Glory 26: Holzken vs. Groenhart Discussion - 12/4/15

[Wild]

Nieky Holzken def Murthel Groenhart via split decision (48-47, 46-49, 49-46)

Rico Verhoeven def Benjamin Adegbuyi via RD1 KO 2:12

Featherweight tournament final: Mosab Amrani def Maykol Yurk via KO RD1 (1:51)

Tournament semi-final: Mosab Amrani def ChiBin Lim via TKO (2 knockdowns) RD1 (1:32)

Tournament semi-final: Maykol Yurk def via Shane Oblonsky via TKO (2 knockdowns) RD2 (1:30)

Thomas Vanneste def Errol Zimmerman via split decision (30-27, 27-30, 30-27)

Mourad Bouzidi def Danyo Ilunga via split decision (29-27, 28-27, 29-27)

Zinedine Hameur-Lain def Fred Sikking via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-26, 29-28)

Yoann Kongolo def Karapet Karapetyan via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)

Perviz Abdullayev def Aziz Kallah via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 30-27)

 

[GSPTrainingInAPool]

Two Dutch champs fighting in Amsterdam!! that place is going to be CRAZY!!

 

[sparkuri]

Cool, lets get some live threads stickied for fight night!

Love fishing, pm me a good place?

 

[RickStorm]

GLORY Kickboxing
6 mins ·
In THIRTY MINUTES make sure you're watching ‪#‎GLORY26‬ Amsterdam LIVE on ESPN3! Go to www.watchespn.com to enjoy the ‪#‎kickboxing‬event of the year!

 

[Wild]

Just now getting a chance to sit down. @sparkuri you can watch these on ESPN3.com

 

[Wild]

Going to be 20-30 minutes before I can make the thread live. Splinty has it turned off, to trouble shoot some issues from this morning.

 

[Wild]

Awesome! Event hasn't started. Thought I was going to miss some of it.

 

[Wild]

These dudes are throwing BOMBS!

Shane Oblonsky vs. Maykol Yurk

 

[Wild]

Yurk is putting a show on now.

 

[Wild]

Ref just saved Oblonsky some damage by stopping that.

 

[Wild]

Mosab Amrani puts on a clinic. Will face Yurk in the tourney final.

 

[Wild]

Rico Verhoeven vs. Benjamin Adegbuyi is next.

 

[Wild]

Rico just put on a clinic. Nasty KO!

 

[Wild]

Anyone watching this? Amrani vs Yurk is a WAR. Been a great card.

 

[Chief]

Forgot all about this one. Had some running around town to do.

 

[regular john]

what an awsome event.

I got home just in time to watch the last three fights and it was the best time I could've had on a friday evening. that has got to be a record for most nasty body shots in the same card no?

first I'll tip my hat to Rico the dude just won his mma debut a month ago and now added that KTFO that everybody complained he lacked. completely dominated Adegbuy in the rematch which bodes well for a posible rematch with Andrey Gerasimchuk who beat him earlier this year in China (Glory needs to put together this fight);

Holzken didn't look good but that was a great fight too. Groenhart won me too I'll keep a close an eye on him now. IMO this decision was even worse than van Roosmalen vs. Sittichai but I won't beat my head against the wall - it's combat sports and the champion has some leeway in a close fight.

 

[regular john]

there's no info on Glory 27 which was making me very aprehensive but apparently they're coming back strong for 2016. there could be no better news than this:

"During the live broadcast for the GLORY SuperFight Series at GLORY 26 GLORY announced that in 2016 we'll see the return of the Rebel when Gokhan Saki returns to the GLORY ring in hopes of regaining his GLORY Light Heavyweight Championship. (...) The return of Saki is huge, just huge."

LiverKick - GLORY Announces Return of Gokhan Saki to Challenge Saulo Cavalari in 2016

 

[Wild]

what an awsome event.

I got home just in time to watch the last three fights and it was the best time I could've had on a friday evening. that has got to be a record for most nasty body shots in the same card no?

first I'll tip my hat to Rico the dude just won his mma debut a month ago and now added that KTFO that everybody complained he lacked. completely dominated Adegbuy in the rematch which bodes well for a posible rematch with Andrey Gerasimchuk who beat him earlier this year in China (Glory needs to put together this fight);

Holzken didn't look good but that was a great fight too. Groenhart won me too I'll keep a close an eye on him now. IMO this decision was even worse than van Roosmalen vs. Sittichai but I won't beat my head against the wall - it's combat sports and the champion has some leeway in a close fight.

People on social media are going nuts about the Holzken decision. I didnt think it was "that" outrageous. I thought he won...he just didn't look his normal self in doing so. You think Groenhart won? I may have to go back and rewatch it.

 

[regular john]

People on social media are going nuts about the Holzken decision. I didnt think it was "that" outrageous. I thought he won...he just didn't look his normal self in doing so. You think Groenhart won? I may have to go back and rewatch it.

yes I think Groenhart should've won 49-46 or at least 48-87.

Nieky won the 5th; 1st round was very close and Nieky might've won; in the 2nd iirc they both rocked each other so it could go either way but Groenhart looked better overall imo; rounds 3 and 4 were all Groenhart imo. I could see 48-47 Holzken with a lot of good will for the champ but 49-46 Holzken was crazy.

 

[Wild]

yes I think Groenhart should've won 49-46 or at least 48-87.

Nieky won the 5th; 1st round was very close and Nieky might've won; in the 2nd iirc they both rocked each other so it could go either way but Groenhart looked better overall imo; rounds 3 and 4 were all Groenhart imo. I could see 48-47 Holzken with a lot of good will for the champ but 49-46 Holzken was crazy.

I'll check it out again. I had it 48-47 Nieky but I wasn't paying that close of attention either.

 

[Zeph]

I had 49-46 Groenhart. Nieky looked slow and tentative and never really got going. I wonder if he came into this injured, he didn't look himself.

 

[regular john]

he said in the post fight interview that Groenhart's trash talk got to his head and he was "stuck".