XTB KSW 78 fight card complete for Saturday, with Michal Materla vs. Kendall Grove headliner
Nine-bout lineup streams on KSWTV.com from Netto Arena in Szczecin, Poland.
The first KSW event of 2023 takes place this Saturday. XTB KSW 78 will take place at the Netto Arena in Szczecin, Poland, and will be live around the world on KSWTV.com beginning at 1 p.m. ET and exclusively on Viaplay across the U.K., Poland, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the Baltics.
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Ten years after their all-time KSW classic, Michal Materla (31-9) and Kendall Grove (24-18) will clash once again. Their first fight, which took place way back at KSW 23, is infamously known as one of the bloodiest fights in KSW history, and it was Materla who got his hand raised after the three-round battle.
The co-main event will see two Polish fan favorites collide, as hometown hero Tomasz Romanowski (17-8) meets the undefeated Radoslaw Paczuski (5-0) in a potential title eliminator in the middleweight division.
Elsewhere on the card, two huge lightweight fights take place as Poland’s Roman Szymanski (16-6) welcomes Georgia’s Raul Tutarauli (31-6) into the promotion, and former welterweight champ Borys Mankowski (22-10-1) meets the hard-hitting Valeriu Mircea (27-8-1), and top Polish light heavyweight Lukasz Sudolski (10-1) makes his KSW debut against former Jungle Fight champion Kleber Silva (20-11).
The complete XTB KSW 78 lineup includes:
- Michal Materla vs. Kendall Grove
- Tomasz Romanowski vs. Radoslaw Paczuski
- Roman Szymanski vs. Raul Tutarauli
- Borys Mankowski vs. Valeriu Mircea
- Lukasz Sudolski vs. Kleber Silva
- Rafal Kijanczuk vs. Marc Doussis
- Lukasz Rajewski vs. Sahil Siraj
- Oskar Szczepaniak vs. Raimondas Krilavicius
- Borys Dzikowski vs. Andre Langen
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