Glory 70 - Lyon [26-10] Results

[K1power]

Full Results
Glory 70 - Lyon
Murthel Groenhart defeats Troy Jones by KO R2
Donovan Wisse defeats Jason Wilnis by Unanimous Decision
Zakaria Zouggary defeats Abdellah Ezbiri by KO R1
Bruno Gazani defeats Michael Palandre by Split Decision

Superfight Series
Nordine Mahieddine defeats Kirill Kornilov by Split Decision
Matěj Peňáz defeats Yassine Ahaggan by TKO R2
Jamie Bates defeats Vedat Hoduk by Unanimous Decision
Mohammed Hendouf defeats Guerric Billet by Split Decision
Thong Fairtex defeats Masaya Kubo by Unanimous Decision

Prelims
Cédric Do defeats Mehdi Kada by TKO R2
Anaëlle Angerville defeats Maria Lobo by Unanimous Decision
Said Ahamada defeats Yoann Mermoux by Unanimous Decision

Quick thoughts:

+ Wilnis/Wisse was another very solid fight. While I felt bad for Wilnis not being able to get back in the winner's circle, this was probably the best I've seen Wisse perform thus far. Also liked how humble Wisse was post fight
+ Zouggary/Ezbiri - short but sweet! While I'm kinda happy Zouggary being back with a big win in Glory, it's hard not to feel a bit bad for Ezbiri going down like that in front of his homecrowd in a somewhat high profile fight
+ Palandre/Gazani was a very strong opener for the main card
+ Mahiedinne/Kornilov was a good, close fight and I was happy Mahiedinne was able to take the decison
+ Peňáz comes across like a pretty down to earth guy who just wants to climb the ranks at his own pace
+ Angerville is the best last name for a fighter
+ Glory had a very good translator in the ring during the post fight interviews, he was quick, accurate and clear. As amateuristic as Glory is sometimes, credit where credit's due.

- Troy Jones did a bit better than expected early on, but this was far from what Doumbé could have done.
- Palandre clearly getting knocked down and it being ruled a slip
- Not really anyone's fault, but Ahaggan losing by what looked like an injury sucks

Some side notes:
I missed the first two Prelim fights; Glory only had the third fight listed and I didn't see the weigh ins so I wasn't aware there was more.

My internet connection decided it was time to fuck me over so I've missed large portions of Thong/Kubo and Hendouf/Billet, though the few bits I caught made them look like entertaining fights.

So in summarisation; I missed some stuff early on, but I really liked what I saw later on.

French Glory events keeping the tradition of higher level events alive.

[samurai1]

Interesting thing is that glory is one fight away from running out of opponents for the WW and MW champs. After doumbe beats murthel and pereira beats wisse there is really nobody in those division for them to fight. The problem will be with doumbe. He will not do good at MW against guys like Yousri and he cannot cut to LW. So he will probably force glory to let him go to the ufc after the murthel fight. Pereira still has some cool fights at LHW.

It seems murthel was only a slight favorite on the betting websites. If I knew would have put tons of money on Murthel. Damm!

[Shadess]

Didn't see the Groenhart fight available on any Euro sites

[K1power]

www.veronicatv.nl/blog/nieuws/glory-70-kijk-hier-alle-gevechten-terug/

May be geo-blocked, so possibly VPN required.

[lero]

Oct 26, 2019 21:56:53 GMT 1 samurai1 said:

Interesting thing is that glory is one fight away from running out of opponents for the WW and MW champs. 

I wish Glory could bring Raymond Daniels back. A fight between him and Doumbé would be great. Also Eersel after beating Holzken twice in ONE could be an awesome adition. 

Or they always can bring King Kyshenko.

For Pereira, they should bring Artem Levin back.