Štvanice will welcome the former Oktagon champion! It’s time to take the belt back, Legierski is clear. Against the great Kohout

Mateusz Legierski is back! On his birthday, he will return to the Octagon after almost two and a half years and will want to take what he has already won once – the lightweight championship belt. However, it won’t be easy for him.

Legierski was the first lightweight champion of the Octagon

It was March 2019 when the Octagon recruited a future champion to its ranks. First he defeated Michal Konrad, three months later he took on Ronald Paradeiser, and five months after that he didn’t give Jakub Bahnik a chance.

In February 2020, Mateusz Legierski fought Miroslav Štrbák for the lightweight title. For the first time in the Octagon, he was unable to end the fight early, yet he won on points and became the first Oktagon lightweight champion.

“It was a kind of a culmination for me of the path I’ve been following all my life,” he admitted the importance of the moment in the documentary The Road to OKTAGON.

However, he never defended the title.

Injuries put the brakes on his career, now he wants to take the belt back

As the Octagon champion, he headed to KSW in Poland to build on his success, and he managed his first fight perfectly. But then came the trouble. Health problems. And they dragged on for a long time.

He waited over a year for his next fight. He had to turn down several fights. In between, he lost his belt in the Octagon and then accepted a second fight in KSW unnecessarily early. Legierski lost that one to Roman Szymanski, one of the leading fighters in the Polish organization.

It was Legierski’s first ever loss. Now he would like to get back on the winning streak and get what he already had once. “Now I’m healthy and it’s time to take the belt back,” announces his comeback the Polish fighter, who won the fans of the Octagon back then.

Rooster will not be an easy bite

The Polish mountain man was supposed to make his comeback in March, when he was supposed to face Czech fighter Matouš Kohout in Šamorín. He, like Legierski, would like to fight for the title. However, due to an injury to the Polish fighter, the fight was postponed and will now take place in Štvanice.

Kohout will not be an easy opponent for Legierski. He is now preparing to face his only opponent so far. Besides, he used to be the Czech and European champion in Thai boxing.

But Legierski is taking this as a big challenge and he is clear about how he wants to win. “I want to beat him in the stand-up,” believes the Pole, who would then like to have a title fight.

Rooster, however, has come a long way since his early days in MMA and has gone from a great stand-up fighter to a complete MMA fighter. Can Legierski handle him?

Source: Octagon MMA