Badr Hari Contemplates Future After Recent Defeat, Retirement Not Certain

"Anything can still happen. He is discussing it with GLORY," Hari’s trainer Mike Passenier said on Tuesday to NU.nl. The Moroccan fighter suffered a heavy TKO loss on October 7 in the Glory 89 main event against Estonian Uku Jürjendal. After his painful defeat, he is taking a break before probably considering retiring from sports or continuing his boxing career. "We will meet again next week and we’ll see. Maybe there will be more clarity then, maybe even tomorrow. I don’t know," his coach added.

Since August 2015, the one who has one of the most beautiful records in the history of kickboxing has not savored any victory. At the time, he had signed with GLORY. A bitter experience for the Golden boy, who has lost eight fights against Rico Verhoeven, Arkadiusz Wrzosek (both twice), Hesdy Gerges, Benjamin Adegbuyi, Alistair Overeem and Uku Jürjendal.

Isn’t it time for him to hang up his gloves? "We (Hari and Passenier) said to ourselves: if you feel the time has come, you have to say so. You go through all the possible scenarios," the coach explains. "Everything has an end, so this too. We will never reach the heights we have reached in the past. And few fighters have reached these peaks. Most get dizzy halfway."