Badr Hari surely considers himself a big star who shows up for feature fights and gets paid accordingly, not jumping in an eight man tournament like when he was a young man. And Errol Zimmerman hasn't fought in Glory in over three years.No Hari, Zimmerman... Are they retired/injured/in jail/death?
they should make an 8 man LW tournament including Sitthichai, at least would be more interesting since no one is a real danger to Sitthichai, so a tournament would at least produce a couple of good fights...
to be fair they should make a 8 man on every division, a FW Glory 8 man would be stacked.
Tournaments are cool but i think as a champ, you should get paid a lot to accept a tournament.
Glory is based on rankings and title defenses, not really the same concept as K-1 Max or Kunlun. Tournaments where the champ is included kind of undermines the current concept
About time Marat Grigorian fights Baya. The winner of Baya vs Grigorian should fight the winner of Koprivlenski vs Beztati. The winner of that fight can fight Sittichai.
They can't just keep giving Grigorian getting title fights all the time. Sittichai is just too dominant and it doesn't make sense to give any of the contender a title shot just based on arbitrary reasons.
I mean, the welterweight division is basically a warfield, with the top guys Harut, Nabiev, Doumbe and Murthel Groenheart.
In LW it seems like nothing is happening because of Sittichais dominance. Glory should now aim to create a warfield between the contenders Marat, Beztati, Koprivlenski, Jauncey, Baya and Gashi. I think Sittichai is now exclusively signed to Glory? He deserves big pay checks then.
Rico is not going to take 3 fights in a night for 150K. He's become too big for that. I'd love to see another Rico vs Jamal or Rico vs Bennie though. Both fights are well worthy of a trilogy.
They could make a deal with him on the side for an additional bonus if he wins on top of the 150k. If it were me promoting I'd do everything I can to make him fight in that tournament, and if possible Hari as well. Then promote the ppv's to fuck. $$$
If I understood correctly Rico will fight the winner of this tournament in the first quarter of next year