Glory rocks Serbia in orthodox New Year Semmy schilt returns to MMA
13 January 2008 Lord of ring Belgrade
Semmy Schilt did not fight at the Dynamite show in Japan, instead he fought in Serbia 12 days later in a new event called Lord of Ring.
Few people had heard of a new promoter from the Balkan, but it was clear that Golden Glory had a great presence in this event.
For the first time this promoter showed an unbelievable effort to prove he is one of the biggest promoters for the new year 2008. The best Arena in Belgrade was hired , the whole city had huge billboards with Semmy Schilt and the name of the event. When I arrived with the Golden Glory team we were recognized every were. People just stopped on the streets with their taxis holding up traffic, running towards Semmy to take a picture with their mobile phones. Police, restaurant owners,old people everybody knew Semmy and Golden Glory.
It was a crazy schedule by an ambitious promoter, everyday we woke up at 6 o’clock in the morning (not really ideal for a fighter as Semmy who was fighting the main event) as we had to be present at morning breakfast shows at live tv in Serbia. Then an hour break to go to the next tv show, lunch was served at a friends restaurant of the promoter were I ate the best steak of my life. All the fighters and corner ate their daily meal at the same restaurant. When everybody entered the arena on the day of the fight we all had the feeling of Japan. Huge Arena with great sound and a huge stage and laser show, the dressing rooms. The Dressing rooms were filled with fresh fruit and even hot chicken with rice was delivered to the dressing rooms, which had a tv with the live feed of the event. The organization was really amazing for the first time, all fights were quick and on a strict time schedule. The event was broadcasting 1 hour later on Serbian TV.
For the old pride lovers, the MMA rules were old pride rules, which means: are allowed foot stomps, soccer kicks and knees to the head to an opponent on the ground, welcome to Serbia!!!
The program existed at K-1 fights and MMA fights and the event strated with the introduction of all the fighters, when Semmy entered the Arena the atmosphere was electric the people went crazy and this was only his introduction!
MMA:Guelmino Nandor (AUT) vs Semmy Schilt (HOL) Golden Glory
The entrance of Schilt was amazing, the Serbian press and audience really like Semmy and it was really impressive for the Golden Glory team to be invited to a country were no Golden Glory fighter ever fought before and receive such a good welcome and applause.
The fighter from Austria was not really small compared to Schilt, his weight was almost 110 kilo and 1 meter 92 cm.
Guelmino came to find but soon was to find out why Semmy is also a very good MMA fighter. The stand up was dominated by Semmy which as expected. Two minutes into the fight we can see almost a standing choke by Semmy but Guelmino escaped. Then Guelmino gets the take down in the corner and mounts Schilt and the surprise is heard in the audience with aaaaaaaaahh.
The fight is continued on the center of the ring on the ground after a break by the referee. Guelmino in the full mount by Semmy, Semmy stays calm and pulls the fighter from Austria to him to immediately aply a nice reversal. Semmy is now on top and start a ground and pound offensive. In 2.45 seconds Semmy is winner by GNP and his first MMA fight is won in the new year of 2008.
It was really difficult to walk away from the ring, Semmy took after the winning ceremony a Serbian child in his arms and lots of pictures were taken. Semmy stole the hearts of the Serbian people, they sure love fighters! Great night of fights and props to the organization. This was the first event of 5 more to come this year! Watch out for this Balkan promoter, he knows what he is doing!
Story by Bas Boon Photo’s (c) Dragon Trifunovic Belgrade and Bas Boon www.goldenglory.com
Tags: Bas Boon, Guelmino Nandor, Lord Of Ring, Sem Schilt, Serbia
February 15th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Gefeliciteerd met de resultaten geboekt in K1!!!!
Om wereldvechter nr: 1 te zijn zul je ook de freefighters de baas moeten zijn. Dat maakt het plaatje pas compleet.
Jij moet dat kunnen, zeker weten.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Semmy, Dave, Golden Glory team in general, thank you so much for coming in Serbia. Our country is underservedly put out of the world martial arts routes as of K-1 and MMA. I had that luck to meet Semmy and Dave and to train with them, but many other talented people from Serbia wanted to see you guys in live. I was in IBK winter camp in Croatia in the moment of the fights and I was feeling badly because I could not support Golden Glory team that came in my city and my country. I hope that you liked Belgrade and that you will come again to Serbia. If you come again please contact me to know that you are coming to be your host and make your stay even better.
OSU!!!
Zarko Dukic
May 30th, 2008 at 2:39 am
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July 11th, 2008 at 3:55 am
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