Glory 17: Los Angeles was a
kickboxing event held on June 21, 2014 at
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. On the preliminary card, a 4-Man
Featherweight Contender Tournament and other one-off bouts were featured.
Mirko Cro Cop 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. 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. Preliminary card had average of 487,000 viewers on
Spike TV, and main card drew an estimated 6,000 PPV buys.
Results 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 1 Extra round
2014 Glory Featherweight Contender Tournament bracket ==Glory 18: Oklahoma==