GLORY 3 Rome: Final 8 Matches Set, Petrosyan Fights Hollenbeck

Tuesday, 16 October 2012 14:30

Written by Rian Scalia

Today in Monaco, GLORY held the draw for their Final 8 70kg tournament which takes place on November 3 in Rome, Italy at GLORY 3 Rome. Extravagantly, the draw was held on a yacht, with all eight Final 8 participants on hand. That would be Giorgio Petrosyan, Robin van Roosmalen, Albert Kraus, Shemsi Beqiri, Sanny Dahlbeck, Ky Hollenbeck, Davit Kyria and Tim Thomas.

The fighters were drawn by their seedings in the GLORY rankings, with #1 Giorgio Petrosyan and #2 Albert Kraus placed on opposite sides of the brackets. The drawn match-ups are as follows:

Giorgio Petrosyan vs. Ky Hollenbeck

Shemsi Beqiri vs. Davit Kyria

Albert Kraus vs. Sanny Dahlbeck

Robin van Roosmalen vs. Tim Thomas

You can watch the full press conference and draw in the video above. The rest of the fight card is as follows:

Reserve fight: Yoshihiro Sato vs. Dzhabar Askerov

Reserve fight: Fabio Pinca vs. Alessandro Campagna

70kg: Jordan Watson vs. Mustapha Haida

72.5kg: Alka Matewa vs. Marco Re

For full information, check out the full report on gloryworldseries.com.

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