Dan Hooker has always answered the call for the UFC, but at the moment he keeps his best interests in mind.
With the UFC on the way to Perth on September 28, the whore of New Zealand was ready to book a fight for that map, although he is still recovering from undergoing a hand operation last March. He changed thoughts in the week of UFC 317 in June, when he was refused tickets to be present in T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas to watch friend and teammate Kai Kara-France challenging flight weight champion Alexandre Pantoja.
The incident left a sour taste in Hooker’s mouth.
‘They tried to get me out of bed at 7.30 am [eastern time]- The UFC has booked me for what shit – which is three in the morning new -Zeeland time, “Hooker said Submission radio. “I didn’t even go out. I had an early night, but I don’t get off at three o’clock in the morning to do just about everything. I slept in it and I didn’t go to the UFC. They have canceled my tickets for Kai’s fight and then it is, I will go back to cancel a company. I put my name off a list.
“You work in the office, brother, I work in the – you think there would be a bit more respect for boys who literally give their lives. The amount of blood, sweat and tears that I have deposited to put shows on that company, I thought there would be a little more respect for me.
Hooker did not clarify exactly why his tickets for UFC 317 were withdrawn, but he made it clear that he would not make a quick change for the promotion, even though he wanted to fight home closer to the Perth card. He is now looking at a new York Pay-Perview card to be received, which the UFC usually organizes every year in November.
For his next opponent, Hooker wants to take on the top of competition Arman Tsarukyan, and although that matchup would probably determine the number 1 competition on 155 pounds for champion Ilia Topuria, “The Hangman” is not interested in in the event of a considerable extra wage.
“Twenty Grand for an extra ten minutes is the current rate,” Hooker said. “I am a logical thinker. In which world do I get half a million dollars for 15 minutes and do I get half an hour of dollars for half an hour for half an hour?
“When I used to work in the Bloody Kitchen Factory, you think I did a day of eight hours and got a few hundred dollars and then I will do twice as much work and get a fraction more money. It’s just not logical for me.” Oh, but you know, for the experience. ” Do it your f*cking donkey, Bro, I’m not going to work.
Even when Hooker broadcast his grievances with the promotion he has mentioned at home since 2014, he also praised the UFC for his business insight. At the moment it has a popular champion at the top lightweight division in Topuria, and a number of potential challengers who stand in line for his first defense of that title.
Hooker explained how this scenario is of design.
“The UFC is smart than F*ck,” Hooker said. “They never paint themselves in a situation in which there is a clear no. 1 contender who has to fight for the belt, because if they are ever in that situation, negotiations are clearly very difficult for them. If the fans are 100 percent locked and expect that there is only one man who is useful for the title, do you think when they are sitting and negotiating, the UFC is in a strong position?
‘Now they have it [Justin] Gaethje that they can have, they have Arman that they still said, not, but he is still logical for the title. Paddy Pimblett was able to get up because he has f*cking beef out of his ears. So they always have three boys who can justify title shots in a title fighting situation, because if they have one man, they go to the first man, he starts playing hard ball, then they can go to the second man, they can go to the third man, then they can go back to the first man. At the end of the day it is things and the fight that is most dollars, the most logical for the UFC. “
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