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GLORY 8-man Heavyweight Grand Prix
The historic GLORY Heavyweight Grand Prix takes place on March 9 at the GelreDome football stadium in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The event reintroduces an important pillar in the sport of Kickboxing – the 8-man, one-night tournament.
Winning three fights in one night, against the best in the world, is one of the hardest feats in all of combat sports.
The ultimate winner of the tournament will not only take home the grand prize of $500,000, but also a trophy enriched with the personal rings of the seven fighters they have defeated.
How the tournament-draw worked:
The four lower seeded fighters selected which quarter-final they wanted to compete in while the four top seeded fighters then selected which fighter to face in the opening round. As a result, the 'King of Kickboxing' Rico Verhoeven (61-10, 20 KO) opted to fight France’s Sofian Laïdouni (35-2-1, 17 KO) in the fourth quarter-final of the night.
Former interim-heavyweight champion Tariq ‘Cookie’ Osaro (25-3-1, 13 KO) will meet ‘The Golden Wolf’ Bahram Rajabzadeh (65-1, 58 KO) in a guaranteed wild & explosive affair. Romanian veteran Benjamin Adegbuyi (35-7, 20 KO) will take on the young Moroccan Nabil Khachab (26-4-1, 4 KO), and rising Dutch star Levi Rigters (15-1, 7 KO) collides with Estonian power puncher Uku Jürjendal (20-8, 16 KO) in the opening fight of the tournament.
Cihad Kepenek (21-6, 15 KO) will rematch Michał Bławdziewicz (11-6-1, 5 KO) in the reserve bout. The winner of which could potentially enter the Grand Prix, should there be a dropout or injury on the night.
March 9 will also feature two GLORY title fights as Donegi Abena (27-9, 7 KO) and Tarik Khbabez (49-10-1, 28 KO) meet to decide who is the undisputed king of the GLORY light-heavyweight division, and lightweight champion Tyjani Beztati (25-4, 9 KO) puts his title on the line against number one ranked German Enriko Kehl (52-15-2, 30 KO).
The GLORY Heavyweight Grand Prix takes place Saturday March 9, live from the GelreDome football stadium in Armhem, the Netherlands.
The prelims will be available to watch on GLORY's YouTube channel aswell as GLORY's FAST channels at 12pm ET / 9am PT / 18:00 CET.
The GLORY Heavyweight Grand Prix streams live at 12:30pm ET / 9:30am PT / 18:30 CET and will be available to watch around the world via various global broadcast partners.
Full Fightcard:
How to Watch:
The prelims will stream live on GLORY's YouTube channel aswell as GLORY's FAST channels at 12pm ET / 9am PT / 18:00 CET.
The GLORY Heavyweight Grand Prix streams live at 12:30pm ET / 9:30am PT / 18:30 CET.
Fans can find their local GLORY broadcast partner(s) below:
Heavyweight Grand Prix
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- USA: Bally Live app / Watch Stadium (FREE)
- Canada: Watch Stadium / Bally Live app (FREE)
- Netherlands: Videoland
- Brazil: Combate
- France / Belgium: DAZN
- Japan: U-NEXT
- Poland: Viaplay
- Baltics: GO3
- Romania: PRO TV
- Balkans: TV Arena Sport
- Bulgaria: BTV
- Greece: Fight Network
- Cambodia: HMHDTV / Facebook.com
- Parts of Africa: StarTimes / New World TV
- Rest of the World: Triller TV / FITE (PPV on sale for $14,99)
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