ZB Fight
ZB Fight
  • 2 months ago
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00:00He wanted to try to keep him in, yep, on the bottom.
00:03Keeping him pinned, got that head and arm.
00:05Looking to keep Hooker here as long as he can.
00:08Side control is a hard position in MMA today.
00:11Because you're not controlling their legs.
00:13Now you see Gamrod getting his hand
00:16to try to control the hips of Dan Hooker.
00:21Hooker should try to go underhook
00:23and then try to get that left underhook
00:25and then get the right arm under the belly of
00:28Gamrod also to try to shove him
00:30over his head as he bridges.
00:36Gamrod feels all the adjustments
00:38and that's why he's got the leg,
00:39the hand in between the legs
00:41because Hooker's going for the underhook
00:43and that stops that underhook.
00:44It stops him from getting to a hip.
00:45Yep.
00:46Every time he, because
00:47Dan, in order to control that underhook
00:49and really start the process of getting up,
00:51you gotta leverage your hip.
00:53So every time he does that,
00:56he goes and just collects his hips with his hands.
00:58Arm triangle is here for the taking.
01:00Let's see if he takes it.
01:02Hooker felt it.
01:08One submission win in the octagon
01:10for Mitaj Gamrod via Kimura.
01:12Five for his career,
01:13but he hasn't been some
01:15crazy submission threat in the UFC thus far.
01:18He tends to out-position you with ground and pound
01:21until he gets the submission.
01:22And if he can't out-position you,
01:23he usually doesn't get the submission.
01:26Right now, that's what he's doing.
01:27He's blanketing Hooker to try to get some of that
01:30energy out of him
01:31so he doesn't have all that knockout power.
01:34Hooker should try to even go to his knees
01:36to start trying to build up.
01:37Give him your back.
01:38He's not a great submission guy.
01:40You can give your back
01:41to try to get back to your feet.
01:43That's smart right there by Dan Hooker.
01:44He's got a non-attacked hand.
01:48There it is.
01:49Very smart by Hooker.
01:51Just saying, okay, take this position.
01:53I'm gonna use it to get up to my feet.
01:56I like the pressure right away when he gets up.
01:58This is the key for Hooker.
02:00Pressure, go to the body.
02:03Because he knows Gamrot's tired after that wrestling.
02:10Nice connection by Gamrot.
02:11Yeah.
02:11Gamrot's hands look good.
02:13Yeah, man.
02:13His hands look really good tonight.
02:15He seems much more comfortable on the striking
02:17than he has normally.
02:19And he's choosing to strike right now.
02:21Well, right.
02:22Most times he's forced to have to strike.
02:25Tonight, when Hooker starts the escape process,
02:27he just lets him go because he's finding success with his hands.
02:30Well, sometimes you wonder if these wrestling types
02:33had to just compete as kickboxers how they'd fare.
02:36Some would do better than you think.
02:38Head on the outside, single.
02:39That's his favorite shot.
02:40Guillotine, Guillotine.
02:43He used that to get himself up.
02:45Great defense by Hooker there.
02:49That's what's so hard.
02:49You can have the best wrestling in the world,
02:51but when guillotines and front chokes are allowed,
02:53it defends the wrestling a lot of times.
02:57This is where Hooker needs to start trying to take his hands,
03:00push at the hips of Gamrot so he can't build back his base,
03:03and then try to escape.
03:07This is good, right? Landing elbows,
03:09but defense is going to get you taken down.
03:14Hooker making these elbows count.
03:21Man, this Gamrot is just absolutely relentless.
03:25He is a grinder in the highest order, man.
03:28This guy just stays on you.
03:30He just attacks your will.
03:33He's not trying to just beat the man.
03:35He's trying to take this fighting spirit out of you
03:37by just pressuring you.
03:44Hooker not looking for any separation immediately.
03:47Right back at Gamrot.
03:48They're not looking for any separation immediately.
03:50Right back on Gamrot.
03:52Final seconds of round two.
03:54You know what's the craziest thing?
03:55It seems as though we have a fight where
03:59Gamrot might have won two rounds,
04:01but round one, after watching Tai Fu,
04:04watching all three rounds,
04:05and one judge's scorecard,
04:07I would not feel good if I'm against Gamrot.
04:09Yes!
04:18Beautiful.
04:19Right back there to take a few deep breaths.
04:22Focus on recovery.
04:28Boys, boys.
04:29That's the best you can do,
04:30not to drop on the counter.
04:32Yeah?
04:33Your knee is not dropping on the knee
04:35because you can't look at the camera.
04:36You can only drop it on the knee.
04:38We got that butterfly basket, we're good, okay?
04:41Please, that's all right, that's all right.
04:42I love this shit.
04:45Let's go, let's go, let's go.
04:47Come on.
04:51This is where you thrive, brother.
04:53This is where you thrive.
04:54I've seen it a thousand times before.
04:56A guy just wants a wrestle.
04:57A fair question.
04:59A guy just wants a wrestle.
05:00A quick update for you folks
05:03as we get ready to start this third and final round.
05:09DC, you're going to like this.
05:11So Howie Booth, who had that wayward scorecard 30-27
05:14for Tai Tsui Vassa,
05:16has been relieved of his duties for the rest of the night.
05:18He will not be judging the co-main event.
05:20Ben Cartlidge will step in.
05:22And Ben Cartlidge is a phenomenal judge.
05:24When does that happen? When do they actually make adjustments?
05:26It's happened before.
05:28All right, third and final round.
05:30Mataj Gamrot in white, Dan Hooker in black.
05:34I like that, John.
05:36I like that something was done here in Australia.
05:39I love how Hooker's going into that pressure right away.
05:42He knows. He can see it.
05:43He's got to stop going up the middle there, though.
05:45Gamrot's catching those kicks.
05:50That guillotine is doing a lot of justice.
05:52That guillotine is helping.
05:54That's how he's defending all the takedowns with that guillotine.
05:56Yep.
06:02Hooker should, right away, turn away from him.
06:04Let him take your back.
06:06Start trying to get back to your feet.
06:09He's got to find a way to grab it.
06:11Did he grab it?
06:13I did not see a fence grab. Did you see it?
06:15Well, I just heard the ref say, don't grab the fence.
06:17I don't know if that hand was in there.
06:19Gamrot can't keep him off of it.
06:21Anybody's fight with four minutes to go.
06:23A lot of Dan Hooker scorecards out there in round two.
06:25We have not seen Gamrot look this uncomfortable in a long time.
06:29He looks very uncomfortable on his heels.
06:31He can't time the shots exactly the way he wants to.
06:35Yeah.
06:37I don't think Dan Hooker would tell you
06:39the 2022 version of him
06:41would not have realized this much success
06:43against Bataj Gamrot.
06:45He's improving.
06:47And to say that, he's saying, I just got good.
06:49Yeah.
06:51This guy's been around forever
06:53and he's been in some tremendous fights.
06:59Hooker has Gamrot on the retreat here
07:01in perpetual forward motion.
07:04Nice body shot by Hooker.
07:06That right hand from Gamrot landed.
07:08It did.
07:10As did that.
07:12That's a big right hand
07:14from Gamrot.
07:16You can see Hooker's really determined
07:18that the pressure is going to pour on,
07:20add up, and get him the results that he wants.
07:22And that's why, even though he's eating shots,
07:24he just keeps marching forward.
07:26It's the path of least resistance
07:28because if you give Gamrot the forward pressure,
07:30he can set up his takedowns.
07:33Every round that he ends,
07:35Gamrot's the one that's under pressure.
07:37He's kind of falling down, taking bad shots.
07:39It doesn't look great for Bataj
07:41as these rounds are ending.
07:43Striking numbers.
07:45Essentially a dead heat.
07:47Five takedowns on 11 attempts for Gamrot.
07:53Both fighters landed close.
07:55Two and a half minutes to go.
07:57And for Dan Hooker,
07:59potentially half a round away
08:01from raising a top-five ranking at Lightweight.
08:07Nice jab by Gamrot.
08:09Nice stick. He's landed a few of them this round.
08:15Gamrot's fighting a good round this round.
08:17He looks sharp.
08:19That's his favorite takedown right there.
08:21Head on the outside, but Hooker's done such a good job
08:23going after the gear today.
08:25Great defense.
08:27That time he defended it outright
08:29for a submission.
08:33Ooh.
08:35Right hand gets through for Hooker.
08:39Uppercut from Gamrot.
08:41His striking has really looked sharp tonight.
08:43Way better than it used to be.
08:45But you can also tell that
08:47Hooker's just a little cleaner
08:49than Gamrot when he does throw.
08:53You saw right there, Gamrot had a takedown,
08:55but he didn't go for it because Hooker
08:57defended so well.
08:59He got in on the hips and just said,
09:01you know what, let me exit the pocket.
09:03Yeah. Hooker gives you no time
09:05to reset whatsoever.
09:07There's a nice shot. Let's see if he can do anything with it.
09:11Looked like Hooker just
09:13offered up a protest that his glove was getting grabbed.
09:19Seemingly anybody's
09:21round with a minute and change to go,
09:23and you can say the same for the fight.
09:27So hard to take him down.
09:29Oh, again, he's trying to attack that guillotine.
09:31Sunk in.
09:33He has used that guillotine beautifully.
09:35Gamrot's left eye nearly shut.
09:39He just stayed right in the pocket of Gamrot,
09:41not giving him any space to breathe.
09:43Oh, nice right hand by Dave Hooker.
09:47Ooh!
09:53Back to the clinch we go.
09:55Absolute war in arguably
09:57the UFC's
09:59deepest division.
10:01They both showed up.
10:03Neither of them disappointed anybody with this matchup.
10:05Can you imagine if we had
10:07a couple more rounds?
10:09Yeah, they deserve it. What a performance from both these guys.
10:11Incredible fight.
10:17About 10 seconds away from a
10:19standing ovation here inside RAC Arena.
10:21Incredible defense by Hooker.
10:23Oh!
10:25Huge left hook right
10:27from Hooker.
10:31What a fight.
10:33Dan Hooker, Mataj Gamrot
10:35go the distance in front of the adoring
10:37masses here in Perth.
10:43No easy rounds with Hooker.
10:51Right here you see the fight.
10:53Dan Hooker getting dropped early in the fight.
10:55Getting cut early by Mataj Gamrot.
10:57Gamrot then was able to take him down
10:59and land a lot of damage on the ground.
11:01But then Dan Hooker gets up, drops Mataj Gamrot
11:03with a beautiful
11:05left hook.
11:07Then in the second round, Gamrot was able to get a
11:09takedown early.
11:11Hooker working his way back to his feet.
11:13Gamrot with a beautiful shovel right hand.
11:15Then another takedown
11:17by Mataj Gamrot.
11:19Then another takedown
11:21by Mataj Gamrot. But then right here is when
11:23Dan Hooker started to use a guillotine
11:25to defend takedown.
11:27Right hand
11:29lands for Gamrot.
11:31Hooker with a beautiful right hand.
11:33What a tremendous fight
11:35between two absolute warriors.
11:37And Mataj Gamrot just came over to the broadcast booth
11:39and I'm not sure if he was taking issue with me
11:41or the masses suggesting that
11:43he's a boring fighter.
11:45Sort of said, look at me now, nothing boring
11:47about that one to be sure.
11:49Mataj Gamrot
11:51is high level MMA offense all the time.
11:53Has been throughout his UFC career.
11:55Oh yeah, he's non-stop.
11:57There's no way to say he's boring
11:59because the offense that he brings
12:01whether he's wrestling or not, it's pure offense
12:03and non-stop cardio from this guy.
12:05That pace that he kept was incredible.
12:09And Hooker defended so well.
12:11His defense just keeps getting better and better.
12:17Wrestling defense that is.
12:19Striking, you're just in a war.
12:21Dan Hooker trying to make it
12:23three wins in a row
12:25and take Mataj Gamrot's spot
12:27in the top five.
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12:37And with the all important scorecards, here is Bruce.
12:41Ladies and gentlemen, after three rounds
12:43we go to the judge of scorecards
12:45for decision.
12:47Mick Beeney scores the contest.
12:4929-28 Gamrot.
12:51Mark Christie scores it.
12:5329-28 Hooker.
12:55And Ben Cartlidge scores the contest.
12:5729-28
12:59for the winner by split decision
13:01Dan
13:03Benjamin
13:05Hooker!
13:15I'm with Dan Hooker.
13:17How you like me now?
13:19How you like me now?
13:21Woo!
13:23Grab on my nuts.
13:25Ha!
13:27Dan,
13:29what a phenomenal fight.
13:31You told us the other day
13:33that you are just getting good.
13:35You just picked up a top five win.
13:37Is this what we can come to expect
13:39from The Hangman?
13:41No, I don't think I thought that was going to happen.
13:43Hey, brother,
13:45you get in the fight, you get your hand raised,
13:47that's all that counts.
13:49Let's take a look at your work.
13:51Your wrestling defense was on point tonight.
13:53You started to attack this guillotine
13:55every time he would try to take you down
13:57and you would have to defend.
13:59But it was the striking and the pressure.
14:01Did you know that pressure would wear down Gamrot
14:03as the fight went on?
14:05Oh, brother,
14:07I'm tougher than old liver.
14:09I know I can walk down any man in this world.
14:11Your strength and conditioning
14:13really showed.
14:15You guys all say you made some changes.
14:17It paid off for you, didn't it?
14:19Hey, boys, I'm just the starter.
14:21We've got Kaiko Bryant coming out.
14:23We've got Izzy on the main event.
14:25I set the tone.
14:27We're coming in to collect that.
14:29Dan,
14:31you're going to be in the top five.
14:33That was a big victory.
14:35What do you want next?
14:37Look at me now.
14:39I want BMF.
14:41I want Conor McGregor.
14:43I want a title eliminator.
14:45I want everything, brother.
14:47I want it all, Sean.
14:49I want it all.
14:51What a phenomenal performance,
14:53ladies and gentlemen.
14:55Give it up for the hangman,
14:57Dan Hooker.
14:59Give it up for the hangman,
15:01Dan Hooker.
15:03He might get all of those things,
15:05potential title eliminator,
15:07in a career full of them for Dan Hooker.
15:09As we peel back the scorecards for you,
15:11McMeany, the dissenting judge,
15:13had a 29-28 for Mataj Gamrak.
15:15But you see there,
15:17round three, all three judges
15:19had it for the victorious
15:21Dan Hooker.
15:25A lot of UFC star power in the building.
15:27The future Hall of Famer, Alexander
15:29the Great Volkanovski, alongside the budding
15:31light heavyweight contender, Blackjack Carlos
15:33Over. Also with us, the former
15:35light heavyweight king, the one,
15:37the only, Yuri Krohaskin.
15:41Another UFC fight night comes your way next Saturday
15:43from the Apex among the highlights. Middleweight
15:45Edmond Shabazian looking to keep it going against GM3
15:47Gerald Mershark. At welterweight,
15:49Neil Magney taking on another
15:51hungry young upstart in Michael Morales.
15:53A couple of ultimate fighter finals
15:55will be decided as well. The last featherweight
15:57finalist has been determined.
15:59That, of course, though, will air live on Tuesday.
16:01So no spoilers here.
16:03Los Angeles Hill takes on Tabitha Ricci in the
16:05co-main event. Main event has the former
16:07middleweight title challenger, Jared Kananir
16:09against the oncoming force
16:11Kaio Mohalyu.
16:13Alright, two fights left
16:15to go, which means the co-main event is
16:17nearly upon us. And now with more on the flyweights,
16:19here's Megan. Hey, thank you so much, Sean. Well,
16:21two former title challengers go head to head
16:23in a bout, moving the winner much closer
16:25to that 125 pound belt.
16:27City kickboxing's Kaikara Franz
16:29stepped away from competition for 14
16:31months, and the 31-year-old calls
16:33it the best decision he has ever
16:35made. Refreshed and reinvigorated,
16:37Don't Blink believes he can control the pace
16:39and set traps on his way to earning
16:41career victory number 25.