If Dan Hooker defeats Dustin Poirier in the key function of UFC on ESPN 12 this weekend, he thinks there’s only three opponents that make sense for his upcoming battle.
Hooker feels that a acquire above Poirier should receive him a light-weight title shot, which would necessarily mean a battle with the winner of the forthcoming title unification bout between undisputed champ Khabib Nurmagomedov and interim champ Justin Gaethje.
If a title shot doesn’t materialize, Hooker views Tony Ferguson and Conor McGregor—staples of the lightweight top-5—as feasible options. That staying explained, he does not intend to connect with possibly person out. He believes they need to call him out.
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“Well, let us just speak about the specifics,” Hooker reported on Submission Radio. “[If] I beat Dustin Poirier there’s only three fights in my upcoming. Which is either combat for the title, battle Tony Ferguson or fight Conor McGregor. I sense like I have the best declare to the title with a win, specifically a stoppage gain, I truly feel like I have the best declare to the title. So, I feel like I’m in a placement to get termed out and get identified as out by possibly Tony Ferguson or Conor McGregor.
“They can occur to me, they can appear to me. I’m gonna participate in it great for after, I reckon,” Hooker extra. “If he’s [Tony Ferguson] in good shape, if he’s healthier and if he wishes it, if he calls for it. Beating Dustin puts me following in line, and I sense like if Tony wishes to combat me, then he can talk to the UFC or he can connect with me out for after. I have been calling these men out for several years, I have been investing my whole vocation contacting guys out, and I truly feel like with this struggle, it places me in a placement where by I’m not a male which is operating all-around chasing all of these folks, I really feel like they can appear to me. So, if he wishes it, he can absolutely request the UFC and I’ll be satisfied to get the combat. But that is not a struggle that I feel like I require to call for.”
Whilst Hooker is fascinated in fights with Ferguson and McGregor, and thinks the former could possibly be interested, he uncertainties McGregor will call him out.
“He would be silly to arrive and get that fight,” Hooker reported of MCGregor. I’m just being genuine. Not ability for talent. I’m really conscious it is in his finest fascination to combat yet another pay out-per-perspective attract, battle an additional identify dude that draws pay-for every-sights or attracts the normal public’s awareness to him. I’m a fighter from a extremely tiny region in New Zealand. Our market is really tiny. Whereas him, even though he’s from Eire, there is a large Irish fanbase in the US, so he has a massive viewers there and a big attractiveness in the US. So, it would just arrive down to quantities, and when it comes down to figures, I really don’t feel like I’m the greatest combat for him.”
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