Dan Hooker hoped his ‘premium high quality combating phrases’ would get him a battle towards Tony Ferguson, however they acquired him another person: Claudio Puelles.
Hooker vs. Puelles has joined the line-up of UFC 281, the upcoming pay-per-view occasion scheduled for Nov. 12 at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York. Fordewin MMA on Twitter was first to report the battle. Each males have since confirmed the report on their respective social media accounts.
Although 1-4 in his previous 5 fights, Hooker has shared the Octagon with a slew of noteworthy names at featherweight and light-weight in that run. The ‘Hangman’ suffered consecutive defeats to Dustin Poirier and Michael Chandler however rebounded with a unanimous resolution towards Nasrat Haqparast. He crammed in as a short-notice alternative for Rafael dos Anjos, who was anticipated to battle Islam Makhachev at UFC 267 this previous October. Hooker was submitted by way of first-round kimura.
The Metropolis Kickboxing product then opted to go all the way down to 145 kilos, a weight class he competed in early on in his skilled profession. His first task was towards a surging contender in Arnold Allen at UFC London, the place he was completed by first-round TKO. Hooker introduced his return to light-weight shortly after.
Puelles has rattled off 5 wins since shedding to Martin Bravo in The Final Fighter: Latin America 3 Finale almost six years in the past. The ‘Prince of Peru’ lately earned a ‘Efficiency of the Evening’ award for his first-round kneebar of Clay Guida at UFC Vegas 52 in April. That was his third win by kneebar, which is probably the most in UFC historical past.
UFC 281 is headlined by a middleweight championship battle between Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira.
