Penaz vs Zawada

Who won Penaz vs Zawada?

Matej Penaz beat David Zawada by knockout in the 1st round during the main card of OKTAGON 66, on Saturday 1st February 2025 at PSD Bank Dome in Düsseldorf.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 3 rounds in the Middleweight division, which meant the weight limit was 185 pounds (13.2 stone or 83.9 KG).

Penaz vs Zawada stats

Matej Penaz stepped into the octagon with a record of 9 wins, 1 loss and 0 draws, 8 of those wins coming by the way of knock out.

David Zawada made his way to the cage with a record of 19 wins, 10 losses and 0 draws, 12 of those wins coming by knock out and 5 by submission.

Matej Penaz will be making their debut in Oktagon MMA. David Zawada marked his 3rd fight for them, having made his own debut for the promotion in 2022.

David Zawada's Oktagon MMA record stood at 2-1-0.

The stats suggested Penaz had a large advantage in power over Zawada, boasting a 89% knock out percentage over Zawada's 63%.

If the fight went to the ground, their records suggested Zawada had a large advantage over Penaz, boasting a 26% submission rate over Penaz's 0%.

Matej Penaz was the younger man by 6 years, at 28 years old.

Penaz had a height advantage of 4 inches over Zawada. That also extended to a 8-inch reach advantage.

Penaz was the less experienced professional fighter, having had 19 fewer fights, and made his debut in 2020, 10 years later than Zawada, whose first professional fight was in 2010. He had fought 36 less professional rounds, 15 to Zawada's 51.

Penaz vs Zawada form

Zawada had lost to all of his last 5 opponents.

In his last fight before this contest, he had lost to Marek Mazuch at OKTAGON 58 on 8th June 2024 by knockout in the 1st round at Stadion Eden, Prague, Czech Republic.

Previous to that, he had been beaten by Magomed Magomedkerimov at PFL 6 on 23rd June 2023 by knockout in the 1st round at Overtime Elite Arena, Atlanta, United States.

Going into that contest, he had been defeated by Carlos Leal at PFL 3 on 14th April 2023 by knockout in the 1st round at The Theater at Virgin Hotels, Las Vegas.

Before that, he had lost to Alex Morono at UFC Vegas 36 on 4th September 2021 by unanimous decision in their 3 round contest at UFC APEX, Las Vegas.

He had been beaten by Jingliang Li at UFC Fight Night 141 on 24th November 2018 by knockout in the 3rd round at Cadillac Arena, Beijing, China.

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Zawada's last 5 fights had come over a period of 6 years, 3 months and 17 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 1 year, 3 months and 5 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 9 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 1.8 rounds on average.

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