Liam Pitts returns to the highlight this weekend with a special sort of strain round him. The Swedish bantamweight is scheduled to seem at OKTAGON 87 on April 25 in Liberec, Czech Republic, the place he’s scheduled to face Poland’s Kacper Matyszewski in a catchweight bout.
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However for a lot of viewers, Pitts was acquainted lengthy earlier than OKTAGON. He’s the son of Swedish media persona Laila Bagge and music producer Mason Pitts, and appeared together with his mom within the actuality sequence “Lailaland.” That early TV publicity made him recognizable to a mainstream viewers, however his MMA path developed by way of wrestling success as a junior and years of coaching at Allstars in Stockholm.
His aggressive background has been constructing step-by-step. FightMatrix lists his professional debut as coming at AFN 8 in October 2024, the place he beat Brandon Najera by third-round TKO, he later secured an OKTAGON take care of a 39-second knockout at AFN 10.
Liam Pitts Talks Förrädarna
Pitts additionally reached a wider TV viewers by way of “Förrädarna,” the Swedish version of “The Traitors.” He was on the season 2 solid, and the format itself is constructed round deception, suspicion, and social strain for a money prize. In his personal phrases, the expertise stayed with him effectively after filming ended.
“It was a tremendous expertise really… it’s a really psychological recreation, prefer it’s extra psychological than individuals assume. They take your cellphone and you’ll’t depart your room… it’s nearly like being incarcerated. It took like two months for me to return again to actuality once more… I used to be considering always concerning the recreation and what I may have executed in another way.”
Pitts even gave a have a look at the manufacturing aspect that not often makes the edit, describing late-night interruptions and the strain of not figuring out whether or not a knock on the door meant elimination or one other interview.
“They’d come knock in your door… you’re like, ‘oh ***, I’m cooked.’”
Now the setting modifications once more, from a fort recreation to a struggle weekend. Pitts has already proven that he can carry public consideration from actuality TV into fight sports. He heads into his subsequent struggle this weekend at OKTAGON 87, the place the unbeaten Swedish bantamweight seems to maintain his momentum entering into one of many largest alternatives of his profession.
