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Ciryl Gane Survives Josh Hokit’s Relentless Charge to Keep the UFC Heavyweight Title at UFC 334

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November 15, 2026

Ciryl Gane lands a punch on Josh Hokit during their UFC heavyweight title fight at Madison Square Garden

Ciryl Gane is still the UFC heavyweight champion, but Josh Hokit made him earn every second of it. Gane defended his undisputed title with a unanimous decision win in the main event of UFC 334 at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, taking all three scorecards 48-47 after five of the wildest heavyweight rounds in recent memory.

Hokit, unbeaten at 10-0 coming in, fought like a man with nothing to lose. The former NFL player and Dana White’s Contender Series graduate shot for a takedown in the opening seconds and never stopped coming forward, walking through Gane’s jab to force clinch after clinch. Late in the first round he picked the champion up and slammed him to the canvas, bringing the Garden crowd to its feet and banking the round.

The challenger’s pressure kept paying off through the middle of the fight. Hokit took the second and third rounds on the live cards with his volume, collar ties, foot stomps and short elbows in close, and he flipped Gane off at the end of the third for good measure. Gane, the far more polished striker, kept touching him with the jab and the cleaner single shots, but through three rounds the fight belonged to the challenger’s chaos.

The championship rounds turned it. In the fourth, Gane dug hard knees into Hokit’s body and started landing at a higher clip as the challenger’s output finally dipped. In the fifth, Gane landed the more impactful blows, popping Hokit’s head back with clean punches while Hokit emptied what was left of his gas tank trying to take the fight back. Both men swung until the final horn.

The win is Gane’s first defense of the undisputed title he was promoted to in September after Tom Aspinall vacated the belt through injury, and it moves the Frenchman to 15-2. UFC called it a record-setting fight for strikes landed and thrown at heavyweight. Hokit falls to 10-1, but he leaves New York with his stock far higher than it was on Friday: he took the champion the full five rounds and had him in real trouble early.

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Caio Borralho Grapples His Way Past Yousri Belgaroui in a Clean Sweep at UFC 334

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November 15, 2026

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Caio Borralho punches Yousri Belgaroui during their middleweight fight at UFC 334 at Madison Square Garden

Caio Borralho took the kickboxer’s space away and never gave it back. The Brazilian middleweight shut out former GLORY kickboxing title contender Yousri Belgaroui at UFC 334 on Saturday night, winning a unanimous decision with three identical 30-27 scorecards in the final non-title fight of the main card at Madison Square Garden.

Borralho set the pattern in the first round. After Belgaroui landed an early body kick, Borralho charged in behind punches, dragged him down against the fence and jumped on his back, locking in a body triangle and attacking a neck crank. Belgaroui survived the crank and a later guillotine, but he spent the round defending from underneath.

The second round followed the same script. Belgaroui found moments with knees up the middle, but Borralho kept closing the distance, dragging him to the mat and pinning him in side control against the fence, landing elbows before the horn. In the third, Belgaroui landed his best shots of the fight, including a hard knee to the head, but Borralho answered with a right hand and sealed the round, and the fight, with one more takedown in the final minute.

Borralho’s five takedowns were a career best, and the grappling-heavy performance keeps him stationed in the top five at middleweight at 19-2. Afterward, he said he was done calling out former champion Dricus Du Plessis and instead lobbied for a rematch with Nassourdine Imavov, who handed him a decision loss in September 2025. He has now won back-to-back fights since that defeat.

Belgaroui falls to 11-4 and takes his first loss inside the Octagon, snapping a six-fight winning streak.

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