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After a one-sided loss in kickboxing, Bigfoot Silva wants another shot at Rico Verhoeven under MMA rules.

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Today’s Glory 46 event in China featured a total mismatch in the headliner, with the promotion’s heavyweight champion Rico Verhoeven taking on longtime MMA fighter Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva. As expected, Verhoeven stopped Bigfoot in the second round after already dropping him once. And it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that now Silva’s team wants to drag Verhoeven into a fight with a rule set more familiar to the former UFC heavyweight title challenger (via MMA Fighting):

“So Antonio went out there and did his first kickboxing fight against the current Glory champ and legend, Rico Verhoeven.