Kickboxing superstar Gokhan Saki is about to make his UFC debut this weekend in Japan and it’s safe to say that there’s going to be fireworks when he facex Henrique da Silva.
Henrique has promised to come forward but Saki isn’t so convinced of the pre-fight talk as he explained to MMAfighting.com earlier
“I don’t know why these people say (things like that),” Saki stated. “It makes me think that they don’t know what fighting is. I don’t understand how he can say he will beat me by KO.
“Every fight starts standing. Even if it’s on the ground or whatever, if they understand what fighting is, they would never talk like this. The people who say these things are hating on me. I don’t know a lot of other people that really think he is going to knock me out.”
With Jon Jones once again facing problems with USADA, Saki isn’t even putting him into the current discussion as he told Sherdog earlier.
“Jon Jones is a very good fighter, but Jon Jones is not in this division at the moment. I don’t think it will make the light-heavyweight division any easier because there are so many good fighters in the division,” Gokhan Saki said of the former UFC light heavyweight champion.
“It’s not going to be easy, it will be a fight until the end. Anything can happen with these small gloves. All I know is that I’m training very hard, and I’m hitting very hard. I’m ready for everybody.”
“I’m going to bring something new to this whole game. It won’t be just at light heavyweight, every weight division and everybody in the sport is going to be excited when they see what I do,” Saki explained.
“I’m going to share something crazy in there and people are going to get even more excited to watch my fights, and to watch the UFC.”
“That would be the best thing for me. A fight is a fight. If I can finish it in the first second, I will finish it in the first second. It will not take long. I will take the risks. It would be amazing for me to come away with the big KO.”
“They know my striking style. They know how I am. The thing is, we have had two and a half years away and I’m still explosive, I’m still powerful and like lightening with my footwork.
“Everything is the same as it was, but I am stronger in my mind. Everyone will see a better version of me and more than what they have seen before.”
“I don’t think the fight will go past the first round, I really don’t think so,” he said.
“Maybe if it was just three minutes he would have a chance because he could just run away. Five minutes is long enough for me to kick his ass.”
