{"id":824221,"date":"2026-07-26T04:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824221\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T04:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:19:12","slug":"parnasse-signs-with-ufc-to-debut-vs-hooker-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824221\/","title":{"rendered":"Parnasse signs with UFC, to debut vs. Hooker in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former KSW two-division champion Salahdine Parnasse has signed with the UFC and will make his debut against Dan Hooker, the promotion announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The fight will headline UFC Paris on Sept. 5 at Accor Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Parnasse is coming off a win at the Ronda Rousey-Gina Carano event in May on Netflix, defeating Kenny Cross by first-round TKO to extend his winning streak to six. The 28-year-old Frenchman holds a 23-2 record as a professional.<\/p>\n<p>Hooker is looking to rebound from back-to-back losses to Benoit Saint Denis and Arman Tsarukyan. The 36-year-old New Zealander hasn&#8217;t won since a split decision over Mateusz Gamrot in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>UFC Paris will also feature a middleweight bout between Michael &#8220;Venom&#8221; Page and Nursulton Ruziboev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former KSW two-division champion Salahdine Parnasse has signed with the UFC and will make his debut against Dan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-824221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824221","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=824221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}