Filed under: News , UFC , Videos AUCKLAND, New Zealand – It took learning things the (very) hard way for Dan Hooker to make a change. After a six-fight featherweight UFC stint, Dan Hooker (13-7 MMA, 3-3 UFC) will make his first octagon appearance as a lightweight this Saturday, when he meets Ross Pearson (19-13 MMA, 11-10 UFC) at UFC Fight Night 110. Why only now make the return to the division in which he’d previously competed and even won AFC’s belt, you ask? “I saw a quote the other day, and it says ‘I never make the same mistake twice – I make it five or six times, just to be sure,’” Hooker told MMAjunkie ahead of the FS1-televised main card scrap at Spark Arena in Auckland, New Zealand. “And then after he sixth time, I was sure.” While we’re yet to see how he fares against the competition in the UFC’s stacked 155-pound class, Hooker has already felt the difference as Saturday’s (though the fight actually takes place on Sunday in New Zealand) scrap approaches. “I like to think I’m very strong mentally,” Hooker said
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