Glory 15 Istanbul April 12th (Official Discussion)

New York, NY – GLORY, the world’s premier kickboxing league, today announced the fight card for GLORY 15 ISTANBUL, featuring a one-night, four-man Light Heavyweight World Championship Tournament, to be broadcast on SPIKE TV from Ülker Sports Arena in Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday, April 12th.

Turkish knockout artist Gokhan 'The Rebel' Saki (79-16-0, 56 KOs) will make his Light Heavyweight debut at GLORY 15 ISTANBUL when he faces Australia's Nathan 'Carnage' Corbett (57-4-0, 45 KOs) to form one half of GLORY's Light Heavyweight World Championship Tournament. On the other side of the bracket, #1 ranked Tyrone 'King of the Ring' Spong (90-5-0, 60 KOs), who has not been defeated since 2011, takes on young and hungry Saulo ‘Cassius Clay’ Cavalari (28-2-0, 18 KOs), currently ranked #3 at Light Heavyweight.

GLORY 15 ISTANBUL is headlined by Heavyweight power puncher Errol Zimmerman (101-11-1, 42 KOs) battling heavy handed Ben Edwards (36-9-3, 31 KOs). The evening's co-headline bout features Lightweight action as Robin van Roosmalen (31-6-0, 19 KOs) of the Netherlands squares off against Marat Grigorian (35-4-2, 18 KOs) of Armenia.


GLORY 15 ISTANBUL

Tournament Final Bout C: Semifinal Bout A Winner vs. Semifinal Bout B Winner
Headline Bout: Errol Zimmerman vs. Ben Edwards
Co-Headline Bout: Robin van Roosmalen vs. Marat Grigorian
Tournament Semifinal Bout B: Gokhan Saki vs. Nathan Corbett
Tournament Semifinal Bout A: Tyrone Spong vs. Saulo Cavalari

Sweet!

I hope they can get it live on Spike and not tape delayed like last time.

If not, no biggie. GLORY consistently puts on great events. I'm sure this one will be no different!

hope it will be on BT sports!!

It says light heavyweight tournament, do you guys think Saki might be dropping down ?

New York, NY – GLORY, the world’s premier kickboxing league, today announced the fight card for GLORY 15 ISTANBUL, featuring a one-night, four-man Light Heavyweight World Championship Tournament, to be broadcast on SPIKE TV from Ülker Sports Arena in Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday, April 12th.

Turkish knockout artist Gokhan 'The Rebel' Saki (79-16-0, 56 KOs) will make his Light Heavyweight debut at GLORY 15 ISTANBUL when he faces Australia's Nathan 'Carnage' Corbett (57-4-0, 45 KOs) to form one half of GLORY's Light Heavyweight World Championship Tournament. On the other side of the bracket, #1 ranked Tyrone 'King of the Ring' Spong (90-5-0, 60 KOs), who has not been defeated since 2011, takes on young and hungry Saulo ‘Cassius Clay’ Cavalari (28-2-0, 18 KOs), currently ranked #3 at Light Heavyweight.

GLORY 15 ISTANBUL is headlined by Heavyweight power puncher Errol Zimmerman (101-11-1, 42 KOs) battling heavy handed Ben Edwards (36-9-3, 31 KOs). The evening's co-headline bout features Lightweight action as Robin van Roosmalen (31-6-0, 19 KOs) of the Netherlands squares off against Marat Grigorian (35-4-2, 18 KOs) of Armenia.


GLORY 15 ISTANBUL

Tournament Final Bout C: Semifinal Bout A Winner vs. Semifinal Bout B Winner
Headline Bout: Errol Zimmerman vs. Ben Edwards
Co-Headline Bout: Robin van Roosmalen vs. Marat Grigorian
Tournament Semifinal Bout B: Gokhan Saki vs. Nathan Corbett
Tournament Semifinal Bout A: Tyrone Spong vs. Saulo Cavalari

Saki vs. Corbett is like a wet dream.

Looks great man

  

GLORY 15 > ANYTHING HAPPENING IN MMA THIS YEAR

Kickboxing is the best sport on the planet


MMA is for gang bangers and skin heads

stu3ufc wrote:GLORY 15 > ANYTHING HAPPENING IN MMA THIS YEAR

Kickboxing is the best sport on the planet


MMA is for gang bangers and skin heads

Agreed for the most part.

Their shows have been phenomenal. Very entertaining and action packed.


GLORY is on = I'm watching no matter what. Can't say that for many other events today.

*looks at zuffa*

I merged the Glory 15 threads

This tournament is crazy, 4 killers, very excited for this.

Glory gets better every year

Glory is just amazing. I hope they just continue to build and build on the momentum they already have. Please don't let this ride end anytime soon. GLORY!

Also added is Mourad Bouzidi and Danyo Ilunga versus Andrei Stoica

Miike wrote:This tournament is crazy, 4 killers, very excited for this.

i agree!

Cool interview with Robin van Roosmalen and his father.

The American karate stylist is stepping in for an injured Brian ‘The Lion’ Collette to face the veteran Mourad Bouzidi (75-22-2, 34 KO’s), of Tunisia via Holland.

Collette suffered an injury in training and will be sidelined for some weeks while the damage is assessed. No sooner did he fall than Blake stepped up to pick up the Stars and Stripes and carry it into the GLORY 15 ISTANBUL ring on Saturday April 12.

“The full extent of Collette’s injury is still being assessed, we’re waiting for the results of scans,” says Cor Hemmers, GLORY Head of Talent Operations.

“But as soon as Collette was out, Blake stepped up. The fight remains one that pits a top American talent against an experienced and accomplished European opponent. A win would do big things for Blake’s standing and his career.”

Bouzidi is a close friend and training partner of Peter Aerts. He spent most of his career at heavyweight, recently deciding to drop down when GLORY made its light-heavyweight division into one of the toughest in all of full-contact martial arts.

Blake’s base is in karate, though the Oklahoma native first took up kickboxing after a childhood viewing of the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie ‘Bloodsport’. He says he has seen the movie “probably a thousand times” since he first came across it as a seven-year-old boy.

A run in Chuck Norris’ World Combat League established him as one of the top talents in the US. He has gone 1-1 in GLORY, beating Japan’s Koichi Watanabe and - ironically - dropping a decision to Muay Thai stylist Brian Collette.

GLORY’s next event takes place Saturday April 12 in Istanbul, Turkey and features a four-man light-heavyweight tournament with the World Championship Title on the line.

Tyrone Spong (90-5, 60 KO’s), Gokhan Saki (79-16, 56 KO’s), Nathan ‘Carnage’ Corbett (57-4, 45 KO’s) and Saulo Cavalari (28-2, 18 KO’s) will battle it out in a night of knockout action which will leave only one of them standing as champion at GLORY 15 ISTANBUL.

GLORY 15 ISTANBUL will air in the US on SPIKE TV and will be broadcast to over 150 territories worldwide.

Randy ‘Boom Boom’ Blake (31-3, 13 KO’s) is on his way to Istanbul.