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Sears Centre Arena Hosts Heavyweight World Championship Tournament LIVE on SPIKE TV, Saturday October 12th

New York, NY - GLORY, the world's premier kickboxing league, today announced a world-class fight card for Glory 11 Chicago, featuring a one-night, four-man Heavyweight World Championship Tournament and a highly-anticipated rematch, broadcast LIVE on SPIKE TV from the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, Saturday, October 12th.

The first round of the Glory World Heavyweight Championship Tournament will see #2 ranked contender and aggressive power puncher Gökhan Saki (79-16-1, 56 KOs) up against young Heavyweight prospect Rico Verhoeven (40-7-1, 8 KOs). On the other side of the bracket, #3 ranked Romanian tactician Daniel Ghiță; (48-9, 37 KOs) squares off with Brazilian standout Anderson ‘Braddock’ Silva (36-9-1, 24 KOs). The winners of each bout will then face each other to determine the GLORY World Heavyweight Tournament Champion for a cash prize of $250,000.

GLORY Light Heavyweight Tournament Champion Tyrone ‘King of the Ring’ Spong (72-6-1, 45 KOs) headlines Glory 11 Chicago, taking on Muay Thai legend Nathan ‘Carnage’ Corbett (57-3-1, 43 KOs), in a rematch of the 2009 bout between the two, a controversial knock out ruled a No Contest at the time.

The co-main event features top Welterweight contenders in action, as #6 ranked ‘Bazooka Joe’ Valtellini (10-1, 8 KOs) of Canada matches-up with #4 ranked Karim Ghajji (85-8-1, 49 KOs) of France.
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Sääli, koska K-1:llä ei ole oikein tarjota hänelle mielenkiintoisia matseja. Souwer on mennyt aika pahasti alamäkeen, joskin ikää on vielä sen verran vähän, että nousu on kyllä mahdollinen, jos vain motivaatiota riittää. Zambidis alkaa hänkin olla parhaat päivänsä nähnyt ja muita nimimiehiä ei oikein olekaan. Tai no Roqueni on tietysti ihan hyvä ja aliarvostettukin ottelija, mutta silti.
 
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Glory ei ole siellä varsinaisen areenan vaan theaterin puolella (teatterihan on puolikas amfiteatteri). Kapasiteetti 5600. Viime vuonna Take on Productions järjesti samassa paikassa "Muay Thai at the Mecca" illan (ekat thainyrkkiskabat NYkissä).

Glorylla on tällä hetkellä rahoitus kolmeksi vuodeksi ja saman verran aikaa muuttaa liiketoiminta kannattavaksi. En nyt muista miten monta miljoonaa kassassa oli (30?), mutta jenkki tv-invaasioon tarvitaan aika paljon pätäkkää, kun "uusi" urheilulaji lanseerataan. Muay Thai Premier Leaguen (jolla oli osittain samoja thaikkunimiä kuin Glorylla, Levin Corbett...) kassassa oli vain mijoona dollaria ja promoottori kulutti sen kolmessa eventissä. He tosin tekivät sellaisen virheen, että eivät keskittyneet maantieteellisesti, eikä heillä ollut edes streameja eventteihin. Toisin kuin Glorylla.
 
Niinpäs onkin.

Nyt on Glory 10:n kortti kasassa: News - GLORY 10 LOS ANGELES FULL CARD ANNOUNCED

MAIN CARD

Jérôme Le Banner vs. Sergei Kharitonov

Robin van Roosmalen vs. Shemsi Beqiri

Wayne Barrett vs. Kengo Shimizu

Joe Schilling vs. Stephen Wakeling

Artem Levin vs. Jason Wilnis

Davit Kiria vs. Murthel Groenhart

Brian Collette vs. Randy Blake

Brice Guidon vs. Jahfarr Wilnis

Andy Ristie vs. Sanny Dahlbeck

Aleksandr Stetcurenko vs. Karapet Karapetyan

Albert Kraus vs. Jordan Watson Johann

Fauveau vs. Hinata

UNDERCARD

Xavier Vigney vs. Hyunman Myung

Jacob Poss vs. Casey Greene

Jermaine Soto vs. Melisk Baghdasaryan

Ron Cruz vs. Francisco Garcia

Daniel Valdez vs. Brian Del Rosario

Charles Bisset vs. Matt Baker
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En kyllä edelleenkään ymmärrä tätä 4 miehen turnauksen formaattia. Tai siis miten se tekee tapahtuman helpommin televisioitavaksi. Nythän illassa on 12 matsia, joista 3 on turnausotteluita. 8 miehen turnauksessa olisi 7 matsia, jolloin jäisi vielä 5 matsia reservi- ja superotteluille ja kesto olisi edelleen sama.
 
Tuo itelläki ihmetyttää, on tehty kyl vaikeaksi! 8miehen turnauksissa ois kyl jotain järkeä toisin ku 4miehen
 
Glory 13 pidetään Tokiossa hieman ennen joulua. Luvassa on 77-kiloisten turnaus, mutta muuten homma tuntuu olevan aika lailla auki.

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Glory Announces GLORY 13 Tokyo on December 21st | LiverKick.com

Right in line with the rumors that we've been hearing, GLORY will be heading back to Japan for the end of the year once again, this time instead of on New Year's Eve it will be on December 21st at the Ariake Colosseum in a night featuring a Welterweight/77kg tournament. The only name announced for the tournament this so far is longtime Golden Glory member Nieky Holzken, who sits atop the GLORY rankings at 77kg/170lbs currently.

If I were to wager a guess as to who else will be involved, I'd look at GLORY 10's undercard fight between Alexander Stetsurenko and Karapet Karapetyan and GLORY 11's Joe Valtellini vs. Kharim Ghajji to complete the tournament spots, but that is just a [very] educated guess on my part. They also will be booking a series of Super Fights, for what they are calling a "SuperFight Series," which does make me curious as to what that exactly means. Once again, if I were to guess, I'd say that it had something to do with Spike TV.
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Gloryn toimitusjohtaja avaa hieman tulevaisuuden suunnitelmia. Idea on järjestää 4 miehen turnauksia rankingin kärkinimille ja niiden lisäksi Superfight Series -otteluita, joilla voidaan nousta rankingissa niin että päästään mukaan seuraavaan turnaukseen.

GLORY CEO Andrew Whitaker Talks SuperFight Series and More | LiverKick.com

When it comes to Kickboxing, there is nothing hotter right now that GLORY Sports International, best know for the GLORY Kickboxing events. GLORY houses some of the Kickboxing world’s greatest talents and have been putting on some of the best shows in the sport for over a year now. GLORY began when Pierre Andurand and Marcus Luer teamed up with Golden Glory, who had some success with their own Ultimate Glory and Glory World Series events, to make the promotion that we know now, and since then it has been growing rapidly into one of the top combat sports leagues in the world.

LiverKick sat down with GLORY Sports International’s CEO, Andrew Whitaker, to discuss all things GLORY and what is in store for the promotion in the near and far future. Whitaker initially served on the board of directors for GLORY Sports International before transitioning to the CEO position this January and it has been an interesting transition for him, coming from a background in entertainment and sports entertainment, previously working at Kings Highway Media and most notably for WWE. His career within the WWE spanned many years and many positions, placing him in a rather unique position when it comes to producing sports entertainment television and expanding a business on an international scale.

The transition for Whitaker was one that forced him to get down and really learn about the business before he took the reins of the company this year. “Obviously there was a period of immersion to all things GLORY kickboxing. As you know, I obviously worked in entertainment for many years, albeit working with the sports business as well with my former employer. It was more the sports and entertainment businesses, as it was more efficient to do so. In that sense, the licensing people in sports, the live events people in sports on a global basis, the media rights people in sports on a global basis are all people that I’ve been working with for a very, very long time. While I come from what is a very successful entertainment brand and helped grow a global entertainment brand, the transition for me to sports was more about me learning about the specific sport of kickboxing than it is on a business-to-business basis, or a business-to-consumer basis that we have here in America and globally.”

WhitakerWhitaker, while he might have a strong background in building up brands and knows his ins and outs, still does admit that there are challenges for the sport of Kickboxing. “I think that the thought behind the formation of GLORY was that; here is a great sport with great athletes from around the world and there hadn’t been a real successful business built off of it with K-1, even if it was a big and successful sport with a lot of great athletes. I think that the thought process was that GLORY Sports International would go out and lock down the world’s top and developing talent, then begin to create television programming with these athletes. When you watch GLORY programming it just lends itself to television. Obviously there are events that would lend themselves better for pay-per-view, but that is something for the future, possibly in 2014 as a major media property, with the 8-man tournaments. For television though, and the limited time windows, this property lends itself extremely well to that. Most importantly you have the top athletes in the world and you have that as the building block, then you have the three minute rounds. When you watch GLORY Kickboxing there is no rest, there is no stopping. It is continuous, fast, furious action from tremendous athletes and I feel that the tournament formats, be it the 4-man, 8-man or even 16-man tournaments are very compelling television -- especially when it is done in one night. You get the beginning, the middle and the end in one night.

"As far as challenges are concerned, the biggest challenge beyond refining the management team and the operations, is that the television program and the media platform content needed to be of a certain quality. It was very good, but has been improved even more and will continue to do so with the production team that we’ve built. Then is also the amount of television programming is critical. Having programming on once a month is great, but if you can deliver more than one sports program a month that is very important. We’ll be doing just that starting in September, we’ll be producing four different television programs out of each television shoot. This will allow for extra highlight programming, best of programming, promotional magazine programming and then of course the event programming, which will be the live event and the recorded event, which will air on the heels of that. That is the GLORY SuperFight Series.”

The GLORY SuperFight Series is a big part of the focus for GLORY coming up, as GLORY is looking at it beyond just airing fights, but instead to create a viable platform for fighters to move up the rankings and work towards securing a spot within the next tournament. “It’s built into the rankings system that we’ve established, in the sense that we have the, for example, four-man Middleweight tournament, those are the top four Middleweights in the GLORY rankings. The other top athletes at Middleweight that are in the SuperFight series are all looking to move up the rankings and earn themselves a spot in the next Middleweight tournament. That is the raison d’etre really for the GLORY SuperFight series, it gives all of the athletes in GLORY in a weight category the chance to move up the rankings so that they can get into the tournament.”

A big part of moving the GLORY brand forward has to do with their broadcast partners as well, with them moving to Spike TV in October here in the United States. “Certainly we are interested in our affiliate customers in any given country across the world to carry the best of GLORY television programming, so certainly we’d like for that to be the case, but at this moment I can’t speak to any specific plans in relation to that. We will launch on Saturday, October 12th with GLORY 11 from Chicago. Obviously GLORY 10 takes place before that on September 28th in the Los Angeles Metro area, and then off the back of the premier of GLORY on Spike we have GLORY 12 coming from the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York, Saturday, November 23rd. So that is kind of the next run of quote unquote GLORY events from which the GLORY television programming will be derived.”

What was clear from talking to Whitaker is that there is a vision for the GLORY brand moving forward and that it will be a combination of the tried-and-true approach to promotion a sport as well as some more unique methods that come with producing more programming that we haven’t seen in Kickboxing before. Whitaker was quick to point out that there is a diverse team at play within GLORY from many diverse backgrounds, including that fight background that having someone like Cor Hemmers brings to the table that is indispensable. It sounds like this is just the beginning for GLORY and that over the coming weeks, months and years to expect a lot more
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Aika jännä uutinen. Glory on ostanut Fuji TV:n vanhat K-1 videoarkistot. Tämä on kai jotain nurkanvaltaustaktiikkaa?

GLORY Acquires Fuji TV's K-1 Video Library | LiverKick.com

Well, I can't say that this isn't huge news. This has been kicked around for a while now, the whole "GLORY acquires the rights to K-1's TV library" for what feels like years now, starting back when it was though that Glory had purchased K-1, which never came to fruition. But, it seems like having powerful partners like Viacom does pay off for GLORY, even when they haven't started airing on Spike TV yet, as it was announced today that GLORY Sports International has come to a deal with Fuji TV in Japan to acquire Fuji TV's K-1 video library.

Now, before anyone hops on that GLORY has bought K-1 or is trying to acquire or merge K-1 with them, this deal was done through Fuji TV because of FEG's bankruptcy. FEG's bankruptcy essentially put this video library up on the chopping block, while GLORY saw the opportunity and swooped in. This deal includes K-1 events that aired on Fuji TV from 1993 - 2006 and brings the hours of footage under GLORY's control up to a staggering 3,000.
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K-1 Global on sitä mieltä, että myyjällä ei olisi ollut oikeuksia näihin myytyihin videoihin. :nolo:

K-1 Issues a Statement in Response to GLORY Purchasing Video Library | LiverKick.com

Man, as soon as I heard about GLORY talking about buying K-1's archive footage I had a feeling that it wouldn't be the last that we hear about it. It turns out, it isn't. K-1 Global just issued a press release on their official website that claims that FEG has sold footage that FEG no longer has the rights to, basically. K-1 is essentially saying that FEG sold the "use rights" to GLORY Sports International even though they no longer had the ability to do so, also that GLORY paid $140,000 USD for said video library.

K-1 also seems prepared to go to war over this one.

After the deal with Mr. Ishii was finalized, FEG declared bankruptcy in Japan and a lawyer was appointed as a controller for the bankrupted company. This new controller of FEG insisted that FEG still had the copyrights of the K-1 archive footage in their control and sold the “Use Right” of the K-1 archives for an approximate amount of $140,000. K-1 Global had warned FEG’s new controller that K-1 Global does indeed own the rights to this library, but FEG’s new controller refused to listen and went through with the sale.

Now the bankrupted FEG has sold the “Use Right” for $140,000, much less than what K-1 Global initially paid for it, as a nuisance to K-1 Global and to publicly embarrass the company. Essentially, FEG has sold the footage twice now, although it was initially to K-1 Global for a much higher sum. At this time, the bankrupted FEG has sold footage that it no longer owns to GLORY Sports International. K-1 Global has no option right now but to bring this matter to court.
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Wakeling ei saa jostain syystä viisumia jenkkeihin, joten hänet korvaa viikonlopun Glory 10:n turnauksessa Kengo Shimizu. Korttia tässä:


GLORY 10 LOS ANGELES
Robin van Roosmalen vs. Shemsi Beqiri
Davit Kiria vs. Murthel Groenhart
Tournament: Joe Schilling vs. Kengo Shimizu
Tournament: Artem Levin vs. Jason Wilnis
Reserve Bout: Wayne Barrett vs. Rob Plotkin

GLORY SUPERFIGHT SERIES
Aleksandr Stetcurenko vs. Karapet Karapetyan
Brice Guidon vs. Jahfarr Wilnis
Andy Ristie vs. Niclas Larsen
Brian Collette vs. Randy Blake
Albert Kraus vs. Ky Hollenbeck
Johann Fauveau vs. Hinata Watanabe

UNDERCARD
Xavier Vigney vs. Hyunman Myung
Afam Egbochuku vs. Casey Greene
Jermaine Soto vs. Melisk Baghdasaryan
Ron Cruz vs. Francisco Garcia
Daniel Valdez vs. Brian Del Rosario
Charles Bisset vs. Matt Baker
 
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