GLORY 5 London is coming up on March 23 from the Excel Arena in London, England and already with a main event of Remy Bonjasky vs. Tyrone Spong, the full fight card was released today featuring a number of marquee names and match-ups. The match-ups that had already been announced were Remy Bonjasky vs. Tyrone Spong, along with Jordan Watson vs. Steve Moxon and Liam Harrison vs. Mosab Amrani.

We’ll start off with a battle of a new star and a long time veteran between Andy Ristie and Albert Kraus, which takes place at GLORY’s lightweight limit of 70kg. Ristie broke out on the scene last year before only losing to Andy Souwer at the end of the year. Kraus comes into this fight off winning three fights in one night in China on New Year’s Eve. It’s a good, competitive match-up, as the verdict is still out there on Ristie to some degree.

From there we have a light heavyweight bout, which in GLORY is at 95kg, between the It’s Showtime champ Danyo Ilunga and new signee Stephane Susperregui. It’s another interesting match-up, as Ilunga can get wild and Susperregui is very tricky and unorthodox. It should make for an action packed fight. Another light heavyweight bout on the card sees Raymond Daniels of the United States against a to be determined opponent.

Here’s where it gets really interesting, as Steve Wakeling fights Simon Marcus in GLORY’s middleweight division of 85kg. Both guys are primarily Muay Thai fighters but they’re also some of the best fighters at the respective weights that they’ve fought at. Here both of them will be fighting higher in weight than they normally do but I don’t think it will be a problem as they’re not small guys for the weight anyway. To me this is one of the most intriguing fights on the card.

One division below Marcus and Wakeling is the welterweight division in GLORY at 77kg, and that’s where Duoli Chen and Maxim Vorovski will fight. Vorovski has had trouble making 70kg in the past, culminating with him missing weight for the GLORY Final 16 in May. Chen is a quickly rising up and comer at 77kg and last year only had one blemish on his record, losing to L’houcine “Aussie” Ouzgni, which there’s definitely no shame in.

The remaining three fights include some new additions to GLORY. At 70kg, newly signed Johann Fauveau will fight Warren Stevelmans, who despite losing three in a row at one point last year, still managed to end the year on a good note, beating Dzhabar Askerov on something like three day’s notice. This is a good test for Fauveau, who beat Jordan Watson in May and is looking to make a splash on the big stage.

At heavyweight, Singh Jaideep makes his GLORY debut against Yong Soo Park of South Korea. Finally, we have a catchweight fight, though the weight hasn’t been specified, between GLORY Final 8 participant Tim Thomas and new addition Reece McCallister.

Tickets are now on sale to the public here.

Heavyweight
Tyrone Spong (Suriname) vs. Remy Bonjasky (Netherlands)

Lightweight(70kg)

Andy Ristie (Suriname) vs. Albert Kraus (Netherlands)

Light-Heavyweight (95kg)
Stephane Susperregui (France) vs. Danyo Ilunga (Congo)

Featherweight (65kg)
Liam Harrison (UK) vs. Mosab Armani (Morocco)

Lightweight (70kg)
Jordan Watson (UK) vs. Steve Moxon (Australia)

Light-Heavyweight
Raymond Daniels (USA) vs. TBC

Heavyweight
Singh Jaideep (UK/India) vs. Yong Soo Park (South Korea)

Middleweight (85kg)
Steve Wakeling (UK) vs. Simon Marcus (Canada)

Welterweight (77kg)
Maxim Vyrovski (Russia) vs. Duoli Chen (China)

Lightweight (70kg)
Johann Fauveau (France) vs. Warren Stevelmans (South Africa)

Catchweight
Reece McAllister (UK) vs. Tim Thomas (UK)

With GLORY 6 Istanbul over, the steady stream of GLORY events continues with GLORY 7 Milan, taking place in Milan, Italy on April 20 with a card headlined by Giorgio Petrosyan taking on Hafid El Boustati.

With the rest of the card under the main event, this might be even better than GLORY 5 and 6 on paper. Right before the main event is the lone heavyweight fight on the card, between two young fighters in different positions, Jhonata Diniz and Rico Verhoeven. Diniz’s coming out party was his spirited loss to Daniel Ghita at the GLORY Grand Slam on New Year’s Eve and he’s still seen as an up and coming fighter. Rico Verhoeven, while also still being very young at almost 24 years of age, has established himself as one of the better heavyweight fighters who has made big strides in the past year.

The next fight sees GLORY #1 ranked 85kg fighter Artem Levin fight GLORY’s #3 ranked 85kg fighter Sahak Parparyan. This will be Levin’s first fight at 85kg, while Sahak has been one of the top fighters at the weight for a few years now. At 77kg, Karapet Karapetyan, coming off a very close loss to GLORY’s #1 ranked 77kg fighter Alexander Stetsurenko, faces the Italian veteran Roberto Cocco.

The lone 95kg bout on the event sees Australia’s Steve McKinnon fight Serbia’s Nenad Pagonis. McKinnon is ranked #3 in GLORY’s 95kg ranking while Pagonis is at #5 there.

Three 70kg fights take place on the card. LiverKick #2 ranked Murthel Groenhart fights our #3 Robin van Roosmalen. Yury Bessmertny comes down to 70kg and fights LiverKick #9 ranked and GLORY #3 ranked Davit Kiria. Chingiz Allazov gets his first shot at the big stage against Marat Grigorian.

The card gets started off with a 65kg match-up between Sergio Wielzen and Kaopon Lek, the 1995 Fighter of the Year in Thailand and former Lumpinee champion who is still going strong.

The past few GLORY cards have had some last minute changes with injuries and such, so stay tuned for any news regarding fight card changes.

• 70kg: Giorgio Petrosyan vs. Hafid El Boustati
• HW: Rico Verhoeven vs. Jhonata Diniz
• 85kg: Artem Levin vs. Sahak Parparyan
• 77kg: Karapet Karapetyan vs. Roberto Cocco
• 95kg: Steve McKinnon vs. Nenad Pagonis
• 70kg: Murthel Groenhart vs. Robin van Roosmalen
• 70kg: Yury Bessmertny vs. Davit Kiria
• 70kg: Chingiz Allazov vs. Marat Grigorian
• 65kg: Sergio Wielzen vs. Kaopon Lek

We all know by now that these things can change at the drop of a hat. Injuries, visa troubles, contract disputes are all very real things in the fight world, but with that being said, here is the card that GLORY have put together for GLORY 9 NYC, which goes down on June 22nd. It features the GLORY Light Heavyweight Slam Tournament, which is a one-night, eight-man tournament. To top it off, there are also a few huge super fights featuring some pretty big names.

So here is the rundown;

Light Heavyweight Tournament

• Danyo Ilunga vs. Mourad Bouzidi
• Brian Collette vs. Dustin Jacoby
• Filip Verlinden vs. Steve McKinnon
• Tyrone Spong vs. Michael Duut

Super Fights

• Daniel Ghita vs. Brice Guidon
• Rico Verhoeven vs. Errol Zimmerman
• Joseph Valtellini vs. Francois Ambang
• Brett Hlavcek vs. Paul Marfort
• Daniel Sam vs. Anderson “Braddock” Silva
• Wayne Barrett vs. Mike LeMaire