In case you love world-class kickboxing, 2025 simply acquired much more thrilling.
GLORY, the most important kickboxing group on the earth, is ready to launch a large 32-man heavyweight event that includes the perfect of the perfect in 10-ounce gloves. The festivities are scheduled to kick off on Saturday, April 25 with a 16-fight card that includes all heavyweight fights. The occasion will emanate from Rotterdam Ahoy within the Netherlands and be adopted by 4 extra yet-to-be-announced battle playing cards.
Try the official press launch from GLORY Kickboxing beneath:
“Kickboxing traditionally has been outlined by tournaments, now GLORY will redefine tournaments with the introduction of ‘Final Heavyweight Standing’, the most important heavyweight event within the historical past of fight sports activities.
“This year-long five-event event will kick off April 5 at ‘GLORY 99: Final Heavyweight Standing’ on the Rotterdam Ahoy within the Netherlands with a mega sixteen-fight all-heavyweight card. The match-ups all being determined by a random draw. Over the course of 2025, fighters will enter qualifying tournaments and profession defining matchups till the ultimate eight stay for an epic one-night finish of 12 months event to resolve who would be the ‘Final Heavyweight Standing.’
“This week, the sphere of heavyweights was finalised because the final remaining entrants had been confirmed.
“Among the many individuals, former two-time heavyweight challenger Jamal Ben Saddik, former interim-champion Tariq ‘Cookie’ Osaro, new signing & high 5 on the earth Rade Opacic, the wild & unpredictable Bahram Rajabzadeh, and fan favorite Nabil ‘The Tank’ Khachab.”
Full listing of 32 fighters Revealed for Historic GLORY Kickboxing Tourney
And right here’s an inventory of all 32 fighters scheduled to compete within the event courtesy of MMA Mania:
‘The Romanian Tank’ Ionut Iancu (30-10, 12 KO)
Ahmed ‘Bosnian Metal’ Krnjić (14-3-1, 4 KO)
Uku Jürjendal (20-9, 16 KO)
Tariq ‘Cookie’ Osaro (26-4-1, 13 KO)
‘The Golden Wolf’ Bahram Rajabzadeh (70-4, 61 KO)
‘The Goliath’ Jamal Ben Saddik (36-9, 29 KO)
Rade Opačić (21-6, 16 KO)
‘Murat ‘The Butcher’ Aygün (32-4, 8 KO)
Sofian Laïdouni (37-4-1, 18 KO)
‘Mr. Gents’ Benjamin Adegbuyi (35-8, 20 KO)
‘Massive Horny’ Nico Horta (23-10, 3 KO)
Yuri Farcas (13-3-1, 6 KO)
Oleh Pryimachov (16-5, 5 KO)
Anis ‘Takamura’ Bouzid (45-4, 36 KO)
Asdren Gashi (18-4-1, 9 KO)
Luigi Gashi (15-4, 4 KO)
Miloš Cvjetićanin (11-3, 8 KO)
‘The Gladiator’ Christian Ristea (44-25, 13 KO)
Colin ‘The Beast’ George (23-12, 21 KO)
Cihad Kepenek (23-7, 16 KO)
Alin ‘The Beast’ Nechita (16-1, 7 KO)
Nicolas ‘Junior’ Wamba (75-7, 24 KO)
‘The Bulldozer’ Petr Romankevich (29-9, 10 KO)
Asadulla Nasipov (10-1, 5 KO)
Iraj Azizipour (69-7, 27 KO)
Brian ‘The Hitman’ Douwes (42-26-1, 31 KO)
Tomáš ‘The Big Slovak’ Možný (21-10, 7 KO)
‘The Soldier’ Nidal Bchiri (19-4-1, 4 KO)
Miroslav Vujovic (11-7, 8 KO)
Nathan ‘The Axe’ Cook dinner (7-2, 6 KO)
Sina ‘Hero’ Karimian (16-4, 8 KO)
Nabil ‘The Tank’ Khachab (29-5-1, 4 KO)
Apparently, GLORY heavyweight champion Rico Verhoeven just isn’t among the many 32-man bracket. GLORY CEO Marshall Zelaznik defined on the press occasion that the bracket has been set as much as assume that Verhoeven is not going to be competing.
It’s attainable that Verhoeven might enter the event in a wild card spot or just proceed to defend his crown in opposition to different potential contenders not competing within the “Final Heavyweight Standing” tourney.
Verhoeven has been the promotion’s heavyweight world titleholder since 2013.
