{"id":877350,"date":"2026-09-02T11:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877350\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:16:14","slug":"dan-hooker-on-usman-nurmagomedov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877350\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Hooker On Usman Nurmagomedov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-msn-disclosure=\"commission\">This author receives a commission through recommended links in this content. See our <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/affiliate-disclosure\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-bone transition-colors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">affiliate disclosure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Hooker says he&#8217;d be open to facing PFL <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/lightweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lightweight<\/a> champion Usman Nurmagomedov if he signs with the UFC, pointing to his history of taking on newcomers other ranked fighters avoid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;ll be the same thing with Usman. No one else will take the fight. You think Ilia Topuria&#8217;s going to take that risk of fighting an unranked non-UFC fighter? No one else wants to take the risk,&#8221; Hooker<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f Get tickets: <a href=\"http:\/\/boxingnews.com\/api\/tickets\/click?country=fr&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.fr%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DUFC%2520Paris&amp;slug=ufc-paris-2026-09-05&amp;placement=article-body-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" data-affiliate=\"ticketmaster\" data-placement=\"article-body-1\">Buy tickets to UFC Paris on Ticketmaster \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hooker previously welcomed Michael Chandler to the UFC in January 2021, a fight he lost by first-round knockout. He&#8217;s next set to headline <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/event\/ufc-paris-2026-09-05\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Paris<\/a> on September 5 against Salahdine Parnasse, a two-division KSW champion making his own promotional debut.<\/p>\n<p>Nurmagomedov remains outside the UFC for now, but speculation continues to build around a potential move once his PFL exclusive negotiating window closes at the end of October \u2014 a window made more notable after he recently turned down a $2 million contract offer to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This author receives a commission through recommended links in this content. See our affiliate disclosure. Dan Hooker says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-877350","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\/877350","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=877350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}