Gökhan Yildizli is a sports agent and founder of Duello Sports Management based in Istanbul, Turkey. He was also formerly the President of BFN Group, Belgium's first MMA, kickboxing and boxing promotion company. He has represented over 25 professional MMA fighters competing in top promotions like UFC, Pride, ONE and Strikeforce. In addition to being a sports agent, he is a professional kickboxing instructor with 19 years of experience competing and training fighters. Currently he serves as the Striking Coach for Dan Henderson's gym, training several UFC, Bellator and Invicta fighters.

1. GÖKHAN YILDIZLI BIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION:
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. He is currently living in Temecula, CA.
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.

2. 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 Sinistra, Ben
Boekee, Fernando Gonzalez, Brandon Morris, Arne Boekee, Kaan Kazgan,
Islam Mutaliev, Ali Cenik, Jerome Buisson and many more.
DUELLO FC
Since January 2014, he launched his own mixed martial arts and kickboxing
promotion company “DUELLO FC”. In September 2014, DUELLO FC has
announced his partnership with 12 ROUNDS PROMOTION for only one show
and founded WE ARE ONE PROMOTION. The first edition of "WE ARE ONE
present THE BEGINNING" was held on December 6, 2014 in Spiroudome of
Charleroi, Belgium.

3. STRIKING COACH
Gökhan is a professional dutch kickboxing instructor and he has 19 years of
experience in competition and training. He has been kickboxer and mixed
martial artist fighter. As a trainer, he has worked with top-ranked mixed martial
artists and kickboxers including Dan Henderson, Marc Vlieger, Thierry
Sokoudjou, Luke Rockhold, Michael Chiesa, Samuel Sicilia, Fred Sinistra,
Virgil Zwicker, Fernando Gonzalez, Rousimar Palhares, Murat Kazgan,
Anatpong Bunrad and Pedro Munhoz.
Currently, Gökhan is the Striking Coach at Dan Henderson’s Athletic Fitness
Center/TEAM QUEST and is actively training the following UFC fighters (Dan
Henderson, Tarec Saffiedine, Alexis Dufresne and Sam Alvey), BELLATOR
fighters (Thierry Sokoudjou, Virgil Zwicker and Fernando Gonzalez), INVICTA
fighter (Michelle Ould), BAMMA USA fighters (Ashley Yoder, Corey Grant and
Brandon Morris).