On a night where the first nine bouts went to the scorecards, Hooker changed the conversation with a smashing left hook that dropped James Vick and led to a definitive first-round knockout to cap off their lightweight bout at UFC on ESPN 4 in San Antonio, Texas, on Saturday.
After a brief feeling-out process where Vick actually scored first blood with a straight punch that briefly had Hooker stumbling, “The Hangman” found his range and tagged Vick with a pair of stiff left hands before finishing with ground-and-pound at the 2:33 mark of round one.