Badr Hari and Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic to return at K-1 Rising 2012
Posted on April 23, 2012, 09:01 PM by Mike Drahota
It was announced today that Badr Hari and Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic will both return to the K-1 arena as part of the May 27 K-1 Rising 2012. Set in Madrid, Spain, Hari will be returning to the ring after besting Gokhan Saki earlier this year in a retirement match. Cro Cop returns after also winning his last kickboxing match against Ray Sefo. Hari will step into the ring with Anderson “Braddock” Silva (the Heavyweight kickboxer) while Filipovic will face the Spaniard Loren Javier Jorge. Two other Heavyweights bouts will take place in Spain, along with a superfight and the opening round of the K-1 MAX Grand Prix.
Here is the entire card for K-1 Rising 2012:
K-1 MAX:
Mike Zambidis vs. Chahid Oulad El Hadj
Abraham Roqueñi vs. Andy Souwer
Artur Kyshenko vs. Su Hwan Lee
Harut Grigorian vs. Murthel Groenhart
Longern Superpro Samui vs. Chris Ngimbi
Gago Drago vs. Andy Ristie
Xu Yan vs. Yasuhiro Kido
Yuji Nashiro vs. Reece McAllister
Heavyweight:
Badr Hari vs. Anderson "Braddock" Silva
Mirko Cro Cop Filipovic vs. Loren Javier Jorge
Daniel Ghita vs. Paul Slowinski
Rico Verhoeven vs. Sergii Lashchenko
Super Fight:
Mosab Amrani vs. Zeben Diaz
The card should have a good amount of star power with Hari and Filipovic bringing a lot of attention to their bouts, as well as a fight featuring Daniel Ghita. Stay tuned to Lowkick.com for more news and results for K-1 Rising 2012.
Further Reading: Cro Cop Final Fight Results: Mirko Filipovic outpoints Ray Sefo
Comments
Paul Slowinski is in for a long night
Badr Hari will get the belt!
nope Ghita will!
I would put my money on Ghita also
Ghita all day.
Am pumped for the Chahid vs Zambidis rematch. Their first fight was mind-blowingly awesome.
Yeah that was a savage savage savage fight!
Must be hard to mentally prepare to do that again knowing the war they went through the first time. Zambidis definitely had the edge power wise but Chahid is a tough fuggin cookie.
Can't wait for this!!
Awsome to see hari back!
zambidis chahid2 sweeet. shit just got real here in the max
Winning his last fight made Filipovic think he has another run in him. It is too bad these guys never go out on a win. The technique is still there but look at his most recent mma losses. All KO's in fights he was winning or in the Mir fight arguably winning. Best of luck Cro Cop.
would be quite sad to see cro cop getting knocked out again
K1 is back finally ! great card, hope crocop does o.k, i don't see him making it against the bigger names!
Just make Badr vs Ghita already. Jeez.
Nice card got some good names, Hari, Ghita, Souwer, Cro Cop, Silva and Drago