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Ice Wars signs with FITE

FITE and Hockey Enforcers USA, a live sporting events and production company, have announced an exclusive agreement to stream Ice Wars International’s first event via Pay-Per-View. Ice Wars is a new combat sport described as prize fighting on ice – taking an age-old part of the game many fans love and making it the main […]

March 31, 2022

Viaplay secures Enfusion, Invicta FC fight rights

Viaplay will be the live streaming home of all kickboxing and mixed martial arts (MMA) events from the Netherlands’ Enfusion and of Invicta FC, the all-female MMA promotion, in multiple European markets for the next three years. Viewers can follow over 40 shows from these two series featuring international fighting superstars. Based in the Netherlands, […]

March 25, 2022

BRAVE Combat, WSC Sports bring AI highlights to MMA

BRAVE Combat Federation, the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) promotion, and WSC Sports, a global player in AI sports video technology, have announced a three-year partnership ahead of the promotion’s first-event of the year, BRAVE CF 57, to create and distribute AI-powered real-time fight highlights. BRAVE CF will use WSC Sports’ machine learning technology to auto-detect, […]

March 9, 2022

Channelbox adds 4 sports channels

Channelbox has added four new sports channels to its line up including FUEL TV, MMA TV, Unreel and Auto Allstars and now hosts seven sports channels available on Freeview channel 271 and Channelbox mobile apps.   Channelbox has also recently rolled out a new user interface to allow listing by category and the platform can […]

March 4, 2022

PFL signs Sky New Zealand deal

The Professional Fighters League (PFL) and Sky New Zealand have announced an exclusive broadcast partnership for 2022. Sky Sport will become the exclusive PFL content provider in New Zealand, carrying both the PFL’s inaugural Challenger Series and the 2022 PFL Regular Season, Playoffs, and PFL World Championship. Additionally, Sky New Zealand will bring MMA fans exclusive […]

February 24, 2022

Professional Fighters League on Channel 4

Channel 4 has become the exclusive UK broadcast partner of The Professional Fighters League (PFL). Under the terms of the deal, Channel 4 platforms will carry the PFL’s inaugural Challenger Series, along with the 2022 PFL Regular Season which gets under way on April 20th and includes the Playoffs, and PFL World Championship. Additionally, Channel […]

February 9, 2022

IMPACT Wrestling, Fight Network on YouTube TV

Anthem Sports & Entertainment ahs announced that two of the Company’s popular sports-themed properties – the combat sports outlet Fight Network and the professional wrestling promotion IMPACT Wrestling – are now available on YouTube TV as part of the platform’s Sports Plus add-on package. The agreement expands the reach of Fight Network and IMPACT Wrestling’s […]

February 4, 2022By Nik Roseveare

ESPN extends PFL deal

The Professional Fighters League (PFL) and ESPN have announced a new, multi-year media rights agreement that will see expanded coverage on ESPN linear networks and ESPN+ in the US. Under the deal, the entire 2022 PFL Playoffs and majority of Regular Season events will be televised on ESPN, as well as simulcast on ESPN+, with […]

January 26, 2022

UFC on discovery+ Netherlands, Eurosport Spain

UFC coverage will begin on discovery+ in the Netherlands and Eurosport in Spain this January with every UFC event to be made available to watch live and on-demand.UFC, the mixed martial arts organisation, has experienced a meteoric rise since its first event was held in 1993 and is now one of the most popular sports […]

January 11, 2022

fuboTV, Professional Fighters League partnership

The Professional Fighters League (PFL) has announced an exclusive multi-year partnership for its new PFL Challenger Series with fuboTV, the US sports-first live TV streaming platform. The PFL Challenger Series debuts live on February 18th 2022, and will stream on consecutive Friday nights exclusively on fuboTV and its linear network, Fubo Sports Network, in February, […]

December 10, 2021