Amsterdam mayor reverses stance on kickboxing, apologizes for stigmatizing the sport
The meeting was part of a broader initiative to create a nationwide body to oversee the regulation of martial arts events, something of a cross…
John Joe O'Regan Archives: 06/2015
‘Chopper’ Chi: ‘I want to retire Pat Barry at GLORY 23 LAS VEGAS’
“I’ve been chasing him everywhere via Twitter; he has bit back a little bit but mostly he has been scarce,” the London man laughed down…
Striking Breakdown: Sitthichai Sitsongpeenong’s Left Leg of Doom
Sitthichai’s left leg is a baseball bat. It is a meat tenderizer wielded by a person of robot-like endurance who will throw it as hard…
Striking Breakdown: Slick countering from GLORY champion Rico Verhoeven
Back when I worked for Fighters Only Magazine, I would occasionally venture into striking breakdowns as part of a fight report, but this is the…
Watch: GLORY matchmaker Cor Hemmers discusses GLORY 22 fallout
“It was an historic heavyweight title fight. Adegbuyi did a good job, he wanted to throw some big shots and try to force it in…
Oblonsky and Adamchuk set to shake up GLORY featherweight division
Now the Ukrainian, who trains and fights out of Mike’s Gym in Amsterdam – home to Badr Hari and Murthel Groenhart among others – is…
Karate expert Carlos Brooks aiming to ‘make a run’ in the GLORY light-heavyweight division
Brooks first got into martial arts as a youngster in order to get fit and lose weight. It turned out he had a talent for…
Rico Verhoeven: ‘I’m going to be GLORY heavyweight champion for a long time’
Rico ‘The Prince’ Verhoeven has made an impressive rise through the ranks of the GLORY heavyweight division. From being a fresh young face in the…
Mwekassa: ‘I am dangerous and I am here to stay’
Having arrived in GLORY with a first-round knockout of Pat Barry last year, Mwekassa then made it to the final of November’s Light-Heavyweight Contender Tournament…
‘Bazooka’ Joe Valtellini vacates GLORY World Welterweight Championship
“After winning the title at GLORY 17/LAST MAN STANDING I went straight back into hard training. I was chasing a rematch with Nieky Holzken and…
GLORY donates lightweight champion to charity
And so this Wednesday night, world lightweight champion Robin van Roosmalen will take to the ring at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom for a special showcase…
GLORY 22: Heavyweight champion Verhoeven plans to drown challenger in deep water
Adegbuyi (19-2, 13 KO’s) has been on the ‘one to watch list’ for a while and even Verhoeven (45-10, 11 KO’s) marked him out as…
Canada’s Josh Jauncey aiming to join kickboxing’s elite at GLORY 22
GLORY Contender Tournaments are four-man affairs which reward the winner with a shot at their division’s belt. This is Jauncey’s first major tournament and he…