KSW featherweight champion Patryk Kaczmarczyk says the feud with Sebastian Przybysz began over his criticism of KSW's posts; he is open to a fight but none is announced.
What we know
- Kaczmarczyk is the reigning KSW featherweight champion.
- Kaczmarczyk says his tension with Przybysz began with his criticism of KSW posting a leggings reel while removing a Hugo Deux interview.
- Kaczmarczyk says he did not insult anyone and denies that manager Artur Ostaszewski kept the two apart.
- Kaczmarczyk says he and Przybysz cleared things up in a phone call.
- Kaczmarczyk does not rule out fighting Przybysz but says a champion should move up rather than face a lower-division champion; no fight is booked.
Patryk Kaczmarczyk has given his account of how a quarrel with Sebastian Przybysz began, and it starts earlier than the social media exchange most fans saw. The KSW featherweight champion told InTheCage that it began with his own critical reaction to the promotion's content.
His complaint was about consistency. KSW posted a reel of fighters in leggings, he said, while removing an interview with Hugo Deux in which Deux talked about his values. Kaczmarczyk said he voiced that opinion in an interview, did not insult the people behind the posts, and felt the other side took it as an insult anyway. Deux, who meets Soldaev at lightweight on KSW 124 on Dec. 19 in Gliwice, was the subject of the removed interview but is not part of the dispute itself.
The exchange then moved online and turned into jabs about a possible fight. Bantamweight champion Vitalii Yakymenko joined in, and Kaczmarczyk posted a graphic as an answer to a challenge. By his own account he did not take it very seriously and did not look closely at the graphic before posting it.
He also rejected reports that the two fighters' shared manager, Artur Ostaszewski, separated them. According to Kaczmarczyk, Przybysz phoned him directly and the matter was settled.
On a fight, he left the door open without inviting it. After several title defenses, he said, he does not see why a champion should accept a challenge from a lower-division champion instead of that champion moving up. Przybysz competes in a lighter division, which is the heart of that argument.
Nothing has been announced between the two. Any move would have to come from Przybysz stepping up or KSW matchmaking, and neither has been reported.
His complaint was about consistency. KSW posted a reel of fighters in leggings, he said, while removing an interview with Hugo Deux in which Deux talked about his values. Kaczmarczyk said he voiced that opinion in an interview, did not insult the people behind the posts, and felt the other side took it as an insult anyway. Deux, who meets Soldaev at lightweight on KSW 124 on Dec. 19 in Gliwice, was the subject of the removed interview but is not part of the dispute itself.
The exchange then moved online and turned into jabs about a possible fight. Bantamweight champion Vitalii Yakymenko joined in, and Kaczmarczyk posted a graphic as an answer to a challenge. By his own account he did not take it very seriously and did not look closely at the graphic before posting it.
He also rejected reports that the two fighters' shared manager, Artur Ostaszewski, separated them. According to Kaczmarczyk, Przybysz phoned him directly and the matter was settled.
On a fight, he left the door open without inviting it. After several title defenses, he said, he does not see why a champion should accept a challenge from a lower-division champion instead of that champion moving up. Przybysz competes in a lighter division, which is the heart of that argument.
Nothing has been announced between the two. Any move would have to come from Przybysz stepping up or KSW matchmaking, and neither has been reported.
- Summary
- KSW featherweight champion Patryk Kaczmarczyk says the feud with Sebastian Przybysz began over his criticism of KSW's posts; he is open to a fight but none is announced.
- Key points (one per line)
- Kaczmarczyk says the tension began with his criticism of KSW's social media content, before the online spat.
He denies that manager Artur Ostaszewski separated the two; he says Przybysz phoned him and the matter was settled.
He does not rule out fighting Przybysz but questions why a champion should accept a challenge from a lower division.
No fight between the two has been announced.
- Also reported by (Name | URL per line)
- InTheCage | https://inthecage.pl/patryk-kaczmarczyk-wyjasnil-konflikt-z-sebastianem-przybyszem/
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