“I feel like you’d get beaten up in the car park,” Dan Hooker calls out Paulo Costa for being extremely disrespectful to the sport

Marvin Vettori defeated the previous title challenger Paulo Costa on the important occasion of UFC Vegas 41. The combat was an absolute banger nevertheless it picked up extra consideration due to the drama together with Costa’s weight subject.

The combat was imagined to occur on the middleweight, however Costa confirmed up 10kg chubby, and the combat needed to be moved as much as the light-heavyweight. Folks condemned Costa for his actions, and UFC’s light-weight contender Dan Hooker believes it was extraordinarily disrespectful to everybody.

Speaking to Submission Radio, he mentioned, “What Costa did, he didn’t earn the appropriate to try this. It was a humorous scenario as a result of it was solely what, a few weeks in the past that we let Nick Diaz roll up and do it. However Paulo Costa hadn’t accomplished for the game what Nick Diaz had accomplished, however clearly similar end result, he received the burden class modified solely. So I don’t know, it’s type of humorous, like a little bit of an influence play. Nevertheless it’s not for me, it’s not just like the Anzac tradition of the game.”

“Only a large ‘F you’ to the followers, ‘F you’ to the UFC, ‘F you’ to his opponent,” Dan Hooker on Paulo Costa

Hooker claims one thing like that might have by no means occurred in his residence nation, he mentioned, “That may by no means occur, one thing like that in New Zealand or Australia. I really feel like for those who simply confirmed as much as a neighborhood kickboxing present along with your fighter 10 kilos (approx. 22 kilos) chubby and also you had been like, ‘What are you gonna do about it?’ I really feel such as you’d get overwhelmed up within the automobile park. It’s only a signal of respect. That’s all it’s. It’s a matter of respect.”

He added, “I present up on weight as a respect for my opponent, as a respect for my health club, as a respect for representing who I signify. It’s an indication of respect to the followers, it’s an indication of respect to the promotion. It’s completely all the pieces. So it completely is what it’s. Him popping out like that’s only a large ‘F you’ to the followers, ‘F you’ to the UFC, ‘F you’ to his opponent.”

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