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@monkey_d_y1137

2 жыл бұрын

can you please do a Mike Zambidis breakdown?

@K4ReeL187

Жыл бұрын

great content on your channel 🔥🔥🔥

I grew up watching kickboxing in Australia and there were several fighters who used this style. It was more of a boxers style to kickboxing but it worked! Guys like Stan Longinidis and later on Gurkan Ozkan and Mike Zambidiis really showcased the heavy hands style and relied heavily on their head movement and power punches to win fights. The kickboxing purists didn't like it but the crowds did and those three guys owned the Aussie kickboxing scene for a long time!

@omer9797

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up watching Gurkan Ozkan too he was a popular fighter for a short period of time in Turkey. I also know Mike Zambidis

@TheSquad4life

2 жыл бұрын

Yes Zambidis came to mind to describe this”boxer kicker” style. Agree it’s more effective than it get credit for

@pavlovsdogman

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSquad4life yeah it's a great style and it's been used by everyone from Ray Sefo to Mark Hunt to Melvin Manhoeff. When you have dynamite in both hands you don't really need to rely on kicks and you can fight at closer range.

@vedranandric700

2 жыл бұрын

Wasnt Artem Levine also the one who heavily used his head movement and boxing techniques?

@Autonamatonamaton

2 жыл бұрын

when he mentioned the catch and pitch, first guy I thought of was Mike Zambidis!

Even though he's one of the smaller heavyweights, he's a beast of a fighter. Quick and evasive boxing, but still very powerful. Love him as a fighter.

@Teddy-se8qb

2 жыл бұрын

its about time people realize the myth of "head movement in kickboxing will get you knocked out" is a lie. if you dont got sugar in your step and can be slick. dont blame the technique. blame your abilities.

@Teddy-se8qb

2 жыл бұрын

let this be a lesson for aspiring kickboxers. he was able to close the gap of physical disadvantages by being the superior boxer. it was his boxing skills that gave him the ability to fight bigger men. now apply this to someone your size and watch how much easier the sport of kickBOXING can be.

Loved the Ramon Dekkers references. He talked about Dekkers in an interview in Turkish, talked about how he has never seen anyone like him, that he helped Saki and he carries his name on his tshirt, also named him on a question about who is his favorite fighter and who he would like to fight from the past. RIP

@marcbasil

10 ай бұрын

Umm everyone knows RD, he’s one of the most famous guys ever lmao

@alik5972

10 ай бұрын

@@marcbasil read better

@xmajinvegeta

3 ай бұрын

​@@marcbasilI didn't know him 🤷🏽‍♂️ should I apologize now?

@marcbasil

3 ай бұрын

@@alik5972 “loved the references” lmao everyone knows who he is, he gets brought up whenever kickboxing in general is brought up. It’s like someone talking basketball & then the listener saying “wow love the MJ references!“ 😆 derp. RD was the MJ of KB. He is WAY more known than Saki

@marcbasil

3 ай бұрын

@@xmajinvegeta brand new to the sport I see, eh? Nice

I love Gokan Saki, trained bij Cor Hemmers and Ramon Dekkers. His style is really Hemmer'esq. Really powerfull and amazing to see. I'm happy Gokan is back in the game. He has my respect and heart.

@jansmit4690

2 жыл бұрын

Don't compare Saki with Ramon Dekkers!!!

Man those leg kicks... I can feel them a bit haha Awesome video breakdown!

I love Saki! He is one of my favourite kick-boxers and this was an awesome breakdown of him. My recommendations for the next breakdown would be a second breakdown on Joe Louis’s combination punching or on Lennox Lewis’s straight right

@serenityinside1

2 жыл бұрын

Second that on Lennox legendary right - not seen one vid on it . He varied it like Holmes varied his jab !

@isaacmunoz272

2 жыл бұрын

😉

Happy new year David, can't wait for more boxing recaps.

One of my favorite kickboxers he is also more of a cruiserweight and to compete with these big guys is awesome

Great video as usual ! I'd really love you to also make a video about the kickboxing legend Jérôme le Banner. His rivalries with Mark Hunt and Ernesto Hoost are pure classics.

Love the kickboxing content! Also can you possibly do a video why there have been so few kickboxers like Adesanya who have successfully crossed to MMA? Saki tried and did not do very well, despite being a brilliant kickboxer.

@floydefisher

2 жыл бұрын

MMA is just that, Mixed Martial Arts. The idea by learning multiple martial arts, one style can cover the weakness of the other. It's why one style fighters such as Saki don't do well in MMA.

@sebastianquintana5412

2 жыл бұрын

Gabriel Varga is a 6x kickboxing world champion who tried mma and he said that the stricking style changes completely with the smaller gloves, dutch style fighters who relied on shelling up with large gloves cant cover themselves nearly as well with mma gloves, and their more aggresive, forward moving style leaves them vulnerable to takedowns, adesanya keeps his hands much lower even in his kb days and he is much more mobile and fights from the outside which is safer

@MrAlepedroza

2 жыл бұрын

@@sebastianquintana5412 Spot on. The kickboxing guys who did good in MMA were those who adapted to a different fighting pace, lowered their guards and timed their combos.

@buttox

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrAlepedroza yup just like when wonderboy came to mma from kickboxing. Low hands and a new wider stance for takedown defense

@youngboy5285

2 жыл бұрын

@@buttox Petr yan didn’t change much tho, what makes him different?

Hey man just wanted to say, wasn't really into professional fighting until I started watching you're videos. You're doing a great job if you ask me, hope you're having as much making these as I am watching them 😁

Pushing your mouth guard out halfway while in front of a significantly bigger opponent is a crazy ass flex

2:12 I always love moments like this where it's just two dudes who are loving a good fight.

@Jamirio

3 ай бұрын

It's the legendary Kiwi Ray Sefo, love that too

Your timing is literally great I was literally looking up about peekaboo style and kickboxing yesterday xD

@charlesdourado8292

2 жыл бұрын

Mike Zambidis also has a similar style, you should check out

2022 and a Saki video?!?! great start to the year!

Absolutely a beast! I'm going to save this video training purposes. Your video breakdown was spot on, and it was my first time visiting your channel.

❤ your videos and breakdowns. Much ❤ as always

a video on why saki was not succesfull in mma career and isreal adesanya was would be great because both had a deep kick boxing background

Love it!! Awesome breakdown! Great combos!!

Great video ! Looks to me that Saki's kickboxing have many Francaise boxing tactics & strategies. Keep your great work! Happy New Year

Never hear of him until this breakdown. Wow

@haurg7418

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with being a noob.

All your hard work and content has giving me a great resource to learn and explore new fighters. I would love to be able to talk to you sometime about how and where you find the matches to research these fighters 🙏🏼 much love and admiration for all you hard work!

Saki's style of "catch and punch" doomed his MMA career. MMA gloves are way too small so he ends up taking knockout blows with his chin instead

@elizalzallah757

2 жыл бұрын

Boxing should be his sport after kickboxing

@JoeJoe-hi5op

2 жыл бұрын

@@elizalzallah757 like Tyron Spong. He was good in boxing until he got caught at cheating

@charlesbrent4297

2 жыл бұрын

petr yan does this with great efficiency though.

@9DIME

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesbrent4297 exactly bro, the gloves don't make much difference as long as you don't use your hands for defense, people that don't box believe that boxers block with their hands, no, its more forearm, shoulders, & elbows than anything, nobody should block with hands, Parry with open palm is difference, & basically the only exception

@yasin_ucar

2 жыл бұрын

Vicente luque does it and he never got koed

My favorite gym/instructor teaches very similar style! Love it

That slight lean to the left is how Tyson used to setup his over hands hooks and uppercuts. Has the opponent guessing what would be coming

Great video!! Could you do a breakdown on Rick Roufus or Manson Gibson(would be cool to know how he got away with his style of fighting even against high level opponents)

Reminds me of Tyson when he throws the uppercut and squares up.

I love those same side attacks like the hook/uppercut/liver, I'll have to play with the overhand in there too

David, you are amazing!! By the way, when will you and Roy be cutting another episode? I love how you guys talk about the sweet science. Cheers.

Hey, great video s always! Music is better than usual also :D

I learned a lot from your videos.

Love your videos bro

Great analysis

Another great video

Excellent video 💪

Happy New Year David waiting for more future updates

Thanks for another amazing upload hope you and yours had a great holiday/Christmas season 👍🇦🇺 and a great new year

Loving this quality content

One of my all time favorites.

I've been thinking for a while to make a video about Tyson and Peekaboo as a combat system, not just boxing, this is great! Elbows are devastating with that movement.

Good evasive-based kickboxers are always so cool to see, head movement is getting more and more unused, it hurts. People need to train more their head movement in sports where you can kick

@Dekartz

2 жыл бұрын

It's because you really really dont want to slip into a head kick

Loving these kickboxing breakdowns. Would love some mma breakdowns if possible

This is awesome!!

Brilliant. Both Saki and your review.

Solid video as always TMMA

Loving the kickboxing and MMA vids💯💯❤️

Never heard of this guy he badass. Thx for the vid

2:09 Nice to see fighters with a sense of humor.

Wish we got to see Saki more in the ufc

YO I remember watching some fights back in the day, and all of a sudden this techno jam club music starts blastin. I had no idea it was a fighter who chose that for his walk in music. Saki became and has remained my fav fighter since.

I enjoy your videos more than watching complete fights

Most underrated kick boxer to use the Peek-a-boo Style inspiring to continue the legacy

I'd love for you to cover one of the best Dutch kickboxers of the modern era Nieky Holzken! He's a bit past his prime now but still putting on some pretty impressive performances and he's never out of any fight he's in.

Saki is the kickboxing Tyson, i respect his style a lot

I always thought of Saki as someone who has cannon shoulders. All his punches launch from the shoulders and his punches are like pistons

@delahayenator

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe looks like it, but its from the hip/torso rotation, winding up like a spring while changing angles in the combination.He does have very nice short powerful hooks.

I love the fist bump at 2:09 💪

Boxing is the best everyone should study it

Excellent work. Thanks. This style is so rare to see. What are the weak points in kick boxing?

Hi man i love your videos. I hope make other kickboxing videos for Badr harry, mike zambidis (calling him iron mike) and Ricco.

Legend 🙏 Love this guy ☝️

best kickboxer in the world in my opinion on skillset. The only kickboxer I've watched and could tell he really enjoys what he does.

This video certainly makes me more appreciate Gokhan Saki as a fighter!

6:35 he volleyed that dude's leg like a football bro ☠️

Love that guy. Well done

greetings from Turkey, nice review

Good stuff

0:42 David vs Goliath 🤔😂 this a great break-down video 👍

Have you considered being a consultant to trainers, your analysis and explanations are spot on.

I train at Team Pasztjerik in Schiedam, where Gökhan Saki trained. And I can say the style definitely originates from there, a lot of infighting

Zurdo’s aggressive southpaw philly shell would be a great video, 29Ko’s 43-0-0 Also, absolutely love the content, cheers brother

tremendous channel.

Impressive.

First new vid of the New Year and impressive as usual. I always love these videos outside of my boxing comfort zone, techniques and execution. Really neat to see as I don't know a thing about kicking and stances. Picked up a four book bundles and I am going to be offering them up to my students as rewards for best drill execution (after I reread them again ;) )

@TheModernMartialArtist

2 жыл бұрын

Happy New Year, and really happy to hear you liked the books :)

Very cool! Although I really didn't see much peekaboo style

truly one of the GREATS, its such a shame his UFC career never took off, i thought we would see the best striking in the UFC out of Gokhan Saki.

Can we see something about Mike Zambidis soon? Great work btw! 🙏

i would really love a video about Fedor Emelianenko. Keep going whit your work. It's just great!!

@pascalscherr5206

2 жыл бұрын

He's done one on Fedor vs Cro Cop already check it out I think it's still up

@lucianogallicchio8957

2 жыл бұрын

@@pascalscherr5206 thank you for the information

Nice.

Can you do a breakdown on David tua? 🙏🏾

The arrows are very helpful! One more thing you could try is instead of stopping the footage to allow for the explanations using slow motion instead. I think that it might be easier to follow, since every time the video stops and starts again the eyes of the observer have to reorientate …

SAKI 🥊LeGEND love this Man ! 🇹🇷👍🇹🇷

Shout out to Glory! Thank you. You too TMMA! 👊🏻

Great video David can u do a drill to ko on David Benavidez dude is vicious

Such a good video, and thanks for explaining him. I’ve only seen his fights with oversized opposition and never put it into proper context. But what’s with the music? It’s like the bad old videos from 6 years ago. If I want to struggle to hear someone over random boots n cats I’ll go to a club.

İ almost feel sorry for his opponents with those kicks. Good episode David. Peace

He a beast

Can you please do video, style breakdown of fedor ?

Very underrated

I see an extremely squared up fighter, not sure if this is more common in kickboxing or just an absurd style! One thing I noticed is how he's able to combine a defensive movement with his hook to get offline and exit an exchange if necessary; utilized by other elite fighters as well!

Watching Saki makes me be not feel ashamed of my dad's body.

@serenityinside1

2 жыл бұрын

Huh ?!! 🤔

@wlg2677

2 жыл бұрын

@@serenityinside1 Makes me not feel ashamed of my dad's body.

If Gökhan Saki were to switch to boxing, he would probably beat or be a serious threat for most of the current top 10 HW boxers, Fury included.

A video on why Adesanya succeeded in transitioning to MMA, where many kickboxers, like Saki, failed ?

Everyone talking about how saki didn’t have a good ufc career, lol dude had 100+ fights before he came into the ufc and was waaaaaay out of his prime, had crazy wars, took a lot of big shots inside and for sure outside the ring, he wasn’t the same saki that long time kickboxing fans knew, if saki was still in his prime and came into the ufc everybody would have a different opinion, everybody would be wrestling him, almost nobody would be standing toe to toe with prime saki in the ufc.

CAN YOU DO A BREAKDOWN OF THE CARLOS MONZON

It would be cool if you could make the technique breakdown of the argentinian boxer: nicolino locche "the untouchable"

It's all about getting to the outside of the punch

Perception of reality is far more vital to a fight than predicting a strike... predictions can often be wrong.

Dope

He's pound for pound my # 1 kickboxer in the world!!! Nearly perfect stand up fighter!!👊💯%🤙🤗