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Glory 10 "The Battle of Arnhem"
November 9, 2008 Rijnhal Arnhem, Holland
Sunday 9 November, the spectacular K-1 and MMA event GLORY 10 "The Battle of Arnhem" will take place at the Rijnhal in the city of Arnhem, Holland.
Because of GLORY´s 10th anniversary there will be some special top quality fights. Not only will the biggest names from the whole world come to the Rijnhal to show their skills but there will also be 3 title fights that will take place; 2 European title fights featuring Halim Issaoui vs Jan de Keyer, Dion Staring vs Markus Halkosaari and 1 world title fight and that of Henry Akdeniz vs Brian al Amin.
Also there will be a very special boxing fight featuring former silver medalist on the Olympic Games; Arnhem's own Orhan Delibas who will who will have his 'last hurrah' vs the Kroatian KO specialist Gordan Glisic. Delibas says: I have been training since July and already lost 10 kilos, I still need to loss a couple of kilos and then I will be in my best shape. This will be my last but best fight ever!
Double K-1 Vegas winner and triple World champion Muay Thai Stefan ´Blitz´ Leko will also show his skills at GLORY 10. The K-1 superstar with an impressive record of no less than 61 wins has been training at the famous Golden Glory team situated in Breda for many years. The fighter from Duisburg, Germany (just across the border from Arnhem) has entirely recovered from an annoying injury (torn ACL). In August Leko won in a convincing manner by KO at the K-1 event held in Hawaii and shown that he is ready for anybody again. Stefan opponent for coming Sunday is the very experienced MMA and K1 fighter Rodney Glunder! Leko says: "Rodney is a very strong and experienced fighter but he is going to understand why my nickname is the BLITZ"!
On top of all, nobody less than Alistair ´The Demolition man´ Overeem is going to face Big Daddy Goodridge! Goodridge is world wide known as a fighter who comes to make war. In a fight with Gary Goodridge you know one thing for certain: someone is going to get KNOCKED OUT. He has fought over 72 fights in both K-1 and MMA. Goodridge has let us known via a video message that he is in solitary for his training and ensured us that he will be in the best shape of his life to guarantee a dazzling fight. Goodridge says: Alistair, you better be prepared because I am. Do not think that I am already over the hill because that is certainly NOT the case. This Sunday I will be ready as I will ever be! I can only hope for your own sake that you will be ready too!!
Alistair Overeem is, as everyone knows, in the best shape of his life. The Strikeforce world champion has personally asked for this fight to redeem his brother who lost from Goodridge. Alistair recently won within 30 seconds from the large Korean Lee Tae-Hyun and a month after that he beaten former K-1 champion Mark Hunt. His last fight was against Mirco Crocop in which Allistair dominated. Alistair Overeem says: "I really feel good at the moment and find myself in a great rhythm. I fight almost every 6 weeks and this feels really pleasant. I use to fight in the middle weight and since 9 months I have been fighting in the heavy weight class. My trainers at Team Golden Glory are intensively working with me and I simply feel that I will beat everyone who crosses my path. Gary can call himself very lucky if he makes it to the end of the first round. No matter what.. I will decide the fight prematurely"!
On top of the above mentioned we can also treat the Dutch audience to a unique event! At GLORY 10 the very first official Unified World Grand Prix of Mixed Martial Arts will kick off. The tournament is set for the weight classes 155, 170, 185, 205 and 265 lbs and there will be 16 participants. There will be 1 World Grand Prix Champion. The aim of the World Grand Prix is to find, discover and stimulate unknown talents, join worldwide fans and introduce them to all large Mixed Martial Arts organizations from all over the world. The European participants of this tournament will be: Vincent Latoel, Danial Sharifi, Hamid Corassani and Gregorz Tredowski.
Golden Glory manager Ron Nyqvist: "this event will be filled with some of the very big names within our own Golden Glory team. World champions will come forward but there will also be special attention paid to new talent. At GLORY 8 Dion Staring stole the show with his spectacular fight against Michael Knaap. This time he will face the strong Markus Halkosaari in a rematch for the European title. Needless to say that Markus has a score to settle! Markus informed us that is he dedicated entirely to his training".
"Vincent Latoel and Hamid Corrasani will both take part in the very first official Unified World GP or MMA. Both fighters are very motivated to show that they belong to the world top. I expect fire works from both fighters"!
Promoter Martijn de Jong: "GLORY 10´the battle of Arnhem´ will characterize itself as one of the best organized sports event in the Netherlands. The combination of K-1, MMA and boxing will ensure an evening full of excitement. All fights are of an extremely high level. To watch world class fighters live, such as Alistair Overeem, Stefan Leko and Gary Goodridge is very unique to the Dutch audience. These fighters normally only fight in Japan or America. To us it is an honor to have them on the show. On a daily basis I get approached by TV channels from all over the world with the request to cover the event. The Glory 10 event is by its appearance and its quality almost un Dutch"!
Promoter Charl Hasselaar: The farewell fight of Dutch boxing legend Orhan Delibas is big news. Arnhemmer Delibas still has a lot of fans in Arnhem and its surroundings, The Netherlands and Turkey. Orhan wanted to enter the ring just once more to say farewell in a worthy manner. He only wanted to do this in the Rijnhal in Arnhem. In his backyard, live to his direct family and friends at a big stage! We are honored to realize this for him.
Line up (MT = Muay Thai, BO = Boxing, SH = Shooto / Mixed Martial Arts): K1 – 58.9 kg Titiana van Polanen Petel (Schreiber Gym, NL) vs. Sabine Kern (Temple Fightschool, DE)
K1 - 76.2 kg Joost Bauhaus (Bully´s Gym, NL) vs. Eddy van Gelder (Choy Bo, NL)
SH -66.0 kg Cesario di Dominico (Tatsujin Amsterdam, NL) vs. Natek Tomajev (Team Beast of the East, NL)
K1 - 72.5 kg Omer Tekin (Team Dekkers, NL) vs. Adem Bozkurt (Champion Gym,TUR)
K1 - 72.5 kg Tarek Slimani (Bully's Gym, NL) vs. Olivier Tasin (Team Pavonne, BE)
SH -87.0 kg Assan Njie (Golden Glory, NL) vs. Robert Jocz (Team Beast of the East, PL)
K1 - 95.0 kg Rik van Soest (Bully´s Gym, NL) vs. Tomasz Serjada (Team Beast of the East, PL)
SH -74.0 kg Matthieu Lawalata (B.A. Physical, NL) vs. Ivan Mussardo (Rota Team, CH)
BO 75.0 kg Orhan Delibas (Team Delibas, NL) vs. Gordan Glisic (Kroatie)
**** Break ****
SH -70.0 kg Ahmed "Adrenaline" Yalbirdak (Frota Team, CH) vs. Andrew McMichael (Kuk Soo Won, USA)
MT European Title - 76.2 kg Halim Issaoui (Bully´s Gym, NL) vs. Jan de Keyzer (Dawsu Leuven, BE)
SH Unified World GP prelim -70.0 kg Vincent Latoel (Golden Glory, NL) vs. Daniel Sharifi (Team Hardcore, NL)
K1 - 68.0 kg Jimmy Eimers (KB Arnhem, NL) vs. David Kyrya (Team Schilt, NL)
SH Unified World GP prelim -70.0 kg Hamid Corassani (Golden Glory, SE) vs. Gregorz Tredowski (Team BotE, PL)
MT World Title - 82.5 kg Henry Akdeniz (Team Akdeniz, NL) vs. Brian al Amin (Hanse Gym, DLD)
SH European Title -100 kg Dion Staring (Golden Glory, NL) vs. Markus Halkossaari (Finnfighters Gym, FI)
K1 - 97.0 kg Stefan Leko (Golden Glory, NL) vs. Rodney Glunder (FFC, NL)
SH +100 kg Alistair Overeem (Golden Glory, NL) vs. Gary Goodridge (Kuk Soo Won, USA)
MT = Muay Thai BO = Boxing SH = Shooto / Mixed Martial Arts
Official commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTsIfEXauvY
For more information and ticket sales: www.ultimateglory.com
Best regards,
GLORY / Shooto Europe
- Press Release From Shooto Holland with a little editing from us (color, etc...)
Subject to change
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