Salahdine Parnasse stops Dan Hooker in the first round

Living up to the hype has proven a difficult task for many making their UFC debuts, but that wasn’t the case for Salahdine Parnasse.

Making a first appearance in the UFC in front of thousands of hometown fans in his home country of France was always going to be tough for anybody. While it doesn’t get much bigger than a main event fight on home turf in your debut, Parnasse made it look like a sparring session against a true tried and tested veteran in Dan Hooker.