Is Josh Hokit the UFC's Next Big Star? | Harrison vs. Nunes and Garcia Calls Out Floyd — Fight Time with Mikey P Wednesday 11/11/26

It's a double-dip fight weekend: PFL in Dubai early and UFC 334 at Madison Square Garden at night. Mikey P and Lia D open with their best bets, Lia's Locks on the UFC card and Mikey P's PFL Dubai money-line parlay. Picks are opinion and lines move.

The main event is Ciryl Gane defending the heavyweight title against unbeaten Josh Hokit. Lia says a Hokit win makes him the UFC's next big star, but she isn't a fan of his media persona ("it feels very LARPy"), as opposed to Conor McGregor, whose trash talk was real. Mikey P asks who the biggest star in the UFC even is right now, casts Hokit as a love-him-or-hate-him Floyd Mayweather/Colby Covington type and credits his war with Curtis Blaydes. With the UFC now on Paramount+ instead of pay-per-view, they weigh how marketable Hokit is, and both call the fight a coin flip between two big punchers.

In the co-main, Kayla Harrison defends the women's bantamweight title against a returning Amanda Nunes. Harrison is back from neck surgery and Nunes from a long retirement, so the hosts ask how much rust both will carry and whether the former training partners' familiarity points to a decision. Both pick Harrison, and Mikey P calls it her legacy fight.

Fight Time's new headlines segment covers Ryan Garcia, fresh off stopping Conor Benn, saying on Adin Ross's stream that he'll fight Floyd Mayweather on Feb. 6 in Las Vegas (the deal isn't finalized), and Elijah Smith telling Ariel Helwani the UFC isn't re-signing anyone outside the top 15. They close on the hotel-lobby confrontation in Abu Dhabi involving former PFL champion Usman Nurmagomedov's group and Merab Dvalishvili. Lia calls it disgraceful.

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