Rico Verhoeven

Ricardo "Rico" Verhoeven is a Dutch kickboxer, professional boxer and mixed martial artist, born in Bergen op Zoom on 10 April 1989. Known as the "King of Kickboxing", he was Glory's longest-reigning heavyweight champion: he held the title for 4,220 days and defended it a record thirteen times, and Combat Press has ranked him the world's number one heavyweight kickboxer since September 2014. ^{1 2}

Verhoeven began martial arts at the age of one, learning Kyokushin from his father, a karate black belt, and took up kickboxing at seven, fighting adults from the age of sixteen because of his size. A professional since 2004, he also fought for K-1, It's Showtime and Superkombat. In Glory he compiled 66 wins against 10 losses and set the promotion's records for wins in title bouts, consecutive defences and total wins. In 2026 he crossed into championship boxing, challenging Oleksandr Usyk for the WBC heavyweight title at the Giza Plateau in Egypt; the Arabic article records that he lost by technical knockout in the eleventh round. He also won his single mixed martial arts bout by knockout and has acted in film. ^{1 3}

No religious affiliation is recorded for Verhoeven, and the absence is complete: neither the English nor the Arabic article says anything about his religion in text, infobox or categories, and his Wikidata item has no religion value at all. His faith therefore stands as unknown. ^{1 3 2}