Tickets For GLORY 3 ROME 'Final 8' Tournament On Sale Tomorrow Monday, August 27

Aug. 27, 2012 - PRLog -- ROME, Italy (Aug. 26, 2012) – Tickets for the GLORY 3 Rome ‘Final 8’ (70 kg) championship kickboxing event, headlined by a single-elimination tournament battle featuring eight of the world’s greatest 70 kilogram (154 pound) superstars at PalaLottomatica, go on sale tomorrow/Monday, Aug. 27.

Tickets, priced from € 27.50, will be available for purchase beginning at 16:00 GMT, online at (http://www.ticketone.it/tickets.html?language=en).

The winner of the tournament will have fought three times that night and earned a grand prize of $300,000 at the arena where Muhammad Ali won his Olympic boxing gold medal. It will test the competitors’ skill, strength and fitness and require them to dig into the deepest parts of their spirit to endure pain, fear and exhaustion.

“GLORY kickboxing is the pinnacle of stand-up fighting, and Rome with its history and legendary martial tradition is the perfect fit for our Final 8 tournament,” said Marcus Luer, Managing Director of GLORY Sports International.

“Rome provides a beautiful and appropriate backdrop. The battles that took place in the Coliseum have been immortalized in countless movies but I can assure you the bouts that will take place on Nov.3 will rival anything you have seen on film or in the ring. We are expecting an epic.”

The eight competitors slated for action in the ‘Final 8’ tournament are as follows: Giorgio ‘The Doctor’ Petrosyan (71-1-2 (1 NC), 33 KO’s) of Gorizia, Italy; Albert “The Hurricane” Kraus (66-16-3, 39 KO’s) of Oss, Netherlands; Robin “Poker Face” van Roosmalen (35-13-3, 10 KO’s) of Den Bosch, Netherlands; Shemsi Beqiri (71-7, 31 KO’s) of Basel, Switzerland;

Ky Hollenbeck (34-7, 21 KO’s) of San Francisco, Calif., USA; Tim Thomas.(60-1-9, 35 KO’s) of London, England; Davit Kiria (20-1) of Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Sanny Dahlbeck (24-4, 14 KO’s) of Stockholm, Sweden.

Two ‘Superfight’ bouts and two tournament ‘reserve bouts’ will be announced soon as will the event’s preliminary fight card. In the event that one or more of the tournament fighters is unable to compete in the next tournament stage after winning a fight, a reserve bout winner will take the injured fighter’s place.

Doors at PalaLottomatica will open at 18:00 GMT for the Final 8 event. The first preliminary bout will begin at 19:00 and the first main card bout will begin at 20:30.

About GLORY
The GLORY World Series (http://www.gloryworldseries.com) is the world’s premier stand-up fighting league, staging events across the globe and offering up to $1,000,000 in prize money to successful fighters in 16-man grand prix tournaments which are open to only the very best fighters in each weight class.
With television deals spanning every continent plus a groundbreaking online video streaming system and the world’s largest online martial arts library, GLORY is one of the world’s most widely-broadcast sporting organizations already.
Owned and operated by Glory Sports International (GSI), the organization has offices in Holland, the UK, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. Its personnel include prominent hedge-fund investors, the pioneering sports marketing agency Total Sport Asia and several executives from the Golden Glory and It’s Showtime team.

Contact
Mike Afromowitz, Gala Klyuchkina and Bert van der Ryd - press@gloryworldseries.com