32and anthony hernandez
00:36fight finishers on both sides of this one ready ready do it
00:41types of the gloves and we're underway hernandez is in the green pareda is in yellow
00:45very much chaos versus control
00:55but both are very aggressive fighters in their own respective ways
01:08was a solid front that hurt that hurt him right off the bat and that's all it takes go to the body
01:14shut down the toughest guys unleashing now hernandez trying to grapple
01:20heavy artillery he's deployed by pareda it's still the body that he's hurting him
01:26but we've seen hernandez in these positions before where he's got to paddle through some adversity
01:31early on oh man the body work is just so smart go right to the body early no matter how tough you
01:37are if you get hit in the body right it just doesn't matter it folds you the five fight win
01:43streak of hernandez started in this building against adolfo vieira he was getting tuned up in the first
01:48round and staged an epic comeback submission win
01:51this is where hernandez wants to fight whether pareda puts him there or not that's where hernandez
01:59wants to fight is up against the fence or in a 50-50 over over under
02:03that was a piece of tape that came off of the left ear of hernandez he kind of has those discs in
02:10his ears that he has to take out and they tape up yeah they never stay where they're supposed to
02:20hernandez already starting to get that smother style going he's already
02:24heavy output right down and that's all that matters it doesn't have to he doesn't have to get the
02:28takedowns right away but just that pressure grabbing holding and pulling on his head
02:33dirty boxing making michelle pareda work
02:36i like the creativity that hurts i mean i've been hit with that before the heel to the thigh that's
03:00i've been hit with that straight to the cup thanks edson you didn't think
03:07this is good this is more of what hernandez got to do just keep attempting even if they don't work
03:12out the first time well he didn't expect quick work of data he knew he was dealing with explosiveness
03:19especially early on but he said once we get to the second third round it works out for me perfectly
03:25on paper we'll see if it plays out that way well and that's what we've seen in his last three
03:29fights as he he finished got a third round finish second round he likes to wear on you at first
03:40there's a nice right hand right into his shot
03:45no wizard see how he's cupping the chin that's not going to defend the single leg most of the time
03:50but he was able to because he's so strong and such good balance so athletic he was able to defend that
03:55one but as the fight goes on he's going to need to get that overhook wizard to defend those single legs
04:00from hernandez
04:05i think pareda's got to go back to the body the front kick really hurt hernandez early
04:12or at least it seemed to i can't say that it did officially he didn't go down good jab
04:16good sprawl there by pareda
04:24pareda using the tie clinch hernandez punches his way out of it
04:30one two activity coming in waves from hernandez and this is where hernandez starts to find his
04:35striking right because he keeps you guessing he'll go for a shot it'll fail right away he'll come up
04:40uppercut up the middle over the top just like that pop pop pop pitter pat you in on a shot but after a
04:46while it just starts to wear on you
04:56beautiful big spin that connected heavy now he's got the double now he'll go to the body lot pull
05:03that leg out try to trip it got it mission accomplished this fight is a hernandez fight
05:10through the first four and a half look how he stepped over and trapped that leg right off the bat
05:14these are the things that makes hernandez so dangerous he doesn't give you a good position
05:18off the takedown he's got paid up folded to one side where he is not powerful he's not strong and you
05:24can't be athletic here because your body's twisted so hernandez can pour his pressure on and now work
05:31his elbows smothering pressure for hernandez through most of the first round
05:40second round coming up quick one of eight on takedowns but it was that grinding style that he loves
05:47and right in on another shot to start round two but what did he do right before that he shot right
05:52before he shot stiff jab then in on the takedown right that's what makes him successful it's not
05:57the greatest wrestler but he mixes in his strikes and makes his opponents worried about that before
06:03the story level changes time hey over there okay this is the second time okay you keep control of
06:11those fingers keep them in all right you ready oh i didn't know that there was an eye poke i thought
06:17it was more of a preemptive warning quick one yeah got him a little bit yeah it's kind of kinky
06:24kind of glancing he should be okay two time finger in my i've addressed it are you ready to fight yeah
06:36okay let's fight he wanted a point he's already breathing heavy everybody wants a point kidding
06:42me and that puts the guy you're fighting on the front foot they got to work then and then it creates
06:47this opening so beautiful another another one oh he's got a bad way up it's the high low the high
06:59low that's the most exhausting thing you can do to somebody that's the corner of hernandez they've
07:14already taken steam off of that fastball of pareda and aside from those garages to the body from
07:21pareda in round one he really hasn't put together striking numbers since then well he's having a hard
07:27time getting anything to land on hernandez because of the pressure and his hands are up
07:36still strong enough to be dangerous here yeah if he can get them out this is trouble
07:40hernandez trying to ride it out
07:47he's getting a little bit of space he's got to come up on top here he's going to lose the position
07:51once hernandez gets that leg out hernandez wants to get that bottom leg out the one that's on he's
07:56on his hip once he gets that leg out he can just swivel right out and get the top position nice job
08:01pareda just needed to bail on that a little sooner and he wouldn't be on bottom right now he just held
08:09on a little too low and now his arms burned out i was just going to say and it wasn't in a good
08:13position so that was all pure squeeze and this is where hernandez loves to be just like we saw
08:21darren elkins do he says you know what go ahead and try to submit me when you miss the submission i'm
08:26going to wear you out and he's just doing such a nice job but when he gets to these positions he
08:32does not just hold he is looking to strike and beat you up he's working moving forward at all times
08:39look out his head's at over the top of the haters and that's just exhausting pressure now he's got the
08:45back giving up his back arm triangle arm triangle choke here a threat from hernandez but pareda able to
08:53explode out of it awesome job by her by pareda yeah way to stay in there way to stay alive get out
08:59of that bad spot hopefully he's been working on that cardio because this is how hernandez is going
09:06to fight for the next three rounds well he hasn't needed it in a long time this is the first second
09:11round for michel pareda since 2022 when he went the distance against santiago ponzinibbio that was more
09:16than two years ago now hernandez not letting him off the hook this is the melting that hernandez
09:26hernandez always talks about i'm going to melt him i'm going to break him this is it this is what it
09:31looks like because he's not winning in one position he's winning by exhausting this man and now he's got
09:36that trapped arm guillotine it's his favorite submission and he transitions to an anaconda off that most
09:41the time if you give it up to him but pareda feels it he knows it's coming and so hernandez is not
09:47forcing it he's just keeping the position over the submission nice elbow there back in on the double
09:53leg they're getting easier because he went for the position notice he didn't force the submission attempt
10:00and it's so smart because he's wearing the pressure on pareda now he's got the submission attempt he's
10:09looking for it again pareda feels it stops it again and he gets back on the punches there it is again
10:15he's locking it up there it is he's sitting for the trapped arm guillotine and he transitions to an
10:19anaconda from there and if he loses it top position given oh nice flurry there from fluffy now uncork
10:28some left hands fluffy is relentless back to it again back to the guillotine
10:36back to the top rinse and repeat fair shot that was fairly as close to being illegal but i think it
10:43caught more of the chest he is breaking michelle pareda and these are the fights that anthony
10:50hernandez lives for and he's not going to change his approach hernandez is going to keep using those
10:56two submissions back to back to back every round you see him fight this is what you're going to see
11:02this is what he's looking to do to everybody heavy elbows from hernandez as he pins down the right arm of
11:07pareda short time on the clock in round two but he's close to stopping it he might need one more
11:14round but if he keeps doing what he's doing right there he can get it done
11:30he landed that one teeth kick at the beginning of the fight we haven't seen one since
11:34no because this pressure you can't teeth kick somebody if this is the kind of pressure they're
11:38smaller octagon as well plays to the approach of anthony hernandez oh yeah this this suits him
11:45even smaller would suit him even more right just right in your face the whole time oh man he's just
11:50pain is just out of gas and his corner told him to take this whole entire round to recover
11:56how are you going to do you can't do that you can't do that what are you going to go sit in the
12:03corner and say oh i'd like to wait a minute like i i know what they mean but that's just to me that's
12:09especially against a fighter like this yeah he's not going to allow you uh to do that
12:18and i get what they mean they want him to try to move around and yeah you're right but
12:22hernandez is not going to allow you to have space he's going to be in your grill the whole time
12:26you've got to hurt him with strikes
12:31hernandez drags pareda right back to in front of his corner
12:37hernandez's corner that is
12:41four of 19 on takedowns for hernandez but it's not it's not about landing at a high
12:45so elbows are there making him wrestle for as long as possible
12:56nice knee there
12:59it's just technique and this is great for fluffy hernandez to be right i mean you're right here
13:16you can dial in listen to advice they can talk you through things that you can't quite see
13:21three minutes left i mean this could be the last round right here the way it looked in the second if
13:26he starts to to get off the ground and pound the way he did in the end of both of these rounds then
13:31yeah close with your left arm on his face and then elbow hard or submission and the ground and pound
13:36or submission he's going to pull that and lost it i always say it because pahita just looks
13:42absolutely exhausted if he wouldn't look so exhausted he'd have a chance obviously but he's just
13:47look he's he's out of gas i think this is all he needs to do honestly and then that'll give him
13:54the opportunity for the neck if fluffy wants to get the neck i think he just needs to tee off on the
13:59strikes forcing pareda to have to lean up to get out of that bad spot in order in doing that he's
14:05going to give up his neck potentially all that pareda has left is going to just trying to survive
14:18another minute now full mount for fluffy as he postures up significant ground strikes is a shutout
14:26and a route at that for hernandez
14:30nice job to the side position now established again for hernandez
14:41hooks that leg and he's got that split
14:45now he's got the back and he can go back and forth between taking the arm triangle
14:49taking the back and this is a choke right here that's locked this is close yeah that's like 90
14:53seconds on the clock
14:57it's not a finish yet but it is locked up oh that's going to leave a mark that looks painful
15:04while the body language not good here for pareda if hernandez can pile up some numbers
15:09you've got a minute you might not need a tap
15:22watch the guillotine attempt to come but that's why you're seeing pay to keep that wrist
15:26so he can't go for that guillotine again
15:28so he can attack with submission attempts and punch 45 seconds let's just make sure we recover for
15:40that next round and just keep working head to the cage keep working hey break that body down
15:48those are nasty elbows to the thigh and ribs there from hernandez when you're already exhausted that's
15:55that's what's going on
16:04yeah i think that's a smart idea to just keep doing damage 20 seconds probably not going to get the
16:09finish just keep because he gives us a little wave hello let it go let it go
16:15oh man there's the horn to end the third round
16:34fourth round bernandez as you would expect
16:39another place on him like white on rice as the saying goes i mean at this point it just looks
16:45like pajetta adjusting to whatever hernandez chooses to do it's like okay whatever you're
16:50going to do i'm ready for here it comes all right and it's hernandez being first on every single decision
16:55so far
17:06right for hernandez pareda tried the big knee that would have changed the fortunes of the fight but
17:14hernandez walked right through it as he has done so many times before
17:19on this five fight win streak that he looks to extend to six
17:25right
17:43i think this is an opportunity here in this position for hernandez just start throwing strikes
17:49just stay close
18:03hernandez trying to drag him down again
18:19spills him gently yeah i tried to he tried to hoist him maybe forgot how big of a dude but it is
18:35tried to get that high crotch and pick him up and dump him but it doesn't matter still effective
18:41got him back down on the ground
18:42since round one but michelle paredes landed just nine significant strikes
18:56that's insane and the body work was good early but hernandez knew if i can get past that early
19:02the explosiveness and take the fight to where i'm comfortable then he's going to be in for it and
19:10that's exactly how it's played out it's going to have to be somebody that has a very decorated grappling
19:16background that's going to be able to deal with hernandez and that's the only way
19:37significant drown strikes hernandez working on a record he's already got it at 113.
19:44i mean if this fight goes to the end of the fifth i mean he might put some distance behind that
19:50he's also attempted 24 takedowns the middleweight record in the ufc is 26.
19:59still has a round to beat it there's 25.
20:04and he got it
20:05back to the cage circle a little bit to your right
20:12there you go
20:18oh these hammers are getting heavy
20:31it's been one way traffic
20:44it's just a beating it's just a complete beating at this point
20:48and hernandez now 100 ahead of his previous best in significant strikes and counting
20:58spinning elbow i thought might have ended it for good he might want to just start teeing off on
21:05the feet i don't even think pareda can lift his arms at this point he starts trading with pareda you
21:11give him a shot size of this guy big time swelling on the left eye of pareda now it's pareda
21:20that is a very bad sign
21:25short time on the clock before they head to a fifth he's like just please stop shooting on me
21:31okay let's fight
21:36all right respect shown by hernandez in what's been a beat down so far for the california fighter
21:42i think pareda's corner hyped up hernandez more than pareda
21:46yeah i think he's past the point of motivational speeches you know what i mean he and you know how
21:53it is like when you're at that level of exhaustion there's just not much that can be said to
21:57i think the big thing that we got to see out of uh hernandez at this point the way he's looked is
22:02let's get that finish i mean he's he's completely dominated this entire fight the only thing missing
22:08is you exhausted him can you get him out of there i mean he's done he can barely hold his arms up you
22:12said it yourself can you get him out of there because pareda's doing a good job just staying alive
22:17right now and not being finished all right now another record for fluffy hernandez he's at 28 takedown
22:23attempts and counting the previous was 26. we've already shown you his significant strike career
22:29best by a wide margin the middleweight record for significant strike differential was rich franklin
22:36who landed 106 more strikes than david loozzo man i remember that and uh hernandez is 160 clear of
22:46pareda right now so he's smashed that record as well
22:50i mean the only thing that's left for fluffy is finishing this one before the scorecards are
23:18needed yeah that's it he's gonna send pareda home with a battle scar in addition to a loss
23:25easier said than done even as tired as pareda is to finish somebody in this octagon it just shows you
23:30how difficult it really is yeah give credit to the guys who get it done
23:38now three-quarter mount just hardly on the back i mean he is just covering his mouth and his nose so he
23:45can't breathe blood everywhere just making it nasty as he can
23:52oh yeah this could be it that's gonna do it middleweight contenders beware of fluffy
24:02it's six straight wins for anthony hernandez who absolutely punishes michelle pareda
24:09a new contender has emerged at 185 pounds he was unrelenting
24:25let's take a look at some of these replays
24:30fernandez throwing that jab and then right away jab two follow it up with the right hand and then a shot
24:37fake it and throw the shot now the knee was a good timing but now when you throw that knee
24:41all right that's all you got putting you back on your back that's the only shot you're gonna throw
24:46and now look at this elbow i mean just nasty right over the eye to put a little stamp on the work done
24:53by hernandez that elbow was beautiful and then we got the finish here where he just rains down more and
24:59more elbows herb dean's seen enough gets in there and stops the fight well weather smashing violence
25:06from his win on dana white's contender series in 2018 ladies and gentlemen the incomes officially two
25:12minutes 22 seconds round number five referee herb dean puts a halt to the fight your winner by tko anthony
25:21floppy hernandez