Gokhan Saki Talks UFC Exit: ‘Mentally I Was Finished’ | The MMA Hour
Gokhan Saki discusses his UFC departure, if he regrets his decision to join the UFC, his return to GLORY kickboxing, and more on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani on Monday.
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Saki is a legend in kickboxing, he always fought dudes 20 kg heavier than him. One of the most technical heavyweight* kickboxers back in the day. He joined UFC too late sadly
Gokhan is a Legend can't wait to watch his Return
He made the transition into UFC / mma way too late, he was already on a steep decline in kickboxing before doing so. The wheels had fallen off long before the ufc run, but still big respects.
There was no steep decline. He had just beaten Tyrone Soong for the light heavyweight championship before coming to the UFC. Prior to that he had only lost to the greatest heavyweight kickboxers of the time all legends (Rico, Schilt, Aerts, and Hari) but Saki was a light heavyweight champion fighting heavyweights and was too short for heavyweight. What you said first was correct that he joined MMA too late.
sTeEp DeClIn headass, are you dumb he was on win streak. His only loses are against the top of the food chain fighters. Here we go he just gave us a lowkick ko out of nowhere. Get yo fax right homie
Kinda like lesnar
Underrated legend
Hardly underrated!
Lmao how in gods name is GOKHAN FREAKING SAKI underrated 😳 …??? What’re you talking about? You mean overrated?
mans a legend on ufc 4 , v underrated
So excited to see fights in such a shame he isn't in the ufc anymore because of his injuries in MMA. I look forward to seeing what he does now back in kickboxing
At least he is being honest. He is better in kickboxing. Saki the legend. 🤙👊
Legend
Adamsın The Rebel 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
No matter what he‘ll always be a better kickboxer then a mma fighter no doubt about it his legacy of kickboxing will always over look his ufc run
Kral
What a legend in combat sports! Hope to see him getting a win by ko
Sad to see gökhan so finished
Great legend like hari... unfortunately i dont believe he can make it to the title. He will do a few can fights and lose to a top 3 HW and close his chapter
The Glory is not the k-1 world GP,
Legend. Saki bombs! But he sounds almost unsure and not wanting it no more..
it so fun that saki had checked out ariels birthday before he knew what he was doing haha
This guys biggest let down were his overhyping turkish fanboys. They made him out to be something untouchable and they treated rountree like a bum.
Turks go with fellow countrymen first above everything even despite common sense
that was legit one of the only fights rountree shined.. gohan gassed hardddddd
bro he just got caught with a shot. it can happen to everyone what does this have to do with his fans
@@lookbeforeitstoolatethat wasn’t what happened, and rountree has looked good before
gkickboxers have better leverage than mma fighters having the premier kickboxing league giving one off fight contracts, all though i believe the ufc may of signed brock too one fight. im not sure. but the comparison on infrastructure for the fighters the ufc have produced is unmatched in fight sports. boxing have some support from national sport academies but the ufc have created the stability for potential atheletes to consider... but is that the cost of a corporation keeping the lions share of the profits off the backs of fighters, i kinda lean yes.. but i think if the ufc just maybe create a culture of signing fighters to one off fight contracts or maybe abit of loosening of the collar to let their fighters box etc.. rather than try protect the product, i believe they would have next to no stress from fighters as they can take it or leave it.. but if a fighter wants to sign a multi fight deal go for it but, having that as an option i believe makes most arguments from fighters void
Ariel was trying to hype his Muslim brother but got into his head a bit about losing to Roundtree so many times which was a sore wound and an obvious huge disappointment for Saki.
Ariel is Jewish.
All of Ariel's dolls ran to his side, because this guy is horrifying.
Soccer club? ITS FCKNG FOOTBALL!
Lol Ariel keeps bring up his lose.
Ariel can be an idiot sometimes pushing the issue about his last fight when it is obvious that it was a huge disappointment to Saki.
He was supposed to be the next big thing but flopped big time
What’re you talking about….? The next big thing..? 🤨
İt sounds he just quit
He never quits. His body can't take the wrestling and BJJ sessions anymore. He transitioned too late. Wrestling is huge in Turkey, it's strange that there aren't any Turkish UFC fighters. The amount of talent from Dagestan on the other hand is abnormal.
@@Ago468Gokhan grew up in Holland
Biliyorum abi. UFC'de niye hiç Türk yok, onu anlamıyorum. Tam bize göre bir spor.
@@Ago468he’s a Dutchman
@@marcbasil Whatever man. Goodnight
Great Kickboxer, but MMA specially in the UFC there are just nother "animals", he is just not hard enough for MMA
Has nothing to do with "hard enough". Has everything to do with him transitioning to mma too late in his career, a lifelong kickboxer training wrestling jiu jitsu grappling for the first time in his life is extremely rough on the body not surprising to hear his body broke down
You know nothing Dragan
Gonna get fired from his own show
Great striker but nothing more
What do you expect more ? To be a god ? Or movie star ? Sst
More in terms of what….? He’s a striker, that’s what he does for a living
#youtube.ong fine