{"id":446585,"date":"2026-02-01T05:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/446585\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:04:09","slug":"ufc-325-results-benoit-saint-denis-mangles-dan-hooker-scores-blood-soaked-stoppage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/446585\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 325 results: Benoit Saint-Denis mangles Dan Hooker, scores blood-soaked stoppage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hooker just got smashed to smithereens two months ago (watch highlights<\/a>), his face re-arranged by Arman Tsarukyan (weigh-in beak break<\/a>). And yet the inhumanly tough Kiwi bruiser was already back in action against another highly-touted ground fighter.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Saint-Denis responded very well last year after a tough 2024. He won three straight fights with dominant finishes, including a sensational finish of Mauricio Ruffy (see that here<\/a>), which re-asserted himself as a factor in the 155-pound division. And another high-profile victory here has fully pushed him back into the title picture.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a closer look at how the fight unfolded round-by-round:<\/p>\n

Hooker started with a front kick, possibly to keep Saint-Denis at bay. Saint-Denis telegraphed an early takedown, then got in on a single-leg shortly thereafter, but Hooker defended it with a tight guillotine choke. Hooker continued to land the front kick to Saint-Denis\u2019 mid-section, as the Frenchman retreated, possibly compromised from the kicks. Nice left hand from Saint-Denis after he could not secure another takedown. He went for another shortly thereafter and Hooker pinned him against the cage, stepped back and drilled him with another front kick to the guts. He continued to try and get the fight horizontal and Hooker denied him each time until about the 3:30-mark. Saint-Denis was able to get him wrapped up on the ground and was sitting on his chest, angling for a potential fight-ending kimura. Hooker defended it expertly and was able to roll to his feet, where the two went toe-to-toe for about 20 wild seconds before Saint-Denis got the fight to the ground again late. While there, Saint-Denis split Hooker\u2019s wig with a nasty elbow.<\/p>\n

Saint-Denis began round two by immediately shooting for a takedown, getting it, but then forced to defend a guillotine choke from Hooker. Saint-Denis was then able to secure full mount in the scramble and began to UNLOAD on Hooker\u2019s face, with his arm pinned behind the Frenchman. Saint-Denis took a break to attempt a kimura, but it didn\u2019t pan out. He went back to ground-and-pound, and then he jumped to an arm-triangle choke \u2026 with almost four minutes on the clock. Hooker really defended well as Saint-Denis tried to crank the choke and put him to sleep. He tried to regrip the choke, and when it didn\u2019t work again, he went back to ground-and-pound. Saint-Denis started to rain down 12-6 elbows as Hooker shelled up \u2014 but big shots were getting through. He continued to just punch relentlessly until the ref called off the match.<\/p>\n

Final result: Saint-Denis def. Hooker via technical knockout in round two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hooker just got smashed to smithereens two months ago (watch highlights), his face re-arranged by Arman Tsarukyan (weigh-in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,182216,139445,702,7788],"class_list":["post-446585","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","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446585","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=446585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}