UFC contender Dan Hooker no longer wants to compete at lightweight and sees himself fighting in his former weight class of featherweight. The move came as a shock wondering he always said he never wanted to go back down to featherweight.
Suffering setbacks against top contenders forced Dan Hooker to reevaluate where he was in the UFC and what he planned to do next. He doesn't see himself going very far if he stays at lightweight.
Dan Hooker spoke on It's Time For Sports and revealed that he couldn't see himself being a contender if he stayed in the UFC lightweight division. He needed to make a change.
“It’s just not exciting, what are you gonna go back (and fight the same guys)? you know what I mean? I’m just being real. I know where my skillset lies with those guys and I know the circumstances of the fights and the circumstances that those fights were taken under, I understand that, and I understand that if everything was a perfect world, the results of those fights definitely wouldn’t be what they were. We all know that.
“But that’s not the fact of the situation. The fact of the situation is that I’ve lost to three of the top-five guys. Under that landscape, this is just fact, under that landscape, you’re not gonna be able to make a run at the top couple of guys in the division or towards the belt until the landscape of that division changes. You would have to stay busy and fight until the landscape of the division changes, or move down to a division which I feel comfortable competing in and I feel like I have a lot of advantages in that division.”
Dan Hooker has some ideas in mind on who he wants to fight next at featherweight. It will be interesting to see who the UFC chooses to match him up against.
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