Glory 68 Miami: Pereira vs. Abena main card preview

Glory Kickboxing heads to Miami’s James L Knight Center this Saturday with an event featuring its middleweight champion Alex Pereira’s first trip to light heavyweight and the most promising fighters in the US, Asa Ten Pow and Troy Jones. Let’s take a look at the main card’s matchups.

Alex Pereira (40-6, 29 KOs, Glory middleweight champion) vs Donegi Abena (24-6, 6 KOs), Interim Lightheavyweight Title

Pereira definitely cemented his claim as the king of Glory’s middleweight division with his demolition of Jason Wilnis (whom he’d lost to twice earlier in his career) back in May. He is now moving up in weight and in the absence of light heavyweight champion Artem Vakhitov, who is sidelined by a…