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  • 1 year later...

With a name like this, this kid wouldn’t have survived the American, British, or Australian public school systems. No wonder he became a kickboxer :p

 

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

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For those interested, try and get yesterday's trilogy battle for the Glory heavyweight world title between Rico Verhoeven and Jamal Ben Saddik. The King of Kickboxing against The Goliath.

 

Absolutely epic. Truly one of the best kickboxing fights I've ever seen.

If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here!

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With the greatest possible amount of non-surprise: Saturday's big fight between (criminal) super star Badr Hari :MAR and Arkadiusz Wrzosek :POL at Glory 80 in Belgium didn't go that well. 

 

Background: last year Hari dominated Wrzosek, until the Pole hit him with a perfect head kick and knocked Hari out. Huge, huge upset. Now it was time for the rematch, in which Hari was the better one in round one. Then in round two, again almost out of nowhere, Wrzosek hit him with a beautiful switch knee and sent Hari down for a couple of seconds, although they finished the round.

 

Then hell broke loose. Polish 'fans' (actually just mindless hooligans who were not there to watch a fight, but to fight) took off their shirts and started throwing chairs and what not towards the Moroccans. As we see literally every single time Hari fights, his fans are not the most.....de-escalating type, so to say, so mayhem ensued. Both sides were being utterly disgusting, the fighters for a minute pretended to want things to calm down, but then cheered their sides on. Only the coaches of both sides stood together in trying to stop the mess, but without success and so the fight was cancelled.

 

Unfortunately not only that fight, but also the main event was cancelled. Which sucks balls, because Jamal Ben Saddik vs Levi Rigters promised to be awesome.

 

 

I know these kind of things bring attention and so money, I guess, so that's probably good in some sense. But otherwise: why does Glory keep falling for Hari and believing his fights will out of nowhere be a semi-civil affair if they've never ever been? And this time with an opponent who has half a hooligan squad with him...ugh.

If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here!

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