{"id":38645,"date":"2026-06-02T04:02:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Josh-Hokit-backs-Sean-OMalley-ahead-of-UFC-White-House-201411"},"modified":"2026-06-02T04:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:02:41","slug":"josh-hokit-backs-sean-omalley-ahead-of-ufc-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/josh-hokit-backs-sean-omalley-ahead-of-ufc-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hokit backs Sean O\u2019Malley ahead of UFC White House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Josh
\nHokit<\/a> and Sean
\nO’Malley<\/a> are ganging up as Team USA for the
\nUFC White House<\/a> card. <\/p>\n

While Hokit (9-0) fights Derrick
\nLewis<\/a> (29-13) at UFC Freedom 250 on June 14 at the White House,
\nO\u2019Malley (19-3) takes on Aiemann
\nZahabi<\/a> (14-2) on the same card. Meanwhile, Alex
\nPereira<\/a> (13-3) co-headlines the card in an interim heavyweight
\ntitle fight against Ciryl Gane<\/a>
\n(13-2). And Ilia
\nTopuria<\/a> (17-0) puts his lightweight title on the line against
\nJustin
\nGaethje<\/a> (27-5) in the main event.<\/p>\n

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Hokit launched an unprovoked tirade on Pereira during a promotional
\npress conference for the card in Newark last month. While Pereira
\nisn\u2019t fluent in English, Topuria came to his defense and responded
\nto Hokit by throwing a glass of water. Hokit was then escorted out
\nof the presser before things could escalate. Hokit later said that
\nO\u2019Malley missed a perfect setup to plot a future fight against
\nTopuria. <\/p>\n

Someone to Stand Behind<\/h2>\n

O\u2019Malley recently admitted he should have backed Hokit up during
\nthe altercation. However, O\u2019Malley also admits that he didn\u2019t feel
\nvery \u201cgangster\u201d while sitting close to a knockout artist like
\nPereira. \u201cSuga\u201d jokes that he should have started running his mouth
\nbehind the cover of Hokit.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, maybe I should have,\u201d O\u2019Malley told MMAFighting.com. \u201cWhen
\nyou are that close to Alex
\nPereira<\/a>, you don\u2019t really think about talking s\u2014t. I\u2019m like,
\n\u2018You know what? I\u2019m gonna sit here and f\u2014ing shut up.\u2019 But he is
\nnot wrong, I should have been on team Hokit. He is actually right.
\nMaybe I should have stepped back a few feet, maybe gotten behind
\n[Hokit], and then started talking s\u2014t. I f\u2014ed up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hokit welcomes O\u2019Malley\u2019s support and predicts that the former
\nbantamweight champion would starch Topuria if they fought:<\/p>\n

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Sean would snipe Topuria ALL NIGHT
\nLONG\u203c\ufe0f\u203c\ufe0f\u203c\ufe0fUSA USA USA\u203c\ufe0f\u203c\ufe0f\u203c\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/O8NXY1KXBR<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Incredible Hok (@Josh_HokitUFC)
\nJune 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Josh Hokit and Sean O’Malley are ganging up as Team USA for the UFC White House card.  While Hokit (9-0) fights Derrick Lewis (29-13) at UFC Freedom 250 on June 14 at the White House, O\u2019Malley (19-3) takes on Aiemann Zahabi (14-2) on the same card. Meanwhile, Alex Pereira (13-3) co-headlines the card in an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}