{"id":45090,"date":"2012-07-02T16:22:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T21:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=19615"},"modified":"2012-07-02T16:22:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T21:22:11","slug":"its-showtime-glory-world-series-acquires-kickboxing-competitor-its-showtime-in-historic-agreement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=45090","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s SHOWTIME: GLORY World Series Acquires Kickboxing Competitor &#039;It&#039;s Showtime&#039; In Historic Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=19615\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19616\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Marcus_Luer header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Marcus_Luer-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>GLORY SPORTS INTERNATIONAL (GSI), the owner and rights holder of the GLORY World Series (www.gloryworldseries.com) championship kickboxing promotion and other related businesses, has agreed to terms with Dutch-based competitor, \u2018It\u2019s Showtime,\u2019 led by the renowned European fight manager and kickboxing promoter Simon Rutz.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark deal will effectively place all of the world\u2019s top kickboxers, or stand-up fighters, under the same promotional umbrella. GSI will absorb other assets from and take over management of \u2018It\u2019s Showtime.\u2019<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what the world of stand-up fighting has been waiting for &#8211; all the top fighters competing in the same series each time to find out who is really the very best,\u201d said Marcus Luer, Managing Director of GSI. &#8220;GLORY World Series will be the ultimate platform and testing ground for these fighters to showcase their talent and skills. It doesn\u2019t get much more exciting than this!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy adding \u2018It\u2019s Showtime,\u201d\u2019 continued Luer, \u201cGLORY has truly established itself as the No. 1 kickboxing league in the world. This is what the fans have been waiting for and we are here to deliver it. GLORY will soon announce a new series of events and a modernized tournament format for the rest of the year and for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe matchmaking possibilities will create some amazing fights and fans will truly see the best competing against the best across all weight classes. We are changing the landscape of this global sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About us:<br \/>\nThe GLORY World Series (www.gloryworldseries.com) is the world\u2019s premier kickboxing league, staging events across the globe and offering up to $1,000,000 in prize money to successful fighters in the 16-man grand prix tournaments which are open to only the very best fighters in each weight class.<\/p>\n<p>With television deals spanning every continent plus a groundbreaking online streaming system, GLORY is one of the world\u2019s most widely-broadcast sporting organisations already.<br \/>\nOwned and operated by Glory Sports International (GSI), the organisation has offices in Holland, the United Kingdom, 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 team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzbreaker.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19486\" title=\"NEWZBREAKER-BANNER\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/NEWZBREAKER-BANNER.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLORY SPORTS INTERNATIONAL (GSI), the owner and rights holder of the GLORY World Series (www.gloryworldseries.com) championship kickboxing promotion and other related businesses, has agreed to terms with Dutch-based competitor, \u2018It\u2019s Showtime,\u2019 led by the renowned European fight manager and kickboxing promoter Simon Rutz. The landmark deal will effectively place all of the world\u2019s top kickboxers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6574,6573,510,659],"class_list":["post-45090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-glory","tag-marcus-luer","tag-mma","tag-showtime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}