Harut Grigorian

Harut Grigorian took the GLORY welterweight title from Cédric Doumbé and belongs to the Belgian-Armenian pipeline that has produced an outsized share of the modern division's contenders.

His approach is pressure and hands — walking opponents down and making the fight happen in the pocket, where his power tells. Against Doumbé's stance-switching evasiveness that directness was the correct answer, because the only way to punish a fighter who will not stand still is to take away the space they need to move.

He belongs to a welterweight era — with Holzken, Doumbé and Groenhart — that is arguably the strongest single division GLORY has fielded.