Watch: Verhoeven's lone pro fight from 2014

By Scott Shaffer

20/05/2026

Watch: Verhoeven's lone pro fight from 2014

It is very rare that a boxer with one pro fight gets a shot at a world title (Olympic champion Pete Rademacher famously did it in his pro debut vs. Floyd Patterson in 1957), but that is exactly what will happen at the Pyramids in Giza, Egypt this weekend when kickboxer Rico Verhoeven tries to defy some very long odds against world heavyweight champion Olesksandr Usyk.  Verhoeven is 1-0 in  traditional boxing. You can watch that fight in its entirety here.  That win was more than twelve years ago, when Vehoeven knocked out an exhausted Janos Finfera in two rounds. Finfera never fought again and is credited with a career record of 0-6.