Filed under: K1
Badr Hari, the bad boy of kickboxing who hadn’t fought in a year, finally returned to the ring on Saturday and easily beat an overmatched and uninterested opponent, the French boxer Gregory Tony at an It’s Showtime event in France.
Hari won by first-round TKO, knocking Tony down three times without ever really hitting him all that hard. Tony looked like he didn’t really want to be in the ring with Hari, and the matchup of Hari and Tony seemed like a generally bad idea: Tony isn’t in Hari’s class as a kickboxer, and Tony was also fighting just a week after he had two boxing matches on the same day, winning one and losing the other. A fight like this wouldn’t get sanctioned by an American state athletic commission.