The Die Hard MMA Podcast · Clint MacLean

UFC Houston Sean Strickland vs Anthony Hernandez

February 17, 2026·2 hr 13 min·5 clips

Clint exposes a suspected UFC fight fix where Yadier Diwali's win over Isaac Dulgarian was rigged.

The break week lands like withdrawal. The host starts there: the layoff felt brutal, football was gone, hockey was on winter break, the Olympics were rolling, and the usual sports rhythm had gone quiet. Houston is the thing to grab onto. This is not a calm fight preview. It sounds like a show getting its pulse back, feeding off guest energy, betting nerves, and the relief of finally having fights to argue about. The reads stay twitchy in a useful way. Doubt gets said out loud before the host settles where the transcript lets him settle. Nora Cornol gets treated like the live wire on the card. She is powerful, dangerous, 36 years old, technically rough, and somehow still threatening late. The scary part is that she can look tired, then punish one loose opening. The host brings up Amanda Lemos and Yoel Romero as menace comps, while still making clear that Cornol is not polished. That is what makes the bet feel dirty instead of simple. Jocelyn Edwards is where the read gets personal. The host talks through missed tickets, split-decision pain, and finally catching the right side after years of getting burned. Edwards has changed. She is big, strong, loose about weight misses, confrontational, and now much nastier in the grappling that used to be the doubt spot. That forces a reset. If a fighter improves exactly where everyone kept fading her, the old read can turn on you. Then Dan Ige closes it out. The stance is blunt: if Ige does not find the knockout, the host does not trust him to win a clean fifteen minutes. Costa has the range case, with kicks to the body, head, and legs from both sides. The small cage leaves Ige some danger, but the argument leans toward Costa staying outside and making him chase.

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A noisy Houston preview that turns fight reads into accountable argument.

This UFC Houston preview returns from a brutal break week sounding restless but focused, and the host moves quickly into fight reads. The guest spot adds a little lift, while the pace stays anchored to matchup talk instead of drifting far from the card.

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Press play for Houston fight reads, betting scars, and zero polished nonsense.

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