Moroccan Kickboxing Legend Badr Hari Suffers Defeat at Glory 89 Event

8 October 2023 – bySylvanus · 2 min read

While Moroccan kickboxing champion Badr Hari is thirsty for victory, he conceded a new points defeat against Estonian Uku Jurjendal in the main event of Glory 89 which took place in Burgas, Bulgaria. The end for the Moroccan?

Badr Hari failed in his comeback. After several defeats, the Moroccan legend suffered a new setback. In the main event of Glory 89, Uku Jurjendal got the better of the Moroccan champion after two very intense rounds. In the first round, the Estonian chained the heavy blows. Hari retaliated with hard blows. 20 seconds before the end of the first round, Jurjendal sends a monstrous hook, reports La Sueur. The Golden Boy falls. The Moroccan legend finds himself in difficulty in the first seconds of the second round. Hari falls again under the blows of his rival and cannot continue the fight. He thus loses by TKO against Jurjengal.

Badr, who was supposed to cross paths with British James McSweeney, in the main event, at the Dôme de Paris-Palais des Sports on Saturday, September 9, as part of the Glory88/LSFC 2 fight series, but once in the ring had renounced to fight. He was visibly moved by the powerful earthquake that had struck Morocco the day before. "People are fighting to look for the bodies in Morocco, I’m not going to fight to entertain," the Moroccan kickboxing legend had said.