At KSW 57 on Saturday night live on www.KSWTV.com a new KSW lightweight champion will be crowned.

Polish stars Marian Ziolkowski (21-8-1) and Roman Szymanski (13-5) will compete for the title left vacated by Mateusz Gamrot.

Known as the ‘Golden Boy’, Ziolkowski joined KSW in 2018 after securing seventeen of his nineteen wins by way of TKO and Submission. The 30-year-old was Gamrot’s last challenger and provided the former KSW champ one of his toughest tests ever in KSW pushing him five rounds at KSW 54. Prior to facing Gamrot he had two impressive wins over former title challenger Grzegorz Szulakowski and power-puncher Gracjan Szadzinski.

Roman Szymanski joined KSW in 2016 and has since become a huge fan favourite in Poland. After a 3-1 run he faced Salahdine Parnasse for the interim KSW featherweight title. A loss here prompted the 28-year-old to step back up to lightweight where he has since scored back to back wins over Balkan duo Milos Janicic and Filip Pejic, respectively.

Both fighters have met once before on the Polish scene with Szymansk walking away with a unanimous decision victory. Almost five years have passed since their first contest, now they meet once again but only one will realise their dream to become KSW champion.

KSW 57 is live this Saturday, December 19 from Lodz, Poland, and is available to watch around the world on www.KSWTV.com. 

KSW 57 Fight Card
Live on www.KSWTV.com 

Main Event
Heavyweight Title
Champion Phil De Fries (18-6) vs. Michal Kita (20-11-1)

Co-Main Event
Vacant Lightweight Title
Marian Ziolkowski (21-8-1) vs. Roman Szymanski (13-5)

Lightweight
Artur Sowinski (21-11) vs. Borys Mankowski (20-8-1)

Bantamweight Title
Champion Antun Racic (24-8-1) vs. Bruno 'Gafanhoto' Santos (9-1)

Middleweight
Cezary Kesik (12-0) vs. Abus Magomedov (23-4-1)

Middleweight
Tomasz Drwal (22-5-1) vs. Patrik Kincl (22-9)

Welterweight
Kacper Koziorzębski (7-2) vs. Marcin Krakowiak (9-3)

Welterweight
Albert Odzimkowski (11-4) vs. Christian Eckerlin (12-5)