Most MMA fans didn’t know who Martyn Ford was when his statuesque 6-foot-8, over 300-pound frame first appeared in the KSW cage in London last month, but they knew he was in experienced hands with the Polish promotion.
KSW has been Europe’s equivalent to Pride over the last decade, poking at MMA’s undeniable fascination with oddity. The organization’s ability to pair competitive divisions with spectacles has become its calling card, and that was one of the main reasons Ford was happy to accept the offer that was presented to him.
“I’m not going into this imagining that I’ll be fighting for the championship belt.