KSW light-weight champion Salahdine Parnasse impressively retained his title on the promotion’s ultimate occasion of 2024.
Parnasse delivered one other dominant exhibiting atop the KSW 101: Le Classique card inside París La Défense Enviornment in France, scoring a harmful ground-and-pound TKO towards Wilson Varela, snapping his opponents’ six-fight unbeaten streak.
Parnasse caught Varela with a proper cross early within the second stanza and promptly bounced on him, reigning down strikes till the referee was compelled to step in and name for the stoppage on the one-minute mark of the spherical.
With the win, Parnasse moved to 12-2 underneath the KSW banner and 20-2 total with a 65% end fee, together with 5 knockouts and 7 submissions.
Salahdine Parnasse re-signed with KSW after receiving lowball provide from the UFC
Parnasse re-signed with KSW in June after fielding presents from different organizations, together with the UFC. Nevertheless, Parnasse’s coach and supervisor, Stéphane Chaufourier revealed that the UFC’s provide was considerably lower than what he was provided to stick with the Poland-based promotion.
“The seesaw is huge,” Chaufourier informed RMC Sport. “You should know that I won’t give figures but we had very, very good proposals. We earn two and a half times what we used to earn. So it’s just huge. It’s largely in the six figures, yes, of course. The UFC was between 20 and 30 times less” (h/t MMA Mania).
Ultimately, Parnasse simply needs to battle the very best opponents obtainable however that doesn’t imply he’s keen to return to a lifetime of monetary instability to do it.
“I want to fight the best, that’s normal, so I’ll end up facing the best fighters,” Parnasse mentioned. “I’ve by no means chosen a battle in my life, I’ve at all times fought to make a dwelling. Mainly, I labored as a plumber on the city corridor of Aubervilliers, and on the identical time, I performed sports activities. I proceed on this means besides that now I don’t need to proceed working and I additionally do that sport to assist myself.
“It’s my personal life. It’s a combat sport, it’s a difficult sport and I was still working at the town hall three years ago when I was trying to find stability. Now if I go back to the UFC, I’ll have to work again (laughs) so… But it’s the truth, it’s a truth. Whereas now I can live fully from my sport and I’m very happy, very happy like that. I’m ready to face any opponent I’m offered.”
