‘No pressure’ for TUF 9 vet Stapleton ahead of Bellator 125 clash with Yamauchi
This Friday, British featherweight Martin “.50 Cal” Stapleton (13-3) returns to the Bellator cage. The TUF 9 vet faces Goiti Yamauchi (17-2), born in Japan…
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Gustafsson ‘capable of KO’ing Jones’, says GLORY heavyweight sparring partner
Rising heavyweight kickboxer Benjamin Adegbuyi got a nice publicity boost last week when UFC light-heavyweight contender Alexander Gustafsson took to Facebook to suggest that his Romanian…
Gustafsson backing Adegbuyi for GLORY heavyweight title shot
UFC light-heavyweight contender Alexander Gustafsson today lent his support to Benjamin Adegbuyi’s campaign for a shot at the GLORY heavyweight title. Rico Verhoeven won the…
GLORY’s new CEO talks next event, future plans, Spike TV relationship
GLORY appointed a new Chief Executive Officer earlier this week and he is wasting no time in pushing things forward. Jon Franklin, who spent 15…
GLORY disciplinary committee issues six-month suspension to Jamal Ben Saddik
Belgian heavyweight Jamal Ben Saddik has been issued with a six-month suspension by a GLORY disciplinary committee. It comes after Ben Saddik’s disqualification in a…
GLORY gets new CEO, extends Spike TV broadcast deal
GLORY has a new CEO. The company announced today that Jon Franklin, formerly a consultant who handled logistics for the US side of the operation,…
Marloes Coenen talks Bellator signing and says Carano fighting Rousey at 135 would ‘kill her career’
Top female featherweight Marloes Coenen was today announced as the latest signing to the Bellator MMA roster, along with counterpart Julia Budd. The signing had…
Yay or Nay: Is it time for kickboxing to move on from tournaments?
Modern kickboxing as we know it developed from the Japanese karate scene. In karate a huge amount of emphasis is placed on spirit, toughness and…
GLORY: LAST MAN STANDING pay-per-view airs free on Spike TV this Friday
GLORY’s ‘LAST MAN STANDING’ event took place June 21 in Los Angeles, California. Featuring an eight-man tournament and had three world titles on the line,…
Video: GLORY exec on cracking the US, balancing the books, chats with Rogan and Machida
GLORY is a newcomer to the world of American sports television, having only debuted on SPIKE TV in October last year. Indeed the company is…
Joe Schilling on Moscow, Levin and Lyoto Machida
Having gone home to Russia with the GLORY World Middleweight Championship, Artem ‘The Lion’ Levin has invited his US rival Joe Schilling to try and…
Robin van Roosmalen on GLORY title shot, crossover fights in Bellator
Davit Kiria (22-9, 7 KO’s) holds the GLORY World Lightweight Championship, so Robin van Roosmalen (32-6, 19 KO’s) is eager to face him again as…
Fighting Fantasies: UFC strikers vs GLORY kickboxers
Having grown up in the days when Japanese MMA was more than a page in the history books of our sport, I fondly remember such…
Video: CroCop fought at GLORY 17 with a bad elbow infection
Some eagle-eyed viewers will have noticed that Mirko “CroCop” Filipovic had a weird-looking right elbow during his GLORY 17 LOS ANGELES fight with Jarrell Miller.…
Lyoto Machida interested in one-fight deal to face GLORY’s Artem Levin
Former UFC light-heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida was in Los Angeles on Saturday night, having scored ringside tickets for the GLORY 17/LAST MAN STANDING event at…
Melvin Manhoef prepared for today’s GLORY tournament, still harbors UFC dream
Melvin Manhoef (47-11, 37 KO’s) faces Filip Verlinden (42-11-1, 16 KO’s) in the quarter-final stages of the GLORY: LAST MAN STANDING Middleweight Championship Tournament taking…
‘New Van Damme’ De Bonte on defending the GLORY welterweight crown
Welterweight world champion Marc de Bonte (87-11-1, 28 KO’s) makes his first defense of his belt when he faces rising Canadian star ‘Bazooka’ Joe Valtellini…
GLORY Primer: A Handy Guide to the LAST MAN STANDING Middleweight Tournament
Tomorrow night, GLORY stages its first-ever pay-per-view card. LAST MAN STANDING will see three new world champions crowned. Daniel Ghita and Rico Verhoeven are fighting…
Verlinden: ‘Maybe I will finish Manhoef in the first round’
Earlier this week the first of the four quarter-final matches for the GLORY: LAST MAN STANDING eight-man Middleweight Championship Tournament was announced. Melvin ‘No Mercy’…
Manhoef: ‘I love to knock people the f–k out!’
There was considerable excitement among fight fans when Melvin Manhoef (47-11-0, 37 KO’s) was announced as one of the fighters taking part in the GLORY:…