Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-03-12, good fight between Rico Verhoeven and Mladen Brestovac: it gets three stars.The Glory Hw champion Rico Verhoeven entered this fight with a professional kickboxing record of 47-10-1 (12 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.1 heavyweight in the world. He fought four times in 2015 losing to Andrei Herasimchuk (=Verhoeven vs Herasimchuk) but then he has won three consecutive fights beating Benjamin Adegbuyi in his last two bouts (Verhoeven vs Adegbuyi I and Verhoeven vs Adegbuyi II).
His opponent, Mladen Brestovac, has an official record of 49-10-1 (33 knockouts) and he entered as the No.7 in the same weight class. He fought twice last year defeating Colin George but then he lost to Benjamin Adegbuyi (=Adegbuyi vs Brestovac 2). Verhoeven vs Brestovac, main event of Glory 28, is valid for the Glory heavyweight title; they also faced each other a second time on June 2, 2018 (Rico Verhoeven vs Mladen Brestovac 2). Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Event: Glory 28: Paris
Date: 2016-03-12
Where: AccorHotels Arena, Paris, France
Division: (over 210 lbs, 95.5 kg)
Title: Glory Heavyweight Championship
Glory 28 fight card (main fights):
Rico Verhoeven vs Mladen Brestovac
Sitthichai vs Marat Grigorian 2 final
Murthel Groenhart vs Cedric Doumbe
Marat Grigorian vs Anatoly Moiseev semifinal
Sitthichai vs Davit Kiria 2 semifinal
Saulo Cavalari vs Artem Vakhitov 2
Sergey Adamchuk vs Mosab Amrani
Verhoeven’s previous fight: Rico Verhoeven vs Benjamin Adegbuyi 2
Brestovac’s previous fight: Benjamin Adegbuyi vs Mladen Brestovac 2
Verhoeven’s next fight: Rico Verhoeven vs Anderson Braddock Silva
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Official video:
(Alternative free embeddable video hosted on Youtube)
Very close and active fight for being a heavyweight contest. I guess a win for unanimous decision was a little bit too much. However, Rico did slightly better.