A new era for GLORY, the world’s largest kickboxing organisation, will kick-off on February 7 at the GelreDome soccer stadium in Arnhem, the Netherlands, as eight of the best & most exciting stand-up strikers on the planet collide in an unmissable one-night tournament to crown a new GLORY heavyweight world champion.
The quarter finals were decided by random draw in December and immediately matched two of the tournament’s biggest stars in Antonio Plazibat (22-5, 16 KO) and ‘The Black Ghost’ Mory Kromah (35-3-1, 21 KO). The man who gets his hand raised here will move on to fight the winner of Nico Horta (26-11, 4 KO) versus Tariq Osaro (29-4-1, 16 KO) in the semi-finals.
On the other side of the bracket, Anis Bouzid (48-4, 37 KO) drew the legendary Errol Zimmerman (112-20-1, 45 KO) and the winner will move onto the semi-finals and will face the victor between Serbia’s Milos Cvjeticanin (17-5, 10 KO) and France’s Sofian Laidouni (42-5-1, 20 KO).
A Last Heavyweight Standing tournament reserve fight between Michael Boapeah (23-5-1, 29 KO) and Nidal Bchiri (20-5-1, 5 KO) will take place earlier in the night.
In the co-main event of the evening, ‘The Golden Wolf’ Bahram Rajabzadeh (72-6, 64 KO) recently announced that he will return from retirement and will face ‘The Gladiator’ Christian Ristea (44-27, 13 KO).
Elsewhere on the main card, Moroccan star Hamicha (42-2, 31 KO) puts his six-fight undefeated GLORY record on the line against ‘The Caledonian Fighter’ Cedric Do (49-7-1, 29 KO).
The GLORY 105 Superfight Series will feature four fights and be headlined by Luis Tavares (64-10, 21 KO) versus Alin Nechita (18-3, 7 KO). KO artist Stefan Latescu (18-6, 9 KO) returns against the debuting Enrico Pelligrino (28-3-1, 9 KO), newcomers Mohammed Hamdi (20-4, 10 KO) & Emin Ozer (1-0) meet, and featherweights Andre Santos (23-2, 10 KO) and Deniz Demirkapu (14-5, 10 KO) round out the action.
Tickets for GLORY 105: Last Heavyweight Standing Finals are available for purchase right now on GLORYKickboxing.com. Fans in the Netherlands can watch GLORY 105: Last Heavyweight Standing Finals live via Pay Per View on KIJK. Please visit GLORYKickboxing.com for upcoming global broadcast news and announcements.