While the UFC was filling the Accor Arena in Paris, a second European
promotion was running a full card a few hundred kilometres north. GLORY 109 took place the same
Saturday night at the RTM Stage in Rotterdam, and it produced a title fight settled by a
grudge, the end of a heavyweight era, and the first real shape of a welterweight Grand
Prix.

Chico Kwasi settles a debt

Nine months ago, Teodor Hristov beat Chico Kwasi in the semi-finals of GLORY's
welterweight tournament at Collision 8. It is the kind of loss that follows a champion
around, and Kwasi spent five rounds on Saturday removing it.

The unanimous decision was not dramatic — twenty-five minutes of accumulating work
rather than a single decisive moment — but it was thorough, and it kept the GLORY
welterweight championship where it was. Kwasi now sits at 47-6-2 in our records, a
striking career of more than fifty fights with ten wins by knockout. Hristov, who had
built himself into a title challenger largely on the back of that Collision 8 result,
falls to 20-7.

The rematch answers the question the first fight raised. In a division about to run a
Grand Prix, that matters more than the belt does.

Errol Zimmerman, four times down

The co-main was harder to watch, and impossible to look away from.

Errol Zimmerman is one of the most recognisable heavyweights the sport has produced —
87 wins, 39 of them by knockout, a career spanning nearly two decades of the heaviest
division in kickboxing, and at 40 still headlining them. On Saturday, Tariq Osaro dropped
him four times before the
referee stopped it at 1:54 of the second round.

Osaro moves to 31-5-2 and is now, unambiguously, the more dangerous man in that
matchup. Zimmerman falls to 87-31. The record is still one of the great ones in the
sport; the fight was a reminder of what those records cost to build.

The Grand Prix Proving Grounds

Five bouts on the card carried the "Welterweight Grand Prix Proving Grounds" tag —
GLORY's qualification bracket for its next tournament — and they were, collectively,
the most informative part of the night.

Mohammed Boutasaa def. Figuereido Landman, unanimous decision. **Jay Overmeer def.
Don Sno, unanimous decision, moving Overmeer to 32-11. Dmitry Menshikov def.
Diaguely Camara**, unanimous decision — Menshikov is now 33-3, one of the tidiest
records in the division, and Camara drops to 29-7-2.

The exception to all those decisions was Antonio Krajinović, who stopped **Michael
Samperi** by TKO at 1:51 of the third. Samperi had been undefeated at 5-0; Krajinović,
now 3-1, took the only finish of the qualifying bracket and with it the clearest claim
on a Grand Prix slot.

Imad Hadar closed the main portion by stopping Ulric Tiebe with calf kicks at
1:49 of round two — an unusual finish, and a technically pure one. Hadar is 12-2.

Superfight Series

The undercard ran five more bouts under GLORY's Superfight Series banner, and two of
them ended early.

Mohammed Hamdi put Valentin Knau down four times before a stoppage at 1:13 of
round two. Fikri Sabri needed 36 seconds of the second round to knock out **Artiom
Livădari**. Two cards, two fights ended by four knockdowns — Osaro's and Hamdi's — on
the same night.

The decisions went to Anwar Ouled Chaib over Christian Baya, **Nikola
Todorović over Vedat Hödük, and Imran Ben Slama over Abdo Chahidi**, in a
bout Chahidi entered having missed weight at 66.7 kg for a 65 kg contest.

Todorović's win is worth a second look. Hödük came in at 41-9-1, a deep and experienced
record; Todorović, at 27-7, took every round.

A European night

There is no shared promotion, no shared broadcaster and no shared ranking between
Rotterdam and Paris. But the two cards on Saturday were the same story told twice:
European combat sports running deep, local fighters headlining in their own buildings,
and finishes arriving faster than anyone scheduled for.

GLORY's next date brings the welterweight Grand Prix into focus. After Saturday, the
bracket has a champion who has answered his last question, and a qualifying field with
exactly one man who finished his fight.

*Full kickboxing records and fight histories for every athlete on this card are
available in the MMAHIT database.*