"I dont want to be top ten (in boxing) - I want to be the F***ING BEST" - Badr Hari

StillWill · Oct 12, 2011

From a Nazim Richardson Interview with FIGHT HYPE about BHOP/Dawson and meeting with Badr Hari

http://fighthype.com/pages/content10931.html

PC: You recently met with kickboxer Badr Hari and his trainer Mike Passenier. They really wanted to meet you and it happened. He wants to work with you, man. How is that looking?

NR: Badr Hari is a good dude and so is his trainer, Mike. You know, Badr Hari won me over, man. As soon as we met, he told me he wouldn't let me down and that he would make me proud. But that's not what won me over. What won me over is he said, "I don't want to be top 10. I want to be the ****ing best." He has the right mentality to do this **** right here. I tell fighters all of the time, "You are not considered great until you beat someone that you weren't supposed to beat." Ali did it several times. Ali wasn't supposed to beat Liston, he wasn't supposed to beat Foreman, and he wasn't supposed to beat Spinks. He proved his greatness over and over again. Foreman did the same thing with Joe Frazier. Joe Frazier did the same thing in his first fight with Ali. So you don't prove your greatness until you win a fight that you weren't supposed to win. This kid Badr has the right mentality to win a lot of fights he's not supposed to win. But he is...how old is he?

PC: He's 26.

NR: Yeah, he thinks like a 26 year old. He feels he's indestructible. I told him this, I said, "You have a trunk of weaponry and you have an army of guys coming up the stairs to get you. Your problem is you don't know if you want to shoot them with the M-16, the AR, the 9MM, the assault rifle, the sawed off shotgun or the M-4. By the time you figure out which one you're going to use, they are already up the stairs and in your ****. See, those two brothers in Europe got one weapon and it's an old shotgun. They sitting on the couch with that shotgun and when that door knob turns, they are shooting you with that shotgun." I told him that's the only difference. Our goal is to figure out when to use all of those weapons because he's going to need them all, but you just have to know when to use them. The Klitschkos utilize the hell out of that one gun they have. I could tell he didn't like the Klitschkos, so I kept talking about them in a positive light to see how he would react. I think this guy has the goods, man. I love the kid's mentality. And he is every bit of 6'6". I got downstairs to where him and Mike were and he stood up, I said, "Damn this kid is a legitimate 6'6"." And something else I told him, whether the Klitschkos are around or not, when he is ready for that level, our job is to make them realize they don't belong. See, Larry Holmes stuck around to try and show Mike Tyson it was still his time. Mike wasn't having that ****. When Mike hit Larry, it looked like someone cut a hole threw the mat and yanked Larry through it. Mike Tyson let him know his time had come and gone and that's what my goal is with Badr. If they want to stick around, we either gotta let them see Badr fight and say, "Hey man, it's time for us to move on," or do what Mike did to Larry and show them it's time for them to move on.

Bouie Fisher used to always tell me in the gym, "Watch that door and eventually the right kid is going to walk through it." I asked him what he meant by that and he said, "One day, a kid is going to walk through that door and do whatever you tell him to do and be able to adjust to anything that you want him to adjust to." I remember when me and Freddie Roach was working together and Freddie told me when Manny Pacquiao walked through the door at Wild Card Gym, he said to himself, "That's who I built this gym for." Freddie was reluctant to work with Pacquiao at first because he knew there wasn't much entity at those lower weight classes, and Manny was a small dude. One day, Manny had no one to hold the mitts for him and asked Freddie to give him 2 rounds, and from that moment on, Freddie knew what he had. Badr Hari could be that type of kid.
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cesare-borgia · Oct 12, 2011

Wow so badr is going to work with Richardson?
Badr is an insane big guy that could create some buzz on the scene, unfortunately for him his glass chin will be his downfall soon.

asif_305 · Oct 12, 2011

glass shatters...

Uncle Rico · Oct 12, 2011

That bit at the end about waiting for that someone to walk through the door, was badass.

So this Badr fella', does he genuinely possess something to get the heavyweight fans excited? Or is it more hope, than anything?

JunitoJab · Oct 12, 2011

Cool

Tuffnutz · Oct 12, 2011

Uncle Rico said: ↑

That bit at the end about waiting for that someone to walk through the door, was badass.

So this Badr fella', does he genuinely possess something to get the heavyweight fans excited? Or is it more hope, than anything?
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He doesn't have the chin or hands to box, plus he's fragile mentally.

He's a KO or DQ waiting to happen.

Dudes dirtier than Golota and it won't be long until he get's flattened or kicks/knee's someone in the head/balls.

He won't do **** all in the boxing ring and no fan of kickboxing and boxing who's followed Hari will give two ****'s about him entering the boxing ring.

smoovemann · Oct 12, 2011

good luck

StillWill · Oct 12, 2011

Uncle Rico said: ↑

That bit at the end about waiting for that someone to walk through the door, was badass.

So this Badr fella', does he genuinely possess something to get the heavyweight fans excited? Or is it more hope, than anything?
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[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVnNrbtLuoM[/ame]

StillWill · Oct 12, 2011

Tuffnutz said: ↑

He doesn't have the chin or hands to box, plus he's fragile mentally.

He's a KO or DQ waiting to happen.

Dudes dirtier than Golota and it won't be long until he get's flattened or kicks/knee's someone in the head/balls.

He won't do **** all in the boxing ring and no fan of kickboxing and boxing who's followed Hari will give two ****'s about him entering the boxing ring.
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PH|LLA · Oct 12, 2011

lol this is the perfect bad boy for the euro market to rival the good boy image of the klitschko's

highguard · Oct 12, 2011

its interesting thats for sure

he would however kill kimbo

Boxing Fanatic · Oct 12, 2011

hopefully naz can teach him some moves to protect that chin of his

FilipMNE · Oct 12, 2011

to wild to off balance and to bad of a chin to be anything significant in boxing, he even went down from Bonjasky jab LoL Badr is a definition of a glass , Bonjasky is my favourite k1 fighter but the fact is his punch strenght is bad and his jab was enough to knock down Badr just imagine what will boxers do to him, dont get me wrong Badr will beat and ko bums he is fast and hits hard but once he steps up in class its lights out.

CLUBBER · Oct 12, 2011

highguard said: ↑

its interesting thats for sure

he would however kill kimbo
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:yep

StillWill · Oct 12, 2011

FilipMNE said: ↑

to wild to off balance and to bad of a chin to be anything significant in boxing, he even went down from Bonjasky jab LoL Badr is a definition of a glass , Bonjasky is my favourite k1 fighter but the fact is his punch strenght is bad and his jab was enough to knock down Badr just imagine what will boxers do to him, dont get me wrong Badr will beat and ko bums he is fast and hits hard but once he steps up in class its lights out.
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actually he got knocked down by a left hook, and got right back up. that was his second fight of the night, he took a huge right hand from zimmerman earlier in the night and came back to win by KO

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