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 Area in France, scoring a harmful ground-and-pound TKO in opposition to 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 pressured to step in and name for the stoppage on the one-minute mark of the spherical.
With the win, Parnasse moved to 12-2 beneath 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 supply from the UFC
Parnasse re-signed with KSW in June after fielding gives from different organizations, together with the UFC. Nonetheless, Parnasse’s coach and supervisor, Stéphane Chaufourier revealed that the UFC’s supply was considerably lower than what he was supplied to stick with the Poland-based promotion.
“The seesaw is large,” Chaufourier instructed RMC Sport. “You must know that I gained’t give figures however we had very, excellent proposals. We earn two and a half instances what we used to earn. So it’s simply enormous. It’s largely within the six figures, sure, in fact. The UFC was between 20 and 30 instances much less” (h/t MMA Mania).
Ultimately, Parnasse simply needs to struggle the very best opponents obtainable however that doesn’t imply he’s prepared to return to a lifetime of monetary instability to do it.
“I need to struggle the most effective, that’s regular, so I’ll find yourself dealing with the most effective fighters,” Parnasse mentioned. “I’ve by no means chosen a struggle in my life, I’ve all the time fought to make a residing. 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 approach besides that now I don’t need to proceed working and I additionally do that sport to help myself.
“It’s my private life. It’s a fight sport, it’s a troublesome sport and I used to be nonetheless working on the city corridor three years in the past after I was looking for stability. Now if I am going again to the UFC, I’ll need to work once more (laughs) so… However it’s the reality, it’s a fact. Whereas now I can stay totally from my sport and I’m very joyful, very joyful like that. I’m able to face any opponent I’m supplied.”
