Glory Fight 49 will officially start on 9 December 2017 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and the list of matches against the tournament has been announced. Glory49 will be defending the heavyweight champions and welterweights respectively, while China's Zhang Chenglong and Wang Anying will also play.
The Glory49 headlines main event is a midweight title defense, played by current Glory heavyweight rico Verhoeven and challenger Jamal Ben Saddik, and a six-year revenge battle for Van Hovin, who was killed by Sadiq TKO in March 2011.
Since winning the four-man battle championship at Glory Guangzhou, Zhang Chenglong's record has reached 41 wins, 5 losses and 11 KO, ranking 10th in the official ranking of glory, and this time he is playing again in Glory, and his opponent Bailey Sagden is from the United Kingdom, and his current record is 9 wins, 1 loss and 2 KO.
Wang Anying made her debut at Glory, whose opponent is Omar Moreno from the United States, with a record of 25 wins, 7 losses and 9 KO.
Alex Pereira was crowned a new world title in 2016 by Artur Kyshenko, followed by Pereira KO Israel Adesanya, who beat Simon Marcus in the Glory MiddleWeight World Championship battle in October, where he was crowned a new world champion title, with Pereira winning 37 wins and 6 losses including 26 KO. Pereira will defend his title for the first time against Yousri Belgaroui, who has a record of 22 wins and 3 losses, including 10 KO.
Glory49 against the table
Middleweight Championship Tournament
Alex Pereira vs Yousri Belgaroui
Heavyweight Championship Tournament
Rico Verhoeven vs Jamal Ben Saddik
Light heavyweight - Michael Duut vs Danyo Ilunga
Heavyweight Anderson Silva vs Xavier Vigney
Featherweight - Petchpanomrung Kiatmookao vs Zakaria Zouggary
Lightweight - Christian Baya vs Samo Petje
Welterweight - Anying Wang vs Omar Moreno
Lightweight - Niclas Larsen vs Tyjani Beztati
Lightweight - Maykol Yurk vs Stoyan Koprivlenski
Heavyweight - Ismael Londt vs D'Angelo Marshall
Sub-welterweight - Nieky Holzken vs Alim Nabiev
Sub-weltervision - Eyevan Danenberg vs Jamie Bates
Featherweight - Chenglong Zhang vs Bailey Sugden