Tape Delay Kickboxing 9: GLORY Rivals 5: War of Nations - 2023-01-28
Six fights between GLORY fighters and outsider challengers, from Mexico. No spoilers, free on Facebook/Youtube.
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GLORY Rivals 5: War of Nations - 2023-01-28
Zamna Tulum, Tulum, QR, Mexico
GLORY kicks off their 2023 with the fifth installment in their GLORY Rivals series, where Glory-contracted fighters travel to the home grounds of other organizations to take on their best. War of Nations has held one event, with Muay Thai fights in a cage with the fighters wearing the 4 oz. MMA gloves, which you would be familiar with as the style of ONE Championship’s Muay Thai division. The co-promotion with GLORY is their second event, and will take place in a ring with kickboxing gloves and rules.
Several of the challengers to the GLORY fighters on this show have come to this event from the WGP Kickboxing organization, which was the original home of UFC champion Alex “Poatan” Pereira.
The main event sees GLORY #3 Featherweight Abraham “Ham” Vidales given a chance to headline a show in his home country. In October he lost a decision to P4P #3 Petchpanomrung. He will have a 6-inch height advantage over opponent Tomás “El Chacal” Aguirre from Argentina. Aguirre won the WGP Super Lightweight (142 lb) title in October over Renzo Martínez.
GLORY Basics: Kickboxing rules: punches, kicks, and knees allowed. No elbows, no throws. Clinch must include an immediate strike and, if active, fighters are allowed to work in the clinch for up to 5 seconds before the referee will separate them. Regular fights are 3 rounds of 3 minutes, title fights are 5 rounds of 3 minutes.
Someone at GLORY accidentally stopped the stream on Youtube after the third fight, then they deleted the file. But it stayed up on Facebook. So there are two files for this. Links and timestamps below. Fights highlighted in bold were ones that I found particularly entertaining.
Part 1
https://www.facebook.com/GLORYKICKBOXINGOFFICIAL/videos/2498889000263992
Tessa De Kom (14-1-1, 0 KO) vs. Giuliana Cosnard (47-2-1, 10 KO) (115) 38:22
#8 Bruno Gazani (67-7-1, 33 KO) vs. Magnus Andersson (46-14, 14 KO) (154) 1:00:37
#5 Denis Wosik (37-8-1, 9 KO) vs. Marcos Rios (69-3-7, 41 KO) (143) 1:23:56
Part 2
#9 Ivan Galaz (58-10-1, 15 KO) vs. Renan Altamiro (61-11, 46 KO) (187) 1:53
Jonas Julio (21-3, 8 KO) vs. Javier Aparicio (36-2-2, 20 KO) (170) 25:00
#3 Abraham Vidales (15-2, 12 KO) vs. Tomás Aguirre (27-3, 22 KO) (143) 37:47