A potential all-action lightweight bout is on tap for UFC 285,
as Dan
Hooker and Jalin
Turner will lock horns on March in Las Vegas.
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Hooker first announced the booking during an interview with
The Mac
Life, and it was later confirmed
by Turner on social media. UFC 285 takes place at the T-Mobile
Arena in Las Vegas and is headlined by a heavyweight championship
clash pitting Jon Jones
against Ciryl
Gane.
After losing four of five fights from June 2020 to March 2022,
Hooker rebounded at UFC 281, where he finished Claudio
Puelles with a body kick 4:06 into the second round of their
encounter at Madison Square Garden last November. The 32-year-old
City Kickboxing representative owns notable wins over the likes of
Paul
Felder, Al Iaquinta,
Gilbert
Burns and Jim Miller
during his UFC tenure.
Turner enters the matchup with Hooker on a five-bout finishing
streak within the Las Vegas-based promotion. Most recently, “The
Tarantula” submitted Brad
Riddell with a guillotine choke in 45 seconds at UFC 276 this
past July. Turner is 13-5 as a professional and has finished all of
his victories inside the distance.