Volkan Oezdemir has a new nickname, with a new hand gesture, and it's actually kind of great

Volkan Oezdemir has a new nickname. If you watched his first-round knockout of Jimi Manuwa on Saturday at UFC 214 in Anaheim, Calif., you might have noticed.

After back-to-back wins in the first minute of the first round, Oezdemir (15-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) seems to have fully embraced the nickname “No Time.” You can tell by how he gestured to his wrist, at the precise spot where a watch might usually go, in order to drive home the point after dispatching Manuwa (17-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC).

Of course, he didn’t just do the gesture once and trust us to know what he meant. No, this was apparently the kind of thing you have to do over …

… and over …

… and over.

The nickname could potentially be a little confusing. Is he saying he has no time for long fights, so that’s why he knocks people out right at the start? Is he saying he finishes fights in no time? Is his car parked outside and there’s no time left on the meter, so he has to end this quickly and get outside to pump some quarters in there? Is the “no time” meant to refer to his career goals? As in, he recognizes the brief window of opportunity for professional athletes, and perhaps even the fleeting nature of life itself, and therefore he knows there’s no time to waste?

Maybe it’s all of those. And, honestly, what makes it really work as a nickname is the hand gesture. When he points to the place where most people wear their watches, you see that he is of course not wearing one. He literally has no time.

“That’s my new nickname,” Oezdemir said in his post-fight interview, as if we didn’t already get the point. “I’ve got no time. So I want the winner of tonight’s bout, for sure.”

Ambitious? Yes. But something tells us that if you asked UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones to face Oezdemir instead of a guaranteed cash cow like Brock Lesnar next, Jones will suddenly decide he has no time for that conversation.

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