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KSW 58: Parnasse vs Torres preview, weigh-ins
Poland’s premier org brings in the new year with a very pleasant event worth your time and money.
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KSW kicks off 2021 with a snug event featuring more of their workhorse talent without too much flash and a lot of focus on the meat and potatoes of the game.
French phenom Saladdine Parnasse (14-0, 1 draw) has been a joy to watch in KSW, having adequate development for a bright prospect and evolving nicely to be a solid and proper featherweight champion. His pinpoint striking coupled with his takedown and submission defense have made him a problem, and he’s got a great challenge ahead. This time he faces Brazilian/Austrian Daniel Torres (11-4), another striker with a Karate base that is perfectly comfortable taking the fight to the ground and loves to get into prolonged exchanges to land damage.
Josh Fremd (6-1) vs. Bruno Oliveira (8-2)
After a one-week break, the Legacy Fighting Alliance returns with its 98th offering. The lineup is flush with prospects, including headlining middleweights Josh Fremd and Bruno Oliveira.
The 27-year-old Fremd followed up a lengthy and mostly successful amateur run by turning pro in 2017 and scoring victories in his first two appearances. After a Bellator win over Ryan Parker in his sophomore outing, Fremd stumbled under the Pinnacle FC banner in a decision loss to Robert Gidron. The American has been perfect ever since, though. He added a submission victory over Andre Hall and a split nod against Travis Davis to close out his 2018 campaign. After more than a year and a half away from action, the Factory X Muay Thai disciple returned in 2020 with the LFA. In his promotional debut, he disposed of Lamar Gosey via strikes in just 86 seconds. His encore performance was another first-round TKO, this time of Antonio Jones at LFA 93. Fremd is a
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Brazilian heavyweight kickboxer Guto Inocente will enter the KSW cage for the first time on Jan. 30 to battle one-time KSW title contender Michal Andryszak, promotion officials told MMA Fighting.
Inocente (8-5), who fought under the UFC and Strikeforce banners between 2012 and 2014 before starting a run inside the GLORY ring, at one point challenging Rico Verhoeven for the heavyweight gold in 2018, returns to MMA for his first bout since a first-round knockout this past September in Brazil.
Andryszak (21-9, 1 no contest) challenged for the vacant KSW belt in 2018, losing to UFC veteran Phil De Fries. The 28-year-old Polish heavyweight fought twice in 2020, stopping Ion Grigore in just nine seconds before losing to Michał Kita in his return to KSW.