{"id":821858,"date":"2026-07-24T23:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821858\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:39:09","slug":"salahdine-parnasse-signs-with-ufc-draws-ufc-paris-main-event-opposite-dan-hooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821858\/","title":{"rendered":"Salahdine Parnasse signs with UFC, draws UFC Paris main event opposite Dan Hooker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Looks like Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/6\/18\/24181487\/top-free-agent-double-champion-declined-ufc-offer-was-between-20-30-times-less-than-new-ksw-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finally paid the big bucks<\/a> to get French lightweight Salahdine Parnasse to make his Octagon debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">According to a report by Ariel Helwani, Parnasse has officially signed with UFC and will be making his long-awaited crossover at UFC Paris on Sept. 5 in Paris, France. Parnasse is expected to fight lightweight veteran Dan Hooker in the main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Parnasse, 28, has been one of the very best fighters competing outside of UFC over the past half decade. The former KSW featherweight and lightweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/6\/18\/24181487\/top-free-agent-double-champion-declined-ufc-offer-was-between-20-30-times-less-than-new-ksw-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nearly signed with UFC back in 2024<\/a>, but he would have ended up making \u201c20-30 times less\u201d than his richer KSW deal. Two years later and UFC is willing to pay up to get Parnasse\u2019s services. Maybe it\u2019s because the talented French finisher turned in a first-round knockout on the \u201cRousey vs. Carano\u201d Netflix card earlier this year. His stock has never been higher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Hooker, on the other hand, has fallen on some tough times inside of the Octagon. After winning three-straight fights at 155 pounds from 2022-2024, the 36-year-old veteran has lost his last two trips to the cage. While those losses came against top contenders Arman Tsarukyan and Benoit Saint Denis it\u2019s still important for Hooker to right the ship heading into the final months of 2026. Getting past Parnasse will be a tough task, but \u201cHangman\u201d certainly has the chops to play spoiler on enemy soil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Stick with Mania for ongoing UFC Paris fight card news and coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looks like Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) finally paid the big bucks to get French lightweight Salahdine Parnasse to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-821858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821858","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=821858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}