Jon Jones may train under the same trainers as Josh Hokit, but he’s not a fan of the heavyweight contender.
Hokit fell to reigning heavyweight champion Ciryl Gane at UFC 334 on Saturday night as he put a wild pace on “Bon Gamin” but was dropped en route to the fourth and fifth rounds. losing 48-47 by unanimous decision. Almost everyone who watched the fight left impressed with Hokit’s performance (see highlights here) … but not Jones.
“Same coaches, different results,” Jones said, referring to his 2023 win over Gane. “Hands down (Hokit). Good job French!”
Despite both being trained by Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn, there is a growing feud between Jones and Hokit. There was hockey one of the loudest voices hits Jones after his protégé Gable Steveson dropped out in September.
“This is the craziest coincidence,” Jones wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “Almost any fighter who talks crap about me loses their next fight. I swear it’s been like this for years. Weird.”
Jones a two-minute Gane clown has certainly aged well now that the French fighter has won the undisputed heavyweight title by defeating Alex Pereira and Josh Hokit. Now, every time Gane wins, people point out how easy it was for “Bones” to beat him.
“Cyryl Gane doing Jones’ bidding right now,” tweeted one fan.
“I’m not going to lie, it’s kind of nice,” Jones replied.