Jackson McVey Stops Wes Schultz in 1st-Round TKO at 4:13

Q: How did Jackson McVey turn the tables on a past rival to deliver a brutal first-round TKO in their high-stakes rematch?

Jackson McVey flipped the script on Wes Schultz by avenging a 2020 amateur loss and stopping him with strikes late in the opening round, finishing the rematch by TKO at 4:13 of Round 1 at UFC Sacramento. The key reversal was tactical and developmental. Schultz had submitted McVey by armbar in just 41 seconds in their earlier meeting, so the rematch centered on whether McVey could avoid the grappling danger that beat him the first time. Pre-fight analysis pointed to McVey’s growth since then, especially his improved finishing ability, length at 6-foot-4, and his habit of forcing fast, damaging exchanges. That is exactly how the fight turned. Rather than getting dragged into the kind of submission battle Schultz wanted, McVey kept the bout in his preferred range and turned the matchup into a striking fight. Schultz had shown vulnerability to early damage in previous UFC-level action, and McVey capitalized, overwhelming him before the first round ended. The result was a high-stakes piece of revenge. Their rematch had extra attention because of both the prior loss and the viral weigh-in faceoff where the lookalike middleweights recreated the Spider-Man pointing meme. But once the cage door shut, McVey answered the old defeat in the clearest possible way: he stayed out of the submission trap, imposed his pressure, and delivered a brutal first-round stoppage.

Q: Did the clash between Hernandez's relentless wrestling and Rodrigues' knockout power end in a shocking upset at UFC Sacramento?

There is no evidence in the provided reports that the Hernandez-Rodrigues main event ended in a shocking upset. The coverage you supplied is largely pre-fight or live-results framework, and it consistently framed Anthony Hernandez as the favorite because of his pressure, pace and takedown-heavy attack. Gregory Rodrigues was widely described as the live underdog because of his knockout power, but not the expected winner. Betting lines in the material had Hernandez around a -190 to -200 favorite, with Rodrigues in the +160 range. Crucially, none of the cited result summaries actually states that Rodrigues upset Hernandez or that Hernandez won as expected. The available results pages list the bout as the main event but do not include the final outcome in the excerpts provided. By contrast, the prelim results for Jackson McVey and Shanelle Dyer are explicitly reported, showing that if the main event result were known in the supplied text, it likely would have been stated the same way. So the accurate answer is that a shocking upset cannot be confirmed from the information here. The matchup was billed as a classic “pressure vs. power” clash, and Rodrigues had the kind of one-punch threat that could produce an upset, but the supplied material does not show that this happened.

3 articles · Updated · MMA Fighting · Aug 22

Jackson McVey finished Wes Schultz by TKO from strikes at 4:13 of Round 1 on the UFC Sacramento preliminary card Saturday at Golden 1 Center.
The stoppage made McVey one of the early finishers in Sacramento, where Shanelle Dyer also earned a TKO, stopping Elise Reed at 1:42 of Round 3.
UFC Sacramento was headlined by a middleweight main event between Anthony Hernandez and Gregory Rodrigues, with Serghei Spivac vs. Vitor Petrino serving as the co-main event.