Josh Hokit lost to Ciryl Gane at UFC 334, and the people who think he got robbed aren’t keeping quiet about it. One of them apparently got close enough to Dana White to make his case in person.
MMA Sucka reported that White shared what it called a wild story of being cornered by an angry fan after Hokit’s defeat. The outlet’s headline doesn’t spell out what was said between them, so we won’t either.
The X crowd had already picked a side. “Eye poked badly in the first minute of his big title fight with everything on the line,” THE MMA GURU wrote on X. “The referee makes him fight on, no break, no point deduction. So he just nuts up and swings forward marching down a man way bigger than him.”
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That account of the foul and the referee’s handling of it comes from one poster. None of the sources here confirm it.
Hokit had a heavier backer than a guy on X, though. Happy Punch posted video of Alex Pereira telling Hokit he thought he won the fight. Hokit’s reply, per the post: “Chama.”
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Who Hokit is
Hokit is 10-1 and sits at No. 10 in Knockout Daily’s heavyweight rankings. He trains at Jackson-Wink MMA, and he took the long way to the cage. He was an All-American wrestler and a tight end and fullback at Fresno State, then spent time with the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent before signing with Bellator in 2023. He won his first two pro fights there by submission.
This was his first loss, and he took it against Gane (15-2), the UFC heavyweight champion and the first Frenchman to hold a UFC title.
Hokit spent fight week making sure everybody knew his name. Championship Rounds posted video of him pulling up to the weigh-in acting “drunk” again and lying motionless on the scale for over a minute. Happy Punch caught him flipping off Bruce Buffer during his introduction, after Buffer had previously criticized his antics.
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None of that is why fans got angry, though. They’re angry about the scorecards, and the guy who signs the checks heard about it face to face. A wrestler with a 10-1 record and a light heavyweight star in his corner of the argument isn’t going anywhere. Hokit turns 29 this week. He has a decent case for a rematch and a former UFC champion on record saying he won.
