Dan Hooker says it’d take ‘a million bucks’ to get him back down to 145: ‘Drunk I fight better than that’

LAS VEGAS — Dan Hooker first made his name with a successful run as a regional lightweight champion on the Australian fight scene, but everything changed once he got the call-up to the UFC and decided to drop down to 145 pounds.While the six-foot-tall Hooker held a size advantage over many of his Octagon foes at featherweight, his results were mixed, leading Hooker to compile a middling 3-3 record over his first six UFC appearances. Whenever Hooker re-watched his fights back, he struggled