[Linda Rosing]

Read this official news from Golden Glorys website.

Sergei Kharitonov joins Golden Glory Russia

This month August 2007 promoter George Kobyliansky obtained the exclusive rights for Golden Glory Russia. Mr Kobyliansky is one of the best known promoters from Russia. In 1995 he started working together with Bas Boon and promoted the Absolute Fighting Championships (AFC) and Russian No Holds Barred (RNHB) series. Many known fighters were promoted by Mr. Kobyliansky as Igor Vovchanchin made his debut in the AFC as well as Sergey Kharitonov and Mikhail I. (Mikhail who fought Ricardo Morais in the finals of the first AFC32 men tournament in Moscow). As pride no longer exist, Sergei Kharitonov got in contact again with his old friend and promoter George Kobyliansky. Today this Sunday August 5th Sergey Kharitonov officially joined the Golden Glory team. Bringing Mikhail, Russians nbr1 wrestler and combat sambo trainer as well to the team. The combination of Sergey traning in Holland with master trainer Cor Hemmers is a very promising development. Sergey has good boxing skills and with the best stand up sparring partners available - Stefan Leko, Chalid Arrab, Gokan Saki, Alistair Overeem, Semmy Schilt and many more! We can expect fireworks from this young Russian talent. Even better, Russian master trainer wrestler Mikhail Ilyuhin will be traveling with Sergey to Holland, the Golden Glory team will benefit a lot from this great Russian trainer. Sergey should have fought in the last Pride show, but refused because his injury was still not healed. According Sergey he was injured when he fought against Alistair last time. Sergey had a bad shoulder injury and was not ready, this caused two loses, he would like to have a revenge match first with Alistair before training with him in Holland. From what we have heard and read Sergey has a lot of pride and wants to prove that he is one of the youngest heavyweight talents of the world. His old team mate Fedor prepared as well in Holland many times and this resulted in Fedor beating stand up specialist Mirko Cro Cop. If Kharitonov sharpens his Muay Thai skills as fast as Fedor did in Holland, we can expect Kharitonov to become a serious challenger for the heavyweight title, with wins over Schilt, Werdrum, Rizzo, Ninja, Sergey has a great future ahead of him.

Story by Bas Boon and Lindsay Muro photo's by Bas Boon (c) golden glory

[AmericaOverAll]

I'd like to see it.

[Oebla]

Good news Sergei takes a wrestling trainer with him to GG. GG lacks good wrestling trainers.

[OmegaRED.]

Sergei still looks a bit heavier than when he fought Ninja and Rizzo but he looks to be in good shape. Damn, he needs to get signed! This guy could have given Fedor his toughest fight yet when he was fighting at his best.

[Flexwave2003]

I think Alistar got lucky myself, and that Sergei would put a hurting on him in a rematch. But then again, an argument can be made Sergei hasnt looked so good lately.

[Bladderbuster]

That is actually a rematch worth watching. I just hope Kharitonov does some work on that spare tire before the fight.

[Jack Sparrow]

Sounds great, Sergei is one of my favorite fighter. BTW TS, you had a good idea to put a pic this time ! lol

[Linda Rosing]

Originally Posted by Jack Sparrow

Sounds great, Sergei is one of my favorite fighter. BTW TS, you had a good idea to put a pic this time ! lol

yeah , after all the flaming i got in the other thred,
But I knew what i was doing with the title that time.
Im just sick of false rumors, I was very sceptical about this Sergei joins GG, Now i know its true,
and I was correct about that Sergei didn't go to train with mirko in croatia.

[Mykal]

Love to see this fight. Another good fight for Kharitonov to shake off the ring rust would be Gilbert Yvel, if you want to stay on the Dutch path.