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Head Kick Legend: Countdown to the World Grand Prix: Badr Hari vs. Ruslan Karaev

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From Head Kick Legend: Badr Hari is the baddest man on the planet, we all should know that by now. His cocky attitude, the dynamite in his fists, the pinpoint precision of his knockouts and his hot temper have led him to be one of K-1's biggest stars. If you haven't caught the HDNet Badr Hari special, you should. That being said, Badr is not invincible, as we've seen in the past. In the World Grand Prix this year Badr Hari's first match is one that fans have been dying to see; a rubber match with Ruslan Karaev.

The first bout ended in controversy, with Badr being aggressive with his kicks, but getting backed into a corner. He was caught by a few solid shots and crumpled to the a crouching position, which the ref did not rule as being down yet, where he was kicked in the head by Ruslan Karaev. Badr was in shock and simply did not want to get up, thinking a foul would be called. The foul was never called and the fight was ruled in Karaev's favor.

When they met again it was an all-out war. Badr Hari does not like to lose, so if anything was going to inspire him to go all-out, a loss to a man he considers a lesser fighter would be just that. Karaev proved that he was a formidable opponent, scoring some knockdowns on the Golden Boy, but like a scene out of a movie he knocks Badr down in the second round with a looping left, Badr simply stands up, ducks another, and like a sniper lands a perfect straight right, knocking Karaev clean out.

This rematch will be the first fight of the night for one of these fighters, there is a chance the winner will go into the next fight pretty banged up, and a chance that we'll get another awesome war.

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The two battles that Hari and Karaev had were one of the reasons I got fully embroiled in the Hari hype. The second fight was fucking insane. Hari goes down, gets up, comes out, and insta-KO’s Karaev. Schiavello nearly had a heart attack, it was so good.

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by Leland Roling on Oct 30, 2009 12:45 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

It is one of my favorite fights over the past few years

Badr Hari is a very emotional fighter. As we’ve seen, it can absolutely backfire. BUT. BUT. When he is able to focus that emotion into legal strikes, he is deadly. His highlight reel of knockouts are only really rivaled by Remy Bonjasky for modern top level kickboxers, and that is because Remy has all of those sick flying kicks that he does so well.

Karaev’s most impressive win since the loss to Hari is over Kyotaro/Keijiro Maeda and if he looks like he did against Gerges at Ultimate Glory 11 it won’t be good for him.

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by D.W. on Oct 30, 2009 12:49 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I think he’ll get tooled by Hari this time around. Gerges fucking destroyed Karaev, I couldn’t believe it, to be honest.

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by Leland Roling on Oct 30, 2009 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Yo, Leland

Is the link in this post the Badr Hari documentary you were telling me about?

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by Robert Downey Sr. on Nov 1, 2009 4:09 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

It probably is

HDNet tossed it together and its more or less just a big collection of his fights with Guy Mezger and Schiavello talking about how awesome he is.

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by D.W. on Nov 1, 2009 8:35 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Karaev just lost to Gerges, no momentum for him.

by Meshuggeth on Oct 30, 2009 1:30 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

hari on the other hand

Is on fire. Just the Overeem loss to sully his record of late.

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by D.W. on Oct 30, 2009 1:40 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions   0 recs

Hari has been looking unstoppable

Here’s to hoping that after this fight he can get his revenge on Overeem in the Semi.

by Pennywise on Oct 30, 2009 6:46 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Hari via Murder

Spinning back kick anybody?

by HizaGiri Nightmare on Oct 30, 2009 2:25 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I’m feeling the upset.

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by toxic on Nov 2, 2009 3:18 PM EST reply actions   0 recs


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