The first round was fought mainly in the standing position. In it, the champion had a slight advantage, although the challenger did not avoid strong exchanges of blows and even tried to put pressure at times. At the end of the fight, the champion managed to overthrow his rival and get behind his back, but the gong interrupted his attempts on the ground.
In the second round, Parnasse sent Varela to the boards with a straight left. The 27-year-old did not miss the opportunity and caught his opponent on the ground. A series of strong blows to the head of the defenseless player from Marseille forced the referee to stop the fight after 60 seconds.
Salahdine Parnasse is one of the biggest stars of European MMA and a true phenomenon in the world of mixed martial arts. The phenomenally fighting Frenchman has so far fought 22 fights and won 20 of them. In KSW he won the featherweight and lightweight championship belts.
The 27-year-old is going through subsequent fights in a dominating style, and it is not without reason that he is sometimes called the “Kylian Mbappe of French MMA”. In the last fight, which also took place in Paris, Valeriu Mircea was defeated by the power of his skills. Thus, Parnasse defended the lightweight championship belt in front of his home audience for the first time. Parnasse has been fighting in a round cage since 2017 and remains undefeated in the lightweight division.
Wilson Varela suffered his first defeat in KSW, and his series of four victories in the Polish organization was interrupted. The 28-year-old from Marseille is a killer of Poles. He had previously left behind Marian Ziółkowski, Sebastian and Łukasz Rajewski and Gracjan Szadziński.
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