Dutch kickboxing sensation Tyrone Spong’s growing reputation, as one of kickboxing’s all-time greats was further cemented at Glory 9 last night in New York. In the 16-man light heavyweight tourney, the man they call the “King of the Ring” beat the number #1, #2 and #4 ranked fighters on route to picking up a cheque for $200,000.
After a shaky start to the his opening bout against fellow Dutchman Michael Duut, which saw Spong floored with a powerful right-hand inside the first minute of the opening round, Spong quickly got off of the canvas and returned the favour delivering a thunderous right hand of his own, KO’ing his compatriot. The rest of the tournament went a lot smoother for the Dutchman as he would go on to defeat Filip Verlinden via a unanimous decision in the semi-finals and score a 16 second KO of Danyo Ilunga in the tournament final.
Full Fight Card Results:

Main Card (PPV)
Reserve Fights

Randy Blake def. Koichi via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-27, 30-27)

Artem Vakhitov def. Luis Tavares via first-round KO (1:06)


Superfight

Anderson Silva def. Daniel Sam via unanimous decision (30-27 x3)


Tournament Quarterfinals

Danyo Ilunga def. Mourad Bouzidi via unanimous decision (29-28 x2, 30-27)

Dustin Jacoby def. Brian Collette via split decision (27-30, 29-28, 29-28)

Filip Verlinden def. Steve McKinnon via majority decision (28-29, 29-28, 30-27)

Tyrone Spong def. Michael Duut via first-round KO (0:31)


Superfights

Joseph Valtellini def. Francois Ambang via third-round KO (1:04)

Daniel Ghita def. Brice Guidon via first-round KO (0:49)


Tournament Semifinals

Danyo Ilunga def. Dustin Jacoby via unanimous decision (29-28 x3)

Tyrone Spong def. Filip Verlinden via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)


Superfights

Wayne Barrett def. Mike Lemaire via second-round KO (1:12)

Rico Verhoeven def. Errol Zimmerman via majority decision (29-27 x2, 28-28)


Tournament final

Tyrone Spong def. Danyo Ilunga via first-round KO (0:16)
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