[Event] Glory 103 Last Heavyweight Standing Opening Round Phase 2 - Rigters vs. Ben Saddik - Aug 23

Dent · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2025 10:05 am

Glory 102 Last Heavyweight Standing Opening Round Phase 2: Rigters vs. Ben Saddik is a kickboxing event held by RISE and Glory to take place on August 23, 2025, at the Rotterdam Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Fight Card

Main Card

Heavyweight +95 kg Netherlands Levi Rigters vs. Morocco Jamal Ben Saddik Last Heavyweight Standing Opening Round
Welterweight 77 kg Suriname Chico Kwasi (c) vs. Morocco Mehdi Ait El Hadj Welterweight Championship
Heavyweight +95 kg Guinea Mory Kromah vs. Romania Cristian Ristea
Heavyweight +95 kg Serbia Rade Opačić vs. Romania Ionuț Iancu Last Heavyweight Standing Opening Round
Heavyweight +95 kg Morocco Nabil Khachab vs. United Kingdom Nathan Cook Last Heavyweight Standing Opening Round
Heavyweight +95 kg Serbia Miloš Cvjetićanin vs. Suriname Colin George Last Heavyweight Standing Opening Round
Welterweight 77 kg Turkey Tayfun Özcan vs. Suriname Don Sno

Preliminary Card

Heavyweight +95 kg France Sofian Laidouni vs. Turkey Cihad Kepenek Last Heavyweight Standing Opening Round
Heavyweight +95 kg Romania Alin Nechita vs. Algeria Naim Hebbar Last Heavyweight Standing Opening Round
Heavyweight +95 kg Italy Yuri Farcaș vs. Russia Asadulla Nasipov Last Heavyweight Standing Opening Round
Heavyweight +95 kg Democratic Republic of the Congo Mike Kena vs. Netherlands Errol Koning Last Heavyweight Standing Opening Round

Background

The event will feature the Opening Round of Phase Two of Glory Last Heavyweight Standing tournament. The Second Phase will feature a total of 16 Heavyweight fighters, consisting of the dropouts of Phase One and new fighters.

The event will notably kick-off phase two of the exciting and unpredictable Last Heavyweight Standing tournament where sixteen heavyweights will compete in head-to-head bouts. The eight winners will advance to form two four-man tournaments at an upcoming event, the two winners of which will then qualify for the end of year grand finale.

Former heavyweight title contenders and GLORY superstars Levi Rigters (19-3, 9 KO) and Jamal Ben Saddik (38-10, 29 KO) will collide in a huge showdown in the main event.

Among the other notable fights confirmed, the always exciting Ionut Iancu (31-11, 13 KO) takes on top Serbian heavyweight Rade Opacic (21-7, 16 KO), fan favourite Nabil Khachab (29-6-1, 4 KO) meets Iraj Azizpour (71-8, 28 KO) in a battle between two monster heavyweights, and the always exciting Milos Cvjeticanin (13-4, 9 KO) faces man mountain Colin George (24-13, 22 KO).

In the co-main event of the evening, Chico Kwasi (44-5-2, 23 KO) puts his GLORY welterweight world title on the line against Mehdi Ait El Hadj (35-4-2, 8 KO), who is undefeated in GLORY at 4-0.

GLORY 103 will also feature the return of Mory Kromah (34-3-1, 20 KO) who looks to build upon his insane win over Bahram Rajabzadeh at GLORY 100 which captured the attention of the Rock, Snoop Dog, Anthony Joshua and fight fans worldwide. He takes on ‘The Gladiator’ Cristian Ristea (44-26, 13 KO).

Lastly, local rivals Don Sno (6-2, 3 KO) and Tayfun Ozcan (87-11-3, 28 KO) will settle their beef after both fighters have been vocal about the other online since their fight was announced.

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[Event] Glory 103 Last Heavyweight Standing Opening Round Phase 2 - Rigters vs. Ben Saddik - Aug 23

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