After re-breaking his surgically repaired arm, Hooker admits errors could have been made.
UFC Austin is barely much less stacked then it was yesterday after Dan Hooker was pressured to withdraw from his co-main occasion with Bobby Green as a consequence of an harm.
Now we all know what particularly occurred to “The Hangman” — he re-broke his arm in coaching. Hooker suffered the unique break in a tough fought determination win over Jalin Turner in July. He underwent surgical procedure to surgically restore the bone, however could not have waited lengthy sufficient earlier than returning.
“[In] sparring yesterday, copped a bit of a kick. Got sent to an x-ray. She’s custard,” he instructed Submission Radio in a brand new interview. “Yeah, it just broke in the same place and it kind of is what it is.”
“I took a risk. I obviously came back a little quicker than… yeah, like, it’s all on me, brother,” he admitted. “I rushed to come back, I wanted to fight. I knew the risk of coming back that quickly, and we rolled the dice and we come up snake eyes, baby.”
“I blocked a thousand kicks in the last couple of months and just one hit on the right spot and it just … yeah. It is what it is.”
Hooker has admitted up to now that he doesn’t all the time make the very best profession selections. One of these was agreeing to a last-second substitute combat with Islam Makhachev. Another was a desperate-looking drop all the way down to featherweight. After that he agreed to let the blokes at City Kickboxing handle him and cease him “from doing dumb s—.”
Welp.
“Everyone was kind of kicking their can down the road and telling me to wait, and I pushed it, I hurried it along. I forced it,” he stated. “It’s on me. I’m just hungry. You know what I mean? It happened. It happened again. It’s the double-edged sword of being obsessed with something. Sometimes you hold it so tight that you crush it.”
“It’s either broken in the exact same spot. Which means that just the bone didn’t fuse properly, the bone was never fused properly and it was inevitable that this was gonna happen again. Or it’s a new break. So, it’s like, depending on the thing depends on what it is.”
So what’s subsequent for Hooker?
“I’ll be back. UFC 300 in five months,” he stated. “That’s a good target. Everything happens for a reason. That one wasn’t meant to be. Yeah, UFC 300 on five months. Speaking with the surgeon, that’s a comfortable target for three months of rehab and the training camp. So, onto the future.”
Just a bit of little bit of math: the preliminary break occurred in July. He re-broke it 4 months later. Admitted he rushed. Now he’s saying he needs to return again in … 5 months? Calm down, Dan Hooker!
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