Mā te kaiwhawhai nō Ngāti Maniapoto, mā Dan Hooker e arataki te pō whawhai UFC ki Aotearoa ā tērā tau. Ka tuki atu ia ki te toa tuaono, ki a Paul "The Irish Dragon" Felder nō Amerika.
Nō te ata nei, ka whakapuakitia te hokinga atu o te UFC ki Tāmaki Makaurau inā tū ai he Pō Whawhai UFC hei te 23 o Hui Tanguru.
Ko te whawhai Lightweight te tuatahi e tū ai a Hooker hei kaiwhaiwhai matua, ā e ai ki te kaiwhakapaoho hākinakina, ki a Mike Angove, he hua e tika ana mō te manawanui me te hiringa o Hooker i te UFC i tēnei tau.
"And now he's truly World Class. He's just outside the top five, and you've got to remember those are names like Khabib, Conor McGregor, Poirier, Gaethje so this is huge foe Dan Hooker. He is poised to move into the same kind of area that Israel Adesanya is, so for him to be commanding a main event in front of his home crowd is absolutely massive.
E rima tau ki muri i kōkuhu atu a Dan Hooker ki te UFC i Tāmaki Makaurau. Ko ia tētahi o te ope kaiwhawhai o City Kickboxing kua kaha eke i te UFC i ngā tau tata nei. Hei tā Angove ka maringa nui ētahi kaiwhawhai kē atu o Aotearoa i te hokinga mai o te UFC ki Aotearoa.
"There's a couple of young guys over at Oliver MMA, there's this weekend obviously there's MMA World Champs here with a number of World Titles on the card, there could be a couple of guys coming out of that. So we are a breeding ground now, we've proven that we have the coaching talent and the horses in the stables to bring up to a world class level. SO this is reward for that."
Ko te whakapae ia ka manawawera katoa ngā apataki whawhai o te motu i te hokinga mai o te UFC ki Aotearoa.
"Expect for damn sure it's going to be sold out. It holds only about ten thousand people here and you got to remember you got to stick a cage in that. It's going to be hugely popular."
Hei te tuaono o Hakihea hokona atu ai ngā tikiti mō te pō whawhai ka tū hei te rua tekau mā toru o Hui Tanguru.
UFC Hui Nui ki Tāmaki! 👊
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