On Saturday, October 14th GLORY makes their way to mainland China with GLORY 36 Guangzhou. The event, which features a solid roster of Chinese fighters, is headlined by a precarious fight that we’ve heard rumored for a few months now in Rico Verhoeven against former UFC and Strikeforce fighter Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva. Silva, known for his win over Fedor Emelianenko and his war with Mark Hunt, leaves MMA after a string of knock out losses, but will make his way into the GLORY ring to fight the best heavyweight in the world. This is a non-title bout. That’s the headliner [read more]
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GLORY 46 China Card to Be Announced on Friday
After months of discussion about the upcoming debut of GLORY kickboxing in China, we’ll finally have further details on GLORY 46 China on Friday, August 18th when they hold a press conference to formally announce the event and the fight card. On top of that, Rico Verhoeven is scheduled to have his next fight at GLORY 46 and will be at the press conference to announce said fight. All of the details that we’ve gathered in the last few months since this has been rumored are that it will not be a championship fight and that he will not be [read more]
VIDEO: Remember That Catalin Morosanu is a Big Star in Romania
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that someone like Romanian kickboxer Catalin Morosanu is essentially a living legend in his home of Romania. Yet, he is. While kickboxing has had its recent struggles in Asia, Europe and has failed to really catch on in North America, in the Southeastern European nation of Romania it has a huge following. One of the many reasons why is Romanian kickboxing legend Catalin Morosanu. He’s known for his crazy, balls-to-the-wall fighting style, his never-say-die attitude and while he might look like the kind of guy you’d see guarding a drug kingpin in a superhero movie, [read more]
Chris Camozzi Sounds Off on His Signing with GLORY Kickboxing
You’ve probably already heard that 30-year-old, 11-year MMA veteran, Chris Camozzi is making the switch from UFC to GLORY kickboxing. But there is an underlying question that needs to be asked and answered: Will more UFC fighters follow suit and make the switch as well? “I’m not leaving MMA, but I am going to make a little bit of a switch to GLORY kickboxing. I’m pretty excited about that. I’ve always been a huge fan of kickboxing. I’ve been a big fan of GLORY. Anybody that follows me knows that I go to a ton of their shows. So, we [read more]
Full Fight Card for GLORY 45 Announced
The full fight card for GLORY 45 Amsterdam was announced today, the event taking place on Saturday, September 30th. The event is headlined by Robin van Roosmalen defending his GLORY Featherweight Championship against former champion Serhiy Adamchuk in the main event, with the event also featuring a light heavyweight tournament and a welterweight bout between Nieky Holzken and Yoann Kongolo. The GLORY 45 SuperFight Series is headlined by a heavyweight bout between Hesdy Gerges and Mladen Brestovac and the line-up in general is pretty great. Former Middleweight champion Jason Wilnis takes on up-and-coming contender Yousri Belgaroui and in a featherweight [read more]
Steven Wright’s Top 15 fighters in women’s Kickfighting
There hasn’t been much movement at the top, but the new Best female fighters in Kickfighting list has a lot of the usual suspects and one huge move forward for one of the combatants. Also the list of 15 now includes more 48kg fighters, so Muay Thai writer Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu should approve of the full list this year. As always my list is focused on International resumes. Honorable mention. In one of the craziest career turn arounds ever, Mellony Geugjes is having a great year and is Krush champion. Not enough to be on the list, but great turnaround. [read more]
Updated Fight Card for GLORY 44
On Friday, August 25th GLORY presents GLORY 44 Chicago live from the Sears Center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The main event sees Cedric Doumbe fight Murthel Groenhart with Doumbe looking to once again defend his GLORY Welterweight Championship. Continuing with the Welterweight theme Richard Abraham fights Daniel Morales and there’s a Welterweight tournament featuring Casey Greene vs. Antoine Pinto and Karim Benmansour vs. Harut Grigorian. On the SuperFight Series Tiffan van Soest will look to defend her GLORY Super Bantamweight Championship against Funda Alkayis, Catalin Morosanu will brawl with Michal Turynski, Dustin Jacoby returns to fight Sean Choice, Warren Thompson [read more]
LiverKick Podcast July 24th — GLORY 43 Post-Show and Rankings Update
GLORY 43 has been in the books for a while, so yeah, this might be a bit late, but Jay was in New York until mid-week, so here we are. This is the somewhat late, still relevant LiverKick podcast recapping GLORY 43 and talking about the kind of crazy stuff that we always talk about. At the tail end of the show we decided to do something a bit crazy, too. We used our time to update the LiverKick Rankings (which I haven’t actually updated on the site just yet) and we decided to go over those changes in the [read more]
Take a Look Back at GLORY 43 and Its Multiple Upsets
If there was one word to describe GLORY 43 New York it would have to be “upsets.” While there were just a few, those upsets were still a big deal and not anything that most analysts would have predicted. The Featherweight tournament went to Kevin Vannostrand, Elvis Gashi knocked out Josh Jauncey, Guto Inocente defeated Benjamin Adegbuyi and more. That’s just a crazy, crazy night that helps to upend GLORY as a whole. GLORY released a video that reflects on the show and damn was it a weird one.
GLORY Grabs Media Rights Company MP & Silva for American TV Distribution
Since its inception in 2012 GLORY has yet to really find a steady home for their programming in the United States. One of the focal points of the company has been to penetrate the US sports market, to which there have been steady strides forward, but also mixed results. Things looked like they were about to change when the promotion landed a deal with Spike TV, but GLORY served more as a pilot program for Bellator Kickboxing events, which began in 2016 after GLORY had safely departed the Spike TV ecosystem. GLORY landed a deal with ESPN that all came [read more]