Dan Hooker has gone from fighter to promoter.
This previous weekend, ‘The Hangman’ hosted a single-elimination tremendous heavyweight match in, of all locations, his yard. The occasion consisted of 32 fighters battling it out in 60-second boxing matches with MMA gloves, all of them competing to win a $50,000 grand prize.
As anticipated, the yard brawls produced some fairly nasty knockouts, together with an particularly brutal face-plant KO that you could take a look at under:
Throughout an interview with The MAC Life, Hooker provided some perception into what impressed him to host such an occasion.
“I used to be simply at a Thailand occasion,” Hooker stated. “I bought introduced over to only form of host. I had nothing to do with organizing it, or matching it, or getting the fighters, and I noticed the format of 32 fighters and win — one-minute fights — and I assumed an excellent heavyweight occasion in New Zealand could be completely unimaginable. After which three fights into it, I used to be standing there and I stated, ‘I knew this is able to be a good suggestion.’”
Initially, Hooker launched snippets from the combat card on social media, however now you can watch the total occasion on YouTube.
“It ran easy. Not a single concern,” Hooker added. “We knocked out 30 fights in an hour. No critical accidents. We had one fighter damage his arm punching another person, and that was probably the most critical damage we had for the day. So everybody bought house to their household secure. …
“In fact I had judges, after all I had medics. In fact, I had medics who checked all of the boys and had that every one cleared, had all the appropriate issues in the appropriate locations. And everybody did an unimaginable job. … We had the principles checked and cleared, we requested the appropriate folks that wanted to be requested, and I knew that after the occasion, I must reply to the fight sports activities neighborhood in New Zealand.
“In fact, I had all these issues in place. The matchmaking — 32 guys, the vary of expertise … There have been enormous discrepancies coming into the match. I believe the lightest coming into the match was 95 kilos, and the heaviest was 205 kilos, so clearly they will’t combat one another. You match them within the first spherical, much like weights, so by the point it goes up, you’re getting skilled, skillful fighters, the weights turn into loads nearer to one another. And going into it, skilled guys combating skilled guys, much less skilled guys, or larger guys combating the larger guys.”
Dan Hooker guarantees extra yard fights following criticism from pundits
Maybe unsurprisingly, many throughout the fight sports activities neighborhood bashed Hooker’s yard scraps, however the criticism has solely inspired ‘Hangman’ to placed on extra occasions prefer it sooner or later.
“Now you’ve challenged me,” Hooker stated. “I used to be going to depart it, however now there are folks making an attempt to cease me – now I’m honourbound and compelled to pursue it. I’m only a man with an iPhone and a dream. I didn’t know it might go that good, so we’ll do one other one undoubtedly this 12 months.”
