Glory 31 Amsterdam official: van Roosmalen vs Sittichai to headline June 25

At this past weekend’s Glory 29 Copenhagen event, the kickboxing company announced plans for Glory 31. Set for June 25, Glory 31 will see a return to Amsterdam, home to the very successful Glory 26 last year. Amsterdam has long been the European home for kickboxing, but local government made it difficult to promote events there for years. Glory has now cleared those hurdles, and is on their way back.

Headlining is a huge title fight as Glory Lightweight champion Robin van Roosmalen rematches with Sittichai Sitsongpeenong. These two met at Glory 25 last year, with van Roosmalen claiming a very controversial decision win. Now, he will try to make that win more definitive in front of what will be a highly partisan crowd. This will be the third title defense for van Roosmalen, who claimed the belt from Davit Kiria in 2014. Sittichai was the 2015 fighter of the year, and comes in here off a great …

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