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GLORY 89: Hari vs Jürjendal
Badr Hari (106-16, 92 KO) will compete at GLORY 89 in Burgas Arena, Bulgaria, on October 7 (which marks GLORY’s first-ever Bulgarian event).
Originally set to compete at GLORY 88 in Paris earlier this month, Hari withdrew on compassionate grounds following the devastating earthquake which struck his home country of Morocco.
The kickboxing legend will now go head-to-head with Estonian powerhouse Uku Jürjendal (19-8, 15 KO) as the events headliner, with the winner qualifying for the GLORY 8-man Heavyweight Grand Prix this December.
However, the fight will be starting earlier in the evening, because of better visibility of Hari's fight in Morocco around that time and wishes of Bulgarian TV regarding the co-main event. Badr Hari is now expected to make the walk to the ring around 3pm ET / 12pm PT / 21:00 CEST.
Featherweight champion and one of the best P4P fighters on the planet, ‘Petch’ (168-39-3, 27), welcomes the challenge of top Spanish fighter David Mejia (61-15, 18 KO) at the end of the event.
Local hero Stoyan Koprivlenski (18-6, 6 KO) returns to compete in his hometown for the first time in almost eight years as he takes on a familiar foe in Romania’s Sorin Caliniuc (11-1) in the co-main event in what is a rematch of their 2021 fight.
In the featured fight, Levi Rigters (14-1, 6 KO) makes his long-awaited return against the giant Martin Terpstra (26-6, 13 KO). The winner will also qualify for the upcoming eight-man one-night $500,000 tournament.
The rest of the main card is stacked with top names and thrilling clashes. Luis Tavares (63-9, 21 KO) is finally back in action and welcomes the returning ‘Bucharest Bad Boy’ Bogdan Stoica (57-13, 40 KO), Bulgaria’s own Aleksandar Petrov (34-6, 17 KO) meets Austria’s Karim Mabrouk (36-5-2, 10 KO), and Morocco’s Mohamed Touchassie (14-0, 11 KO) makes his highly anticipated debut against Eduard Aleksanyan (18-4, 5 KO).
In the preliminaries, Eduard Gafencu (17-4, 11 KO) faces Teodor Hristov (14-3, 7 KO) in what should be an action-packed contest between two KO artists and number six ranked German Chris Wünn (35-5-1, 14 KO) takes on ‘Drago’ Dragomir Petrov (14-3, 7 KO) in the opening bout.
GLORY 89 takes place Saturday, October 7 live from Burgas Arena, Bulgaria.
Prelims start at 1pm ET / 10am PT / 19:00 CEST and will be streamed live for free on GLORY’s YouTube channel and GLORY's FAST Channels, with the local prelims starting at 12pm ET / 9am PT / 18:00 CEST.
The GLORY 89 main-card starts at 2pm ET / 11am PT / 20:00 CEST and will be available to watch live around the world on GLORYfights.com (PPV) & through various global broadcast partners.
Full GLORY 89 fightcard:
How to watch:
The GLORY 89 prelims stream live on GLORY's YouTube and Facebook aswell as GLORY's FAST Channels at 1pm ET / 10am PT / 19:00 CEST.
The GLORY 89 main-card streams live at 2pm ET / 11am PT / 20:00 CEST.
Fans can find their local GLORY broadcast partner(s) below:
Europe
- Austria: Fighting.de
- Bosnia & Herzegovina: TV Arena Sport
- Bulgaria: BTV
- Croatia: TV Arena Sport
- Estonia: GO3
- Germany: Fighting.de
- Greece: Fight Network
- Kosovo: TV Arena Sport
- Latvia: GO3
- Lithuania: GO3
- Montenegro: TV Arena Sport
- Netherlands: Videoland
- North Macedonia: TV Arena Sport
- Poland: Viaplay
- Portugal: Fight Network
- Romania: AntenaPlay
- Serbia: TV Arena Sport
- Slovenia: TV Arena Sport
- Switzerland: Fighting.de
- UK: GLORYfights.com (PPV on sale for 12,99 GBP)
- Other European countries: GLORYfights.com (PPV on sale for 13,99€)
Americas
- Argentina: D Sports Fight
- Bolivia: D Sports Fight
- Brazil: Combate
- Canada: Fight Network
- Chile: D Sports Fight
- Colombia: D Sports Fight
- Ecuador: D Sports Fight
- Mexico: D Sports Fight
- Paraguay: D Sports Fight
- Peru: D Sports Fight
- Uruguay: D Sports Fight
- USA: GLORYfights.com (PPV on sale for $14.99)
- Venezuela: D Sports Fight
- Other North/South American countries: GLORYfights.com (PPV on sale for $14.99)
Africa
- Angola: Fight Network, StarTimes
- Benin: StarTimes, New World TV
- Burkina Faso: StarTimes, New World TV
- Burundi: StarTimes, New World TV
- Cameroon: StarTimes, New World TV
- Central African Republic: StarTimes, New World TV
- Chad: StarTimes, New World TV
- Congo Republic: StarTimes, New World TV
- Democratic Republic of Congo: StarTimes, New World TV
- Ivory Coast: StarTimes, New World TV
- Gabon: StarTimes, New World TV
- Guinea: StarTimes, New World TV
- Madagascar: StarTimes, New World TV
- Mali: StarTimes, New World TV
- Mauritius: StarTimes, New World TV
- Morocco: YouTube
- Mozambique: Fight Network, StarTimes
- Niger: StarTimes, New World TV
- Rwanda: StarTimes, New World TV
- Senegal: StarTimes, New World TV
- Seychelles: StarTimes, New World TV
- Togo: StarTimes, New World TV
- Rest of Sub-Saharan Africa: StarTimes
- Other African countries: GLORYfights.com (PPV on sale for $14.99)
Asia & Oceania
- Japan: U-NEXT
- Other Asian/Oceanian countries: GLORYfights.com (PPV on sale for $14,99)
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