GLORY Kickboxing makes the trip to the Sporthallen Zuid in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on Saturday, Sept. 30, for GLORY 45: Amsterdam.
The GLORY world featherweight title is on the line when current champion Robin van Roosmalen takes on former titleholder Serhiy Adamchuk. The Dutch champion is the only fighter to hold titles in two different weight classes in GLORY history. The much anticipated match-up came to fruition when Adamchuk bested former title challenger Dylan Salvador at GLORY 42.
In the night’s co-feature, current FFC heavyweight champion Mladen Brestovac meets former top-10 kickboxer Hesdy Gerges.
In the night’s light heavyweight contender tournament, former top-10 kickboxer Michael Duut headlines a group of budding contenders featuring Morocco’s Imad Hadar, American Manny Mancha and Moldova’s Dragos Zubco.
Elsewhere on the card, former GLORY middleweight champion Jason Wilnis takes on GLORY 40 middleweight contender tournament winner Yousri Belgaroui in a title eliminator, Thailand’s Yodkhunpon Sitmonchai takes on rising Dutch-Moroccan prospect Tyjani Beztati, and top featherweights clash when Shootboxing S-Cup champion Zakaria Zouggary meets high-level Dutch kickboxer Massaro Glunder.
The GLORY 45 SuperFight Series airs at 1 p.m. ET on UFC Fight Pass. The main card airs live at 3:30 p.m. ET on ESPN 3, Fox Sports Africa, Fight Network (Canada), OSN Sports (Middle East), Sky (New Zealand), and GLORY pay-per-view (International). The event airs via tape delay at 11 p.m. ET on Sunday, Oct. 1, on ESPN 2.
Below are the results of the event’s weigh-ins, which took place Friday, Sept. 29.
Hesdy Gerges (228.2 lb / 103.5 kg) vs. Mladen Brestovac (260.4 lb / 118.1 kg)
Imad Hadar (204.1 lb / 92.6 kg) vs. Manny Mancha (206.1 / 93.5 kg) – light heavyweight tournament semifinal
Michael Duut (208.1 lb / 94.4 kg) vs. Dragos Zubco (207.2 lb / 94 kg) – light heavyweight tournament semifinal
Jason Wilnis (184.5 lb / 83.7 kg) vs. Yousri Belgaroui (186.7 lb / 84.7 kg)
Zakaria Zouggary (143.3 lb / 65 kg) vs. Massaro Glunder (143.1 lb / 64.9 kg)
Tyjani Beztati (152.6 lb / 69.2 kg) vs. Yodkhunpon Sitmonchai (152.8 lb / 69.3 kg)
Eyevan Danenberg (168.4 lb / 76.4 kg) vs. Wellington Uega (168.9 lb / 76.6 kg)
Kevin Hessling (159.4 lb / 72.3 kg) vs. Stoyan Koprivlenski (159.4 lb / 72.3 kg)