{"id":451923,"date":"2026-02-01T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/451923\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:31:10","slug":"fighters-react-to-benoit-saint-denis-beatdown-of-dan-hooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/451923\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighters react to Benoit Saint Denis beatdown of Dan Hooker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 325: Fighters react to Benoit Saint Denis beatdown of Dan Hooker<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jan. 31, 2026Updated Feb. 1, 2026, 12:52 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__yt_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cEHCEW4Wj8A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-g-r=\"vp_tg\" aria-label=\"Play YouTube video\" data-v-t=\"Benoit Saint Denis warns Arman Tsarukyan but aiming for UFC or BMF title | UFC 325\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img gnt_em_vp_img__yn\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/cEHCEW4Wj8A\/maxresdefault.jpg\" onload=\"if(this.naturalWidth&lt;200){this.setAttribute('onload','this.classList.remove(\\'gnt_em_vp_img__yn\\')');this.src=\" https:=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Benoit Saint Denis got a signature win for his resume at <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-325-volkanovski-vs-lopes-2\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 325<\/a> when he defeated longtime lightweight fan favorite Dan Hooker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Saint Denis (17-3 MMA, 9-3 UFC) has now won four straight since his only carer losing skid with a second-round TKO triumph over Hooker (24-14 MMA, 14-10 UFC) on Saturday at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney to put himself in the mix for more big fights at 155 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Check below for the top X (formerly Twitter) reactions to Saint Denis beating Hooker at UFC 325.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 mmajunkie.usatoday.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC 325: Fighters react to Benoit Saint Denis beatdown of Dan Hooker Jan. 31, 2026Updated Feb. 1, 2026,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[202558,43,44,203779,203780,203781,202563,203139,212599,205671,206603,41,39,42,40,202561],"class_list":{"0":"post-451923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sstssportsufc","12":"tag-sstsnufc","13":"tag-tagmartial-arts","14":"tag-tagoverall-positive","15":"tag-tagsports-news","16":"tag-tagtwitter","17":"tag-tagufc","18":"tag-tagufc-325","19":"tag-top-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topnews","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}