Deep<\/a> Waters’ podcast, Masvidal made his stance clear. He’s picking Josh Hokit to become the UFC heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n“That’s where I’m putting my money at: Hokit. Gane, we’ve seen him already in those positions. He’ll take a back seat to you. If he can’t figure it out right away, he’ll sit on his back. (Francis) Ngannou, he didn’t have an answer. It didn’t seem like or it seemed like he got to positions he was just content to be there, you know? Has he made those improvements on a technical basis and the mental?”<\/p>\n
The fight in which Masvidal is referring to is the UFC 270 main event where Gane was taken down and controlled by Francis Ngannou, a man who many thought didn’t have the wrestling skills to trouble Gane. What played out shocked many. It wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t entertaining, but it was effective.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Masvidal went on to say, “we all know to get away from somebody who has you down, it takes gas. It costs a lot. Does he have enough of that to go do it against Hokit? I don’t think so. I think Hokit gets him down, he could break him, standing over him, punching him. Gane will almost get away, he’ll re-shoot. … I’m betting the house on Hokit, and I’m literally betting the house on Hokit because the odds, I’m going to put real f*cking money on Hokit.”<\/p>\n
It’s a bold shout but one which could pay off for Gamebread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former BMF champion, Jorge Masvidal has had his say on who he thinks will win the UFC 334…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,14893,641,7181,50192,638,82,640,322035],"class_list":["post-956638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ciryl-gane","tag-fighting","tag-jorge-masvidal","tag-josh-hokit","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-334-gane-vs-hokit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}