GUEST - Dan 'The Hangman' Hooker - UFC 325, 100k 1 Min Scraps & Paddy Beef

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Yes, Dan the hangman hooker you'll see photo he's fighting first of Feb you have seen three two five and Sydney Benwar

St. Denise's his name who he is fighting down. Good morning, mate. Thanks for coming in morning

On our first show back so good this fight. It's not long not long to go a couple of weeks

There's no way in here come losing to a French Cobb on

Yeah, there's some things that aren't gonna happen. That is not gonna happen

This is a thing that you're fighting a guy here's French French army special forces soldier. Well, he used to be

So and I understand as well

I've seen he's got to he can't take a gun and there can he's got two arms two legs in a face like a smathed

You

You could leave now we would have had a great

Well, I don't know how much you know about the sky obviously he's used to be in the army, but I'm sweet

How close did you get to get into the army though? You wanted to get into the armed forces didn't you?

Once by the time

Yeah

But I don't like getting told what to do. Yeah, that's a major

No, that's right. I googled and then I googled his New Zealand at war and it said now it's not at war with anyone

No, and I said well, I'm not going to join the army if I can't kill anyone

Waste the time to stand around with my dick in my hand

I

Um

I was breaking down if you've been behaving yourself

Well, do you get to enjoy and relax just over that period? I mean, I we see a little bit of you on insta

It's either it's either small clips of men fighting with the back-out scraps that we'll get to soon

Or it's real wholesome stuff with your family out of it. It's restaurant having dinner. That's what

I'm a man of extremists. Yeah, but you have essentially been in camp now for a couple of months really because this is such a tight turn around

From the Armand fight straight into straight into this with BSD like do you get much time to relax bro?

That's a between I don't really have

May I don't even get I don't even have a big liar. Yeah, it was a bit of a was a bit of a pain in the ass

I went a quad up with two friends and they're both on ankle bracelet. So I was like they can't

You know, we didn't even go out

If you didn't be help a story

Those are clubs you can't see

You don't see them at the gym. Yeah, well, they can't come to you

So I only saw a couple of friends and then we've got another fight

Yeah, how did that interested in that for obviously you see fight fans as Rob's Rob roach. Oh, you've been away that long

How did that come about that it is such a quick turn around because it's bloody exciting for Dan Hooker fans

Are we get to see you again so soon?

No, I think like because I did the video straight after where I was like man, I'm smashing. We can't his face and I was just you know, he was

He just drew the short shore. I was just like just showing the UC that I wanted to get back in there

I knew that the injuries were just superficial when that

And so man, they just took me in for a quick turn around

I knew I wanted that on that card just because it's sick close time. Yeah, fighting

Vox on the card. Yeah to tell you know, you know, you're absolutely everyone on the card

So it's like that one that one gets you excited and then to just get a good opponent too

Where he's a he's a zero four-fight one streak rank number eight

I was expecting I have to fight down a couple of times, but that's a fight that puts you straight back in the much

Yeah, like how long does it take you to think about a fight that's been offered to you but you've been matched with like is it

Brave you to assume I think

That's what I was hoping for

The UFC medical team was all pissed off. They're like oh damn, you know, he's gonna because they took me for a scan after fighting

They're like you got a broken nose. I was like well that's right there

I'm still refusing to medically clear it like that the UFC sent me there like you need medical clearance

We are nose I was like I'm not getting medical clearance from an injury. I got it way in so I was like from the head

Out of principle I was like you guys let me do one fight with it. Yeah

I know why not let me do another fight

Yeah, I mean to be fair you with that argument. I got a new doctor wasting 15 minutes of my time

Yeah, to get medically cleared for a fight. Nah, it's it's I'm a man of principle

Then stay there then hangman hooker UFC

325 and Sydney first of feb and we're back with Daniel. Let's talk more about it's one minute scraps is another one coming up as well

First guest to 2026 Dan the hangman hooker

Back UFC fighter UFC 325 and Sydney first of feb fighting a Frenchman Benoit

Denise who nicknames nicknames and what you make of this down he calls himself the God of war great

Knackname, which is a great nickname. What do you make of it?

Welcome back mate. How do you how do you go about beating him obviously because I you know tell me from

Wrong I'm sure I'm wrong, but stylistically I feel like he's a more entertaining fight from the viewer point of view

To watch maybe then someone like you last

Depend on the rest of the race. He's a meat actually likes to come forward. Yeah, it's gonna be a it's gonna be a good fight

Like he's obviously self-boy. He'll try to check me on the ground. Like yeah, it's just gonna be just keep it on the feet and beat him up

You're talking about

You talk about how your nose got broken in the last fight hell how many times you think you've broken your nose. Yeah

20 something

It's

That's that's crazy

So I mean do you think you'll get sued after your fight because you know after you for all you'll never finish fighting will you?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll have fun the time. Yeah

Now on to some other fighters

But we've got a little bit to get to but we had the Balkan bear in

At the end of last year for the first time all six foot five or whatever the reason

So he said I had a small feet down. He's a unit. What a good dude

He seemed like a great guy when he was in here good fun

What do you see his chances being at heavyweight?

Entertaining the table that he always heavyweight like

They're just big enough that it takes one punch

You know what I mean like they can they can change their lives and one punch these heavyweight boys like for fight fights

You can find yourself for for title. So yes guys are limo. He's athletic. He's talented

You can do whatever you once with the sport, but you know, it's like one punch and your life's ruined

Maybe it's a treacherous division

But any news with Carlos all work as well. Obviously

Yeah, he's back in the gym. He's training hard all the boys are Israel's in there guys in there

Carlos is in there, and I think they're all looking to fight in the first quarter of this year

So everyone everyone will be back in action. It was a bit of a phase. They were talking about it before the show

Yeah, was it last week they announced that is he is fighting soon. Yeah, how's he looking towards his fight?

Nice. Look who good. He's looking good. I'm one we're not gonna say anything bad about any

Yeah

It's cool though to have him back in there, you know

He's a fighter this fighter like you know a lot of people. Oh man, you know, you got nothing left to prove

But it's like it's just in him. It's just it's just what he wants to do with his time

You know what I mean? It's like the most constructive thing that man could be doing

Yeah, time is getting out there and performing for everyone

So you know, you can be grateful that you can still have like legends like that and you'd be able to watch him now

You you caught up with comedian Matt rife. You might have seen it on Instagram. Listen to if Matt rife does a lot of great crowd work

So it was so distracting. I was like I was doing spider yesterday and I was like just like a long

spider

I was smashing the pads and I was like I looked over and I was like that looks like blonde Matt rife

Okay, it really looks like

I'm like half-steering at him as I'm like halfway from my workout

What are you looking at? Yeah

Then after I was like, you met my friend

Hey, man, he's very funny man. How did that come about? Yeah, he came to the gym. Oh, the big fella

There's a little drag of him there to put up a little bit of a sparring position

And then they start moving around and I was like smash him rife. I was like smash him rife. He's washed

The city we're gonna say anything better

You just see

Now so next question right

And obviously there's been a bit for UFC fans in the press over the last week or so

Some subject matters obviously we can't get into because it's breakfast radio and stuff

Let's talk about it

How do you see Gachy versus Patty?

Can I feel like Patty's gonna get his jaw spun

Yeah, you call her muck that's muck around and find out

Yeah, yeah, so would you think anything will ever happen between you and patty regardless of results of your fights

You know like even love to kick him in the face

That would really warm my heart. No, like yeah, let's go down

What does he say anything if I show up if I show up to Vegas this weekend 16 60 scalsers

Yeah, don't just go around fretting me of places. You know, I'm not gonna be

Why would I be in Vegas a week before my fight? Yeah, if I took what are we gonna go out and say to patty?

Oh, if you see down the marital school shops next year

And fretting people in a standard ground state is the dumbest you can put through

Whatever carries that is stand your grounds. They ain't got to go nowhere my boy

Dude, I'm just interested. I know we're gonna come back just otherwise, but do the UFC ever get in the middle of any type of

Beefs that happen because obviously words can get heated and things can get said is is there ever any point where

You know someone official or go where you guys fell asleep down or need the sides or whatever or is there nothing as it's

I've never had it no sits in pretty audacious stuff

Yeah

Then the hangman hooker he's fighting UFC three two five three two four three two five

It is first to feb in Sydney back with a next UFC fighter Dan the hangman hooker. He's in he's fighting first to feb in Sydney

UFC three two five it is. He's fighting

Saint Denise Benwha saint Denise the god of war. He calls himself bsd

He's a monk you know kick his ass down you've been saying as well

Hey, did you find a song of what you want to you put on Instagram while I go with ideas. I got some ideas

You can't avoid you can't give away your own

But you have found one cuz you're looking for a happy week about to before you have

That's a little it's a little because it was a kiwi bangar. Are you asking for is that still what your thoughts were?

Is it for a kiwi bangar bangar bangar? We got a bangar. We got a bangar. Picking claimant. What I'm on that

Why don't you don't stick with one song because everyone always used to just

Yeah, because if you do and then you uh you get your ass kicked to a song and then you have like the memory of the last time you walked out to him

You got you got dog walked

So you just have these horrible memories flooding

Would you ever use many men again because I always think of when I think of many men I think you ragdoll boys are a marketive so it's like

You know what I mean. Yeah, don't use it

Yeah

One minute scrap Dan hooker all such a great idea

For those who don't know

It's in the name. Yeah, yeah

But how's it been going and what's coming next? No, we're good. We're not the dads on out

Yeah, one of the one of the dads got $50,000 in time for Christmas, which is like the whole idea behind the whole thing

But next one. Yeah, we're taking it back to the backyard

We've got our first show, which was King of the streets

We've got the the name of King of the streets on the line and uh the doc is putting up a hundred thousand dollars

So there will be a hundred thousand dollars rich on a money man. That's a lot of money

Just bring it out. Ah, this one's just the best of the best obviously the first king of the streets was

Like no active freight fighters and I had yeah, you were in having a little I'll win you about that

You know all this food on okay anyone anyone can enter so this one's open anyone could enter

So hang on could Carlos all bring into this check your UFC contract before we start

He's already he already tried to get you already tried to do a lot of moustache and

You can't be that handsome into

Is this when much makes us come back?

Who's who's taking you on before how does this sound? What do you weigh much? Could you does he?

What are you already roughly weighing? Oh look at big lunch. I could probably make it

Make it to the hundred gigs. Yeah, same as what

Cuz you need numbers

I even had some of my

Some of my mates were like oh there's a stag

We got a stag in Auckland that we can go they go can we check the stag in

Just shows up and like a chicken helpful

But you would be the opponent

Well, maybe

We're gonna 200 kilo house jumped in and took the last spot 200

This bloke took the last spot

Yeah, five days after my fight

I'm when when you're gonna come in at the end of last year I put it out on Instagram anyone got any questions for

Hangman lots of questions came through but one that stuck with me with the one minute scraps

Ever thought of doing tradies, you know, like yeah, I love tradies. Yeah, just do one. Yeah, one of each trade

Yeah, and then there's some sort of battle off to find that who do you think would be the toughest trade?

I reckon probably a traitly or be a hard man

Yeah

For these first keyweas has there been much sort of making this international yeah, yeah, yeah like this obviously

After this one, I'm just gonna go meet with the doctor and probably it's like the craziest thing because you have obviously

Like they've had people reach out to you and be like I'll bring it to Dubai and stuff

Yeah, but I'm like you're kind of like loser but other

That's itself very cool. What I want to do is is I want to do that like because I feel like they're most

Untapped market and and the best fighters in the world especially the best heavyweight fighters are in the islands

I'd love to go around and just do island by island and then do like a ocean out

What's gonna happen?

And doing just popping up on the beach and getting 32 clubs from somewhere

Throwing lunchboxes at each other. I can see it happening

Down the hangman hookah

Absolutely

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