Dan Hooker teasing moving up to WW

[kalabula]

Good move. If true.

He has already KO’d Gilbert Burns in under a round. I think he’d give Luque, Thompson, and Jorge a good run in the stand up department.

Outside of Colby, Khamzat, and Usman. I think Hooker does really well.

Ya. He’ll get some fresh matchups to make some cash. That’s about all he can hope for at this point. I mean, he’s not taking the belt.

 

[usernamee]

got raped by Islam like he was a white belt

"lets go to the ultimate wrestlers division"

 

[JustBleed69]

“Doin’ a little something something at the moment,” Hooker said with a smile. “Gotta make your next move your best move. Let’s just say I’m working with the UFC and a fight dietician very closely and I’m doing a little test run and we’ll see. I’ll be able to answer every question on next week’s show.”

“Let’s just put it this way, it’d take a million bucks to get me back down to featherweight,” he said. “I ain’t going back. Just, I feel like myself [at 155]. I was stepping in there at feather and I just felt like I was taking away from my abilities. I think the most [it affected me] was mentally. I felt not clear-headed in there and I couldn’t think, and my skill and my ability to out-think the other guy is what separates me from the rest of the pack.”

“So rather than carrying the extra size, trying to be bigger and stronger, I just scrapped the weight cut, scrap all of that, I’m just going to fight at my weight and do my skillset justice, and I think I can beat anyone in the world doing it like that.”

I've been saying for a while he should do this.

Would hope he would take some time off, do some S & C, eat right , and really train his wrestling/ grappling hard.

He's as big or bigger than many WWs.
Look at Burns for example.

 

[VinceArch]

Another fighter figuring out that the weight cut has more disadvantages than advantages. Good.

Unfortunately I think he's going to 145

 

[Herwald]

MW, baby, let's go!

 

[ColombianFist]

Might have some success but when he'll face bigger guys he'll crumble.