‘I drank daily that camp’

Dan Hooker has done some critical reflection following back-to-back losses.

Hooker admitted that he won’t grow to be a UFC champion after his three-fight win streak within the lightweight division was ended last 12 months.

In typical ‘The Hangman’ fashion, that didn’t stop him from wading right back into the fireplace when making a fast turnaround to face one other top opponent.

Nonetheless, Hooker’s loss to Benoit Saint-Denis has seemingly had a huge impact on where he believes his profession is at following some honest admissions from the fan favorite.

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Dan Hooker admits he’s not been dedicated to his training camps since his 2022 win over Claudio Puelles

Before Dan Hooker was beaten by Arman Tsarukyan last November, he was in the perfect form that he’s been in for quite a while.

Despite this, ‘The Hangman’ recently revealed that he knows where he went flawed in his recent losses, and it began during his three-fight winning streak.

Hooker told Submission Radio that he believes he’s been “cheating the grind” and never being as dedicated as he must be.

“I used to be capable of coast through the Jalin Turner fight and I used to be capable of coast through the [Mateusz] Gamrot fight but then I’d been coasting for thus long that when it got here to the Arman fight and the ‘BSD’ [Benoit Saint-Denis] fight, yeah you’ll be able to’t coast for that long. You’ve to get back on there and you will have to place within the work.”

Hooker believes that every one the time he spent being completely dedicated before this allowed him to get away with it before it caught as much as him in his recent outings.

‘The Hangman’ believes that the last time he was putting in maximum effort during his preparations was when he snapped a two-fight skid by beating Claudio Puelles in 2022.

When his coaches assumed that this wasn’t the case for his huge win over Gamrot in 2024, he corrected them.

“I used to be like, ‘Nah, brother. I drank daily that camp. I had the foot off the grind stone that camp too.’”