Josh Hokit lost the UFC 334 heavyweight title fight to Ciryl Gane on the scorecards, and now he says he spent the night trying to hit three of him. In a clip shared by Championship Rounds on X, Hokit said an eye poke from Gane early in the first round compromised his vision the entire fight:
“I saw triple the whole fight... but f*ck it.”
That’s the full complaint. No appeal tour, no crying to the commission in the clip, just a claim and a shrug. It’s about as on-brand as a Josh Hokit sentence gets.
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The triple-vision claim is unverified. No medical assessment appears in the available reports, and Gane hasn’t been quoted responding. What did get noticed was the poke itself. The MMA Guru posted on X that Hokit was poked badly in the first minute and the referee let the fight continue with no break and no point deduction, then praised Hokit for marching forward anyway against a much bigger man. Spinnin Backfist shared the clip under the caption “The Ciryl Gane Special”.
Hokit came into the fight 10-1 and sits at No. 10 at heavyweight in the Knockout Daily rankings. He fights out of Jackson-Wink MMA and took a wild route to a title shot. He was an All-American wrestler at Fresno State, played college football there, and spent time on the San Francisco 49ers practice squad before signing with Bellator and making his pro debut at Bellator 300 in October 2023 with a third-round arm-triangle. Roughly three years later he was standing across from the champ.
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Gane, now 15-2, is the UFC heavyweight champion and the first French champion in UFC history, a former Muay Thai titleholder who has made a career out of being the slickest big man in the room.
Hokit also owned fight week. Happy Punch caught him flipping off Bruce Buffer during his introduction after Buffer had previously criticized his antics, and Championship Rounds posted footage of him playing drunk at the weigh-ins, where he passed out on the scale and didn’t move for over a minute. That’s a villain doing villain things, and I loved every second of it.
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No rematch talk or next booking for either man appears in the reports so far. Hokit does have one notable vote of confidence, though. Alex Pereira told him after the fight that he thought Hokit won, according to Happy Punch. Hokit’s answer was one word: “Chama.”
