By The Numbers: Daniel Rutkowski vs. Patryk Kaczmarczyk

As part of a line that has formed behind reigning Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki featherweight champion Salahdine Parnasse, it stood to reason that Daniel Rutkowski and Patryk Kaczmarczyk would someday run into one another.

The Polish hopefuls will square off in the KSW 88 headliner on Saturday at RCS Hall in Radom, Poland, where the promotion’s 145-pound pecking order could conceivably be reshaped by the outcome. Rutkowski enters the match on a three-fight winning streak. He last competed on June 3, when he took a three-round unanimous decision from Adam Soldaev in their KSW 83 pairing. Kaczmarczyk, meanwhile, has rattled off back-to-back victories. He last appeared at KSW 85, where he was awarded a unanimous verdict over Daniel Tarchila in their three-round battle on Aug. 19.

With Rutkowski and Kaczmarczyk just days away from their high-stakes showdown, a look at some of the numbers that have accompanied them to this point:

34: Years of age for Rutkowski, who was born on July 12, 1989, in Radom, Poland.

7: Rutkowski wins by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 44% of his career total (16). Filip Pejic, Damian Zorczykowski and Aleksander Georgas anchor his list of victims. Rutkowski owns one other win by submission (6%)—he shut down Patryk Dunski with a guillotine choke at a Thunderstrike Fight League show in 2017—and eight more by decision (50%).

57: Rounds started by Rutkowski as a professional mixed martial artist. He has gone the distance on 10 different occasions and carries an 8-2 record in those bouts.

9: Consecutive calendar years in which Rutkowski has fought at least once. In addition to his 1-0 mark in 2023, he went 0-2 in 2015, 1-0 in 2016, 3-0 with one no contest in 2017, 2-0 in 2018, 4-0 in 2019, 2-0 in 2020, 1-0 in 2021 and 2-1 in 2022.

24: Combined victories between the three men—Parnasse, Dawid Gajda and Radoslaw Tarnawa—who have beaten Rutkowski. They sport a cumulative .817 cumulative winning percentage at 24-5-1.

25: Years of age for Kaczmarczyk, who was born in Kozienice, Poland, on June 23, 1998.

3: Kaczmarczyk victories by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for 30% of his career total (10). His list of KSW victims: Pascal Hintzen and Michal Domin. Kaczmarczyk holds two other victories by submission (20%) and five more by decision (50%).

63: Seconds needed for Kaczmarczyk to bury the aforementioned Hintzen with knees at KSW 77 on Dec. 17, 2022. It set a new personal benchmark as his fastest finish to date.

4: Organizations for which Kaczmarczyk has plied his MMA trade. He has gone 4-2 in KSW, 3-0 in Armia Fight Night, 2-0 in Babilon MMA and 1-0 in Madness Cage Fighting.

.905: Cumulative winning percentage between the two men—Dawid Smielowski and Robert Ruchala—who have defeated Kaczmarczyk. They boast a combined record of 19-2.Ramzan Jembiev vs Fabian Luczak