GLORY 74: Pereira KOs Bayrak As Round 1 Ends

By Fight Sports Dec 21, 2019

Before Rico Verhoeven and Badr Hari made their way to the ring to headline GLORY: Collision 2, one GLORY champion — GLORY’s only champ-champ — successfully retained one of his belts earlier in the day.

Alex Pereira defeated Ertugrul Bayrak to retain the GLORY middleweight championship in the main event of GLORY 74, which took place inside the GelreDome in Arhnem, Netherlands prior to GLORY: Collision 2.

After a round controlled by Pereira, he ended things by nailing Bayrak with a left hand as the bell to end the round sounded, dropping the challenger out cold.

ALEX PEREIRA ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?

Another highlight reel KO for the CHAMP-CHAMP! @mypowerdot #GLORY74 pic.twitter.com/g8awnxZilq

— GLORY Kickboxing (@GLORY_WS) December 21, 2019

View the rest of the GLORY 74 and GLORY 74 SuperFight Series results below:

GLORY 74 main card

Alex Pereira (c) def. Ertugrul Bayrak via KO (3:00 into round one)- GLORY Middleweight Title

Serhiy Adamchuk def. Aleksei Ulianov via split decision (29-28, 29-28, 27-30, 27-30, 29-28)

Ariel Machado def. Micael Dutt via unanimous decision (29-26, 30-25, 30-25, 30-25, 30-25)

Itay Gershon def. Li Sanjin via majority decision (28-28, 30-26, 30-26, 30-26, 30-26)

GLORY 74 Superfight Series

Antonio Plazibat def. Jahfarr Wilnis via split decision (28-29, 29-28, 29-28, 29-28, 29-28)

Donovan Wisse def. Cesar Almeida via majority decision (28-28, 29-27, 30-26, 30-26, 30-26)

Nordine Mahieddine def. Cihad Kepenek via split decision (10-9, 10-9, 9-10, 9-10, 10-9)

Urik Bokeme def. Kevin van Heeckeren via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

Rebekah Irwin def. Yi Xu via split decision(29-28, 28-29, 29-28, 29-28, 29-28)