Kickboxing

Kickboxing promotion Glory has sealed a multi-year rights deal with US sports broadcaster ESPN.

Media rights clips from February 4 to 17

The Glory World Series kickboxing series has entered into a partnership with Fight Pass, mixed martial arts’ Ultimate Fighting Championship online viewing subscription service.

Media company CSI Sports, the owner of pay-television channel Fight Sports, has agreed a carriage deal with French pay-television operator Bouygues Telecom.

French digital-terrestrial television channel L’Équipe 21 has agreed a rights deal for events from kickboxing promotion the Glory World Series.

Kickboxing promotion Glory will cement its place on US sports broadcaster ESPN for all of 2016, TV Sports Markets understands.

Kickboxing promotion Glory Sports International has struck multiple broadcast deals in the last month aimed at driving the niche property into the mainstream.

Interview with Jon Franklin, chief executive of Glory Sports International, about Glory’s global rights sales strategy and what the future holds for the promotion.

Media rights clips from April 30 to May 13

Rights for the Glory Sports International kickboxing league have been awarded to pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport, South Korean commercial broadcaster KBS, pan-African pay-television operator StarTimes and pay-television broadcaster Digi Sport in Hungary and Romania.

Pay-television channel Fightbox HD has launched an online pay-per-view platform.

Media rights clips From March 12 to 25

The Fight Sports pay-television channel will launch in Spain after media company CSI Sports, the owner of the channel, agreed a multi-year carriage deal with pay-television operator Ono.

Media rights clips from July 24 to August 20

Glory Sports International, the parent company of kickboxing promotion Glory World Series, has exercised its renewal clause with Spike TV to retain the US pay-television channel as its television partner through 2015.

Media rights clips from May 29 to June 11

Media rights clips from January 30 to February 12

The K-1 kickboxing organisation has signed a two-year global broadcast rights distribution partnership with the Fighting Spirit agency.