Yildizli Gökhan
ABOUT ME Gökhan Yildizli is a sports agent and a founder of the Istanbul, Turkey based sports agency Duello Sports Management as well as the former President of Belgian’s first Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), Kickboxing & Boxing Promotion Company BFN Group. He is a Belgian of Turkish and Azerbaijani descent who has born in Ghent, Belgium on June 05 in 1978. In 1989 he relocated to Brussels, Belgium where he attended Marcoux Nr. 9 in Brussels, Belgium until the age of 12 and later attended a prep school at Zeelyceeum in De Haan, Belgium. He obtained his collegiate undergraduate degree from University of Brighton Sport. Soon thereafter, Gökhan started working as a travel agent for 12 years and began his career as a fighter kickboxing. In 2005, he open “ASSIM GYM” his own kickboxing and mixed martial arts academy in Uccle, Brussels, Belgium. After 7 years, Gökhan decided to pursue other avenues and investment opportunities. BFN GROUP On January 2010, Gökhan was named as Founding Partner and President of the BFN Group, Belgium’s first VIP mixed martial arts, kickboxing and boxing promotion founded by a Swiss Investors and himself. Featuring a mix of big name international fighters such as Peter Arts, Tyrone Spong, Daniel Ghita, Gago Drago, Marc Vlieger, Rico Verhoeven, Andy Ristie, Artem Levin, Chris Ngimbi, Murat Direkçi, Andy Souwer, Robin van Roosmalen and many others along side domestic Belgian talent. Each BFN event features one title belt per card. On December 2010 it was announced that BFN had signed a deal with the World Dutch Kickboxing Promotion Company called "IT’S SHOWTIME" for the use of its brand as “BFN Group present It’s Showtime”. In January 2013 Gökhan announced that he had sold the majority of the assets in his company the BFN Group, to a Swiss company. After the sale of "IT’S SHOWTIME" by GLORY WORLD SERIES on June 2012, Gökhan sold his company, BFN Group and began consulting with international MMA promotions in countries such as Bulgaria, Greece, Finland, Germany, Turkey and Russia, opening up a global market for himself. In addition, Gökhan for the first time set up the best boxing promotion in Belgium as “BFN Group present BOXING FIGHT NIGHT” which included a female IBF title fight on September 2012 between the Belgian Delfine Persoon versus Australian Erin McGowan and a European super welterweight title between Belgian Jackson Osei Bonsu versus French Jimmy Colas, which included world famous announcer Michael Buffer. DUELLO SPORTS MANAGEMENT From December 2013 to present Gökhan is representing a client list of 25 professional mixed martial artists at Duello Sports Management. Some of whom have competed at the top tier mixed martial arts promotions such as the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Pride Fighting Championship, ONE Championship, Strikeforce, Dream, It’s Showtime, SuperKombat, K-1 and Fight Nights. Due to the nature of representing international clients, Gökhan is sometimes required to take calls at all hours of the day. He has traveled to 29 countries and attended mixed martial arts events in 21 of them. He has been hired to assist with Russia’s FIGHT NIGHTS GLOBAL and other promotions that are in the concept phase, as well as existing promotions. Based on his vast knowledge and experience, he brings in systems and processes that improve, grow and strategize these events. Between December 2012 and December 2013, Gökhan has been hired as Chief Information Officer with FIGHT NIGHTS GLOBAL. He has appeared 2 times as a panel member at “Russia 2” in Moscow, Russia and in Elista, Republic of Kalmykia. Gökhan has represented Ali “Puncher” Bagautinov, who is currently a top 5 UFC flyweight fighter, Alka"The Spartan" Matewa, Max Vorovski and currently represents Marc Vlieger, Lew Polley, Thierry Sokoudjou, Marko Kosev, Murat Kazgan, Anatpong “Mak Mak” Bunrad, Hamid Sultanbiev, Fred Sinist
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Место работы
- Fight Nights Global с 2012 по 2013 Chief Information Officer
- BFN Group с 2009 по 2013 CEO and Founding Partner
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