Josh Hokit asks Ciryl Gane for a translation at UFC face-off

The Times Square staredown drew an unusually large audience, with the sunglasses coming off before the conversation hit a language barrier.

Channel: UFC Story of November 12, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 793,763 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (63,661).

Gane and Hokit come face to face #ufc334

Josh Hokit opens with a height joke, then removes his sunglasses to look Ciryl Gane directly in the eyes. Gane answers by taking off his beanie and saying something Hokit doesn't understand.

"What does it mean?" Hokit asks. Later, still facing Gane, he changes his position: "Yeah, I know exactly what that means."

That exchange sits at the center of UFC's Short, "Gane and Hokit come face to face #ufc334," filmed on an outdoor stage in Times Square at night. This is a promotional face-off ahead of their heavyweight championship bout, not footage from the fight itself.

The clip drew roughly 800,000 views in its first day, far beyond the channel's usual start for Shorts. Its comment section was even more unusually busy, attracting nearly 37 times the usual first-day comments. Viewers keep returning to Hokit's sunglasses and his opening remark about Gane's height.

Hokit also brings a basketball boast into the staredown, telling Gane, "I'll beat you at your own game." Elsewhere in UFC's fight-week coverage, the sporting detour is gentler: an Embedded episode shows Gane taking swings at a golf simulator while Hokit gets in some training. On the Times Square stage, though, neither needs sporting equipment to keep the exchange going.

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The numbers

The face-off's first-day views and comments both ran well above UFC's usual Shorts activity.

the video's first day

usual first day here

63,661

this video

793,763

subscribers

23,200,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

12,973,101,733

views per day

8,023,125

typical day: 7,915,915

the video

views

949,016

likes

24,196

comments

2,275

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

UFC

23,200,000

Top Rank Boxing

3,440,000

GLORY Kickboxing

1,640,000

Bare Knuckle Fighting Cha…

1,360,000

Frank Warren's Queensberr…

380,000

UFC BJJ

113,000

As of November 12, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.