live blog<\/a> below.<\/p>\nAs expected, crowd very much on the Tsarukyan side of things during Bruce Buffer\u2019s introductions. They did touch gloves.<\/p>\n
Crowd is on fire as this bout is underway. Hooker lands a body kick. Tsarukyan lands a leg kick. Body kick caught by Hooker and they separate. Tsarukyan shoots, trips Hooker, but the cage keeps him up. Battle against the fence. Shoulder strike from Tsarukyan. Hooker separates but eats a big knee. Big combination from Tsarukyan, and another, but Hooker\u2019s chin is very good. Tsarukyan looks incredible so far.<\/p>\n
Hooker tries to take the back. Guillotine locked in by Hooker! Tsarukyan beautifully rolls out of it and ends up in side control. Tsarukyan looking for a crucifix as he\u2019s in full control. Short elbows from Tsarukyan. One minute to go.<\/p>\n
More elbows from Tsarukyan. Hooker is just stuck on the ground, and is warned about his toes in the fence. Big punches from Tsarukyan, then grinds the elbow into Hooker\u2019s face as the horn sounds.<\/p>\n
MMAFighting scores it 10-9 Tsarukyan<\/p>\n
Hooker is wearing it a bit, but there was an accidental clash of heads. Round 2 starts, Hooker\u2019s left eye looks brutal.<\/p>\n
Leg kick lands from Tsarukyan. Single leg takedown from Tsarukyan, Hooker tries the guillotine again. Another crazy escape from Tsarukyan and he\u2019s on top. Over three minutes to work in the center of the cage from Tsarukyan. Short elbow from Tsarukyan, then a more emphatic one, and another one. Tsarukyan now unloading with ground and pound as he\u2019s battering Hooker.<\/p>\n
Tsarukyan tries to pass to side control and lands another beautiful elbow. Full mount for Tsarukyan. Head and arm choke and it\u2019s tight from Tsarukyan. Hooker taps. Near-perfect game from Tsarukyan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch Arman Tsarukyan vs. Dan Hooker full fight video highlights from their UFC Qatar co-main event showdown Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,701,44,41,39,42,40,640,702,3194],"class_list":{"0":"post-301221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-ufc","16":"tag-ufc-news","17":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301221","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=301221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}