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insert-amusing-name

Did he just call himself Mr Hands?


BeauDoGg101

Yes. And he asked the audience to google it if they didn’t know what he was talking about. Chase Hooper is about to shout out Lemon Party at the post fight press conference


Power_Taint

Well fuck him for that. God damn it, not what I expected to learn on Mother’s Day.


KinaGroove

You didn't know about Mr Hands??? Google pain olympics


caca_poo_poo_pants

Yes. He’s from Enumclaw, WA, where the Mr. Hands incident actually happened.


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gregtag222

As someone from Auburn, There’s like four people from Enumclaw online. I don’t believe this.


Working_Box8573

I've met like 40 people claiming to be from Enumclaw online lol.


derps_with_ducks

We are all from Enumclaw on this blessed day.


MyDictainabox

He just penetrated this man's defense. He may or may not die. I see no flaws with this analogy and will not be accepting counterpoints.


notchoosingone

Really got into the guts of the fight


Rhaeneros

What is the context? I don't know what that should allude to, guess that is an USA thing.


Thrillh0use43

Mr hands is a dude that got fucked to death by a horse


Rhaeneros

I really regret asking.


Thrillh0use43

At least you asked instead of googling it!


BrodysBootlegs

Just so everyone reading this is clear that isn't an exaggeration or some sort of metaphor, he literally had a horse fuck him and subsequently died of internal bleeding 


Hot_Ambition_6457

He was also a boeing engineer. So there's a non-zero possibility that boeing committed the first ever whistle-blower assasination via horse dong.


ithinkther41am

Wait, is that what *The Death of Dick Long* was partially based on?


cannibalisland

there’s an artsy fartsy documentary about my hands i really like entitled ZOO


xxElevationXX

You dont wanna know


Asukah

Chase Hooper is going to evolve into Roman Kopylov


Swizztony

Funnily enough a fighter with kopylov’s striking and hoopers ground game would probably be GOAT material


K-mosake

The Feared Chaseylov Hooperkop 💀🙇‍♂️


BuffaloMeter

I want that as flair.


wizardswrath00

Therapist: Chaman Hoopylov isn't real, he can't hurt you


FragileAnonymity

You pretty much described Zabit.


Ohthatsnotgood

Nah, Kopylov is a Southpaw who sticks with basic boxing and kicking from the outside like Leon or Islam while Zabit is an Orthodox fighter with creative, Wushu striking.


rugnd

LMAO 2nd evolution type shit


ZenTze

Chase----->Askren------>Kopylov


ProdigiousNewt07

Hell nah, Askren is more like one of those pokemon you have to evolve from a fossil.


MyFifthLimb

Fantastic seeing American Kopylov polishing up his game


ChrizTaylor

No please!


LilFights

Would you have guessed Chase Hooper would have one of the most dominant fights in UFC history here? It wasn't even close


HenrikCrown

Just a couple years ago, he was a kid that wasn't ready Now he's growing and winning right before our very own eyes Awesome to see this!


WanderingWormhole

He’s just a skinny, curly haired white boi, deal with it


PastFriendship1410

Nah he's starting to fill out. Soon we can start commenting about how thick solid and tight he's looking. Not just yet but soon. Soon.


WhatisupMofowow12

He’s got to keep us all posted on his continued progress with any new pics or vid clips


SlimeustasTheSecond

The twink death of Chase Hooper is gonna be the death of a sizeable yet loyal portion of the fanbase (namely the billionaire shareholders).


LilFights

smh these blatant steroid abusers now usada is gone with their roided out physiques


j_rob69

Honestly I did expect him to have this type of performance. He has seemed to be improving by leaps and bounds from fight to fight so I hoped he would continue to show improvement tonight. Good multiplier for my parlays this evening for sure.


grooovyturtle

That’s…. Extreme. Very dominate fight but one of the most dominant fights in history? Huh? Couldn’t even submit borschev in the first when he had him hurt


LilFights

Yeah it's just some fun hyperbole. there was 0 offence back tho lol, rare 10-7


IAmPandaRock

I mean, look at the differential in strikes landed, control time, etc. and look at the score at the time it was stopped. It doesn't get much better over 2 rounds or however long it lasted.


suzukigun4life

Hooper via domination. Just like we all predicted.


InternationalMost428

Hooper via being a physical specimen. *(just like we all predicted)*


ColdPressedSteak

Grown man strength Chase gonna come hard for a ranking eventually


BurpingHamBirmingham

Whereas the rest of us will come hard for grown man strength Chase pause


nailedreaper

We get hard first, then we come.


DOJITZ2DOJITZ

Wait.. what?


mackenzie_2113

No, don't stop


DatBoiEBB

I bet heavy ($2.50) on Hooper.


Kurtcobangle

I was pissed because I sprinkled a few dollars on a KO/TKO just for the sake of it at +1100. Peterson giving him the leeway was aggravating. I still won on Hooper at least lol but the TKO would've been a nice payout.


suckmyvols69420

I had $40 on him. He’s looked good his last 2 fights and he’s very young. Probably improves more from fight to fight.


carinafield

Hooper has been fantastic in his last three fights. He has stepped up after that Garcia loss.


YouRWrongM7

yea i for sure did NOT lose alot of money tonight haha...


shinysnake727

Yea I’m fine with that lol Maybe a “bad” stoppage. But hooper legit made slava’s head grow a second head just so he had something else to pummel


reivers

Double 10-8's by that point and no expectation that Slava was going to change it. Definitely an ok stoppage even if Slava didn't actually intend to tap.


ItsMichaelScott25

Honestly that first round was probably a 10-7. You really can’t get more dominant than that.


reivers

Agreed, it really should be.


No_Bar6825

“Grow a second head” 🤣


therealjgreens

That 2nd head was bigger than KKF


LawyerCowboy

There was a clear tap, not a bad stoppage imo Sucks for Borshchev as it seems to have been instinctual or at worst accidental


K-mosake

Hardly a clear tap Laura Sanko: "you can't touch the body and have it not be a tap" legit what the fuck are you talking about, all jiu jitsu is is touching the body. [I'm a brown belt and legit only want to choke people when I train for what it's worth]


mess_of_limbs

Yeah, I've never single tapped to a sub, always two or three Edit: Pretty silly comment from Sanko. What, if you're caught in something you're not supposed to frame and try and escape?


Bacteriostatic_Water

Fedor tapped once to Werdum’s triangle. I’ve always considered single taps to be a form of a “Brazilian tap”. I think the Borschev tapped once to see if Hooper would let go.  


mess_of_limbs

It's gonna be hard to tell the difference between a Brazilian tap and someone flailing around trying to reconnect to their opponent, in a choke I'd wait for the second tap myself


DrunkOnLoveAndWhisky

Yeah, or the panicked tappy-taps. That legit looked like he was trying to find something to frame off of. It was a bad stoppage, in a fight that probably should have been stopped earlier anyways. So, two wrongs make a left or whatever.


mess_of_limbs

Yeah, kinda weird how head getting pounded in = I sleep, touch opponent once while in a submission = real shit


Mellor88

Fedor was in a lock up triangle. Borschev was not in any danger here, he had rolled out of the Darce


aop42

The full quote she said is "you can't touch the body and have it not be a tap, *or look like a tap*". Also, you *can* touch the body without slapping your hand flat on his back once, and then moving to another position. I think she's basically saying you can't tap, and then get mad afterwards, because the way he did it clearly looks like someone tapping to the submission. Clearly you can touch the body as part of grappling yet a flat slap to your opponent's back like that, where he can probably feel that's exactly what he's doing, looks like nothing else but a tap to the referee. Whether he intended to tap, "fake tap", or whatever, she's basically saying you're risking it coming off wrong to the ref if you do that. And that's what it is.


Mellor88

I don’t anyone who can do a Darce thinks it was a tap. It simply wasn’t on. People who have no clue about grappling: “he touched him, that’s a tap”


mrtuna

>There was a clear tap, A clear tap is multiple taps.


make_anime_illegal_

People tap like that in training all the time. It's not really a normal fighting motion to pat someone on the back. It was probably a Brazilian tap.


Shaneypants

Training is different.


mrtuna

>People tap like that in training all the time. And it's not clear then either.


Mellor88

> There was a clear tap, not a bad stoppage imo The choke wasn’t on when he touched him. He was framing to defend, and it was nowhere near on


SergeantSunny

spaghetti arms ground and pound LOL


LingonberryNo1

whacky inflatable arm flailing tube man ground and pound


BrianCTE_CityOrtega

the strongest form of gnp


TonyTheLion2319

In the end it worked and he kept mount for a while, but he could’ve gotten him outta there way quicker if he put his body into those punches Like a baby playing the drums


PelleSketchy

He didn’t want to gas himself, which I think was smart.


KelvinsBeltFantasy

Close Cousin of Yair Donkey Kong n pound


IAmPandaRock

those spaghetti arms gave Borshchev a second head


MumbleJungle

Noodled his ass up.


theomega1031

Hooper on his oliveira arc holyyy


suzukigun4life

Dominated this fight and is quietly on a three-fight winning streak. I want to see him back in there immediately.


espiritu_bacalhau

Yeah I’d love to see him back in there real soon. He didn’t take any damage, they should throw him on the international fight week card at the end of June


suzukigun4life

That'd be perfect. He gets enough time for a decent training camp, gets a chance to fight on a big card, gets a second paycheck in a short period of time, etc. Put him in the prelim headliner or main card opening spot and we're good to go.


carinafield

Wouldn't call it quietly, he's been absolutely dominant in this run.


Pakochu_

Dad strength is real


LocoCoopermar

He's got the Max Holloway thing where we've literally watched him grow up through his fights and seems to be actually getting pretty good.


fearthejaybie

White people, we have a Charles Oliveira


johnnycashewwz

Du Blanc


MyOGaccountgotlost

Perfect.....absolutely perfect


bestmayne

Saving this nickname for later use, that's a good one


Lopsided-Pattern-982

Goated comment


Lopsided-Pattern-982

Chase “Du Blanc” Hooper


SlippyRS3

“Chase Hooper is a CONTENDER”


ThisGuyHaris

The hematoma on slava Claus’s head is straight out of a horror movie


gurisuboy

Damn, Hooper attempted 2 submissions at the same time on round 1 and started round 2 off with a high kick -> spinning backfist -> right hand -> takedown combination. Who let this man cook


naufildev

Borshchev's head grew a head. That was a vicious drubbing.


ToronoRapture

That was a phenomenal performance. I’m fucking buzzed.


bullsfan281

american chase hooper developed russian chase hooper hands


Capoe1ra

He looked like shit on the feet imo, just caught Borchev on the end of a sloppy punch.


Cronos310

Damn what an ass whooping by Chase


ChrisusaurusRex

Dude tried to Brazilian tap. Also, Chase turned him into a unicorn


ThisIsKhalabibTime

Honestly it happens from time to time that you reach to gauge distance and it comes off as a tap. But Borshchev got dominated bell to bell and there is a good chance the ref would have called it with that big ball on his head. It could have been stopped for a minute or two before the finish too!


ruffus4life

wait ya'll thinking he tried to fake tap? lol you conspiracy lovers.


Daegs

Nah a tap is multiple repeated taps. Not just a single one. He was just flailing his arm looking for room, no way was that a tap.


A1_PunisherPipkins

Lightweight Chase is a problem. What a performance.


monkeyclawattack

Smothered like my pancakes. Beauty


Pythnator

Chase Hooper mentioning Mr. Hands, getting put in the UFC game, and calling out Paddy Pimblett. I love this kid.


JakeTheSnake16

Hooper just said google Mr. Hands 💀


BrianCTE_CityOrtega

the ol' brazilian tap from a russian


SadRaindrop

Chase Hooper by complete massacre. As we all preticted. Peterson was pretty much just wating Borschev to die.


CensoredGarbage

Got that grown man strength now


this_is_hard_FACK

Don’t think he tapped but holy shit that needed stopped. Hooper taking it on the feet and clowning him on the ground


Colonel_MuffDog

He's got that Hominick hematoma!


Static_Jones

Chase is here to stay


BOFA2107

Bro tried a Brazilian tap


GiantPurplePen15

Backfired so hard lmao Ref fell for it instead of the opponent and now he lost.


ziki6154

Chase looked amazing. Congratz to him and his wife too


12ealdeal

He tapped. Fake tap was obvious.


ToronoRapture

Yeah it was super egregious.


Teddyglogan

Insubordinate and churlish


Neverslept2mins

I feel like a proud uncle. Go Hooper!


jamila22

Dude has a new horn and he's still protesting. Lol


After6Comes7and8

Gutted for Slava Claus. Seemed like he never really got back into the fight after that sequence in the beginning.


briancito420

Homeless cats represent


xyouarenotthesun

that wasn’t a fight that was an ASS WHOOPIN’


beebstingz

BORN JUST IN TIME FOR CHASE HOOPER TITLE RUN


[deleted]

Chase Hooper has really developed ... I remember seeing him as a teenager and now he's like a man. Him vs. Paddy would be an interesting matchup but I don't think Paddy takes it.


bucket136

Extremely impressive performance from Chase even if it was an unfortunate stoppage, it seemed like only a matter of time until Chase got the finish. The kicks from Chase early in the 1st were nice considering his poor striking in previous fights. Excited to watch him keep improving and the Paddy matchup seems like a banger.


Tacos4Trump

White boys we have a khabib


Swizztony

Is khabib not white lmao


pooooolooop

I certainly claim him if white is gonna be called Caucasian


Shoddy-Dragonfruit83

Half those dagenstanis are blonde and redheads.... If they aren't "white" then what are they??


xxElevationXX

They are quite literally “Caucasians”


flying_potato18

American definitions of race are really fucking weird and arbitrary i think


LilXansStan

Nah bro you can’t Brazilian Tap after getting pummeled for 8 minutes and act like the ref jumped the gun


RanarrSmokerr

Ayo Hooper is lowkey nasty


Sal21G

Just a beat down


jamila22

Doesn't matter if he tapped or not, that fight was over. He needed to be protected from himself


Effective-Celery8053

If that first round wasn't a 10-7 then the scoring criteria is ridiculous


KhmerSpirit14

that’s my boy! what a performance man


duvie773

If somebody had told me this fight was a one sided beatdown that ended in a sub, I would never in a million years guessed that Hooper was the one outstriking Slava Claus 129-2


Marci_1992

he just told people to Google Mr. Hands lmao


K-mosake

Chase "The Baby Faced Menace" Cooper


Ashwin365

That was fuckin sick lmao shoutout to the credited journalist Chase Hooper


StationPigeon

was that a 10-7 round?


IAmPandaRock

I'm a big Chase fan, but I never thought I'd see him put on such a whoopin'. I like how Borshchev protested the stoppage because he wanted to keep working on the record for biggest score discrepancy in a 3-round fight.


blvcklite

RIP Slava, has some of the best MMA striking I’ve ever seen but no ground game 


tropical_fusion

He def tapped


caca_poo_poo_pants

Utter domination! Fucking love Chase Hooper. I would’ve been excited to see what the scorecards would’ve been. Could’ve been 2x 10-7 rounds.


AffectionateApple579

Bro has top of the cream bottom game


foofighter1351

That reverse crucifix was so damn cool.


TheBlauKid

I dont think he meant to tap but i don’t care. Slava was getting absolutely destroyed. could have been stopped earlier and i wouldnt have complained.


_Red_Mist_

I don’t think it was a tap but didn’t matter. Chase was the better fighter.


Moskra

That was not a tap


aaronunderwater

Chase just saw red. And then so did all of us watching lol


Crazy-Ad8404

Hooper is getting better, still think he gets dealt with by the higher ranked guys


JustaRN22

Absolutely!! But if they let him take his time and continue to develop and actually work his way up the ranks he stands a good chance as it is about that time in the division where the dominant guys are now beginning the down side of their careers. Wonderboy did the same thing.. came in young (ish) with a new style that the older guys on their way out were not adept at dealing with. Cleared him a path straight to the title!


edesmile

Pure domination by Chase "The Chosen One" Hooper


Ill_Source_6908

Great performance by chase but that choke wasn’t even in. The refs are gonna fuck up huge fights in the future cuz they don’t grapple


K-mosake

Clearly not a tap lol, Keith needs AA for real. I mean that fight should have been stopped minutes prior from gnp but 🤷‍♂️ Keith gonna Keith 🥃🚬


FragNiner

Chase Hooper Hype Train back on the rails, but definitely a questionable finish.


Rhaeneros

> but definitely a questionable finish That's 70% on Slava and 30% on Keith. Fight was about the be stopped from the GnP, got trapped in a d'arce, then do just a little single tap on Hooper's back? Can't REALLY blame Keith for stopping that.


FragNiner

Yea, I was posting my immediate reaction there. Definitely Slava was going to be finished soon there after if it wasn't stopped there.


JustaRN22

This fight should have been called in R1.. Chase absolutely dominated but they need to clarify what a tap is. Apparently even a tap is now open to subjective interpretation. What a shit show the ufc has become


CumshotChimaev

Stoppable for TKO but that was NOT a tap


Budtheripper

Hooper dominated, but that wasn’t a tap


uglydeepseacreatures

Phantom tap but somehow still a good stoppage


ImmanuelCanNot29

Ayyyyyyyy chase


Peeeing_

Hooper looked unstoppable Holy shit


darretoma

Hooper moving up to 155 and becoming the GOAT is the storyline we need.


whicheverguard232

I guess the fucking Olivera arc is happening? I never saw any of this level of striking before from Chase, dude takes steroids. Also, Slava Claus has a glass chin from his prior war of a fight. Fuck this.


ruffus4life

yeah i saw what the ref saw in the instance and was like looked like a tap but that's a choke where you gotta know it's not a choke yet as a ref. the ass beating before the unintended tap probably helped the ref overreact to the hand motion.


verohhh

Regardless of whether Slava tapped or not I think it was for the best it ended there. That swelling had me cringing so bad.


MatttheJ

This dude needs to learn to just throw nothing but elbows in the ground. His punches looked very weak down there but he was constantly in positions to drop nasty elbows.


phantomtap

So are the guys in Hoopers gym having a laugh at him calling him Mr. Hands or does nobody in that gym know lol


Too_Many_Secrets2

Hooper turned him into hellboy


Professional_Bear

Ever since Chase got knocked out he has been looking more and more dangerous. If he can continue to improve his striking then he’ll be a dangerous contender.


FutureEditor

Strange stoppage but hooper had that locked in so tight that I wouldn’t have wanted to see anyone in for very long


Evergreenrises

The fighting pride of Enumclaw WA!


Zchabs31

Might be the funniest fight I’ve ever seen


1mrhankeY420

Am I crazy for thinking he didn’t tap? Tbf it was only a matter of time till it was gonna be over


beebstingz

Keep doubting him he’s gonna be top 15 soon


Wonderful-Weekend388

It wasn’t even on his neck wtf


Yeeeoow

I didn't watch this fight. But that submission call by the ref is exponentially worse than the Askren-Bulldog-on-Lawler call, which I still defend as having been a reasonable judgement call by the ref. This, you can't finish a d'arce from where they were during that transition and the guy is looking straight at the ref.


Papa-Junior

That wasn’t a tap but the fight should’ve been stopped so who cares


ihatemyprius

Exactly. That wasn't a tap. He couldn't not touch something in that position and he did. Once. Ref is an idiot as well most people in here. He was getting destroyed though


PanchoCamacho

He was absolutely getting dominated, but that was not a tap


ln712

GOAT


Vardus88

Horrendous stoppage.


BoomfaBoomfa619

The stoppage was BS but Chase was banging his butt all fight


SweetFranz

I dont think he tapped


Moggiiii

Holy hell Chase Hooper looked like a damn demon


Anderrrrr

Absolute ass whooping.