Glory 89 - Bulgaria [07-10] Results

[K1power]

Fightcard
Featherweight Championship Bout
Petchpanomrung Kiatmookao (c) vs. David Mejia

Lightweight Featured Fight
Stoyan Koprivlenski vs. Sorin Caliniuc

Heavyweight Grand Prix Qualification Bout
Badr Hari vs. Uku Jürjendal

Heavyweight Grand Prix Qualification Bout
Levi Rigters vs. Ion Taburceanu*
*Last minute replacement for injured Martin Terpstra

Light Heavyweight Featured Fight
Luis Tavares vs. Bogdan Stoica

Middleweight Featured Fight
Aleksandar Petrov vs. Karim Mabrouk

Middleweight Featured Fight
Mohamed Touchassie vs. Eduard Aleksanyan

Prelims
Welterweight Featured Fight
Eduard Gafencu vs. Teodor Hristov

Lightweight Featured Fight
Chris Wunn vs. Dragomir Petrov

Local Prelims
Lightweight Fight
Koprivlenski vs. Favriluc

Middleweight Fight
Markov vs. Yurukov

Middleweight Fight
Ranchev. vs Stoykov

www.glorykickboxing.com/events/glory-89:19ad0f85-fd84-4826-bfb4-606db13dfe06

[K1power]

GLORY set to make debut in Bulgaria

Interesting move.

Is this just going to be a cheap event with mostly Eastern European talent, pleasing a local broadcast/streaming partner or will there be more to it? There should be some sort of Grand Prix qualifier taking place here.

At least Glory is not only restricted to Benelux/France/Germany anymore.

Edit: So according to the article it will indeed contain a GP qualifier and at least half the card will feature local talent.

[vampiro]

I have wondered why Bulgaria doesn't get featured more in sporting events. It's a beautiful country and has produced some good, albeit not elite, boxers, kickboxers, and mma fighters.

[K1power]

I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head there; lack of elite contenders.

Many countries have very active martial arts scenes, but remain in obscurity until they produce big enough names to get noticed.

Bulgaria has someone like Koprivlenski now who's a legit title contender and will probably headline or at least co-headline the card.

One of our members, sg, is a fighter from Bulgaria. He only shows up when bigger events are going down, but it'd be interesting to hear about the Bulgarian kickboxing scene from his perspective.

[Shadess]

Was expecting there to be a local partner doing the heavy lifting for this. Still interesting that Glory is going to Bulgaria.

Senshi has been pouring money into kick in Bulgaria, hopefully there'll be some fighters from them.






Bulgaria > Romania


Our Romanian friend must be fuming.

[K1power]

Well, a Romanian is fighting in the - presumed - main event, so jokes on you buddy .

[f]

Bulgaria has a badass history, and I admire their ability to go through extreme depopulation for decades and still have a fully functional country. Romania cant top that.

[K1power]

So Levi Rigters has been added to the card's GP qualifier.

Who should he fight?

[Shadess]

Local city peeps mentioning Bulgarian fighters on the card:

Dragomir Petrov - holder of multiple belts
Teodor Hristov - Enfusion participant
Alexander Petrov - two-time world and European champion
Dani Iliev

[lero]

Aug 20, 2023 18:18:04 GMT 1 K1power said:

So Levi Rigters has been added to the card's GP qualifier.

Who should he fight?

Rematch with Kecojevic, that fight was wild.

[Shadess]

Bit of a weird one.

[K1power]

That is a bit of a weird one.

Perhaps they want to guarantee a Dutch flag representative in there for Videoland or something.

[K1power]

Wisse vs. Boapeah added.

Not sure Boapeah is ready, but interesting fight.

[K1power]

Eduard Gafencu vs. Teodor Hristov added.

[K1power]

Chris Wunn vs. Dragomir Petrov added.

Local city peeps were right.