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Simon Marcus: I'm 'not walking away with anything less than a victory' at GLORY 21 vs. Artem Levin

Prior to GLORY 20, there weren't many kickboxing experts who were picking Simon Marcus to get past Wayne Barrett in the first round of the four-man middleweight contender tournament, let alone win the whole thing.

Combat Sports analysts, like most, follow a "what have you done lately?" approach. Fighters are often only considered as good as their last fight. And for Marcus, that was a brutal technical knockout loss in February to Fang Bian on a Wu Lin Feng card in China; A fight where he was knocked down four times.

Two fights before that, Marcus had entered the GLORY Last Man Standing tournament in June of last year at 39-0, but suffered the first loss of his career to Joe Schilling in the quarter-finals.