at UFC 334.
Hokit (10-0) will challenge Gane on Nov. 14 at Madison Square Garden in New York. When asked if he considers Gane a dirty fighter, Hokit said he hasn’t given it much thought and then described how he might get revenge if he makes a mistake.
Josh Hokit describes escalating hypothetical revenge for mistakes ahead of Ciryl Gane title fight
“I mean, it doesn’t matter. I don’t even want to think about it too much,” Hokit said in an interview posted by UFC on Paramount+. “My mentality is if he hits me in the back of the head, I’m going to hit him, gouge his eyes out.”
Hokit then escalated the assumption beyond a fight, citing violence against the Gane family.
“If he pokes me in the eye, I’m going to low kick him. He’s going to low kick me, now I have to stab him,” Hokit said. “He stabs me, I shoot him, he shoots me. I’ll find his family, kill them. He’ll find my family, kill them. I’ve got to go to France, I’ll conquer his whole damn country. That’s the mentality, at least.”
Hokit is coming off a second round TKO win Derrick Lewis at
UFC Freedom 250. On the same map, Gane stopped Alex Pereira win the interim heavyweight title. After that, he became the undisputed champion Tom Aspinall released the belt.
Boy, it escalated fast
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