Dan Hooker

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New Zealand mixed martial artist

New Zealand ActorsBorn 1990 · age 36

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Fame61.3

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A New Zealand fighter who traded kickboxing titles for the UFC cage, where he's spent years trading strikes in the lightweight division - the kind of name that makes fight fans lean forward when a card drops.

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Filmography 24

UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier2018

UFC 219: Cyborg vs. Holm2017

UFC Fight Night 85: Hunt vs. Mir2016

UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez2023

UFC 192: Cormier vs. Gustafsson2015

UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor 22021

UFC Fight Night 52: Hunt vs. Nelson2014

UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya2019

UFC 325: Volkanovski vs. Lopes 22026

UFC 281: Adesanya vs. Pereira2022

UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira2021

UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega2021

UFC Fight Night 43: Te Huna vs. Marquardt2014

UFC Fight Night 265: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker2025

UFC Fight Night 101: Whittaker vs. Brunson2016

UFC Fight Night 128: Barboza vs. Lee2018

UFC 305: du Plessis vs. Adesanya2024

UFC Fight Night 168: Felder vs Hooker2020

UFC Fight Night 110: Lewis vs. Hunt2017

UFC on Fox 31: Lee vs. Iaquinta 22018

UFC Fight Night 65: Miocic vs. Hunt2015

UFC on ESPN 12: Poirier vs. Hooker2020

UFC on ESPN 4: Dos Anjos vs. Edwards2019

UFC Fight Night 204: Volkov vs. Aspinall2022

Actors from New Zealand 6

About this person

Daniel Preston Hooker was born 13 February 1990 in New Zealand and built his foundation in kickboxing, claiming the King in the Ring Middleweight title and the WKBF X-Rules Welterweight strap before the gloves came off. He made the jump to mixed martial arts and landed in the UFC's lightweight division, where the fastest, sharpest fighters in the sport live. The transition stuck - kickboxing gave him the hands, and the octagon gave him the stage.

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New Zealand