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Main CARD (Spike TV)
LightWeight Title Fight: Robin van Roosmalen def. Andy Ristie, UD (49-44, 49-44, 49-44)
In the main event of the evening champion RvR defended his belt against Andy Ristie & took revenge for the loss of their previous encounter at GLORY12: New York. In the First round Ristie looked comfortable & mostly Kept RvR at bay with his push Kicks & Jab. In the second Round RvR started finding his range yet not much action happened in this round. In the third round RvR took control of the fight with vicious combos & body shots. In the fourth it was all RvR he took over the fight n wobbled Ristie at the start & ristie was on the defense since. RvR was hitting ristie with vicious body shots. RvR again wobbled Ristie with the left then followed it with a nice combination to get a knockdown. Ristie did manage to beat the count but his fate was pretty much sealed.
FeatherWeight Title Fight: Gabriel Varga def. Mosab Amrani, UD (50-46, 48-47, 49-46)
In the co-main event GLORY crowned its first featherweight world champion as contender tournament winner Gabriel Varga defeated Mosab Amrani. Varga continued with his momentum &basically dominated the fight from the get go. Varga moved forward created pressure hit Amrani with left hooks to the body, some straight rights, Uppercuts and low leg kicks all night long. Amrani never got into his grove & Varga once again against all odd proved why he is an elite FeatherWeight Fighter & Claimed the title.
MiddleWeight (MW) contender Tournament :
MW Tournament Final: Simon Marcus def. Jason Wilnis, SD (28-30, 30-27, 29-28).
In The glory MW Tourney final Simon Marcus defeated Jason Wilnis to win the Glory 20 MW Contender tourney & earns a shot at champion Artem Levin at Glory 21 on May 8. Marcus who defeated Barrett Via a dull UD in Semifinal met Wilnis, who defeated Pereira in a FOTY contention like matchup in other half of the semifinal, in the Tournament final.
As depicted by a split decision on the score cards this indeed was a very close fight as both fighters looked a bit fatigued after their semifinal bout specially Wilnis after the three rounds war with Pereira. First round was very close & hard call for judges s both fighter has almost equal offence. In the second round marcus started to have an edge as he looked aggressive out of the two & had some success with his right hand & kicks in this round. In the start of the third Wilnis coming in as the aggressor but Marcus avoids the flurry but form here on it was marcus who basically controlled the fight by moving forward and hitting wilnis on the body with kicks, knees n left hooks.
MW SemiFinal #2: Jason Wilnis def. Alex Pereira, UD (28-27, 28-27, 29-28)
MW SemiFinal #1: Simon Marcus def. Wayne Barrett, UD (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)
PRELIMINARY CARD :SUPERFIGHT SERIES (bloodyelbow.com):
- Chi Lewis Parry defeats Yong-Su via KO RD 1 (0:25)
- Saulo Cavalari def Artem Vakhitov via split decision (30-27, 29-28, 28-29)
- Mourab Bouzidi def Dustin Jacoby via unanimous decisoin (30-27 x 3)
- Chad Sugden def Atakan Arslan via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
- Anatoly Moiseev def Max Baumert via KO RD 1 (0:38)
- Samir Boukhidous def Mikhail Chalykh via KO RD 1
