{"id":444391,"date":"2026-01-31T03:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/444391\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T03:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:55:07","slug":"dan-hooker-takes-crappy-coach-flight-just-so-family-can-travel-to-ufc-325","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/444391\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Hooker takes crappy coach flight just so family can travel to UFC 325"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dan Hooker will meet Benoit Saint Denis in a high-profile co-main event tomorrow night (Sat., Jan. 31, 2026) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/408597\/ufc-325-fight-card-volkanovski-vs-lopes-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 325<\/a> LIVE on <a href=\"https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/c\/482924\/175360\/3065?subId1=UFC325&amp;subId2=SBNation&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paramountplus.com%2Fshows%2Fufc&amp;partnerpropertyid=7032191\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount+<\/a> from inside Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia, but \u201cHangman\u201d had to fly coach earlier this week just to get there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC\u2019s return to Australia will mark the second event of the new Paramount+ era. Last weekend\u2019s UFC 324 was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-324-news-results-paramount-streaming-updates-mma\/417877\/ufc-324s-streaming-numbers-on-paramount-are-in-and-theyre-massive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smashing success<\/a> numbers wise and appears to be only the beginning of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-white-house-2026-fight-card-start-time-full-results-dana-white-conor-mcgregor-cbs-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">great things to come for UFC<\/a> here in 2026. Tomorrow\u2019s stacked UFC 325 card from \u201cDown Under\u201d is expected to pull in a huge audience (both in-person and streaming) as well, which is why Hooker\u2019s lightweight barn burner with BSD needs to deliver the goods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hooker, who is coming off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-espn-fight-night-events-schedule-mma\/405249\/watch-ufc-qatar-video-highlights-espn-results-mma-tsarukyan-submission-hooker-topuria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disappointing submission loss<\/a> to Arman Tsarukyan last November, is someone who always goes out on his shield and keeps fight fans wanting more. You might think that the promotion would ensure \u201cHangman\u201d has everything he needs for a big fight like UFC 325, but things weren\u2019t so glamorous for Hooker this past week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In order for Hooker to be able to bring his daughter and family with him to this weekend\u2019s event in Sydney, the 23-fight UFC veteran had to fly economy on a budget flight. Hooker put his daughter in business class so she had a more comfortable trip. Hooker didn\u2019t seem too bothered, but it\u2019s still not a great look for UFC to have its co-headliner flying coach just to be able to have his kid watch him fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check it out below and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI fight so my babies don\u2019t have to,\u201d wrote Hooker via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUHbowKkqTA\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more UFC 325 fight card news click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/408597\/ufc-325-fight-card-volkanovski-vs-lopes-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Hooker will meet Benoit Saint Denis in a high-profile co-main event tomorrow night (Sat., Jan. 31, 2026)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,182216,139445,702],"class_list":["post-444391","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-325","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444391","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=444391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}