Tonight, UFC veteran Dan Hooker will make the walk to the cage for the 37th time in his mixed martial arts career. He will be doing so as a notable underdog against Arman Tsarukyan in a lightweight clash that could well determine the next man to compete for Ilia Topuria’s world title.
Dan Hooker has made a career out of proving people wrong and at the age of 35, he has a lot of miles on the clock. There have been various points in the last few years when people felt like he was reaching the end of what he was capable of in the cage, with notable examples being his defeats to Dustin Poirier, Arnold Allen and even as far back as Edson Barboza.