FEN begins 2024 with an occasion held at Enviornment Ostrów in Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland. FEN 52 can be headlined by a light-weight heavyweight affair between defending champion Marcin Łazarz and Bartosz Szewczyk.
Marcin Łazarz vs. Bartosz Szewczyk – for the FEN mild heavyweight title
Marcin Łazarz (15 – 9, 1 NC) is a European MMA circuit veteran, who has competed in such promotions as BAMMA, KSW, Babilon MMA, and M -1 amongst others. He made his FEN debut again in 2020. He obtained a light-weight heavyweight title shot proper out of the gate in his promotional debut at FEN 29: Lotos Battle Evening Ostróda.
Nevertheless, his bout in opposition to the then-champion Adam Kowalski ended with a no-contest as a result of an unintended eye poke by Łazarz within the third spherical. At FEN 32: Lotos Battle Evening Warszawa he beat Wojciech Janusz to get one other probability on the belt.
Surprisingly sufficient he switched his consideration to different promotions earlier than assembly Szewczyk at FEN 44 in Ostrów Wielkopolski over a yr in the past in January 2023. The struggle went full distance at Łazarz was awarded a unanimous determination win. At FEN 50 he dethroned then-current champion Eder de Souza by knocking him out with a left hook within the very first spherical.
After harnessing his abilities on the Novice MMA League, the place he stacked up a 6 – 2 file, Szewczyk (6 – 2 – 1) made his skilled and FEN debut again in 2021. He gained his first three consecutive fights and tasted his first defeat by the hands of skilled veteran Szymon Bajor at FEN 37: ENERGA Battle Evening Wrocław.
Right here gained his subsequent two bouts solely to be stopped by Łazar of their first assembly. His bout in opposition to Łukasz Klinger FEN 46: Kuberski vs. Wojciechowski ended with a draw.
At FEN 49: Battle Evening Mrągowo, he simply defeated Ederson Cristian Macedo with a knockout. So far as for now, in his sole struggle exterior the FEN Szewczyk continued his most up-to-date streak of wins by knocking out Artem Zemlyakov at UAE Warriors 45.
Now the time has come for a long-anticipated rematch with a FEN mild heavyweight title on the road. Regardless of spending virtually the whole thing of his profession within the promotion, this can be Szewczyk’s first crack on the championship gold.
Remainder of the cardboard:
Former FEN welterweight title challenger Kamil Kraśka (5 – 2) will attempt to bounce again after his loss to Adrian Zieliński at FEN 49: Battle Evening Mrągowo. He’ll face Aslambek Arsamikov (8 – 5), who’s a veteran of each Polish and European MMA circuits. He was imagined to make his promotional debut in opposition to Łukasz Świrydowicz at FEN 49, however the struggle by no means got here to fruition. The struggle card can even characteristic two newbie guidelines bouts: Jakub Zieliński vs. F. Szymański and Krupiński vs. Ilman Didaev.
FEN 52 (Polsat Field Go) stay outcomes:
Marcin Łazarz vs. Bartosz Szewczyk – for the FEN mild heavyweight title
Kamil Kraska vs. A. Arsamikov
Jan Ciepłowski vs. Lukáš Chotěnovský
Skowyra vs. Danil Fedenko
Mateusz Olech vs. Paweł Biernat
Arkadiusz Mruk vs. Kacper Szalast
Ismaiel Haidari vs. Vitaliy Yakimenko
Bartłomiej Skowyra vs. Krzysztof Geburek
Ilman Didaev def Krystian Krupiński through Majority Resolution in an newbie guidelines bout
Jakub Zieliński def. F. Szymański through Unanimous Resolution in an newbie guidelines bout
