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Josh Hokit brings roast notes to UFC 334 media day

MMA Junkie's full press session draws an unusually large audience as the heavyweight challenger moves from prepared jokes to his plan for Ciryl Gane.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 287,192 views a day, 56 times a normal first day on this channel (5,178).

UFC 334: Gane vs. Hokit media day

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0:30Luis Gurule welcomes the challenge of facing Bilal Hasan and wants to disrupt his opponent's momentum.
1:17Gurule reflects on reaching Madison Square Garden five years after learning to punch.
34:31Josh Hokit reads prepared roast jokes before beginning his questions from reporters.
42:35Hokit says his plan against Gane is to close distance, make the fight ugly and control the pace.
49:07Hokit credits his childhood wrestling background, rather than football, as the foundation of his MMA success.

Josh Hokit arrives in sunglasses, gloves and a beanie, then pulls out his notes. Before taking reporters' questions, the UFC heavyweight challenger has some prepared roast material to get through, with Ciryl Gane and several other familiar MMA names among his targets.

That entrance is part of MMA Junkie's "UFC 334: Gane vs. Hokit media day," which drew about 114,000 views in six hours, already far beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for longer videos. This is the press coverage before Saturday's fights, not footage of the bouts themselves.

Once the notes are put aside, Hokit offers a fairly direct account of how he wants to challenge Gane for the heavyweight title: close the distance, make the fight ugly and dictate the pace. Asked about his athletic background, he points to wrestling since childhood, rather than football, as the foundation of his MMA success.

MMA Junkie's shorter uploads are drawing attention around the same card, too. Its separate clip of Hokit's roast and footage of his Times Square faceoff with Gane have both made unusually fast starts. So has the Times Square meeting between Kayla Harrison and Amanda Nunes, who contest the women's bantamweight title in the co-main event.

The full media-day stream also gives the less theatrical voices room. Opening speaker Luis Gurule welcomes his underdog status against Bilal Hasan and reflects on reaching Madison Square Garden after learning to punch only five years earlier. His ambition is plain: "I'm excited to derail the hype train."

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The facts

Channel: MMA Junkie
Subscribers: 460,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 1,077,630
Channel views, pace per day: 168,093 (on a normal day: 122,841)
Video published: November 11, 2026
Video views so far: 113,965 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 287,192

The numbers

The full media-day stream passed the channel's usual first-day view count within its opening six hours. The separate faceoff and roast Shorts also drew unusually fast starts for that format.

the video's first day

usual first day here

5,178

this video

287,192

subscribers

460,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

355,891,564

views per day

168,093