The Glory kickboxing organization removed the light heavyweight belt from Moroccan Tarik Khbabez on Monday, citing a refusal to fight. The vacant title will be contested in April between Bahram Rajabzadeh and Donovan Wisse, provoking the indignation of the Moroccan champion.
With 11.1 million containers handled in 2025, the Moroccan port complex Tanger Med is widening the gap with its Spanish neighbor Algeciras and now ranks, in terms of volume, immediately behind European leaders Rotterdam and Antwerp.
Ibrahim (pseudonym), a Dutch player of Moroccan origin playing for Alexandria ’66, a 15-16 year old youth football club in Rotterdam, regularly suffers racist insults during matches.
The Moroccan fighters did not shine at Glory 103 this Saturday, August 23 in Rotterdam. Jamal Ben Saddik was knocked out by the Dutchman Levi Rigters, while Mehdi Ait El Hadj lost his fight against champion Chico Kwasi.
After two and a half years of absence, due to doping suspensions and various ancillary affairs, the Belgian-Moroccan kickboxing champion, Jamal Ben Saddik , succeeded in his comeback by breaking the arm of his opponent, the Estonian Uku Jürjendal, before knocking him out during Glory 98 at the Ahoy in Rotterdam on Saturday evening.
Moroccan Tyjani Beztati , world kickboxing champion in the lightweight division, will face Endy Semeleer, world welterweight champion at Glory 93 to be held on July 20 at the Topsportcentrum in Rotterdam.
The Moroccan police have been searching for Soufiane B., a Moroccan from Rotterdam, accused of having stabbed to death a cousin on the beach of Al Hoceima, for almost two weeks now.
While he was originally supposed to face the current light heavyweight champion, Donegi Abena, the Moroccan Tarik Khbabez will face another Moroccan at the GLORY: Collision 5 event scheduled at Rotterdam Ahoy.
On June 17, Donegi Abena will defend his Glory lightweight champion title at the Collision 5 event at the Rotterdam Ahoy. And it is Tarik Khbabez who will be his challenger.
The federal judicial police of Leuven, in coordination with the Dutch regional police forces of Zeeland-West Brabant and Rotterdam, as well as the Spanish Guardia Civil, have succeeded in dismantling a criminal organization composed of Moroccan, Spanish and Belgian nationals. In total, 180 million euros from cocaine trafficking were laundered by this network.
The Dutch player of Moroccan origin Redouan El Yaakoubi is no longer the captain of the Excelsior Rotterdam club. The Eredivisie club made this decision because of the 27-year-old player’s refusal to pose with the OneLove poster in the background.
The Moroccan kickboxer Tyjani Beztati will face the Thai Petchpanomrung at Glory 84 this Saturday night in Rotterdam, Netherlands. This is the main event of the event.