Team Abinator

Every big movement starts with a simple idea. For Team Abinator it was this: Aydogan Aksu, a truck driver by trade, did not want to travel alone to an MMA event in Vienna years ago - so he organized a bus and took everyone who wanted to come.

That one trip became a tradition. The tradition became a community. And the community became what you cannot miss in Europe's arenas today: Team Abinator - the fan group of Gökhan "Abinator" Aksu, organized by Aydogan Aksu. The man who drives trucks for a living now brings a bus and several cars full of fans to the fights.

© Gökhan Aksu

Founder and driving force behind Team Abinator

Aydogan Aksu is the founder and driving force behind Team Abinator. Gökhan is deeply grateful to him.

As a truck driver he had the idea, many years ago, to take Gökhan's fans to a fight in Vienna. They started with one bus. That trip became a tradition: under Aydogan Aksu's lead, Team Abinator has grown to more and more fans.

With a lot of heart he has organized the trips ever since. Team Abinator now travels to events with one bus and several cars - 400-500 people in total. He also organizes fan shirts and everything that holds the group together - and has been one of Gökhan's biggest supports from the very beginning.

Team Abinator now has 400-500 fans - and they do not stay home in front of a screen. When Gökhan fights, the group travels in one bus and several cars: to Germany, across Austria, wherever the cage is.

Everyone in the hall feels the result: no matter which city Gökhan fights in - with Team Abinator behind him every arena becomes a home fight. When thousands watch the walkout, this block is the loudest. And when the fight is over, a community celebrates that is long more than a fan club: family, friends, companions - people who have walked Gökhan's path from day one.

Team Abinator stands for what Gökhan's story is about: togetherness, loyalty and the belief that you go further together. Tyroleans sit next to people from Rosenheim, the Turkish community next to the combat sports scene - united behind a fighter who carries both worlds.

On the road to the OKTAGON title every voice counts. And this block gets louder with every fight.

Want to be on the bus at the next fight when it is time to leave for the cage again? Join Team Abinator on Instagram - that is where you hear when the next trip starts, and experience the fights where they are most intense: in the middle, side by side with hundreds of others.

Questions about the fan group or the next trip? Get in touch →