Dan Hooker has spent the whole week in Qatar juggling media duties, a grudge match with Arman Tsarukyan , and the nonstop noise surrounding fight week. But it wasn’t the Armenian or the title picture that had fans buzzing hours before UFC Qatar; it was a backstage encounter with Paddy Pimblett that quickly went viral. After all, what began as a casual hallway chat quickly became one of the event’s funniest and most brutally honest interactions.

‘The Hangman’ has been fully dialed in ahead of the biggest lightweight bout of his year, but it didn’t stop him from unleashing his typical bluntness when he crossed paths with Pimblett. The incident quickly went viral, not because it was unfriendly, but because Hooker expressed his views in the most Dan Hooker way possible: dry, honest, and s

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