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Gregory Rodrigues admits glove grab, denies cheating vs. Anthony Hernandez

Gregory Rodrigues has dismissed Anthony Hernandez’s cheating claims.

Rodrigues recently defeated Hernandez by decision in a five-round middleweight bout in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, which earned Fight of the Night honors. Hernandez later accused Rodrigues of grabbing his gloves during grappling exchanges in the UFC Sacramento headliner. Rodrigues, however, claims it was inadvertent and had no bearing on the outcome.

Gregory Rodrigues says his glove grab against Anthony Hernandez was inadvertent and had no impact on the fight Rodrigues spoke to Sherdog about the cheating allegations that emerged in the aftermath of his last bout. While ‘Robocop’ admits that he mistakenly grabbed Hernandez’s glove in one instance in the heat of the moment, he says he immediately let it go when his opponent pointed it out.

“There was no cheating,” Rodrigues said. “It happened in the heat of the moment while we were against the fence and as soon as he pointe…

Michael Page slams ‘entitlement issues’ among top UFC welterweights

Michael Page grew tired of waiting around at welterweight.

The former Bellator star recently explained his reasoning for accepting fights at middleweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship ahead of his Octagon return against Nursulton Ruziboev at UFC Paris.

Michael Page explains why UFC welterweight title-shot tactics pushed him toward middleweight Page is 4-1 in the UFC, with his lone defeat in the promotion coming against the last challenger for the 170-pound title, Ian Garry. However, odd bookings followed the loss to Garry, with the Englishman taking on middleweights Sharabutdin Magomedov and Jared Cannonier before dropping back down to welterweight to fight unranked compatriot Sam Patterson in a lackluster bout.

Page claims top-ranked welterweights would rather wait around for a title shot than fight him, prompting the move back up to 185 pounds.

“Everyone at welterweight is, I'm trying to be polite here,” Page said in a recent intervi…

Marlon Vera made difficult change to avoid one regret at end of UFC career

Marlon Vera doesn’t want to live with regret, but admits his coaching change was a tough decision.

Vera (23-12-1) is scheduled to fight Charles Jourdain (18-8) on Sept. 19 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The former title challenger recently revealed that he is no longer working with his longtime striking coach Jason Parillo. He claims the split was amicable, but something had to change to halt his losing streak in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Marlon Vera explains why he left Jason Parillo before UFC 331 Vera says it was hard to part ways with Parillo as they didn’t have any problems with each other since initially linking up in 2018. “Chito” didn’t want to get to the end of his career and wonder whether it would've played out differently if he had made the change.

“I was trying to figure out what I need, what is not getting me to win these close decisions,” Vera told Ariel Helwani. “It was a pretty hard decision because we didn’t have a …