Videos: Massive riot during Badr Hari’s bout forces event cancellation, GLORY issues statement

Photo by JONAS ROOSENS/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty ImagesKickboxing legend Badr Hari was supposed to settle the score with Arkadiusz Wrzosek, but a violent riot erupted midway through the fight which caused the bout — and the entire event — to be cancelled.

Hari was thoroughly dominating their first contest last September, before Wrzosek found a way to score an insane comeback with a head kick knockout. During this rematch in Belgium, Wrzosek landed a flying knee that dropped Hari in the second round.

Chaos ensued at the Trixxo Arena soon after, with several people from the crowd starting a riot that only progressively got worse.

Despite organizers and fighters’ attempts to get the crowd to settle…