GLORY HW champ Rico Verhoeven, Badr Hari interested in fighting each other

Last week, GLORY heavyweight champion Rico Verhoeven made a guest appearance on a late-night sports television show in his native Holland. They discussed his career and achievements, then Badr Hari’s name came up. Verhoeven has never faced the controversial “Golden Boy” and the hosts wanted to know if he would be interested. He said he would.

The next day, Hari responded via social media with some comments of his own, prompting Verhoeven to post a graphic reading “Challenge Accepted.” The online kickboxing world then went into overdrive with speculation about whether the fight could happen, would happen, or even should happen. Verhoeven is contracted to GLORY and has been competing on a very regular schedule, while Hari has been fighting sporadically and has been on semi-hiatus.

“I hope it can happen. The thing that people forget, they are talking about me calling him out, but I think six months or a year ago he put out a target list with me on it, so who is calling who out?” says Verhoeven.

“The question they asked me was, ‘Would you like to fight Badr?’ I said ‘Of course, I will fight anybody, I am the …

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