Hari (left) and Verhoeven (photo via James Law / GLORY)

By FCF Staff

Recently GLORY announced that heavyweight champ Rico Verhoeven and Badr Hari will fight again on December 21st, and demand for tickets reportedly crashed the promotion’s system.

In a press release from GLORY, it stated:

Demand came mostly from the Netherlands but also from Japan, the USA, Canada, Brazil and as far afield as Honduras. This is truly a global event – the eyes of the world are on this rematch.

Unfortunately the sheer scale of demand was well beyond anything we could have imagined. In the opening minutes of the pre-sale we were selling a thousand tickets per minute.

The volume of ticket purchases crashed the system. Many thousands of sales were completed. However, some fans were unable to complete their purchases.

The public sale for tickets has been shut down for now and GLORY will be announcing when ticket sales will resume.

The heavyweights fought back in 2016, and the fight was stopped in round two, due to an arm injury Hari incurred.