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Eight fights at the Golden 1 Center, from a middleweight main event to a pair of unbeaten prospects — here's where to plant your flag before you build the grid.
On Saturday, 22 August 2026, the UFC rolls into the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento with a middleweight main event on top and a card stacked with heavyweights, unbeaten prospects, and grudge-style pick’em fodder. Eight fights, plenty of arguments to be had. Let’s walk it top to bottom and figure out who you’d back — and where the real coin-flips live.
Anthony Hernandez (15-3-0) hosts on home American soil against Brazil’s Gregory Rodrigues (19-6-0). On paper Rodrigues carries the bigger win column, but Hernandez brings the tighter loss record — only three defeats in eighteen fights. This is the classic holivar setup: volume of experience versus a cleaner ledger. Pick your lane and be ready to defend it, because both men have been finished before and both have done plenty of finishing.
Here’s the fight for the pound-for-pound romantics. Reinier de Ridder (21-4-0) of the Netherlands owns the flashiest record on the card — twenty-one wins. Georgia’s Roman Dolidze (15-5-0) is the tougher out than his record suggests, a live underdog by the numbers who has a habit of being in nobody’s easy night. If you love backing the man with the gaudier win total, de Ridder is your pick. If you like the guy everyone underrates, Dolidze is the contrarian’s flag to plant.
Two heavyweight scraps, two very different flavors. Serghei Spivac (18-6-0) of Moldova is the seasoned name against Brazil’s Vitor Petrino (14-2-0), who walks in with only two career losses — the fresher, hungrier ledger against the battle-tested one. That’s a genuine intrigue fight.
Just below it, Kennedy Nzechukwu (14-6-1) of Nigeria meets Bahrain’s Shamil Gaziev (14-3-0). Gaziev owns the cleaner record and, at heavyweight, one clean shot rewrites the whole scorecard. This is the kind of bout where the grid gets messy — heavyweights rarely go to plan, so weigh how confident you really are before you lock it.
The undercard hides the card’s most interesting question marks. Jeisla Chaves (8-0-0) of Brazil carries a spotless record into her strawweight meeting with America’s Carli Judice (6-2-0) — an unbeaten run always makes for a loud debate. And at lightweight, Gauge Young (11-3-0) brings the deepest win column of the night’s prospects against Kody Steele (8-1-0), who has just a single loss to his name. Zero-loss versus one-loss is exactly the kind of matchup that splits a room.
Favorites up top, coin-flips in the middle, unbeaten prospects lurking below — this card has an argument on every line. Open the app, lock in your winners from the main event down to the openers, and see whether your read on Sacramento beats your friends’. Who’s your pound-for-pound pick tonight?