Josh Hokit’s weigh-in for the biggest fight of his life drew an accusation of comedic theft. After the heavyweight challenger lay on the scale and played dead, Tommy McMillen left a comment on one of Hokit’s posts, and Championship Rounds shared it on X.
“Bro tryna hit my move.”
That was the whole comment. The bit it targeted was longer. Championship Rounds reported that Hokit showed up to the scale “drunk” again (the account put that word in quotation marks, and they’re doing some work there), then went down on the scale and stayed there for over a minute. The word again tells you this isn’t his first time running the routine.
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It fits a fight week Hokit has treated like an open mic. At the press conference he delivered a line about the two sides of the table that Championship Rounds said Amanda Nunes loved. It isn’t printable here without asterisks, and it got a laugh from a two-division champion.
Why it matters
The guy clowning on the scale is about to fight for the heavyweight title at Madison Square Garden. Hokit is 10-0, trains at Jackson-Wink MMA and sits No. 10 at heavyweight in Knockout Daily’s rankings. Wikipedia lists him at No. 5 in the UFC heavyweight rankings as of Oct. 24. He turned 29 on Nov. 12, two days before the fight.
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He took a strange road to get here. Hokit was an All-American wrestler at Fresno State, where he also played tight end and fullback, and he spent time on the San Francisco 49ers practice squad before a brief stop with the Arizona Cardinals. He started his MMA career in Bellator in 2023 and won his debut with an arm-triangle at Bellator 300.
Ciryl Gane is the opposite of an open mic. The Frenchman is 14-2 and fights out of MMA Factory. He’s the first French champion in UFC history, and Wikipedia ranks him No. 11 pound for pound. Both men last fought on June 14, so neither has an excuse about rust.
I’ll take a heavyweight who plays dead on the scale over one who reads a statement off his phone. The joke only lands if he shows up alive against a former Muay Thai champion who knocked people out for a living before he ever wrestled one.
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Gane vs. Hokit headlines UFC 334 at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Nov. 14. Nunes comes out of retirement to face bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison in the co-main.
