Josh Hokit: American icon, role model, hero

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What if I told you that there is a heavyweight fighter in the UFC who wears fake Ray-Bans, an "Americana" beanie, and traipses around in a cape before and after his fights? You would call me a dumbass. What if I rebuked you and showed you proof?

Here we come by Josh Hokit.


Let's open a thread up for a very entertaining and elite athlete!
 
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Demure. Deferential. Debonnaire.

Observe this timeless gentlemanliness as Mr. Hokit honors the scantily-clad women: they understand that their opinions, nay, their very SOULS are important to him!



When Josh spoke aloud the Wisdom Text from old times, "Don't pull my noodle, toy poodle! I'm gonna toast him like a Toaster Strudel!" I felt the enlightenment of generational soothsayers pass through my body.
 
lol he is a character that’s for sure! Finally something interesting going on at Heavyweight.
 
The guy seems totally unhinged and possibly punch drunk already. Has he actually backed up his trash-talk with wins against these non-Whites?
 
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The guy seems totally unhinged and possibly punch drunk already. Has he actually backed up his trash-talk with wins against these non-Whites?
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He out-boxed a "perennial Top 5" heavyweight in Curtis Blaydes last month. The fight got a lot of positive press for being non-stop action, and I believe Hokit won both bonuses for "fight of the night" and "win of the night." His record is now 9-0 overall.

Afterward, he was immediately added to the White House card on a short two-month notice.



On top of being the starting running back for Fresno State, Hokit was also an NCAA All-American wrestler. After going undrafted, the NFL "converted him" to a fullback/tight end, and he bounced around on a couple of practice squads before taking up MMA.

It's not a very deep insight to say that Hokit's size creates a ceiling. He weighed 233 lbs in a class that goes up to 265 lbs, and he'll be dwarfed by the guys who have to cut to hit that mark. That said, he just beat up a black muscleman with 30 lbs on him.
 
Phall said:
He out-boxed a "perennial Top 5" heavyweight in Curtis Blaydes last month. The fight got a lot of positive press for being non-stop action, and I believe Hokit won both bonuses for "fight of the night" and "win of the night." His record is now 9-0 overall.

Afterward, he was immediately added to the White House card on a short two-month notice.



On top of being the starting running back for Fresno State, Hokit was also an NCAA All-American wrestler. After going undrafted, the NFL "converted him" to a fullback/tight end, and he bounced around on a couple of practice squads before taking up MMA.

It's not a very deep insight to say that Hokit's size creates a ceiling. He weighed 233 lbs in a class that goes up to 265 lbs, and he'll be dwarfed by the guys who have to cut to hit that mark. That said, he just beat up a black muscleman with 30 lbs on him.
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Ok! Thanks for that. Glad to see he can back it up. That was a crazy fight.
 
Bo Nickal beat Josh Hokit very cleanly in 2019 NCAA Wrestling at 197.



Sometimes, there is a line in the sand that you recognize and step over.

I found some internet nerds declaring that Hokit must cut back down to 184, and then avenge his loss in collegiate wrestling against Bo Nickal, to claim some ability to boast.

Josh Hokit's cry to Ulberg, Jiri, and the midget Topuria: "Come up to a REAL weight class!"

Hokit is fighting "the black Pillsbury Doughboy" Derrick White on the White House card. He should shoot his leg immediatley and be done with it. I hope he doesn't mess up this fun racket for us whites!

But if he does miss, I'll back him all the other next times!
 
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Phall said:
He out-boxed a "perennial Top 5" heavyweight in Curtis Blaydes last month. The fight got a lot of positive press for being non-stop action, and I believe Hokit won both bonuses for "fight of the night" and "win of the night." His record is now 9-0 overall.

Afterward, he was immediately added to the White House card on a short two-month notice.



On top of being the starting running back for Fresno State, Hokit was also an NCAA All-American wrestler. After going undrafted, the NFL "converted him" to a fullback/tight end, and he bounced around on a couple of practice squads before taking up MMA.

It's not a very deep insight to say that Hokit's size creates a ceiling. He weighed 233 lbs in a class that goes up to 265 lbs, and he'll be dwarfed by the guys who have to cut to hit that mark. That said, he just beat up a black muscleman with 30 lbs on him.
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Yes he could easily make 205 without much work and as you stated he will be spotting 30 plus pounds to a typical contender in the division and only GOAT type fighters have won championship fights with his natural size against elite contenders ie Fedor or Jones.

I see a Tank Abbot type career for him which isn't too bad but with the UFC being a legalized cartel his pay will be cost controlled which harkens back to the days when crime syndicates ran boxing.
 
I think he will carve out a niche as an undersized Heavy. Minus Aspinall and Stevenson, arguably the most Athletic Heavy on the roster.
 
Very flattering long-form piece about Josh Hokit, dating back to his high school football recruitment.

Inside UFC heavyweight star Josh Hokit's time as a college football walk-on​


Worth a skim, especially for some embedded videos. Here are some of the interesting passages:

President Donald Trump, ringside for the fight, has reportedly declared the stars-and-stripe bandana-wearing heavyweight his new favorite fighter, playing a big role in getting Hokit on the UFC Freedom 250 fight card at the White House.
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This is a flip from the initial story that Trump had asked for Derrick Lewis specifically, with Hokit just being a hot name.

Hokit experienced a tepid recruiting process ahead of his senior year in part because coaches would always see him at his wrestling weight, some 30 pounds less than the 200 pounds he played at during the fall. As one coach from Arizona told Hammond during a spring visit: "I take dumps bigger than him."
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Hokit would have received a scholarship from a Mountain West school, but because he'd signed a letter of intent for collegiate wrestling, he couldn't take official visits for another sport. By the time he got out of the wrestling scholarship at Drexel, lots of recruiting classes were already full.

When then Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh hosted a camp in Fresno, he asked Hokit what he wanted to major in college.

Hokit responded: "I'm going to be the MMA heavyweight champion."

Hammond tried to train Hokit out of that answer for future recruiting-related conversations -- it happened again when Utah State visited Clovis High School -- but Hokit was always resolute.

"That's what I'm going to do," Hokit told Hammond. "It's heavyweight champion or bust."

Hokit did have a stint in the NFL after tallying 1,260 rushing yards and 17 touchdowns with Fresno State. He signed with the 49ers in 2020 as an NFL free agent and made the practice squad as a fullback. He'd stick around in the league through August 2022 when he was cut by the Arizona Cardinals.

That's when Hokit pivoted back to Plan A.
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Somewhat related: Sunday's Hokit-Lewis fight seems to have moved up from the seventh (first) on the card to the fourth (middle). He's the name selling (proverbial) tickets.
 
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