Glory 55 International Kickboxing
Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
About the Event
Overview
The world’s premier stand-up combat league returns to The Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden for an evening of fights including GLORY 55 New York, and GLORY 55 SuperFight Series.
Taking center stage on at the Hulu Theater will be an Interim Featherweight title bout with former interim featherweight champion Kevin VanNostrand (17-2, 12 KO, fighting out of the United States) taking on 22-year-old “The Professor” Petchpanomrung Kiatmookao (159-36-2, 27 KO, fighting out of Thailand) and middleweight champion Alex ‘Po Atan’ Pereira (27-6, 17 KO, fighting out of Brazil) defending his belt for the second time against No. 1 contender Yousri Belgaroui (24-4, 12 KO, fighting out of the Netherlands).
Following a trip across the pond, another New Yorker returns to defend home turf when undefeated lightweight “Super” Elvis Gashi (21-0, 10 KO, fighting out of the United States), ranked No. 6, welcomes GLORY newcomer Nick “Golden Boy” Chasteen (8-4, fighting out of the United States) to the promotion.
Featherweights Victor “Leo” Pinto (75-29, 23 KO, fighting out of Thailand) and Nate “The Natural” Richardson (11-3, 5 KO, fighting out of the United States) trade leather in the GLORY 55 New York opening bout.
GLORY 55 New York
Middleweight Title Bout: Alex Pereira (c) vs. Yousri Belgaroui
Interim Featherweight Title Bout: Kevin Vannostrand vs. Petchpanomrung Kiatmookao
Featherweight Bout: Massaro Glunder vs. TBD
Lightweight Bout: Elvis Gashi vs. Nick Chasteen
Featherweight Bout: Victor Pinto vs. Nate Richardson
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Before GLORY 55 New York, two former champions highlight a stacked GLORY 55 Super Fight Series card.
Former welterweight champion Ceìdric “The Best” Doumbeì (69-6-1, 40 KO, fighting out of France) squares off against Alan “Superboy” Scheinson (51-6, 37 KO, fighting out of Argentina) in the GLORY 55 SuperFight Series headline bout.
Doumbeì and Scheinson are ranked No. 2 and No. 9, respectively. Both competed in May at GLORY 53 SuperFight Series, where Doumbeì electrified the French crowd with a 33-second knockout of Thongchai Sitsonppenong and Scheinson earned a unanimous decision against late replacement Anghel Cardos.
Twenty-one-year-old heavyweight prospect Junior “The Juggernaut” Tafa (18-3, 14 KO, fighting out of Australia) will throw down with southpaw Anthony “The Joker” McDonald(8-2, 6 KO, fighting out of the United States).
Former super bantamweight champion Tiffany “Time Bomb” Van Soest (18-3-1, 6 KO, fighting out of the United States) looks to rebound from her lone loss inside the GLORY ring, taking on decorated Swedish Muay Thai practitioner Sofia Olofsson (48-7, 24 KO, fighting out of Sweden), whose resume includes wins over Iman Barlow and Meryem Uslu.
Lockport, New York’s Joe “Son of a Legend” Taylor (3-1, 3 KO, fighting out of the United States) and recent GLORY signing Jacob “The Nightmare” Rodriguez (2-2, fighting out of the United States) meet at middleweight.
Lightweight Itay Gershon (15-4, 5 KO, fighting out of Israel) has earned both of his GLORY wins at The Hulu Theater, and he looks to make it three-in-a-row against Virginia’s Trevor Ragin (7-3, fighting out of the United States), who competed on the GLORY 32 Virginia prelims.
Asa Ten Pow (5-1, fighting out of the United States) and Justin Greskiewicz (38-19-3, fighting out of the United States) will both make their GLORY debuts, competing in a featherweight affair.
GLORY 55 SuperFight Series
Welterweight Bout: Ceìdric Doumbeì vs. Alan Scheinson
Heavyweight Bout: Junior Tafa vs. Anthony McDonald
Super Bantamweight Bout: Tiffany Van Soest vs. Sofia Olofsson
Middleweight Bout: Joe Taylor vs. Jacob Rodriguez
Lightweight Bout: Itay Gershon vs. Trevor Ragin
Featherweight Bout: Asa Ten Pow vs. Justin Greskiewicz