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Lightweight · 5 rounds
The model's read

The model's pick is Salahdine Parnasse over Dan Hooker at 59% confidence — a lean.

Most likely outcome: KO/TKO at 42% (KO/TKO 42%, submission 22%, decision 36%) — but all three finishes stay live.

The model gives it a 31% chance of going the distance, with a projected median fight time around 9:38.

That read carries 22.6pp of edge below the market on Salahdine Parnasse.

Live on Polymarket, Salahdine Parnasse is priced around 82%.

Assembled from the model's own outputs (confidence, method & round distribution, edge vs the market, live price) — not written free-hand. If a number isn't in the model, it isn't in this summary.

Prediction

One honest, calibrated confidence rating — the number is the signal.

LOW We predict Salahdine Parnasse59% confident
Dan Hooker 41% Salahdine Parnasse 59%
How it ends (method)
KO / TKO42%
Submission22%
Decision36%
How long it lasts (rounds)
Reaches R265%
Reaches R345%
Reaches R429%
Reaches R523%
Goes the distance31%
9:38
median time
-22.6pp
edge vs market

Odds

The market line next to the live prediction-market prices — information only. Each bar is the two sides' share of one certain outcome.

paymentsSportsbook line
Dan Hooker19% · +430
Salahdine Parnasse81% · -491
bar = implied chance, vig removed
Live · Polymarket
Dan Hooker18% · +441
Salahdine Parnasse82% · -441
as of 2026-09-01T04:30:07Z · $21,853 liquidity
scheduleKalshi pending
No Kalshi market found for this bout.

Line moves

What the market has done since it opened — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Dan HookerSalahdine ParnassePolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Dan Hooker vs Salahdine Parnasse — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Dan Hooker and Salahdine Parnasse from Aug 26 to Sep 01, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Dan Hooker moves from 20% to 18% and Salahdine Parnasse from 80% to 82%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%Aug 26Aug 27Aug 29Aug 30Sep 1▲ our call: Salahdine Parnasse (LOW)18%82%

Since the open, the market has drifted toward our pick: Salahdine Parnasse's implied chance moved up from 80% to 82% (+1.0pp).

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLatestMove
Dan Hooker — sportsbook consensus21.4%18.1%21.7%18.5%−2.9pp
Salahdine Parnasse — sportsbook consensus78.6%78.3%82.0%81.5%+2.8pp
Dan Hooker — Polymarket19.5%18.5%20.0%18.5%−1.0pp
Salahdine Parnasse — Polymarket80.5%80.0%81.5%81.5%+1.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,761 snapshots on file · window Aug 26 04:18Sep 01 08:51Z · latest Sep 01, 08:51Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.

Props

Our read on the method / round / distance markets — the market price shown for context, not as a bet call.

MarketOur readMarket
KO/TKO YES42%43%
SUB YES22%43%
DEC YES36%13%
GOES DISTANCE YES31%13%
OVER 1.5 ROUNDS65%44%
OVER 2.5 ROUNDS45%44%
OVER 3.5 ROUNDS29%27%
OVER 4.5 ROUNDS23%38%
Source: polymarket-gamma · as of 2026-09-01T04:30:07Z. “Our read” is the model's probability; “Market” is the de-vigged live price.

Tale of the tape

The facts, side by side — Dan Hooker vs Salahdine Parnasse.

Red corner DanHooker“The Hangman”City Kickboxing · Auckland
VSUpcoming
Blue corner SalahdineParnasseAtch Academy · France
Lightweight5 roundsPicks published · graded in public after the card
The story
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 9 of 14 UFC wins.
24-14
Record
23-2
36
Age
−8 yr28
+2″6' 0"
Height
5' 10"
+2″75″
Reach
73″
City Kickboxing
Gym
Atch Academy
Auckland
From
France
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Salahdine Parnasse has no UFC bout on record yet, so those vitals come from ESPN’s public fighter register and the rows counted off UFC tape are not drawn for that corner.
All the vitals, as a table
24-14Record23-2
The HangmanNickname
6' 0"Height5' 10"
75.0"Reach73.0"
SwitchStance
36Age28
155 lbs.Weight155 lbs.
New ZealandNationalityFrance
AucklandHometown
City KickboxingFighting out ofAtch Academy
Vitals and record from public UFC statistics, except Salahdine Parnasse — no UFC bout on record yet, so those vitals come from ESPN's public fighter register and the career rates stay blank until there is UFC tape to compute them from. Nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register.

FightIQ Metrics

Our read — not official stats. Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the fighter’s own weight class (the full roster where a division is too thin to rank in). The better score on each row is highlighted in that fighter's corner colour.

Dan HookerSalahdine Parnasse
80
Striking
n/a
26
Defence
n/a
32
Grappling / TD
n/a
76
Cardio
n/a
55
Chin
n/a
54
Fight IQ
n/a
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within weight class.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Dan Hooker

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD62.2%ACC 41%BODY18.3%ACC 66%LEGS19.5%ACC 76%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 62% head / 18% body / 20% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
62.2% acc 41%−0.7 vs field
BODY
18.3% acc 66%−2.5 vs field
LEGS
19.5% acc 76%+3.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 84%CLINCH 8%GROUND 7%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

24 UFC fights · 1,171 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Dan Hooker

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.68takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.68 takedowns and 0.60 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS18
0.68 / 15m−1.46 vs field
ATTEMPTS20
2.06 / 15m−3.20 vs field
ACCURACY37
33%−11pp vs field
SUB ATT42
0.60 / 15m−0.70 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

Ranked roster-wide

Stats comparison

Dan Hooker (left) vs Salahdine Parnasse (right) — career striking & grappling rates.

Strikes landed / min
4.82
vs
Striking accuracy
48%
vs
Strikes absorbed / min
4.94
vs
Striking defence
49%
vs
Takedowns / 15 min
0.68
vs
Takedown accuracy
33%
vs
Takedown defence
77%
vs
Sub attempts / 15 min
0.6
vs
Career averages from public UFC statistics.

Bios

Who these two are — reported newsroom prose where we have it, our own data-built profile where we don’t. Each is labelled.

Dan HookerFightIQ profileKnockout puncher

6' 0" switch knockout puncher campaigning at Lightweight. 14 UFC wins — 7 KO/TKO, 2 submission, 5 decision.

Built from Dan Hooker’s own fight record and his striking and grappling figures, recomputed for this build. Full profile →
pending

No profile written for Salahdine Parnasse yet. We would rather leave this empty than fill it.

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