Jackson-Wink's Hokit gets spot on White House card
Josh Hokit’s volatile actions have shouted down his volatile words. Saturday night in Miami, Hokit (9-0), a fast-, loud- and trash-talking MMA heavyweight who trains in Albuquerque at Jackson-Wink, defeated veteran Curtis Blaydes (19-6) by unanimous decision on UFC 327. After the wildly entertaining fight, which produced a $1,000 performance bonus for Hokit and a $1,000 Fight of the Night ...
Josh Hokit’s volatile actions have shouted down his volatile words. Saturday night in Miami, Hokit (9-0), a fast-, loud- and trash-talking MMA heavyweight who trains in Albuquerque at Jackson-Wink, defeated veteran Curtis Blaydes (19-6) by unanimous decision on UFC 327. After the wildly entertaining fight, which produced a $1,000 performance bonus for Hokit and a $1,000 Fight of the Night bonus for each fighter, UFC President Dana White announced that Hokit has been added to the June 14 UFC Freedom Fights 250 card scheduled for the White House South Lawn.
Hokit (9-0) is scheduled to face another veteran UFC heavyweight, Derrick Lewis (29-13), on the White House card. He’s the second Jackson-Wink fighter to be selected for the Freedom Fights card. Albuquerque featherweight Steve Garcia (19-5), riding a seven-fight win streak, is matched against Brazil’s Diego Lopez (27-8).
Hokit, a former Fresno State football player and a Bulldogs All-America wrestler, first invited controversy with comments before and after his Aug. 19 victory over Brazil’s Guilherme Uriel on Dana White’s Contender Series in Las Vegas, Nevada. Before the fight, Hokit pronounced Brazilian women as beautiful and Brazilian men as stupid, opining that all UFC fighters should be required to learn English.
After his victory over Uriel by second-round TKO, a performance that earned him a UFC contract, Hokit said, “My opponents won’t be these lazy, boring heavyweights. My opponents will be sex traffickers, pedophiles, rapists. “Hell, you can even throw the transgenders in there.