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Dan Hooker suffered a second round submission loss to Arman Tsarukyan in the main event of UFC Qatar.
However, Hooker didn’t enter the fight completely healthy, as Hooker claims Tsarukyan broke his nose with a headbutt during their weigh-in faceoff.
"When this c*nt f*cking headbutted me at the weigh-ins and broke my f*cking nose, it pissed me right off," Hooker told The Ariel Helwani Show (transcript via Nolan King of MMA Junkie). "But it's like, you can't get emotional at that stage of the fight. You're obviously ... mate, I was fuming. I wanted that back, but you just had to brush it off. You just have to put that in the back of your mind. But I was steamed by it. I was steamed. That threw me off for sure."
The UFC wasn’t happy with Tsarukyan according to Hooker, but no penalty, either financially or otherwise, was issued to the headbutter in Tsarukyan.
Hooker says he didn’t even know his nose was broken until after his fight with Tsarukyan.
"They scanned me after the fight," Hooker said. "They took me to the hospital and just, like, scanned me after the fight and they're like, 'Oh, you've got a fractured nose.' I was like, 'C*nt, that was the weigh-in.' It had absolutely nothing to do with the fight. And then for this fight, they're like, 'You've got to be medically clear because you have a fractured nose. You've got to medically clear for this fight.' I just flat refused, brother. I was like, 'You've already let me have one fight with it, and now you're going to stop me from having another fight with it?' I said, 'That was from the weigh-in, brother.' That had nothing to do with the fight. In what world can you smoke a guy's nose at the weigh-in and ... yeah, it got me. Kudos to him. Credit to him. I'm not even mad at Arman. I didn't know that there was no commission."
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