The biggest heavyweight title fight of 2019 will emanate from a sold-out soccer stadium in the Netherlands tomorrow (Saturday, December 21) as GLORY champion Rico Verhoeven rematches with kickboxing legend and bitter rival Badr Hari.
The Dutch-born Verhoeven, the 6’6” 260lbs “King of Kickboxing”, has reigned supreme for six years and defeated a who’s who of the greatest kickboxers of all-time. One of the 55 wins on his record is a December 2016 TKO over Hari, but that was the result of an arm injury to Hari and many people felt the fight was not decisive.
The rematch was inevitable and, in the three years since their first fight, a seething dislike has developed between the two biggest and best strikers in the world.