{"id":277481,"date":"2025-11-12T01:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277481\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T01:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:26:07","slug":"dan-hooker-chips-tooth-ahead-of-ufc-qatar-main-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277481\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Hooker chips tooth ahead of UFC Qatar main event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight Dan Hooker finally returns to action next weekend<\/a> (Sat., Nov. 22, 2025) against heated rival Arman Tsarukyan in the main event of UFC Qatar<\/a>, taking place inside ABHA Arena in Doha, Qatar.<\/p>\n

But before he throws hands in the cage, \u201cThe Hangman\u201d needs a trip to the dentist.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Hooker chipped his front tooth during sparring \u2014 and, unsurprisingly, he wasn\u2019t wearing a mouthguard at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Training has been good]. I got a bit sick last week, I smashed my front tooth out \u2014 I gotta go fix it tomorrow,\u201d Hooker told Combat TV recently. \u201cIt happened in training, and I had just found my mouthguard that day! I hadn\u2019t found my mouthguard in a year \u2014 it\u2019s been missing since the Gamrot fight. I don\u2019t train with a mouthguard. I found it, but it was still covered in blood from the Gamrot fight, so I just glazed it off and was like, \u2018I\u2019ll wear it next time, mate,\u2019 and then boom \u2014 the day I find it is the day I smash my front tooth. But it\u2019s already dead, they\u2019ll just put more shit on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now healthy (well, mostly), the 35-year-old returns riding a three-fight win streak, having defeated Mateusz Gamrot, Jalin Turner, and Claudio Puelles in his recent resurgence.<\/p>\n

Standing across from him will be Tsarukyan \u2014 one of the most dangerous young contenders in the division, who is finally out of UFC purgatory<\/a>. The Armenian-Russian powerhouse has won five of his last six, including impressive performances over Charles Oliveira and Beneil Dariush, and is hunting for another title shot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still, tooth or no tooth, expect fireworks when these two finally meet in Qatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Lightweight Dan Hooker finally returns to action next weekend (Sat., Nov. 22, 2025) against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,3194],"class_list":["post-277481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}