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’Malley (19-3) takes on Aiemann
Zahabi (14-2) on the same card. Meanwhile, Alex
Pereira (13-3) co-headlines the card in an interim heavyweight
title fight against Ciryl Gane
(13-2). And Ilia
Topuria (17-0) puts his lightweight title on the line against
Justin
Gaethje (27-5) in the main event.

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Hokit launched an unprovoked tirade on Pereira during a promotional
press conference for the card in Newark last month. While Pereira
isn’t fluent in English, Topuria came to his defense and responded
to Hokit by throwing a glass of water. Hokit was then escorted out
of the presser before things could escalate. Hokit later said that
O’Malley missed a perfect setup to plot a future fight against
Topuria. 

Someone to Stand Behind

O’Malley recently admitted he should have backed Hokit up during
the altercation. However, O’Malley also admits that he didn’t feel
very “gangster” while sitting close to a knockout artist like
Pereira. “Suga” jokes that he should have started running his mouth
behind the cover of Hokit.

“Yeah, maybe I should have,” O’Malley told MMAFighting.com. “When
you are that close to Alex
Pereira, you don’t really think about talking s—t. I’m like,
‘You know what? I’m gonna sit here and f—ing shut up.’ But he is
not wrong, I should have been on team Hokit. He is actually right.
Maybe I should have stepped back a few feet, maybe gotten behind
[Hokit], and then started talking s—t. I f—ed up.”

Hokit welcomes O’Malley’s support and predicts that the former
bantamweight champion would starch Topuria if they fought:

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