Josh Hokit walked off with Amanda Nunes’ championship belts at UFC 334 media day, according to an SSBCrack report. It was the latest stunt in a fight week he has turned into a variety show.
The belt grab came after Thursday’s press conference, where Hokit delivered a line that Nunes clearly enjoyed. “Amanda Nunes loved this line from Josh Hokit 😭” Championship Rounds wrote on X, posting the clip with the quote: “On that side of the table, they like dck. On this side of the table, we like pssy.” The account Dovy also posted the moment with a string of laughing emojis. For the record, Thursday was Hokit’s 29th birthday.
Then came the weigh-in. Championship Rounds posted that Hokit showed up playing drunk again, which reads as a bit, and lay passed out on the scale for more than a minute without moving. Tommy McMillen weighed in too. Championship Rounds shared his reaction: “Bro tryna hit my move.”
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Now for why anyone should care beyond the clips. Hokit is 10-0 and sits at No. 10 in the Knockout Daily heavyweight rankings. The Jackson-Wink fighter last competed June 14, and on Saturday, Nov. 14, he headlines UFC 334 against Ciryl Gane, a former UFC interim heavyweight champion.
His road here is unusual. Hokit was an All-American wrestler and a running back at Fresno State, then spent parts of two seasons on the San Francisco 49ers practice squad and had a five-day stint with the Arizona Cardinals in 2022. He signed with Bellator in 2023, won his debut by arm-triangle and his second fight by armbar, then won three times in LFA before reaching the UFC.
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Nunes, meanwhile, is the former UFC women’s featherweight champion and a two-time women’s bantamweight champion, and the only woman to hold UFC titles in two divisions. The SSBCrack headline doesn’t say how long Hokit held onto her belts or how she reacted. Going by the press conference footage, she didn’t seem to mind him.
So far, every bit Hokit has tried this week has landed. Gane is the first test of the week that he can’t win with a microphone, and it comes Saturday night.
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