XTB KSW 85: Parnasse vs. Ruchała will be a mixed martial arts event held by Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki on August 19, 2023 at the Strzelecki Park Amphitheater in Nowy Sącz, Poland.
Fight Card
Main card
Featherweight 66 kg France Salahdine Parnasse (c) vs. Poland Robert Ruchała (ic) Unification of Featherweight Championship
Light Heavyweight 93 kg Turkey Ibragim Chuzhigaev (c) vs. Ukraine Bohdan Gdnidko Light Heavyweight Championship
Featherweight 66 kg Poland Patryk Kaczmarczyk vs. Moldova Daniel Tărchilă
Bantamweight 61 kg Poland Patryk Surdyn vs. Poland Kamil Szkaradek
Catchweight 95 kg Brazil Kleber Silva vs. Poland Rafał Kijańczuk
Welterweight 77 kg Poland Michał Pietrzak vs. Poland Marcin Krakowiak
Women's Flyweight 57 kg Poland Adrianna Kreft vs. Brazil Yasmin Guimarães
Catchweight 72 kg Poland Łukasz Rajewski vs. France Wilson Varela
Women's Flyweight 57 kg Poland Wiktoria Czyżewska vs. Lebanon Sandra Succar
Background
An unification KSW Featherweight Championship bout between current two-division champion Salahdine Parnasse and interim champion Robert Ruchała was booked as the event headliner.
The undisputed KSW featherweight championship will be decided this Saturday as Salahdine Parnasse (17-1) meets Robert Ruchala (9-0) in the main event of XTB KSW 85.
Parnasse is the current KSW lightweight & featherweight title holder and one of the top prospects in the world today. The 25-year-old has held the 145 lb strap since KSW 65 at the end of 2021 – in what is his second reign of the division – and recently captured gold at 155 lb. During his quest for a second title, the undefeated Ruchala stepped in and won the interim-featherweight championship.
Now the pair will meet in Ruchala’s hometown of Nowy Sacz on August 19 to decide who will take the undisputed crown of the featherweight division.
In the co-main event, light heavyweight champ Ibragim Chuzhigaev (17-5) goes up against KO machine Bogdan Gnidko (10-0) in what should be a thrilling encounter.
Chuzhigaev won the title thanks to a five-round masterclass performance against the former longtime champ Tomasz Narkun and has since defended once against Ivan Erslan in another five-round battle. On the flip side, Gnidko has yet to leave the first round in his ten professional fights and his total fight time in KSW stands at just under two minutes in three outings. Anything can happen in this fight.
Elsewhere on the card, top prospects Patryk Kaczmarczyk (9-2) & Danu Tarchila (6-1) meet, former Jungle Fights champ Kleber Silva (21-11) collides with Rafal Kijanczuk (12-6), the undefeated Adrianna Kreft (5-0) faces Brazil’s Yasmin Guimaraes (5-1), and 19-year-old Wiktoria Czyzewska (2-0) takes on Lebanon’s Sandra Succar (1-0) in the opening bout of the night.
