GLORY Fills Out GLORY 62 Heavyweight Tournament
GLORY has finalized their plans for GLORY 62’s heavyweight tournament, set for December 8th at the Rotterdam Ahoy in the Netherlands.
The tournament will feature eight top heavyweights battling for $150,000 in total prize money. Joining the frey are prospect Mohamed Abdallah and the debuting Arkadiusz Wrzosek, who enters the tournament following success as both an amateur and professional in Poland.
Abdallah and Wrzosek join GLORY heavyweights Junior Tafa and Tomas “The Giant Slovak” Mozny in the participant pool as the 5th-8th seeds, which will be established by a random drawing on November 30th.
Those four join top seeds Benjamin Adegbuyi, Jamal Ben Saddik, Guto Inocente and Jahfarr Wilniss, who make up the top tier of the December 8th tournament.
In lieu of a random draw for the tournament’s third and fourth seeds, Guto Inocente (35-9, 17 KO, fighting out of Brazil) will enter the as the No. 3 seed and Jahfarr Wilnis (31-10-1, 8 KO, fighting out of the Netherlands) will enter as the No. 4 seed based on their current rankings.
The heavyweight tournament seeding is as follows:
Seed No. 1: Benjamin Adegbuyi
Seed No. 2: Jamal Ben Saddik
Seed No. 3: Guto Inocente
Seed No. 4: Jahfarr Wilnis
Seeds No. 5-8: Randomly drawn from participant pool
Participant Pool
Junior Tafa
Tomas Mozny
Mohamed Abdallah
Arkadiusz Wrzosek
The complete fight card for GLORY 62 Rotterdam can be found below:
GLORY 62 Rotterdam
Heavyweight Tournament Final Bout: Bout E Winner vs. Bout F Winner
Light Heavyweight Co-Headline Bout: Luis Tavares vs. Artur Gorlov
Heavyweight Tournament Semifinal Bout F: Bout B Winner vs. Bout D Winner
Heavyweight Tournament Semifinal Bout E: Bout A Winner vs. Bout C Winner
Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinal Bout D: Guto Inocente vs. TBD by draw
Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinal Bout C: Jahfarr Wilnis vs. TBD by draw
Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinal Bout B: Jamal Ben Saddik vs. TBD by draw
Heavyweight Tournament Quarterfinal Bout A: Benjamin Adegbuyi vs. TBD by drawGLORY 62 SuperFight Series
Lightweight Headline Bout: Marat Grigorian vs. Christian Baya
Lightweight Bout: Tyjani Beztati vs. Stoyan Koprivlenski
Welterweight Bout: Robbie Hageman vs. Dmitrii Menshikov
Welterweight Bout: Miles Simson vs. Hamicha
Heavyweight Tournament Reserve Bout: Roël Mannaart vs. Kirill KornilovGLORY 62 Prelims
Middleweight Bout: Donovan Wisse vs. Ertuğrul Bayrak