Murthel Groenhart suffered defeat at the hands of Cedric Doumbé back at GLORY 28. After their initial encounter, Murthel would go on and earn a title shot, but yet again, suffer a loss to then champion, Nieky Holzken. Cedric would go on to defeat Nieky and capture the welterweight title. Now as fate would have it, Murthel and Cedric meet again, and this time, the stakes couldn't be higher.