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Dan Hooker was scheduled to face Bobby Green at UFC Fight Night Austin, but the fighter suffered a broken arm while training and has to withdrawal from the bout.
The fighter has since undergone surgery to fix his broken arm and Hooker says the break in his arm happened in the same spot as the first broken arm.
“It’s the exact same spot,” Hooker said on The MMA Hour. “Speaking with the surgeon, it just never healed properly. It actually never healed. It never set into place and by the time that I realized that it’s not healing, I was too deep in. I was too close to the fight, everything was booked, so I was just kind of going out of my way to protect it and not let it get hurt. Then my second-to-last sparring session, one of my sparring partners whipped a kick out and put it on the right spot and just blew it right through. So I had the same surgery, just a bigger plate put in, and then they drilled some bone marrow out of my hip and then injected it into the spot where it’s not healing just to ensure it heals up.”
Jalin Turner wound up replacing Hooker at UFC Austin, scoring a first round knockout victory over Green.
Hooker has revealed that he expects to be back in the Octagon in approximately five months.
“I’ll be back to training in three months,” Hooker said. “I just never let it set at the start. They gave me a smaller brace and it allowed me to use it and then I was just doing stuff with it and lifting weights. So at this time they’ve put me in a concrete cast, they’re not letting me—there’s just absolutely no faith involved, which I need, I need to be protected from myself. So it’s just set in stone. I’m playing everything by the book this time. I’m not breaking any rules. I’m going to get this thing healed up. Yeah, I think five months is a good target I’ve set myself.”
