Glory 17: Los Angeles | ||||
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A poster or logo for Glory 17: Los Angeles.
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Promotion | Glory | |||
Date | June 21, 2014 | |||
Venue | The Forum | |||
City | Inglewood, California, USA | |||
Attendance | 10,795 | |||
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Glory 17: Los Angeles was a kickboxing event held on June 21, 2014 at The Forum in Inglewood, California, USA.
This show was Glory's first Pay-per-view event. Main card of this event featured world title fight of Rico Verhoeven vs. Daniel Ghiță for the vacant Glory Heavyweight Championship, another world title fight of Marc de Bonte vs. Joseph Valtellini for the Glory Welterweight Championship, and 8-Man Glory Middleweight Last Man Standing Tournament for the inaugural Glory Middleweight Championship. Participants for middleweight tournament were Alex Pereira, Artem Levin, Bogdan Stoica, Filip Verlinden, Joe Schilling, Melvin Manhoef, Simon Marcus and Wayne Barrett.
On the preliminary card, a 4-Man Featherweight Contender Tournament and other one-off bouts were featured.
Mirko Filipović was first scheduled to face Pat Barry, and later Sergei Kharitonov on this card. However, on May 21, it was announced that Kharitonov had to withdraw from the fight due to injury. He was replaced by Jarrell Miller.