KSW 57 - Recap

KSW 57 is the last event of this turbulent 2020 year for Polish MMA promotion. KSW gave us 8 fights of which 3 was title fights.

In first fight of the night Christian Eckerlin got split decision win in his KSW debut. Both, he and Albert Odzimkowski gave us three interesting rounds of fighting and we saw everything from ground game to stand up battle.

Second fight of the night, as previous one, was in welterweight division. This was, for sure, fight of the night, between Marcin Krakowiak and Kacper Koziorzebski. They left everything in the cage, and they we're both tired in 3rd round but Krakowiak used the fact that Koziorzebski fall and set up really good guillotine choke.

Patrik Kincl in his debut in KSW, spoil the party for another victorious performance by Polish MMA legend, Tomasz Drwal. It was a really close fight but after good uppercut from Kincl, it was good night for Drwal who tried to get takedown and give himself a time to recover but Kincl defended well and with good combination tear apart Drwal and finish him with beautiful right hand.

Former PFL fighter, Abus Magomedov, put every middleweight fighter in KSW on notice after dominant perfomance over Cezary Kesik and second round submission victory.

Inaugural bantamweight champion, Antun Racic, continue to write history books of KSW, as he defended his belt for the first against very good and dangerous Brazilian, Bruno Santos. Interesting, this was first non Polish fighter that Racic fight since his arrival in KSW. About fight, in first two rounds Santos was a more dangerous fighter with few attempts of RNC and back control but from third round Racic was able to wrestle Santos, take him down few times and control the fight.

Two former champions ( welterweight and featherweight ), Mankowski and Sowinski fought at lightweight in what was supposed to be fight of the night. Instead, we saw extraodinary performance from Mankowski and very big sign that he is ready to chase that lightweight belt.

After Gamrot signed for UFC, featherweight and lightweight belts was left vacated. While featherweight interim champion Parnasse got promoted to undisputed champion, for lightweight belt, Roman Szymanski and Marian Ziolkowski got chance to fight and determine who is new lightweight king.

Ziolkowski dominated the whole fight with excellent distance and combinations. He finished his opponent after liver kick and got revenge for loss on FEN 11 in 2016 ( where he lost by unanimous decision from Szymanski ).

Phil de Fries dominated Michal Kita and become most sucessful KSW heavyweight champion with his 4th defence of his belt.

Results:

• Christian Eckerlin def. Albert Odzimkowski by SD (29-28 for Eckerlin, 28-29 for Odzimkowski, 29-28 for Eckerlin) (MMA Analyse score this fight 29-28 for Eckerlin)

• Marcin Krakowiak def. Kacper Koziorzebski via SUB ( guillotine choke ) in R3

• Patrik Kinck def. Tomasz Drwal via KO ( punch ) in R1

• Abus Magomedov def. Cezary Kesik via technical SUB ( guillotine choke ) in R2

• Antun Racic def. Bruno Santos by UD ( 48-47, 48-47, 48-47) (MMA Analyse score this fight 48-47 for Racic)

• Borys Mankowski def. Artur Sowinski by UD ( 30-25, 29-27, 30-26 ) (MMA Analyse score this fight 29-27 for Mankowski)

• Marian Ziolkowski def. Roman Szymanski via TKO ( liver kick and punches ) in R4

• Phil de Fries def. Michal Kita via TKO ( punches ) in R2