KSW 39 Breaks UFC 193 Attendance Record, Now 2nd All Time
This past Saturday's KSW MMA 39 event in Warsaw, Poland now owns the second place spot in the all time MMA attendance record as 58,000 fans attended the show.
Here's the top 5 attended MMA events of all time:
PRIDE Shockwave (8/28/2002) – 71,000
KSW MMA 39 (5/27/2017) – 58,000
UFC 193 (11/14/2015) – 56,214
UFC 129 (4/30/2011) – 55,724
PRIDE 17 (11/03/2001) – 53,246
There were a lot of big name local and internationally recognized fighters on the card, including Mariusz Pudzianowski, UFC veteran Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou, KSW Light Heavyweight Champion Tomasz Narkun, UFC veteran Norman Parke, KSW Lightweight Champion Mateusz Gamrot and a host of others.
The next KSW MMA event has yet to be announced, but it is expected to take place within the next few months.
Quick results for the full card are as follows:
Mamed Khalidov def. Borys Minkowski via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Mariusz Pudzianowski def. Tyberiusz Kowalczyk by submission via strike (2:50, R2)
Pawel Rak def. Robert Burneika by TKO via strikes (0:45, R1)
Marcin Rozalski def. Fernando Rodrigues Jr. By KO via punch (0:16, R1) to win the KSW MMA Heavyweight Title
Tomasz Narkun def. Marcin Wojcik by submission via triangle choke (4:59, R1) to retain the KSW MMA Light Heavyweight Title
Lukasz Jurkowski def. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou via split decision (29-28, 29-28, 28-29)
Mateusz Gamrot def. Norman Parke via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) to retain the KSW MMA Lightweight Title
Kleber Koike Erbst def. Marcin Wrzosek via unanimous decision (29-27, 29-27, 29-28) to win the KSW MMA Featherweight Title
Michal Andryszak def. Michal Kita by submission via anaconda choke (1:14, R1)
Damian Janikowski def. Julio Gallegos by TKO via strikes (1:26, R1)
Ariane Lipski def. Diana Belbita by submission via arm bar (4:47, R1) to win the KSW MMA Women’s Flyweight Title