Daniel Cormier believes Dan Hooker entered UFC Fight Night 287 with the wrong mindset.

Hooker (24-15 MMA, 14-11 UFC) was finished by the debuting Salahdine Parnasse (24-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) in the first round of Saturday's UFC Fight Night 287 main event at Accor Arena in Paris. The setback marked the 36-year-old's third in a row.

Going into the fight, Hooker explained how he is happy to be gatekeeping the UFC's top 10 lightweights, which Cormier questions.

Cormier's Critique

"When people generally hear that they're a gatekeeper or put in that position, they're mad," Cormier said on his YouTube channel. "They're upset, and they fight that with all that they can. Dan Hooker seemed to be embracing that. Me personally, I think there's too much acceptance, too much comfort in that."

Cormier compared Hooker's approach to that of Kevin Holland, who never accepts a gatekeeper role.

"Kevin Holland never says or never will accept that he's a gatekeeper. He will always fight to win. But just because you fight anybody doesn't mean you almost have to accept that if they beat you, they're just going to go forward and you just continue to tumble."

The Cost of Acceptance

Cormier emphasized that losing hurts and fighters cannot accept defeat before stepping into the Octagon.

"Your intention should always be to stop the tumble, to stop the losses, to stop the suffering. Losing hurts in any way. You cannot accept that. When you hear a fighter do that, it just isn't good because you do that before the fight, and then the fight goes in the way that it did. That's not good. That's really, really not good for Dan Hooker."