{"id":571070,"date":"2026-03-29T01:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571070\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T01:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:16:10","slug":"lance-gibson-jr-brutally-finishes-chase-hooper-at-ufc-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571070\/","title":{"rendered":"Lance Gibson Jr. Brutally Finishes Chase Hooper at UFC Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being unable to find success in his UFC debut, the second go-around pays off dividends for Lance Gibson Jr., as he scored a first-round finish of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/chase-hooper\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chase Hooper<\/a> during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/ufc-seattle\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Seattle<\/a> prelims.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson had the upper hand early on Hooper, overwhelming the once top UFC prospect with his own grappling. But it was Gibson&#8217;s striking that helped to give him the win.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of a clinch, a left hand from Gibson wobbled Hooper back. Gibson landed a pair of high kicks before landing a pair of knees that dropped Hooper, prompting the ref to wave off the action.<\/p>\n<p>Lance Gibson Jr. Knees His Way To Historic Win Over Chase Hooper At UFC Seattle<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Gibson and his father, Lance Gibson Sr., becomes the first father-son pair to each compete and hold at least one win in the UFC Octagon.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson Jr. made his UFC debut in December at UFC Vegas 112, losing to King Green.<\/p>\n<p>Hooper has now dropped a pair of fights after a three-fight win streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being unable to find success in his UFC debut, the second go-around pays off dividends for Lance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,52241,786,225776,785,85,217780],"class_list":["post-571070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chase-hooper","tag-fighting","tag-lance-gibson-jr","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-seattle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571070","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=571070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}