Video: Glory Kickboxer Gets Assaulted By Fans Following Knockout

Chaos erupted during Glory 42, which took place yesterday (June 10, 2017) from the AccorHotels Arena in Paris, France. The co-main event of the evening featured a welterweight battle between Murthel Groenhart and Harut Grigorian. In the second round, Groenhart dropped Grigorian with a brutal right hand after Grigorian oddly turned his back to Groenhart. […]

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Chaos erupted during Glory 42, which took place yesterday (June 10, 2017) from the AccorHotels Arena in Paris, France.

The co-main event of the evening featured a welterweight battle between Murthel Groenhart and Harut Grigorian. In the second round, Groenhart dropped Grigorian with a brutal right hand after Grigorian oddly turned his back to Groenhart.

The fight was immediately called off, but that’s when the chaos erupted, as Groenhart, who was celebrating his victory, was attacked by two fans, who jumped into the ring and began striking Groenhart.

Check out a video of the bizarre event courtesy of caposa on Twitter below:

Commentator Todd Grisham also captured footage of the event, but from a different angle.

Speaking on the attack, Groenhart revealed that he may have suffered a broken jaw:

“Some guy caught me with a hook to my face,” Groenhart said on the broadcast. “I got my guard up. With those hands without gloves, it came through to my chin and my teeth. I think it’s broken [jaw], I don’t know. It hurts.” 

While admitting that some people tend to get emotionally involved in sports, Groenhart said the way the fans behaved was simply unacceptable:

“I was in the corner and I saw these guys coming out,” Groenhart said of the attackers. “I was like come on guys this is a sport. Things happen. Some people get emotional, too close. But this is a sport and little children are watching this sport at home. You can not come into a ring like this.”

What do you make of this situation?

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UFC Signs Kickboxing Star Gokhan Saki

The UFC has made quite a high profile signing. According to a report from UFC.com, the world’s largest mixed martial arts promotion has come to terms on a deal with 33-year-old kickboxing star Gokhan Saki. His debut is not currently sit, but he appears to be interested in competing at a UFC Fight Night event […]

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The UFC has made quite a high profile signing.

According to a report from UFC.com, the world’s largest mixed martial arts promotion has come to terms on a deal with 33-year-old kickboxing star Gokhan Saki. His debut is not currently sit, but he appears to be interested in competing at a UFC Fight Night event in Rotterdam on September 2, 2017.

Holding an impressive 83-12-1 kickboxing record, Saki is clearly a world class striker and his resume speaks for itself. He’s only competed in MMA once, losing to James Zikic in 2004.

Despite his lack of experience in MMA specifically, Saki feels as if the UFC mad a blockbuster investment in him:

“I’m glad I finally can announce that I have signed an exclusive long term contact with the UFC,” Saki posted on his Facebook page. “The best investment the UFC has made since Conor McGregor. Soon I will show everybody what Turkey and U.A.E. bring to the table.”

Check out Saki’s full statement on why he left Glory below:

I DID LEAVE GLORY KICKBOXING

I stopped my contract at Glory Kickboxing and have signed my Retirement Contract. (Turkish translation )

I’m STOPPING with GLORY. For my fans hereby the explanation the facts about Glory and Rico Verhoeven.

3 May 2017 (see my next post, picture for proof)

I left Glory Kickboxing on 3 May. All the owners/co-owners etc of Glory have discussed this and they signed my Retirement Contract and I received it back on 3 MAY.

After 5 months being kept on a line, for me it was done, i had a lot of other deals but i kept waiting to fight Rico or for Glory. The waiting is over, tired of it. Glory Kickboxing is playing politics to keep their ‘champion’ Rico Verhoeven safe for his renewal contract that had to take place end May or begin June. If he would lose against me, his position towards Glory would have been weakened. Rico Verhoeven and his team and also Glory did not want to expose their Champ to such risks.

Saturday 20 May

Cor Hemmers from Glory announced in an interview on 20 May that i have a retirement contract from Glory and i stopped fighting for Glory.

Saturday 20 May Night (Rico Fight)

Rico Verhoeven was bragging in TV-Shows after the Badr fight in GERMANY, that he doesn’t need famous opponents, he sells out tickets on his own, worldwide he would fill arena’s.

Now the Rico Verhoeven fight takes place in his own country in his own city and there were than 1500 empty seats. On twitter I said congratz Rico but what happened with those empty seats you said you would sell out all tickets?

Rico Verhoeven as usual (like the 5 months) did not respond but this time SCOTT RUDMAN vice chairman and co-founder of GLORY starts to tweet back and tried to rescue this poor kid Rico. Like a daddy Scott was trying to answer for the little kid that cant answer or talk for himself. Now Scott knows I left his organization for 3 weeks at this point. Scott said on twitter: ‘’Den Bosch is not Amsterdam, Glory is still a buzz, GET IN!’’

So at this point everbody in Glory and Rico Verhoeven and his management KNOW that I left GLORY. And now he is still trying to lie on social media. He knows at this point it is impossible for me to fight and I have other obligations at this point. Cheap and sleazy way of GLORY and SCOTT RUDMAN.

I answered his tweet with ‘’the last fight wasn’t even in Amsterdam, it wasn’t even in Holland but in GERMANY. And I am from Rotterdam. But if the fight was in Amsterdam, I would sell out all tickets on my own, I have proven it before!’’

As goes for you now Scott, instead of tweeting you should be concerned about making Glory big after all these years, money and opportunities you wasted you smuck.

So at this point in also some other people from Glory start tweeting me, again knowing that i left Glory and can not respond. So pathetic and cowardly. One even said I should accept Rico his challenge..Which challenge? He never challenged me at this point? He was silent for months.

AGAIN LIES.

I tweeted back and said its too late now!

Again at this point Glory, Rico Verhoeven and his team know for 3 weeks that i left Glory and have other obligations and its impossible to make this fight happen. NOW at this point when Rico knows there can not be a fight, after 5 months he opens his mouth and says: ‘’ Saki if you want to fight pick up the phone’’

Like what kind of bitch action is that Bro? Are you that scared, are you that much of a coward? Glory starts reposting all his stuff calling me out, while they know that I left Glory. When I was at Glory and I was calling Rico out, they never put effort in reposting my stuff out. Again this shows how amateuristic and pathetic organization this is, politics and protecting their pet Rico. Carefully choosing their opponents and their kind of media censorship.

I said the truth that he didnt want to fight me from January or in short term because he wanted a rest. He said that i lie and i dont want to fight. This week he said in a tv show ‘’yeah i didnt want to fight saki at januari i needed rest because I fought Badr’’

Like this guys story changes every day, not consistent.

When i fought K1, i fought 8 till 10 matches a year, against real men. At this point you fought badr 1,5 round and you need a year break before you fight me?? I havent even fought for 2 years and still you need time that much time to prepare for me? You just wanted the fight after your renewal contract in MAY.

Then Glory said to me in January, if i first could fight someone else, this would be Remy Bonjasky fight. I said i want Rico but if he doesn’t want it, i fight Bonjasky first, BUT ONLY IF GLORY GARANTEES THAT RICO WILL FIGHT ME THAN. I would have fought Bonjasky in March or May. Rico again sabotaged this with stretching time on accepting my challenge, hemessed up the whole fight between Bonjasky and me. Remy stood up and accepted my fight and he was down to do it! So I salute you for this, a guy who comes back at retirement at such short notice, and Rico says Bonjasky needs to much time to prepare, the guy is 41 years old and didn’t fight for years, Rico only wants unprepared fighters, more chance to win!

Meanwhile these last months, i have other offers but still i am calling rico online out, but still no balls.. All these months he was silent and said not oneeee thing after i repeadetly called him out. And know that he knows that i left the building, he opens his big mouth. Your fans should be ashamed of you and your lying ass. Just running your mouth like a puppet with those studied lines from your managment: “i only eat whats on the menucards, fighters come with only smoke no fire etc etc”

PS: you called me a mutherf*cker in an interview, real men dont bring in family or wife and kids, thats what cheap bums do. Guess fits you well

What do you make of this signing by the UFC?

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Pat Barry Books Two Kickboxing Matches in Three Months, Faces Mourad Bouzidi at Glory 20 in April


(Sadly, Barry’s face has yet to return to normal since the stroke. Photo via Getty)

Although his return to the kickboxing ring hasn’t gone quite as well as expected, Pat Barry is forging ahead nonetheless, booking back-to-back matches over the next three months.

First up, Barry will face relative unknown Domoreo Dennis at Legacy Kickboxing’s event in Texas on Friday night. The fight will mark Barry’s first since getting KTFO by Zack Mwekassa at Glory 16 last May.

If all goes well there (and even if it doesn’t), Barry will then take on current Dutch Heavyweight W.F.C.A. champion Mourad “The Silent Power” Bouzidi at Glory 20 on April 3rd in Dubai. Bouzidi, a 90-fight veteran, is moving back up to heavyweight after a 4-fight run in the light heavyweight and is coming off a unanimous decision win over Randy Blake at Glory 15.

It’s been a rough go as of late for one of the most likeable guys in combat sports, to say the very least. After eating three (T)KO losses in his final 4 UFC appearances and suffering the aforementioned loss at Glory 16, fans and fighters alike were calling for Barry’s retirement, because we are nothing if not a nuanced, concerned group of individuals. In any case, “HD” wasn’t hearing any of it:


(Sadly, Barry’s face has yet to return to normal since the stroke. Photo via Getty)

Although his return to the kickboxing ring hasn’t gone quite as well as expected, Pat Barry is forging ahead nonetheless, booking back-to-back matches over the next three months.

First up, Barry will face relative unknown Domoreo Dennis at Legacy Kickboxing’s event in Texas on Friday night. The fight will mark Barry’s first since getting KTFO by Zack Mwekassa at Glory 16 last May.

If all goes well there (and even if it doesn’t), Barry will then take on current Dutch Heavyweight W.F.C.A. champion Mourad “The Silent Power” Bouzidi at Glory 20 on April 3rd in Dubai. Bouzidi, a 90-fight veteran, is moving back up to heavyweight after a 4-fight run in the light heavyweight and is coming off a unanimous decision win over Randy Blake at Glory 15.

It’s been a rough go as of late for one of the most likeable guys in combat sports, to say the very least. After eating three (T)KO losses in his final 4 UFC appearances and suffering the aforementioned loss at Glory 16, fans and fighters alike were calling for Barry’s retirement, because we are nothing if not a nuanced, concerned group of individuals. In any case, “HD” wasn’t hearing any of it.

“People tell you, ‘Come on man, you’ve got to stop,’” said Barry in a recent interview with MMAJunkie. “But what do you care? Don’t you want to see people get bludgeoned out there? Don’t you want to see people get high-kicked unconscious? Isn’t that what you’re watching these highlights and stuff for? And yeah, they do want to see that. So why do you suddenly care about me now?”

That’s not fair, Pat. *We’ve* always cared about you. And without telling you something that you don’t want to hear, well, let’s just say that we’re glad Bouzidi’s KO ratio is at an even .500 and not anything higher.

J. Jones

Hot Potato: 27 More Photos (And Then Some!) of GLORY Girl Alyssa Arce

In honor of GLORY 18: Return to Glory* airing this Friday night, November 7th on Spike TV (9/8c), we’ve decided to throw together another photo gallery on our favorite GLORY Girl, the super-humanly sexy Alyssa Arce. If you’re not already familiar with the July 2013 Playboy playmate of the month and yacht aficionado, check out 27 more of our favorite Alyssa Arce photos in the gallery above — including some NSFW shots on page 2, of course. Follow Alyssa on Instagram on twitter for lots more.

* GLORY 18 features lightweight champion Davit Kiria defending his belt against Robin van Roosmalen, a middleweight feature between American Wayne Barrett and Dutchman Jason Wilnis, plus a four-man light-heavyweight contender tournament. Should be a good one.

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Hot Potato: 15 Photos (And Then Some) of GLORY Ring Girl Alyssa Arce
Bonus Gallery: The 12 Sexiest Alyssa Arce GIFs We Could Find on the Internet

In honor of GLORY 18: Return to Glory* airing this Friday night, November 7th on Spike TV (9/8c), we’ve decided to throw together another photo gallery on our favorite GLORY Girl, the super-humanly sexy Alyssa Arce. If you’re not already familiar with the July 2013 Playboy playmate of the month and yacht aficionado, check out 27 more of our favorite Alyssa Arce photos in the gallery above — including some NSFW shots on page 2, of course. Follow Alyssa on Instagram on twitter for lots more.

* GLORY 18 features lightweight champion Davit Kiria defending his belt against Robin van Roosmalen, a middleweight feature between American Wayne Barrett and Dutchman Jason Wilnis, plus a four-man light-heavyweight contender tournament. Should be a good one.

Related:
Hot Potato: 15 Photos (And Then Some) of GLORY Ring Girl Alyssa Arce
Bonus Gallery: The 12 Sexiest Alyssa Arce GIFs We Could Find on the Internet

Bonus Gallery: The 12 Sexiest Alyssa Arce GIFs We Could Find on the Internet


(Full gallery is after the jump.)

Because we love you, here are some sexy GIFs of Alyssa Arce, our favorite GLORY Girl. Watch Alyssa in action this Friday night at GLORY 18: Return to Glory, November 7th at 9/8c on Spike TV.

Related:
Hot Potato: 15 Photos (And Then Some) of GLORY Ring Girl Alyssa Arce

Hot Potato: 27 More Photos (And Then Some!) of GLORY Girl Alyssa Arce

Because we love you, here are some sexy GIFs of Alyssa Arce, our favorite GLORY Girl. Watch Alyssa in action this Friday night at GLORY 18: Return to Glory, November 7th at 9/8c on Spike TV.

Related:
Hot Potato: 15 Photos (And Then Some) of GLORY Ring Girl Alyssa Arce

Hot Potato: 27 More Photos (And Then Some!) of GLORY Girl Alyssa Arce

So There Were Some Pretty Brutal Knockouts at Glory 17: Los Angeles This Past Weekend [w/GIFS]


(All gifs courtesy of Zombie Prophet.)

Last Saturday marked an increasingly rare occasion for the fight fan attempting to have an honest to God social life, with the UFC taking a much needed break ahead of this weekend’s Fight Night doubleheader. That is not to say there wasn’t plenty of fight action to be witnessed — both the World Series of Fighting and Glory kickboxing held events in California over the weekend — but were any of you honestly on pins and needles to watch the former’s middleweight title fight between David Branch and Jesse Taylor, or the latter’s rematch between Mirko Cro Cop and Jarrell Miller? Thought so.

Had you turned into Glory 17, however, you would have not only witnessed the former PRIDE killer and prankster extraordinaire score a unanimous decision victory over Miller, but a bevy of blistering knockouts as well. The quickest KO of the night went to Glory 12 lightweight tournament winner Andy Ristie in his preliminary tilt against Ky Hollenbeck, the man Ristie was supposed to face for the inaugural Glory lightweight belt at Glory 14 before an injury forced Davit Kiria to step in and eventually defeat Ristie via last second, come-from-behind KO.

It took Ristie just 35 seconds to flatten Hollenbeck with his trademark left hook, which you can check out in gif form above courtesy of Zombie Prophet. After the jump: Gifs of the night’s other, more violent finishes and complete Glory 17 results.


(All gifs courtesy of Zombie Prophet.)

Last Saturday marked an increasingly rare occasion for the fight fan attempting to have an honest to God social life, with the UFC taking a much needed break ahead of this weekend’s Fight Night doubleheader. That is not to say there wasn’t plenty of fight action to be witnessed — both the World Series of Fighting and Glory kickboxing held events in California over the weekend — but were any of you honestly on pins and needles to watch the former’s middleweight title fight between David Branch and Jesse Taylor, or the latter’s rematch between Mirko Cro Cop and Jarrell Miller? Thought so.

Had you turned into Glory 17, however, you would have not only witnessed the former PRIDE killer and prankster extraordinaire score a unanimous decision victory over Miller, but a bevy of blistering knockouts as well. The quickest KO of the night went to Glory 12 lightweight tournament winner Andy Ristie in his preliminary tilt against Ky Hollenbeck, the man Ristie was supposed to face for the inaugural Glory lightweight belt at Glory 14 before an injury forced Davit Kiria to step in and eventually defeat Ristie via last second, come-from-behind KO.

It took Ristie just 35 seconds to flatten Hollenbeck with his trademark left hook, which you can check out in gif form above courtesy of Zombie Prophet. After the jump: Gifs of the night’s other, more violent finishes and complete Glory 17 results.

The middleweight tournament quarterfinal bout between Joe Schilling and Simon Marcus was easily one the evening’s most entertaining bouts, both going to a sudden death fourth round and ending in a falling tree KO that was nearly a double KO when Schilling and Marcus landed simultaneous right hands. It was Schilling’s right hook that won the day over Marcus’ right straight, securing him a spot in semifinals against the man who would score a devastating counter punch KO of his own in the very next fight of the night…

Yep, that’s Romania’s Bogdan Stoica going full Arlovski vs. Fedor on American Wayne Barrett in their quarterfinal fight and achieving the exact same results. Yowza. I’m just saying, unless you possess the hops of Chris Beal, maybe set that flying knee up with something rather than leap into it from halfway across the ring. I’m not even here. (*backs slowly out of room*)

Aside from Saturday’s epic middleweight tournament, Glory 17 also saw the crowning of a new heavyweight and welterweight champion, as well as the return of Melvin Manhoef to the squared circle, so check out the complete Glory 17 results below.

Glory “Last man Standing” Middleweight Tournament Results:

-Tournament Final: Levin def Schilling via unanimous dec (29-26, 29-26, 29-26) new Middleweight champion
-Semi final: Levin def Verlinden via unanimous dec (30-27 x 3)
-Semi final: Schilling def Barrett via split dec (29-28, 30-27, 28-29)
-Artem Levin def Alex Pereira via unanimous dec (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
-Joe Schilling def. Simon Marcus via KO in extra round 2:41
-Wayne Barrett def Bogdan Stoica via KO RD 3 0:58
Filip Verlinden def Melvin Manhoef via unanimous dec (30-27, 30-27, 28-28)

Other results:
-Heavyweight championship: Rico Verhoeven def Daniel Ghita via unanimous dec (49-46, 49-46, 48-47)
-Welterweight championship: Joseph Valtellini def Marc de Bonte via unanimous dec (47-46 x 3)
-Mirko Filipovic def Jarrell MIller via unanimous dec (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)
-Andy Ristie def Ky Hollenbeck via KO Rd 1 0:35
-Featherweight tournament final: Varga def Oblonsky via unanimous dec (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
-Gabriel Varga def Yodkhunpon Sitmonchai via unanimous dec (30-27 x 3)
-Shane Oblonsky def Marcus Vinicius via unanimous dec (29-26)

J. Jones