“Tony is a crowd fighter, he draws energy from the crowd” Dan Hooker says lack of crowd is the reason for Ferguson’s loss
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At UFC 256 co-main event Tony Ferguson faced a significant loss against Charles Oliveira. ‘Do Bronx’ impressed many people with his unanimous decision win but Dan Hooker isn’t that impressed by Oliveira’s performance. He thinks that the main reason for Ferguson’s loss was empty stadiums.
In his latest interview with submission radio, Hooker says “It’s pretty obvious to me what’s happened… Tony is a crowd fighter, he draws energy from the crowd, Under those big moments, under the pressure, 10, 20, 30-thousand people there, you can’t tell me that doesn’t change the environment of the situation.”
“And Charles Oliveira, to me, he’s a fighter that traditionally doesn’t do very well under the pressure of those big fights. You look at any big fight he’s had in his past, and he freezes, or he’ll crumble under the pressure of those big fights. So, to me, that’s what it was. Tony wasn’t awake. Tony didn’t look like he’d been riled up. And Charles Oliveira was in the zone, in his element, and freely doing his thing.”
“You can’t tell me that doesn’t change what you’re doing. Everyone is awesome at doing their day job, but it’s like, if you had to do your day job with 20,000 people there, yelling, screaming, getting you hyped up. It’s just the whole – I’ve been through it, I’ve been through it before. I fought twice this year. Once in my hometown in front of a sold-out stadium of my countrymen,”
“and then flying over to Las Vegas to the APEX where those two fought, and it’s dead, it’s quiet. I was the same. I like the crowds, I function well, and I love the pressure. I feel like it just builds. But, it’s the whole week. Open workouts, weigh-ins. When you got the crowds there, you can draw energy from it and it gets you going, or it makes fighters cramp up and freeze.”
Dan Hooker isn’t impressed with Oliveira’s performance
Hooker has been calling out Tony Ferguson from a really long time and he isn’t that much impressed with Oliveira’s performance. Hooker further added, “I’m only one man, I only have my opinion. My opinion is that Charles Oliveira is still a p*ssy, Nah, I’m just having a bit of a laugh. He’s just not – he’s a bit whatever to me. He didn’t do anything amazing”
“He just did some basic fundamental stuff to Tony Ferguson, and Tony Ferguson had no real answer for it. To me he just hadn’t been drilling his fundamentals for a while, and it’s a game of improving your fundamentals and working on them. That’s just the way I saw it. It’s not like I was so impressed with the amazing stuff that Charles Oliveira was doing.”
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