UFC bestal Kickboxningsvärlden på en av deras hot shots, nämligen holländaren Gökhan Saki. Saki drabbades nyligen av en knäskada som tvingat honom bort från träning ett tag, enligt MMAfighting.
Gökhan Saki ,var och är, en av de mest framstående kickboxarna i världen. Han gick över till MMA i sin debut i UFC under UFC Fight Night 117 och knockade Henrique Da Silva i första ronden. Gökhan saki säger i en intervju att han tampats med skadan sen 2012:
This is an old injury that first came about at Glory 1 in Sweden
Something was wrong about five minutes before the fight. I went to the fight and finished it in one minute, but when I came back to the locker room my knee was swollen.
I stopped for one week and then I continued training. With kickboxing, I could never really feel it, but in my UFC fight, I could feel something go wrong again when I kicked. Maybe it was the movement and the different footwork.
Efter att ha vilat sitt knä i tre veckor började han träna grappling igen, men benet svällde upp snabbt. Han tog sitt knä till sjukhuset där läkare fastställde en skadad menisk. Han ska också berättat för läkarna att han ställde in sig på att fightas under UFC 219 skadad:
After the fight nothing happened for about three weeks, it was just a little bit swollen again. Then I started training jiu-jitsu again. One day I was just sitting on my knees for about 15 minutes and it got very swollen again so I went to the hospital.
They took me to an MRI and they found that I had a bucket handle tear in my meniscus. So there’s just a big hole in the middle of my meniscus.
I told the doctor that I really wanted to fight on Dec. 30th. I told him even with the injury I wanted to fight. He told me to take one or two weeks rest and then to start training again, but not jiu-jitsu or anything that’s too tough on your knees.
I took the two weeks off and I flew to Miami to do a camp there and in the first training I hurt it more. I threw a kick, I didn’t turn my leg enough and now the tear is even bigger.
Saki opererade knät för fem veckor sen och hoppas vara tillbaka i mars eller april:
The day after my first training session in Miami they fixed my meniscus, but after fixing it the rehab takes about eight weeks.
I’m hoping to fight again in March. I would love to fight then, in March or April. The recovery going well. Today is five weeks since my meniscus was fixed so in three weeks we can start training again.
Sakis senaste match var mot Henrique Da Silva där Saki vann i första ronden via knockout. Han hoppas få möta Khalil Rountree i sin nästa match.
