Details: Glory Collision 2
Date: Saturday December 21, 2019
Time: 9:00 p.m.
Saturday December 21 is finally there: the long-awaited remach between Rico Verhoeven and Badr Hari! GLORY COLLISION 2 (of which Rico vs. Badr is the final piece) can be followed from 8 pm on Veronica, KIJK.nl and on this live stream via Gids.tv.
In 2016, rivals Verhoeven and Hari faced each other for the first time. It remained exciting until the second round, when Hari had to stop the fight with an arm injury. Verhoeven was declared the winner via a technical knockout. The rematch should be the denouement of the many years of feud between 'The King of Kickboxing' Rico Verhoeven and 'The Golden Boy' Badr Hari.
Ricardo 'Rico' Verhoeven
On 10 April 1989 Ricardo 'Rico' Verhoeven was born in Bergen op Zoom (Noord-Brabant). In the autumn of 2004 he made his debut as a professional kickboxer at a martial arts gala in Beverwijk. In the course of the following years Rico Verhoeven was active as a professional kickboxer for various federations, including K-1, It's Showtime, Superkombat and Glory. Rico Verhoeven undoubtedly achieved his greatest glory with Glory. Rico Verhoeven became world champion heavyweight kickboxing in the heavyweight category on 10 November 2013.
The length of Rico Verhoeven is 196 centimetres. His weight is about 114 kilos. Over the years Verhoeven fought 65 professional kickboxing competitions, of which he won 54. Ten times Rico Verhoeven suffered a defeat. One time Rico Verhoeven's match ended in a draw; that was his debut match in the autumn of 2004.
Badr Hari
Badr Hari was born in Amsterdam on 8 December 1984. Both his parents are from the city of Kenita, in northwestern Morocco. Hari has dual nationality (Dutch and Moroccan). Hari was considered an enormous kickboxing talent at an early age. Since the year 2000 he has been active in the professional kickboxing world. Until June 2005 he worked as a kickboxer for the Netherlands. After that he chose to work for Morocco.
Statistics
Over the years he fought a total of 121 official professional competitions. He won 107 of them, 92 of which he knocked out. Badr Hari lost 13 professional matches. One time a match of Badr Hari ended in a draw. Hari was a big star during the glory days of the kickboxing federation K-1. Hari was also the world heavyweight champion of the 'It's Showtime'. Badr Hari has a length of 197 centimeters and a weight of around 110 kilos.
K-1
K-1 was a union from Japan and was particularly popular in that region. Around the year 2010, however, the union K-1 ran into severe financial problems. The union's leading position in the kickboxing world came to an end. In the following period Badr Hari started to philosophize out loud about his plans for the future; he was serious about ending his kickboxing career and focusing on 'regular' boxing. For this boxing career he would possibly move to America. In the end, due to all kinds of circumstances, this did not happen. Hari was arrested by the police in 2012 for assaulting businessman Koen Everink during Sensation White. In 2015 he was sentenced for this.
End?
In 2015 Badr Hari fought one more official kickboxing match. During the Akhmat Fight Show in Grozny he defeated Ismael Londt through a technical knockout in the third round. In that period the story went that Hari wanted to put an end to his martial arts career for the time being and maybe even definitively. After a series of legal problems, private problems and also problems related to his martial arts career, Hari wanted some time to rest to look for 'himself'.
Comeback
Rico Verhoeven, the reigning world champion with the kickboxing federation Glory, challenged Badr Hari in the spring of 2016. In the programme Peptalk on the Ziggo Sport channel, Verhoeven took the camera and said to Badr Hari: 'If you want another farewell party: let's go. Hari accepted this challenge.
Fight of the century?
The announcement that a party would take place between Rico Verhoeven and Badr Hari caused a huge hype within martial arts loving the Netherlands in the course of 2016. Many called this party in advance 'the fight of the century'. It would be the great battle between 'old school' and 'new school'. After all, Hari was one of the stars from the old glory days of the boxing union K-1. Rico Verhoeven was the world champion of Glory. Many kickboxing fans claimed that Glory did not have the high level and great allure that K-1 would have had in the old days. Was this really so? How would the great Glory-champion Rico Verhoeven perform in the ring against the old K-1-star Badr Hari?
