Glory 17: Los Angeles

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Glory 17: Los Angeles
A poster or logo for Glory 17: Los Angeles.
Information
Promotion Glory
Date June 21, 2014
Venue The Forum
City Inglewood, California, USA
Attendance 10,795
Event chronology
Glory 16: Denver Glory 17: Los Angeles Glory 18: Oklahoma

Glory 17: Los Angeles was a kickboxing event held on June 21, 2014 at the The Forum in Inglewood, California, USA.

Background

This show was Glory's first Pay-per-view event. Main card of this event featured world title fight of Rico Verhoeven vs. Daniel Ghiță for the vacant Glory Heavyweight Championship, another world title fight of Marc de Bonte vs. Joseph Valtellini for the Glory Welterweight Championship, and 8-Man Glory Middleweight Last Man Standing Tournament for the inaugural Glory Middleweight Championship. Participants for middleweight tournament were Alex Pereira, Artem Levin, Bogdan Stoica, Filip Verlinden, Joe Schilling, Melvin Manhoef, Simon Marcus and Wayne Barrett.[1]

On the preliminary card, a 4-Man Featherweight Contender Tournament and other one-off bouts were featured.[2]

Mirko Filipović was first scheduled to face Pat Barry, and later Sergei Kharitonov on this card. However, on May 21, it was announced that Kharitonov had to withdraw from the fight due to injury.[3] He was replaced by Jarrell Miller.

Miguel Torres was scheduled to make his GLORY debut as a participant of the Featherweight tournament. However, on May 28, it was revealed he pulled out of the tournament for undisclosed reasons. He was replaced by Marcus Vinicius.[4]

Preliminary card had average of 487,000 viewers on Spike TV,[5] and main card drew an estimated 6,000 PPV buys.[6]

Results

Main Card (PPV)
Weight Class Method Round Time Notes
Middleweight Russia Artem Levin def. United States Joe Schilling Decision (unanimous) 3 3:00 Middleweight Last Man Standing Tournament Final; For the Middleweight Championship
Heavyweight Netherlands Rico Verhoeven def. Romania Daniel Ghiță Decision (unanimous) 5 3:00 For the Heavyweight Championship
Middleweight United States Joe Schilling def. United States Wayne Barrett Decision (split) 3 3:00 Middleweight Last Man Standing Tournament Semi Final
Middleweight Russia Artem Levin def. Belgium Filip Verlinden Decision (unanimous) 3 3:00 Middleweight Last Man Standing Tournament Semi Final
Welterweight Canada Joseph Valtellini def. Belgium Marc de Bonte (c) Decision (unanimous) 5 3:00 For the Welterweight Championship
Middleweight United States Wayne Barrett def. Romania Bogdan Stoica KO (punch) 3 0:58 Middleweight Last Man Standing Tournament Quarter Final
Middleweight United States Joe Schilling def. Canada Simon Marcus KO (punch) 4 2:41 Middleweight Last Man Standing Tournament Quarter Final
Middleweight Belgium Filip Verlinden def. Suriname Melvin Manhoef Decision (majority) 3 3:00 Middleweight Last Man Standing Tournament Quarter Final
Middleweight Russia Artem Levin def. Brazil Alex Pereira Decision (unanimous) 3 3:00 Middleweight Last Man Standing Tournament Quarter Final
Preliminary Card (Spike)
Weight Class Method Round Time Notes
Heavyweight Croatia Mirko Filipović def. United States Jarrell Miller1 Decision (unanimous) 3 3:00
Featherweight Canada Gabriel Varga def. United States Shane Oblonsky Decision (unanimous) 3 3:00 Featherweight Contender Tournament Final
Lightweight Suriname Andy Ristie def. United States Ky Hollenbeck KO (punch) 1 0:35
Featherweight United States Shane Oblonsky def. Brazil Marcus Vinicius2 Decision (unanimous) 3 3:00 Featherweight Contender Tournament Semi Final
Featherweight Canada Gabriel Varga def. Thailand Yodkhunpon Sitmonchai Decision (unanimous) 3 3:00 Featherweight Contender Tournament Semi Final

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1 Pat Barry was replaced with Sergei Kharitonov, and later Jarrell Miller.
2 Miguel Torres was replaced with Marcus Vinicius.

2014 Glory Middleweight Last Man Standing Tournament bracket

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                 
Russia Artem Levin DEC
Brazil Alex Pereira 3-0
Russia Artem Levin DEC
Belgium Filip Verlinden 3-0
Belgium Filip Verlinden DEC
Suriname Melvin Manhoef 2-0
Russia Artem Levin DEC
United States Joe Schilling 3-0
United States Joe Schilling KO
Canada Simon Marcus 4R.1
United States Joe Schilling DEC
United States Wayne Barrett 2-1
United States Wayne Barrett KO
Romania Bogdan Stoica 3R.

1 Extra round

2014 Glory Featherweight Contender Tournament bracket

Semi-finals Final
           
Canada Gabriel Varga DEC
Thailand Yodkhunpon Sitmonchai 3-0
Canada Gabriel Varga DEC
United States Shane Oblonsky 3-0
United States Shane Oblonsky DEC
Brazil Marcus Vinicius 3-0

International broadcasting

Country Broadcaster
Brazil Brazil TV Esporte Interativo
 Canada Bell TV
Fight Network
Spike TV
 Croatia Fight Channel
Nova TV
Netherlands Netherlands RTL 7
Romania Romania Digi Sport
Sport.ro
Turkey Turkey Kanaltürk
United Kingdom United Kingdom BT Sport 2
United States United States Spike TV

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