UFC veteran Dan Hooker has mentioned that he isn’t overly bothered in regards to the headbutt that broke his nostril throughout his pre-fight weigh-in with Arman Tsarukyan.
In the primary occasion of UFC Qatar, Dan Hooker fell quick in a defeat to Arman Tsarukyan. Nonetheless, one of many greatest tales popping out of the combat was the truth that Arman practically brought about the entire combat to be cancelled after he determined to headbutt Hooker throughout the weigh-ins.
Now, for that purpose, amongst a number of others, Tsarukyan is within the doghouse with the UFC and the primary man Dana White. Dan Hooker, in the meantime, has an enormous alternative forward of him at UFC 325 as he prepares to collide with Benoit Saint Denis. If he wins, he might one way or the other he proper again within the combine at 155 kilos.
In a recent interview, Dan Hooker had the next to say in regards to the headbutt.
Dan Hooker on Arman Tsarukyan headbutting incident
“I don’t care that he head‑butted me. I don’t care that he broke my nostril. I wasn’t going to go to the physician and get clearance for one thing. They already let me have one combat with it. I’m not clearing an damage I received at weigh‑in, what I imply? If it’s not that huge of a deal, it’s not that huge of a deal, let’s sweep it underneath the rug and transfer on. However to him say the knee hit me… the knee clipped simply above my eyebrow and it should have clipped a blood vessel after which that’s the place all of the swelling got here from.
“It wasn’t actually quite a lot of injury, what I imply? He shares a put up of me busted up and being like, ‘Take a look at what I did to you. I beat you up so unhealthy that you simply’re now combating two months later, in all probability eight months earlier than I ever get to combat once more.’ I’ll in all probability have two, three fights earlier than I ever… like, I get previous BSD, there’s nonetheless nobody within the division ranked between me and him that’s going to combat him.
“We’re in the identical actual place. That’s why I tweeted him again, I used to be identical to, ‘Yeah, you’re making an attempt to make enjoyable of me, like, take a look at what I did to you, and in 4 days’ time I’m going to be nearer to a title than you might be, bro.’”
