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Post by K1power on Jan 29, 2021 13:33:06 GMT 1
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Post by K1power on Jan 29, 2021 13:36:59 GMT 1
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Post by K1power on Jan 29, 2021 14:45:01 GMT 1
Weigh-in video:
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Post by kickboxer (Banned) on Jan 30, 2021 15:17:50 GMT 1
Happening tonight, supporting Rico and Tarik in this! And also Murthel.
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Post by K1power on Jan 30, 2021 16:01:51 GMT 1
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Post by K1power on Jan 30, 2021 18:58:42 GMT 1
It's time!
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Post by K1power on Jan 31, 2021 0:04:10 GMT 1
FULL RESULTS
Heavyweight 4-Man Tournament
Rico Verhoeven defeats Tarik Khbabez by TKO R1
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Rico Verhoeven defeats Hesdy Gerges by Unanimous Decision
Tarik Khbabez defeats Levi Rigters by Majority Decision
Light Heavyweight Title Fight
Alex Pereira defeats Artem Vakhitov by Split Decision
Welterweight World Title Fight
Cédric Doumbé defeats Murthel Groenhart by TKO R2
Super Bantamweight World Title Fight
Tifanny van Soest defeats Aline Pereira by Unanimous Decision
Light Heavyweight Bout
Luis Tavares defeats Donegi Abena by Unanimous Decision
Heavyweight Bout - Tournament Reserve
Martin Pacas defeats Muhammed Balli by KO R3
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Post by K1power on Jan 31, 2021 0:04:16 GMT 1
Quick thoughts:
+ Good event overall.
+ Khbabez/Rigters.
+ Vakhitov/Pereira.
+ Doumbé looking impressive.
+ Pacas scoring a nice KO on Balli.
- Despite the low amount of fights the event still took 4 hours. For an event without a live audience to consider, that pace is way too slow for my taste.
- Once again controversy around open scoring; scores not adding up, scores only being shown for some fights etc. This is a pretty big issue that may get brushed aside; Either do it right or don't do it at all.
- Technical difficulties i.e. stream cutting out for a bit in the middle of some fights. Had I paid for this I would have been really annoyed lol.
- Nobody in the tournament field was ready for Rico. I know they tried to make the best of a bad situation with Jamal being out and I enjoyed the tournament for what it was, but we all expected Rico to pretty much steamroll the competition and he did.
- Groenhart looked awkward from the get go, stumbling and slipping through the ring.
- The event could have used more KO's; 2 KO's on a card that only has 8 fights to begin with. You can argue about Rico/Tarik, but that was an injury, nobody went down.
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Post by K1power on Jan 31, 2021 0:06:52 GMT 1
KO's:
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Post by kickboxer (Banned) on Jan 31, 2021 0:53:14 GMT 1
For more KOs they need more Romanians. They save the events. But it was high class event. Groenhart was the most disappointing. Khbabez proved I was right, but in fact he, Balli and even Gerges were as disappointing as Groenhart. But they at least have REASONS. Rigters showed room for improvement. Pacas did well for his level. And Aline Pereira was not in the league of van Soest. Tavares probably upset Abena, but it was rather controversial and none did really better than usually.
Rico gave signs of vulnerability again. Imo. He moves well but his defence is not the highest, could be again exposed.
I think Rigters is improved, Doumbe keeps improving since months, Pereira and Vakhitov fought their best like usually. I am disappointed with the rest.
But a good event. Ofc.
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Post by Shadess on Jan 31, 2021 1:41:49 GMT 1
The pacing of the event was quite bad. They did have some technical difficulties with a lot of people seemingly not being able to buy the PPV, so stalling a little bit waiting for that to clear up would be kind of understandable. If it was just to lengthen the broadcast to get every single buy they could get...it was too much.
They've fucked up with the open scoring 2 events in a row now. Yea, I would just get rid of it. 5 judges please but no need for the open scoring, specially when there are mistakes with it.-
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Post by K1power on Jan 31, 2021 12:28:52 GMT 1
Really curious about the PPV numbers.
I find it a bit alarming that we haven't had any mentions of Glory 78 yet. It could imply that Glory management isn't sure about the immediate future yet and a lot of deals are hinging on the success of the PPVs of G76/G77.
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Post by kickboxer (Banned) on Jan 31, 2021 16:56:27 GMT 1
I have the feeling it was more noisy with Badr v Benny. But we should not understimate Glory, it seems that the number of fans is growing.
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Post by K1power on Jan 31, 2021 18:03:14 GMT 1
I think Rico and Doumbe/Groenhart were the main draws for this event, definitely to the more general audience.
Glory did a pretty good job of promoting this event; big social media presence, a TV spot in the Netherlands, lots of promo material on their YouTube channel and so on.
That said, PPVs are still a foreign concept in many parts of the world. Outside of the US where it is normal to pay 50 bucks for UFC or boxing cards, 20 bucks is considered a lot for streaming some fights.
Badr was able to sell a high amount of PPVs for G76 - even I was surprised - but this event didn't have Badr and the original matchup between Jamal and Rico fell through.
I'll be surprised if this ended up doing as well or better than G76.
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Post by K1power on Jan 31, 2021 18:23:16 GMT 1
Andurand throwing his weight around.
Can't say that I disagree with him, but we've seen far worse decisions that were apparently 'okay'.
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