{"id":30286,"date":"2026-09-28T20:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=30286"},"modified":"2026-09-28T20:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:07:37","slug":"gable-steveson-wasnt-practicing-properly-for-ufc-331-not-even-sparring-ahead-of-shocking-ko-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=30286","title":{"rendered":"Gable Steveson wasn\u2019t \u2018practicing properly\u2019 for UFC 331, \u2018not even sparring\u2019 ahead of shocking KO loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThis is a whole different game,\u201d Hokit told Ariel Helwani. \u201cI heard [Steveson is] not practicing properly. I heard he\u2019s not even sparring. We\u2019ll see what he\u2019s made out of. Adversity is here. He\u2019s over there smiling and still trying to uphold this fake image.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I\u2019d be smiling too if was cruising around town in my convertible with the UFC GOAT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI don\u2019t know who his PR person is,\u201d Hokit continued. \u201cSomeone should have told him, \u2018Hey, you need to be prepared to answer this [sexual assault] question.\u2019 He had no answer for it. Was that the first time you thought about it? You didn\u2019t think that was going to get brought up? I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re telling him. Maybe that\u2019s even why he\u2019s with Jon Jones in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHe\u2019s not in this gym, he\u2019s not at this camp,\u201d Hokit added. \u201cI\u2019ll fight whoever. I don\u2019t discriminate. Whoever wants it could get it. I\u2019m gonna be that type of champion too. They call my name out, they speak my name in vain, I\u2019m stomping them where they stand. When I\u2019m the champion, I\u2019m giving them four fights a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-331-fight-card-start-time-date-location-van-vs-pantoja-2\/475723\/gable-steveson-wasnt-practicing-properly-ufc-331-not-even-sparring-shocking-ko-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is a whole different game,\u201d Hokit told Ariel Helwani. \u201cI heard [Steveson is] not practicing properly. I heard he\u2019s not even sparring. We\u2019ll see what he\u2019s made out of. Adversity is here. He\u2019s over there smiling and still trying to uphold this fake image.\u201d I\u2019d be smiling too if was cruising around town in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[377,2365,245,14584,7119,120,1677,2366,42,830],"class_list":["post-30286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-events","tag-ahead","tag-gable","tag-loss","tag-practicing","tag-properly","tag-shocking","tag-sparring","tag-steveson","tag-ufc","tag-wasnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}