Glory 16: Denver

Glory 16: Denver is a kickboxing event held on May 3, 2014 at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, Colorado, USA.

Background

This event featured world title fight for the inaugural Glory Welterweight Championship of Karapet Karapetyan vs. Marc de Bonte as headliner, and 4-Man Heavyweight Contender Tournament.

It had average of 498,000 and peak of 815,000 viewers on Spike TV.^[1]

Results

Main Card (Spike)
Weight Class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Welterweight	Marc de Bonte	def.	Karapet Karapetyan 1	Decision (split)	5	3:00	For the Welterweight Championship
Heavyweight	Errol Zimmerman	def.	Anderson Silva	TKO	1	2:30	Heavyweight Contender Tournament Final
Heavyweight	Zack Mwekassa	def.	Pat Barry	KO	1	2:33	Heavyweight Contender Tournament Reserve Bout
Heavyweight	Anderson Silva	def.	Sergey Kharitonov	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00	Heavyweight Contender Tournament Semi Final
Heavyweight	Errol Zimmerman	def.	Ben Edwards	TKO	1	2:50	Heavyweight Contender Tournament Semi Final
Superfight Series
Heavyweight	Benjamin Adegbuyi	def.	Daniel Sam	KO (right cross)	2	2:59
Middleweight	Artem Levin	def.	Robert Thomas	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00
Heavyweight	Jamal Ben Saddik	def.	Nicolas Wamba	TKO	2	1:24
Light Heavyweight	Artem Vakhitov	def.	Igor Jurkovic	Decision (unanimous)	3	3:00
Welterweight	Raymond Daniels	def.	Francois Ambang	KO	1	1:47
Lightweight	Josh Jauncey	def.	Warren Stevelmans	Decision (unanimous)	4	3:00

^{[2] [3]
1} Nieky Holzken was replaced with Karapet Karapetyan.

2014 Glory Heavyweight Contender Tournament bracket

	Semi-finals					Final
	Ben Edwards		1R.
	Errol Zimmerman		TKO
						Errol Zimmerman		TKO
						Anderson Silva		1R.
	Anderson Silva		DEC
	Sergey Kharitonov		3-0

References