On Monday, promotion officials announced that Parnasse (18-1) will face undefeated welterweight champion Adrian Bartosinski (14-0) at KSW 89 on December 16, 2023. The event is expected to take place in Gliwice, Poland.

No fighter has ever held three titles simultaneously, or at all, in a major promotion. Former Bellator lightweight champion and current featherweight king Patricio Pitbull was the last to attempt the feat, coming up short against Sergio Pettis in a shot at bantamweight gold earlier this year.

Parnasse, long heralded as one of the top prospects in the sport, first won gold under the KSW banner in 2019, picking up an interim featherweight championship. Later promoted to undisputed champ status, he lost his title to Daniel Torres in January of 2021, but reclaimed the belt later that year, avenging his lone loss in the process.

Last year, Parnasse claimed an interim lightweight title by defeating Sebastian Rajewski, who stepped in to replace undisputed champ Marian Ziółkowski in the fight. A planned title unification bout this past June fell through on the night of the event, meanwhile, after Ziółkowski injured himself during his warm-up. Parnasse was again promoted to undisputed champ status.

In August, the French star successfully defended his featherweight title against Robert Ruchała.

KSW welterweight champion Adrian Bartosinski captured the then-vacant 170lb title in a showdown with Artur Szczepaniak this past April. His fight with Parnasse marks Bartosinski’s first attempted title defense.

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Set for October 14, 2023 at the Werk Arena in Trinec, Czech Republic, KSW 87 will be headlined by heavyweight action, as Czech big man Michal ‘Blackbeard’ Martinek (10-4) takes on former UFC athlete Darko Stosic (18-6) in a fight that could produce a title challenger for dominant champion Phil De Fries.

Martinek, a Dana White’s Contender Series alum, is coming off a loss to Daniel Omielańczuk, another UFC veteran. Stosic is fresh off a KO win against Stefan Vojcak, and looking for a second shot at De Fries after coming up short last year.

Whoever lands the title shot against De Fries with have an enormous task on his hands: the English champ has defended his belt an astounding nine times, and has won twelve straight fights.

The full line-up for KSW 87 as announced by the promotion this week can be found below.

KSW 87 Fight Card

Main Event
Heavyweight
Darko Stosic (18-6) vs. Michal Martinek (10-4)

Co-Main Event
Lightweight
Roman Szymanski (17-7) vs. Leo Brichta (11-3)

Light Heavyweight
Ivan Erslan (13-2) vs. Rafal Haratyk (16-5-2)

Bantamweight
Filip Macek (27-18-1) vs. Oleksii Polischuck (10-4)

Light Heavyweight
Vojtech Garba (8-4) vs. Michal Dreckowski (3-0)

Catchweight 87 kg/192 lb
Adrian Dudek (6-2) vs. Lukas Dvorak (6-2)

Lightweight
Sahil Siraj (8-2) vs. Ahmed Abdulkadirov (9-1)

Featherweight
Josef Stummer (3-0) vs. Dawid Kareta (4-3)

Bantamweight
Carl McNally (2-1) vs. Tobiasz Le (3-1)

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There were no misses at the scale on Friday, with all fights now official. That includes the bantamweight title fight headlining the show, which sees Jakub Wiklacz run it back in an immediate rematch with Sebastian Przybysz, from whom he captured the title in December 2022, off a split decision.

The rematch was not the original plan for Wiklacz. He had been expected to defend his title against Zuriko Jojua in June, only for Jojua to drop out of the fight. Brazil’s Werlleson Martins then stepped in to replace Jojua, only to miss weight a whopping 11.4lbs, hitting the scales at 146.4 for the bantamweight title fight.

Wiklacz declined a non-title catchweight bout against Martins, and as a result has not competed since winning the belt.

Przybysz on the other hand has fought twice since the pair’s first meeting, finishing both bouts inside the distance.

Full results from Friday’s KSW 86 weigh-in can be found below!

KSW 86 Weigh-In Results

Main Event
Bantamweight Title Fight
Champion Jakub Wiklacz (61.2 kg/135 lb) vs. Sebastian Przybysz (61.2 kg/135 lb)

Co-Main Event
Middleweight
Michal Michalski (84.1 kg/185 lb) vs. Dominik Humburger (84.3 kg/186 lb)

Featherweight
Lom Ali Eskiev (66.2 kg/145 lb) vs. Dawid Smielowski (66.3 kg/146 lb)

Catchweight 81 kg/179 lb
Artur Szczepaniak (80.9 kg/179 lb) vs. Henry Fadipe (81 kg/179 lb)

Welterweight
Kacper Koziorzebski (77.6 kg/171 lb) vs. Wiktor Zalewski (77.6 kg/171 lb)

Light Heavyweight
Damian Piwowarczyk (92.9 kg/205 lb) vs. Lukasz Sudolski (92.8 kg/205 lb)

Heavyweight
Filip Stawowy (117.9 kg/260 lb) vs. Viktor Pesta (110.3 kg/243 lb)

Bantamweight
Mariusz Joniak (61.6 kg/136 lb) vs. Miljan Zdravkovic (61.7 kg/136 lb)

Welterweight
Oskar Szczepaniak (77.5 kg/171 lb) vs. Adrian Gralak (77.5 kg/171 lb)

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De Fries (23-6, 1NC) will put his title on the line against Szymon Bajor (24-9) at KSW 84 on July 15, 2023. The bout will serve as the main event of the card, scheduled to take place at the PolSat Plus Arena in Gdynia, Poland.

KSW officially announced the match-up on Tuesday, following an initial report by Sherdog. The promotion is coming off its massive KSW Colosseum 2 event, which saw over 50,000 fans turn up at Poland’s National Stadium.

De Fries has arguably been the biggest success story in KSW history. A UFC and Bellator MMA veteran, the British heavyweight went 1-3 inside the octagon then toiled on the regional scene for a couple of years following his 2013 release, trading wins and losses.

Starting in 2017, however, De Fries went on a run that has yet to see him falter, putting together an 11-fight win streak that saw him capture the KSW heavyweight championship and defend it on eight straight occasions.

Most recently, De Fries finished Todd Duffee via TKO inside of a round, avenging one of his UFC defeats.

Bajor is a Polish veteran returning to the promotion for the first time since 2016. After posting a 2-1 record in the company, he jumped ship to RIZIN Fighting Federation, then moved to FEN and most recently, the PFL. Bajor finds himself on a four-fight win streak at the moment, and is coming off a win over Ronny Markes.

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Just hours before the event, KSW’s social media channels were still promoting the lightweight title unification bout between champ Marian Ziolkowski and Salahdine Parnasse, set as the co-main event of the card at the National Stadium, with 50,000 in attendance.

However, with the event underway, Ziolkowski was forced to withdraw. Following Artur Szpilka’s come-from-behind TKO of Mariusz Pudzianowski, Ziolkowski stepped into the cage, laying down his title and announcing that he was relinquishing the belt, with Parnasse on hand with his interim title.

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News of the cancellation broke about an hour before the fight was expected to go down, care of RMC Sport Combat, and included a clip of a clearly disappointed Parnasse. In the cage, Ziolkowski’s knee was bandaged, perhaps an indication of just what had gone wrong. The Polish lightweight reportedly injured himself warming up.

The pair were previously scheduled to compete in November, with Ziolkowski pulling out of that date as well.

Parnasse now takes on the moniker of undisputed champion, and proper double champ, as the French standout already holds featherweight gold. No doubt not the way he wanted to establish his reign as a double-champ.

KSW Colosseum 2 is headlined by a non-title trilogy fight between rivals Scott Askham and Mamed Khalidov.

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With 50,000 fans expected to be in attendance, the stadium show is expected to be one of MMA’s largest events.

While the majority of the card’s fighters successfully made weight on Friday, one title bout was lost from the KSW Colosseum 2 line-up. Brazil’s Werlleson Martins (18-5) was deemed unfit to compete while cutting weight for his bantamweight title fight with Jakub Wiklacz (14-3-1).

With doctor’s failing to clear Martins, the bout has been scratched from the card.

The KSW Colosseum 2 main event between Scott Askham (19-5) and Mamed Khalidov (36-8-2), however, is official. The heavyweight clash between strongman Mariusz Pudzianowski (17-8) and Artur Szpilka (2-0) is also a go, as is the lightweight title fight featuring Marian Ziolkowski (25-8-1) and Salahdine Parnasse (17-1).

Full weigh-in results for Saturday’s card in Warsaw can be found below. The event airs live via KSWTV.com.

XTB KSW Colosseum 2 – Weigh-In Results
June 3, Warsaw, Poland

Main Event
Trilogy Fight
Mamed Khalidov (84.4 kg/186 lb) vs. Scott Askham (84 kg/185 lb)

Co-Main Event
Undisputed KSW Lightweight Title
Champion Marian Ziolkowski (70.3 kg/155 lb) vs. Interim-Champ Salahdine Parnasse (70.3 kg/155 lb)

Heavyweight
Mariusz Pudzianowski (116.7 kg/257 lb) vs. Artur Szpilka (113.6kg/250 lb)

Vacant KSW Middleweight Title
Pawel Pawlak (83.8 kg/185 lb) vs. Tomasz Romanowski (83.6 kg/184 lb)

Heavyweight
Arek Wrzosek (107.8 kg/238 lb) vs. Bogdan Stoica (100.8 kg/222 lb)

Middleweight
Michal Materla (84.3 kg/186 lb) vs. Radoslaw Paczuski (84.4 kg/186 lb)

Lightweight – Rematch
Roman Szymanski (70.8 kg/155 lb) vs. Valeriu Mircea (70.6 kg/156 lb)

Featherweight
Daniel Rutkowski (66.2 kg/146 lb) vs. Adam Soldaev (66.3 kg/146 lb)

Lightweight
Maciej Kazieczko (70.8 kg/156 lb) vs. Leo Brichta (70.6 kg/156 lb)

Heavyweight
Krzysztof Głowacki (97.8 kg/216 lb) vs. Patryk Tołkaczewski (105.7 kg/233 lb)

Catchweight 74kg
Sebastian Romanowski (74 kg/163 lb) vs. Mariusz Joniak (72.4 kg/160 lb)

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In arguably the most anticipated, featherweight champ Saladine Parnasse (17-1), who also holds interim lightweight gold, will finally face off with 155lb champion Marian Ziolkowski (25-8-1). The pair were expected to throw down earlier this year, only for Ziolkowski to drop out of the fight, leaving the promotion to create an interim title for Parnasse and replacement opponent Sebastian Rajewski.

KSW will also crown a new middleweight champion at the Colosseum 2 card, as the vacant belt will be up for grabs between Pawel Pawlak (21-4-1) and Tomasz Romanowski (18-8). The title was previously held by ONE Championship’s Roberto Soldic, as well as current UFC contender Dricus Du Plessis.

The third newly announced title fight for KSW Colosseum 2 sees bantamweight champ Jakub Wikłacz (14-3-1) attempt to make the first defense of his title against Brazilian challenger Werlleson Martins (18-5). Wikłacz defeated Sebastian Przybysz at KSW 77 in the rubber match of their trilogy to capture the belt earlier this year.

KSW Colosseum 2 takes place on June 3, 2023 at the PGE Narodowy in Warsaw, Poland, the same venue that hosted the record-setting first Colosseum event in 2017. The card will be headlined by Scott Askham and Mamed Khalidov closing out their trilogy, while heavyweight Mariusz Pudzianowski also returns, against former pro boxer and WBC contender Artur Szpilka.

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At the Arena Lodowa in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland, Adrian Bartosinski takes on Artur Szczepaniak, with the promotion’s vacant welterweight championship up for grabs. The all-Polish main event sees Bartosinski undefeated heading in at a perfect 13-0, while Szczepaniak has just a single loss among his ten professional fights.

Both main event fighters hit championship weight at Friday’s KSW 81 weigh-in, with the rest of the card hitting their mark as well. The event is now official; full weigh-in results can be found below.

KSW 81 takes place on Saturday, April 22, 2023, airing via KSWTV.com.

KSW 81: Bartosinski vs. Szczepaniak Weigh-In Results

Main Event
Vacant KSW Welterweight Title
Adrian Bartosinski (77.1 kg/170 lb) vs. Artur Szczepaniak (77.1 kg/170 lb)

Co-Main Event
Heavyweight
Tomasz Sarara (106 kg/234 lb) vs. Errol Zimmerman (118.9 kg/262 lb)

Welterweight
Igor Michaliszyn (77.3 kg/170 lb) vs. Krystian Bielski (77.6 kg/171 lb)

Bantamweight
Werlleson Martins (61.5 kg/136 lb) vs. Patryk Surdyn (61.5 kg/136 lb)

Flyweight
Karolina Owczarz (57.2 kg/126 lb) vs. Adrianna Kreft (57 kg/126 lb)

Welterweight
Marcin Krakowiak (77.6 kg/171 lb) vs. Henry Fadipe (77.1 kg/170 lb)

Heavyweight
Kamil Gawryjolek (107.3 kg/236 lb) vs. Olegs Jemeljanovs (108.7 kg/240 lb)

Strawweight
Sofiia Bagishvili (52.5 kg/116 lb) vs. Maria Silva (52 kg/115 lb)

Heavyweight
Filip Stawowy (119.8 kg/264 lb) vs. Marek Samociuk (118.1 kg/260 lb)

Featherweight – First Fight
Josef Stummer (66.2 kg/146 lb) vs. Jonatan Kujawa (66.1 kg/146 lb)

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On Monday, promotion officials announced that Mamed Khalidov (36-8-2) will face Scott Askham (19-5) for the third time, headlining the massive June 3 card.

The event will take place at the PGE Narodowy in Warsaw, Poland, which housed the original KSW Colosseum event in 2017 — the largest MMA event in terms of attendance in European history, and second largest overall.

57,766 fans attended the 2017 spectacle.

Khalidov and Askham are 1-1 in their career series to date. Askham won the first meeting, at a catchweight, claiming a unanimous decision in the 2019 contest. The following year, Mamed Khalidov finished Scott Askham with a switch kick to reclaim the KSW middleweight championship.

Askham, a former UFC fighter and BAMMA middleweight champ, has not fought since. Khalidov would go on to lose the belt to Roberto Soldic, who recently jumped ship to ONE Championship. In his last outing, Khalidov moved to heavyweight, defeating former World’s Strongest Man and promotional stalwart Mariusz Pudzianowski.

Pudzianowski, for his part, will also appear at the KSW Colosseum 2 card. He’s been paired up with former boxer Artur Szpilka, who has shared the ring with the likes of Deontay Wilder.

The promotion’s next event, KSW 81, takes place April 22 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland.

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On Wednesday, promotion officials announced via press release that undefeated standout Adrian Bartosinski (13-0) will face Artur Szczepaniak (9-1) atop the card on April 22. The show takes place at the Arena Lodowa in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland.

Adrian Bartosinski joined KSW in 2021 by winning all of his bouts on reality TV show ‘Only One.’ An injury took him out of the show’s finale; he instead jumped straight to KSW and has finished all four of his fights to date.

Impressively, “Bartos” has not gone to a decision since 2018, and has won 11 of his 13 fights inside the distance. In his four KSW fights, he has less than 15 minutes of cage time.

Artur Szczepaniak has just a single loss in his pro career, against current UFC fighter Benoit Saint-Denis. Like Bartosinski, he’s a finisher, having earned stoppages in his last six fights — including his two bouts under the KSW promotional banner. In his last outing, Szczepaniak stopped Dutch striker Brian Hooi inside of a round, taking all of 43 seconds to land a head kick then finish with strikes.

Also announced on Wednesday, Tomasz Sarara (1-1) and Dutch kickboxer Errol Zimmerman (0-1) will meet at KSW 81 in a heavyweight showdown between two talented strikers.

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