A potential for middleweight fireworks is scheduled for June 8th at KSW 23 in Gdansk, Poland. The online PPV broadcast will be headlined by Melvin Manhoef and Mamed Khalidov, and co-headlined by the well traveled TBA against Mariusz Podzianowski. Sherdog has the news:
Mamed Khalidov and Melvin Manhoef are once again slated to compete under Poland’s KSW banner.
The middleweights will headline KSW 23, which takes place June 8 at Ergo Arena in Gdansk, Poland.
Khalidov (26-4-2) has won his last 6 fights, all against former UFC fighters, including submission wins over Kendall Grove, Matt Lindland, and Jesse Taylor, as well as a KO over Rodney Wallace.
Manhoef (27-10-1) is coming off a unanimous decision loss to Brock Larson at ONE FC 8 in Singapore last April. The Dutch striker previously won 3 fights in a row, including a TKO stoppage over Denis Kang.
If this matchup sounds familiar ... it's because they've tried making this before. Manhoef and Khalidov were scheduled to fight at KSW 21 but Manhoef was forced off the card with an injury.
He should exploit Melvin's glaring weakness I agree. But it's always dangerous getting him down, no matter who you are. With Melvin it really only takes 1 punch to change everything. The man could drop a Rhino.
KSW pays him a lot. UFC offered him 20 to show 20 to win IIRC and he turned it down because he makes more than double in Poland. If he loses in the UFC his contracts go down when he returns to Poland. In a way it is a lose-lose situation for him.
I heard that as well Bresko. He is a big star in Poland. I have an ex girl friend out there, she knows two MMA fighters, Mamed and Pudz and she knows nothing of MMA at all. She made it sound like he has a good thing going on out there. I think he would fit in easily in the UFC though, good talent.
At least you can find big KSW ads even on the freeway there. You won't find MMA ads in Germany or France shown to a bigger public. So it is comparably big in Poland. Even though he isn't a good fighter, basically everyone there knows Mariusz Pudzianowski.
Well if he's comfortable with KSW then he's going to stay in his comfort zone.
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