Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-12-10, disappointing fight between Rico Verhoeven and Badr Hari: it gets two stars.The Glory Hw champion Rico Verhoeven entered this fight with a kickboxing record of 49-10-1 (13 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.1 heavyweight in the world. He lost to Andrei Herasimchuk last year (=Verhoeven vs Herasimchuk) but then he has won five consecutive fights beating Mladen Brestovac (=Verhoeven vs Brestovac) and Anderson Braddock Silva in 2016 (= Verhoeven vs Silva).
His opponent, the former K-1 world champion Badr Hari, has an official record of 106-12-0 (94 KOs=89%) but he is not ranked as he hasn’t fought since August 22, 2015 when he defeated Ismael Londt (=Hari vs Londt). His last loss occurred when he faced Zabit Samedov in 2013 (=Hari vs Samedov 3). Verhoeven vs Hari is the main event of Glory 36 Collision; they also faced each other a second time on December 21, 2019 (Rico Verhoeven vs Badr Hari 2). Watch the video and rate this fight!
Event: Glory 36 Collision: Oberhausen
Date: 2016-12-10
Where: Konig Pilsener Arena, Oberhausen, Germany
Division: heavyweight (over 210 lbs, 95.5 kg)
Glory 36 fight card (main fights):
Rico Verhoeven vs Badr Hari
Nieky Holzken vs Cedric Doumbe
Ismael Londt vs Jamal Ben Saddik
Sitthichai Sitsongpeenong vs Marat Grigorian 3
Danyo Ilunga vs Michael Duut 2
Verhoeven’s previous fight: Rico Verhoeven vs Anderson Braddock Silva
Hari’s previous fight: Badr Hari vs Ismael Londt
Verhoeven’s next fight: Rico Verhoeven vs Ismael Lazaar
Hari’s next fight: Badr Hari vs Hesdy Gerges 2
Official Video:
(Alternative free embeddable video hosted on Dailymotion)
Did he break his arm? what happened there exactly?
the power of kicks is what happened imho
An interesting fight that ended bad due to a potential broken arm from Hari. Anyhow, a big win for Rico since he did well going for the aggression from the very beginning and getting this victory over the best qualified kick boxer in history for this category. Retirement for Hari probed not to be good. I believe that really this was his last fight.
Hari is just a loser, in sports as well as in life
Robocop: I cannot agree more with you that Hari is a very moody and arrogant guy but I’m far from that when you ignore the accomplishment he did for the kick boxing sport since without a doubt he was the best pound for pound for in the heavy weight category. Rico is good but far from being him. The only guy who may challenge him for this nomination is Tyrone Spong unfortunately also retired.