Fans questioned Dan Hooker’s decision-making in his loss at UFC Qatar.
Arman Tsarukyan submitted a hooker in the second round, lightweight main event, on November 22, 2018.
This was just the second time that ‘The Hangman’ has been submitted in the UFC, having been caught in a kimura by Islam Makhachev back in 2021.
Hooker’s assessment of his fight was brutally honest, as he explained what the loss of his three-fight winning streak means for his future.
The fan favorite had no problem admitting he made an error in the fight because of “forgetting”What cost him money on Saturday night?
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Dan Hooker says he forgot that Charles Oliveira couldn’t submit Arman Tsarukyan with a guillotine
Arman Tsarukyan had just six minutes of control before he was able to secure an arm triangle submission during the second round.
Dan Hooker won two UFC fights via guillotine, but many fans thought he was a failure for trying this twice and ending up on the ground.
Hooker joked that the first thing Oscar Willis had said to him after he lost the fight, when he was interviewed by TheMacLife.
“He walks in and he goes, ‘So Charles Oliveira couldn’t guillotine him and you thought you’d give it a crack?’ I did.”
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Oliveira came close to finishing Tsarukyan in their UFC 300 bout, but even the fighter with the most submission wins in the history of the promotion couldn’t secure the tap.
In response to Hooker, Willis claimed that the lightweight’s counter to him was that he “forgot” about ‘Do Bronx’ not being able to catch the number one contender with the same technique.
Hooker admitted that when asked if he felt his choke attempts were near, he too was shocked by Tsarukyan’s ability to reverse the…
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