UFC Fight Night: Hooker vs. Parnasse streams live on Paramount+ from the Accor Arena in Paris on September 5, with prelims starting at 12:00 PM ET and the main card at 3:00 PM ET. Dan Hooker and Salahdine Parnasse won't fight anywhere near 3:00 PM, though. Seven other main-card bouts go first, which realistically pushes the main event walkout into the 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM ET window.
The Full Broadcast Schedule
UFC Fight Night: Hooker vs. Parnasse runs in two blocks, both streaming on Paramount+.
| Segment | ET | CT | MT | PT | Paris (local) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prelims | 12:00 PM | 11:00 AM | 10:00 AM | 9:00 AM | 6:00 PM |
| Main Card | 3:00 PM | 2:00 PM | 1:00 PM | 12:00 PM | 9:00 PM |
There's no separate early-prelims block for this one. The 14-fight card splits into a six-fight prelims window and an eight-fight main card, with the Hooker-Parnasse main event capping the night.
Why This Card Starts Earlier Than a Normal Fight Night
A typical U.S.-based UFC Fight Night puts its prelims around 5:00 to 7:00 PM ET and the main card around 8:00 to 9:00 PM ET. This card's times sit five to six hours earlier than that. The reason is Paris itself: France runs six hours ahead of the U.S. East Coast in early September, so a main card that starts at a normal evening hour for the Accor Arena crowd — 9:00 PM local time — lands at 3:00 PM ET for anyone watching from the United States.
That's worth planning around. A fan used to settling in after dinner for a Fight Night main card needs to be in front of a screen by early-to-mid afternoon instead, and West Coast viewers get an especially early start, with prelims airing before 9:00 AM PT.
Why the Main Event Walkout Runs Late
The 3:00 PM ET main-card start time is when the first main-card bout begins, not when Hooker and Parnasse fight. Seven other bouts have to finish first, spanning lightweight, middleweight, welterweight, featherweight (three times), and heavyweight, before the night's final fight.
Working backward from the top: Dan Hooker takes on UFC newcomer Salahdine Parnasse in the five-round lightweight main event. Below that, fellow Frenchmen Farès Ziam and Axel Sola meet in the co-main event, followed by Michael Page against Nursulton Ruziboev at middleweight, Punahele Soriano against Daniil Donchenko at welterweight, Morgan Charrière against Felipe Lima at featherweight, Losene Keita against Muhammad Naimov at featherweight, and Mario Pinto against Ryan Spann at heavyweight, rounding out the main card ahead of the headliners.
Eight fights on one main card is on the larger side, and none of them are scheduled as five-round title fights, so there's no single bout that's guaranteed to eat 45 minutes to an hour on its own. But seven bouts is still seven bouts. A reasonable estimate, budgeting roughly 20 to 30 minutes per fight for walkouts, the bout itself, and the gap between fights for corners and instant replay, puts the actual Hooker-Parnasse walkout somewhere in the 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM ET range — which works out to roughly midnight to 1:00 AM in Paris, well after the local crowd's normal bedtime.
How to Watch
Paramount+ is the exclusive streaming home for live UFC events, and that includes Fight Nights like this one. There's no separate pay-per-view charge or additional purchase — a standard Paramount+ subscription covers both the prelims and the main card, live and on demand afterward.
That applies the same way regardless of where the card is held. A European venue doesn't change the access model for U.S. viewers; it only changes the clock. Anyone with an existing Paramount+ subscription can watch the entire Paris card the same way they'd watch a card from Las Vegas or New York, just earlier in the day.
For fans attending in person at the Accor Arena, the broadcast clock and the arena clock are the same thing — doors open well ahead of the 6:00 PM local prelims start to allow time for security and seating, so arriving right at 6:00 PM means missing the opening bout rather than catching it.
Estimating Start Times for Any UFC Card
The same math works for this card and every other UFC broadcast, home or away.
Count the fights ahead of the main event. This card has seven bouts ahead of Hooker vs. Parnasse on the main card alone, on top of six prelim fights. More fights ahead of the headliner means more time before the walkout, regardless of what the announced main-card start time says.
Budget roughly 20 to 30 minutes per fight. That covers the walkouts, the fight itself, and the gap between bouts for replay reviews and corner work. A first-round finish barely moves the clock forward; a close decision that needs scorecards read out loud eats closer to 30 minutes.
Title fights add the most uncertainty. This particular card doesn't have one, which keeps the estimate more predictable than a card stacked with five-round title bouts. When a title fight is on the docket, treat that one slot as running closer to 45 minutes to an hour.
Check the venue's time zone before assuming anything. Most UFC cards run on a U.S. evening schedule. This one doesn't, because the event is in France. Whenever a card is overseas, the announced ET time is doing more work than usual — it's not just shifting for the U.S. audience, it's compressed into whatever local evening hour makes sense for the host city, which can move the U.S. broadcast time by five or six hours compared to a domestic Fight Night.
If watching live from the start isn't realistic given the early afternoon timing, the safer plan is tuning in 30 to 45 minutes ahead of the 3:00 PM ET main-card start and treating the actual Hooker-Parnasse walkout as a moving target several hours later, not a fixed time on the clock.
The short version: block off early afternoon through early evening on the East Coast, not just a single hour, and expect the Hooker vs. Parnasse main event to land closer to dinnertime than lunchtime.