  We discuss recent results on the calculation of glueball decay rates in the
Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model, which favor the $f_0(1710)$ meson as a glueball
candidate. The flavor asymmetric decay of $f_0(1710)$ is frequently attributed
to a putative chiral suppression in glueball decays, which is however
questionable in view of the large constituent quark masses induced by chiral
symmetry breaking. We find that this can be explained by what we call nonchiral
enhancement when finite quark masses are included in the holographic model,
with good quantitative agreement with experimental data for $f_0(1710)$.
Assuming the latter to indeed be a nearly pure glueball, the model makes
essentially parameter-free and thus falsifiable predictions for its decay rates
involving vector mesons and an upper limit on the $\eta\eta'$ decay rate.
