{"id":32005,"date":"2026-10-10T06:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T06:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=32005"},"modified":"2026-10-10T06:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T06:56:39","slug":"alex-pereira-has-a-problem-with-ciryl-gane-vs-josh-hokit-headlining-ufc-334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=32005","title":{"rendered":"Alex Pereira Has A Problem With Ciryl Gane Vs. Josh Hokit Headlining UFC 334"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ol class=\"ea-crumbs\">\n<li class=\"ea-crumb\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHome\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"ea-crumb\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ea-crumb-sep\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u203a<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMMA News\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"ea-crumb\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ea-crumb-sep\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u203a<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span aria-current=\"page\">Alex Pereira Has a Problem With Ciryl Gane vs. Josh Hokit Headlining UFC 334<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former two-division titleholder Alex Pereira wants the UFC 334 co-main event to be promoted to the main event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A heavyweight title clash between champion Ciryl Gane and undefeated contender Josh Hokit is set to headline UFC 334. In the co-main event, women\u2019s bantamweight titleholder Kayla Harrison will defend her strap against the legendary Amanda Nunes.<\/p>\n<p>NEWARK, NEW JERSEY \u2013 JUNE 07: Kayla Harrison faces off with former champion Amanda Nunes after her victory over Julianna Pena in the UFC women\u2019s bantamweight championship bout during the UFC 316 event at Prudential Center on June 07, 2025, in Newark, New Jersey.  (Photo by Ed Mulholland\/Zuffa LLC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pereira, who is no fan of Josh Hokit and Ciryl Gane, now wants the company to remove them from the UFC 334 main event and promote Harrison vs. Nunes to headline the card instead. Earlier today, \u201cPoatan\u201d posted the UFC 334 poster on Instagram\u00a0stories and wrote:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhy the Women\u2019s Fight is not the Main Event? Okay, let me help promote this cause no one is paying attention to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Check out Alex Pereira\u2019s comments below:<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alex Pereira doesn\u2019t think Ciryl Gane vs Josh Hokit should be the main event of UFC 334 \ud83d\ude2c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy the Women&#8217;s Fight is not the Main Event? Okay let me help promote this cause no one is paying attention to it.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Xz3pOcXrx\">pic.twitter.com\/9Xz3pOcXrx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Championship Rounds (@ChampRDS) October 9, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPoatan\u201d also has an upcoming assessment. He will take on Russian knockout artist Sergei Pavlovich in the co-main event of UFC 335. The winner could become the next 265-pound title challenger and face the winner of the Gane vs. Hokit title clash. <\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 JUNE 14: Alex Pereira of Brazil awaits the start of the round in the UFC interim heavyweight championship fight during the UFC Freedom 250 event on the South Lawn at the White House on June 14, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chris Unger\/Zuffa LLC)<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Josh Hokit calls Alex Pereira, Ciryl Gane, and Jake Paul \u201cpus*sies\u201d\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Josh Hokit claimed earlier this week that Jake Paul, Ciryl Gane, and Alex Pereira do not want to fight him in either boxing or MMA. He also claimed that Gane is being forced to face him at UFC 334. \u201cThe Incredible Hok\u201d posted on X:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c@jakepaul , @ciryl_gane , @AlexPereiraUFC , boxing or MMA, none want the Incredible Hok, smoke. I destroy Jake, easy. I\u2019m Jakes size &amp; age so he would never fight me. AJ\u2019s size was his built in excuse. Ciryl &amp; Alex were praying not to fight me. Ciryl was forced to. Pu*sies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Check out Josh Hokit\u2019s comments below:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hokit knows how to use other MMA and boxing stars\u2019 names to catapult his own, and so far, doing that, plus paying the heel at the same time, and most importantly, his performance inside the octagon, is the reason why he is going to fight for the title in his fifth UFC outing. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowkickmma.com\/alex-pereira-has-a-problem-with-ciryl-gane-vs-josh-hokit-headlining-ufc-334\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \u203a MMA News \u203a Alex Pereira Has a Problem With Ciryl Gane vs. Josh Hokit Headlining UFC 334 Former two-division titleholder Alex Pereira wants the UFC 334 co-main event to be promoted to the main event. A heavyweight title clash between champion Ciryl Gane and undefeated contender Josh Hokit is set to headline UFC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[606,1521,1522,5895,3335,2980,1385,3887,42],"class_list":["post-32005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-analysis","tag-alex","tag-ciryl","tag-gane","tag-headlining","tag-hokit","tag-josh","tag-pereira","tag-problem","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32005","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=32005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}