GLORY has confirmed that heavyweight champion Mory Kromah will defend his title against Milos Cvjeticanin in the main event of COLLISION 9 on June 13 at Rotterdam Ahoy in the Netherlands, with an eight-man GLORY Light Heavyweight Grand Prix also set to crown a new light heavyweight champion on the same night.
Mory Kromah vs. Milos Cvjeticanin
“The Black Ghost” Kromah enters COLLISION 9 as the newly crowned heavyweight king, carrying a professional record of 37-3-1 with 21 knockouts, and the momentum of a breakout year that peaked at GLORY 105. In Arnhem on February 7, he emerged from the Last Heavyweight Standing tournament with both the tournament trophy and the vacant GLORY Heavyweight World Championship after injury forced Cvjeticanin out of the planned final and reserve fighters declined to step in.
That triumph capped a long qualification process that included his flying knee knockout of Bahram Rajabzadeh at GLORY 100 in Rotterdam, a finish that went viral and helped cement his reputation as one of GLORY’s most dangerous finishers.
Cvjeticanin, of Serbia, arrives at COLLISION 9 with a 19-5 record and 10 knockouts, and a sense of unfinished business after his tournament run earlier this year. The Serbian heavyweight fought through his quarterfinal and semifinal bouts in the Last Heavyweight Standing finals despite a broken toe, only to be ruled out before the championship bout with Kromah due to accumulated damage.
Their rivalry has roots at COLLISION 7 in 2024, where Kromah won a decision over Cvjeticanin, and both men have since turned themselves into key names in the division through stoppage wins and consistent activity in GLORY’s heavyweight ranks.
Beyond the heavyweight headliner, COLLISION 9 will stage an eight-man, one-night GLORY Light Heavyweight Grand Prix, with the winner becoming the new GLORY Light Heavyweight World Champion. The June 13 tournament in Rotterdam will be the first of several announced Grand Prix events in 2026, with further eight-man brackets at welterweight and heavyweight later in the year that will similarly have divisional titles on the line.
For fans, COLLISION 9 brings a heavyweight title rematch framed by a story of injury, opportunity, and a long-delayed showdown, while also launching a new chapter for the light heavyweight division through the Grand Prix format.
With Kromah making his first title defense in front of a Dutch crowd that has watched his rise and Cvjeticanin finally getting his championship shot inside the same arena that hosted parts of the Last Heavyweight Standing journey, Rotterdam Ahoy is set for a night that will shape two divisions at once.
