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Josh Hokit's Gane plan: close the distance and make it ugly

Beyond the prepared roasts, TheMacLife's media-day footage finds Hokit explaining his pressure game and the quieter role drawing plays in his preparation.

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Josh Hokit on Ciryl Gane face off: “He’s already dancing to my tune”

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0:26Hokit opens with prepared roast jokes aimed at fighters and UFC personalities.
5:40He says his slang during the Gane face-off was intended to provoke a reaction.
7:49His fight plan is to apply pressure, close the distance and make Gane uncomfortable.
9:23Drawing helps him reach a relaxed, childlike flow state, he explains.
14:45He credits his wrestling background with providing the foundation for his rapid progress in MMA.
20:00Hokit argues that promotion means holding nothing back and giving the audience something to judge.

Josh Hokit has a fairly straightforward plan for Ciryl Gane, once he puts the roast notes away: get close enough to deny him a comfortable fight.

"So I got to make it ugly, and so I got to close the distance," he tells reporters ahead of their UFC heavyweight title bout at Madison Square Garden. TheMacLife's full media-day upload has drawn roughly 260,000 views since yesterday, offering more than the insults and staredown exchanges circulating from fight week.

Hokit says his use of Arabic/Moroccan slang during their Times Square face-off was intended to provoke a reaction. He reads Gane's response as evidence that he is setting the terms of their exchanges. That is Hokit's interpretation; inside the cage, his stated task is to apply pressure.

An unexpectedly quiet subject follows: his childhood drawings, featured on UFC Countdown. Hokit explains that drawing helps him enter a relaxed, childlike flow state. It is a different register from the opening stretch, when he stands with a sheet of prepared jokes aimed at fighters and UFC personalities.

Later, he credits college wrestling with giving him the foundation to reach a heavyweight title opportunity quickly. He also describes ambitions beyond this bout: becoming an active champion and eventually pursuing titles in two divisions.

The performance and the sporting ambition are connected in his telling. "It is entertainment, and so I have to look at it like that," Hokit says. "You have to give the fans something to judge."

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