Dan Hooker broke the same arm he injured in his past fight.
“(In) sparring yesterday, copped a bit of a kick,” Hooker told Submission Radio. “Got sent to an X-ray. She’s custard … Yeah, it just broke in the same place, and it kind of is what it is.”
Hooker broke his right arm in the first round of his barnburner against Jalin Turner at UFC 290 in July, which required surgery. The City Kickboxing fighter admits he should have taken more time off before returning.
“I took a risk,” Hooker said. “I obviously came back a little quicker than … Yeah, like, it’s all on me. 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.”