Glory 94: Latescu vs. Caceres is a kickboxing event held by Glory Kickboxing on July 20, 2024, at the Topsportcentrum Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Fight Card
Main Card
Light Heavyweight 95 kg Romania Ștefan Lătescu vs. Turkey Cem Caceres
Featherweight 65 kg Albania Berjan Peposhi vs. Morocco Ayoub Bourass
Welterweight 77 kg Netherlands Jay Overmeer vs. Morocco Ismail Ouzgni
Catchweight 72 kg Morocco Youssef Boughanem vs. Italy Angelo Volpe
Middleweight +85 kg Turkey Serkan Ozcaglayan vs. Belgium Jente Nnamadim
Light Heavyweight 95 kg Guinea Mory Kromah vs. Morocco Mohamed Amine
Heavyweight +95 kg France Sofian Laidouni vs. Cape Verde Nico Horta
Catchweight 73 kg Morocco Younes Smaili vs. France James Condé
Preliminary card
Welterweight 77 kg Morocco Anwar Ouled-Chahib vs. France Cédric Tousch
Featherweight 65 kg Morocco Adam El Hammouchi vs. Portugal Andre Santos
Middleweight 85 kg Morocco Karim Taquet vs. Morocco Madani Rahmani
Lightweight 70 kg Armenia Arman Hambaryan vs. Morocco Soufian El Hammouchi
Welterweight 77 kg Morocco Ismail Ayaadi vs. Morocco Abdellah Oussaid
Background
Husteling and shuffeling, but in the end GLORY 94 is stepping it up and have a great fight card! A light-heavyweight bout between Ștefan Lătescu and Bahram Rajabzadeh was booked as the event headliner. But, last week Antonio Plazibat was ruled out of the main event of GLORY 95, leaving number one contender Levi Rigters (18-2, 8 KO) without an opponent.
Bahram Rajabzadeh (69-3, 61 KO) is stepping up and has demanded a rematch to avenge his controversial loss to Rigters earlier this year.
This new main event for GLORY 95 will see the number one ranked Levi Rigters face-off against the number two ranked heavyweight contender Baham Rajabzadeh on September 21 at the Arena Zagreb in Croatia.
The two first met in an exciting back and forth war earlier this year in the semi-finals of the GLORY Heavyweight Grand Prix. Sharing knockdowns, it was Rigters who was awarded a close decision victory. However, Bahram captured the attention of the 30,000 fans in arena and GLORY fans around the world that night.
Additionally, GLORY officials have confirmed that the fight will now be a five-round title eliminator with the winner moving to challenge ‘The King of Kickboxing’ Rico Verhoeven for the GLORY heavyweight world championship, to be announced soon.
As a result of Rajabzadeh being moved to GLORY 95, rising light heavyweight star Stefan Latescu (17-3, 8 KO) will now face the explosive Cem Caceres (16-1, 13 KO) in the main event of GLORY 94 at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp, Belgium, on August 31.
Both fighters have enjoyed great success in their respective debut year in GLORY. Latescu was awarded ‘Newcomer of the Year’ in 2023 while Caceres made a huge impact in his debut with an impressive KO victory and earning a top ten ranking. Fireworks are guaranteed in this fight.
Mory Kromah (29-2-1, 17 KO), Caceres’ original opponent, will now face Mohamed Amine (29-8, 16 KO) on the main card of GLORY 94.
