{"id":877528,"date":"2026-09-02T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877528\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:48:11","slug":"salahdine-parnasse-doesnt-care-about-dan-hookers-silly-trash-talk-ahead-of-ufc-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877528\/","title":{"rendered":"Salahdine Parnasse doesn&#8217;t care about Dan Hooker&#8217;s &#8216;silly&#8217; trash talk ahead of UFC Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trending:<a class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/mike-perry\/mike-perry-speaks-out-after-suffering-injury-during-upset-loss-to-brandon-jenkins-health-is-wealth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Perry speaks out after suffering injury during upset loss to Brandon Jenkins: \u201cHealth is wealth\u201d<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-02-145112-Cropped-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"nlz w-full h-auto wp-post-image\" alt=\"Salahdine Parnasse\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>ufcfra on Instagram<\/p>\n<p>UFC newcomer Salahdine Parnasse isn\u2019t bothered about Dan Hooker\u2019s trash talk heading into the UFC Paris main event.<\/p>\n<p>For the longest time, mixed martial arts fans who follow promotions outside of the UFC have been praising Salahdine Parnasse. He\u2019s done great work across multiple countries and weight classes, and now, he\u2019s arrived in the big time.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/salahdine-parnasse-explains-why-he-decided-to-sign-with-the-ufc-and-headline-ufc-paris-against-dan-hooker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salahdine Parnasse explains why he decided to sign with the UFC and headline UFC Paris against Dan Hooker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salahdine Parnasse will be going head to head with Dan Hooker in the main event of UFC Paris, giving you an idea of how highly they think of him given that he has yet to compete for the Ultimate Fighting Championship.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, after Hooker issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/dan-hooker\/dan-hooker-sends-scathing-warning-to-salahdine-parnasse-ahead-of-ufc-paris-last-time-this-kid-headlines\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a few warnings<\/a> to him, Salahdine Parnasse made it clear that he\u2019s focused on the task at hand.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Salahidne Parnasse discusses Hooker\u2019s trash talk<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just silly,\u201d Parnasse told MMA Junkie through an interpreter. \u201cIt\u2019s just, you know, the thing that he says. I don\u2019t have to worry about that. All I\u2019ve got to worry about is what I\u2019m going to do in the fight, what I\u2019m going to do in that cage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I feel good,\u201d Parnasse said. \u201cI feel really, really good, and I\u2019ve had a lot of challenges, sporting challenges, in my life. I\u2019ve had a lot of big moments, so I feel really good to go in there and put on a great fight on Saturday. I know that\u2019s what people are expecting to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie-eu.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2026\/09\/01\/salahdine-parnasse-responds-dan-hooker-ufc-paris-trash-talk\/91567283007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MMA Junkie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Salahdine Parnasse, this is a huge opportunity to prove that he can go far in what is already a pretty stacked UFC lightweight division.<\/p>\n<p>Who are you backing to pick up the win in the UFC Paris main event? Are you expecting it to be Fight of the Night? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-1 mt-0 os-source\">This article appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BJPENN.COM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trending:Mike Perry speaks out after suffering injury during upset loss to Brandon Jenkins: \u201cHealth is wealth\u201dufcfra on Instagram&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-877528","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\/877528","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=877528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}