{"id":440724,"date":"2026-01-29T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440724\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:28:07","slug":"ufc-325-press-conference-hooker-tp-saint-denis-thats-close-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440724\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 325 press conference &#8211; Hooker tp Saint-Denis: \u2018That\u2019s close enough\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dan Hooker was taking no chances at the UFC 325 press conference where he faced off with opponent Benoit Saint-Denis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The last time he fought was in Doha, Qatar, where a fired up Arman Tsarukyan headbutted him during face-offs. That headbutt, we recently learned, actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/417882\/ufc-325s-dan-hooker-reveals-arman-tsarukyan-fractured-his-nose-with-headbutt-he-got-me\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">broke Dan\u2019s nose<\/a> and left him compromised for his fight, which Tsarukyan won via second round arm triangle submission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So you\u2019ll forgive Hooker if this time he didn\u2019t want to get to close to Saint-Denis as all UFC 325 fighters got their staredowns on in Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThat\u2019s close enough,\u201d Hooker told Saint-Denis and UFC matchmaker Mick Maynard. Maynard laughed. Saint-Denis did not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Featherweight champ Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes kept things respectful and chill for their main event rematch, giving a few moments of serious eye contact before smiling and clasping hands. Volkanovski even gifted Lopes a Cooking with Volk apron!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out all the faceoffs and staredowns from UFC 325 below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Hooker was taking no chances at the UFC 325 press conference where he faced off with opponent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,182216,702],"class_list":["post-440724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-325","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440724","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=440724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}