I'm not too familiar with a lot of these guys. What level of Romanian bum swing are we looking at here?
Are you referring to new faces, besides Iancu and Co?
Alin Nechita (Nekita) could follow in the footsteps of Iancu and Lătescu, but it's hard to make such predictions at this level and he is the youngest participant in the tournament at just 21 years old. Then they have
Cristian Ristea "The Gladiator", who actually looks like a Taliban. He has a close, perhaps controversial, victory over GLORY heavyweight revelation Nico Horta. He also defeated Iancu in 5 rounds. Ristea went 3 rounds with Opacic and Osaro in close losses, but he is also prone to KOs.
Opacic and Azizpour, first of all, two great signings from ONE. Krnjic is there now too, solid Bosnian, capable of good matches and with potential. We could put him on par with Aygün maybe.
Then we have the
Gashi brothers, Albanians from Belgium. Asdren has already had 2 good fights in the promotion. The first time they appeared on a "big" card was in Dubai at the end of 2021, when they appeared in Superkombat.
Ukrainian Prymachov, the 5-five time IMFA world champion.
Bchiri from Enfusion, finally in Glory. From a big gym.
The
Russian Nasipov. We'll see what he's capable of. The
Serbian Cvjeticanin, we already know him from the promotion. He came from K-1. He lost his last tough fight in 95, but he produced a huge surprise with Livinus, knocking him out earlier.
Colin George, the Dutch-Surinamese giant formerly of Mike's Gym and now at ARJ, can also be annoying.
Bouzid, a former Moroccan from the lower classes who recently took up boxing. We'll see if this younger and new heavyweight has improved since then.
Etc. Yuri Farcaș the Romanian-born Italian with matches in ONE. They also gave Cook, who is from MTGP, a chance. We'll see if they have the speed for this level. Generally, many here are very tall, 2 meters. Some other guys with experience... And, of course, Sina Karimian, the K-1 cruiser "champ"!
Glory has been looking to grow its divisions a lot for the last 2 years. From 77 and up. 65 too a bit. Only 85 is shallow.
They need to start producing middleweights at an international level, they will be in demand as heavyweights.
The favorites should currently be the top ranked, probably.
