By winning the interim light-heavyweight championship on Saturday night in Amsterdam, Zack Mwekassa booked himself a fight with reigning champion Artem Vakhitov when the Russian returns from injury later this year.
But one man was even more on Mwekassa's mind than Vakhitov as he talked to reporters at the post-fight press conference: former champion Gokhan Saki. 'The Rebel' has been absent from the GLORY ring for nearly two years. Mwekassa wants to see him back in it.
“Gokhan Saki, that's a fight which really interests me. That is a fight that was supposed to happen and it is a fight that I still want,” he said. “I think we would have a really good fight and I know I would stop him. I know it. Saki, if you are listening: I will stop you. You know it.”
Mwekassa won the interim title at GLORY 31 AMSTERDAM on Saturday night by stopping Mourad Bouzidi in the first round of their contest. He knocked the veteran Bouzidi down three times to take the win after just one minute and forty-seven seconds of fighting, confirming his status as one of kickboxing's most dangerous finishers.
Last year, Mwekassa and Saki got into a war of words via social media after Saki commented that neither Mwekassa nor Saulo Cavalari were “worthy” of fighting for the belt he had just vacated. Mwekassa took offence and went after Saki on Twitter, leading to some heated exchanges and a grudge that is yet to be settled.
GLORY's next event takes place Friday, July 22 at the Ted Constant Convocation Center in Norfolk, Virginia and is headlined by a world featherweight title fight as Serhiy Adamchuk defends his belt against Gabriel Varga, the man he took the belt from at GLORY 25 MILAN last year.
