Eurosport Fight Club

Fight Club

Also known as Eurosport Fight Club
Genre Kickboxing
Martial Arts
MMA
Country of origin Europe
Original language(s) English
Production
Editor(s) Samuel Pagal [1][2]
Annie Vicaire
Charles-Henri Odin
Location(s) Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France
Running time 120[3]-180 mins. (within commercial breaks)
Distributor TF1 Group
Broadcast
Original channel Eurosport
External links
Website

Fight Club is a martial arts TV magazine program which is broadcast by the French based, pan-European broadcasting sports channel Eurosport.[4] The program includes various events, bouts and special features of kickboxing throughout the world.

Fight Club is aired on 21:00 CET on Thursdays. The replays are generally scheduled in weekends in shortened versions.

Content

The Fight Club program is notable for airing K-1 events. Its whole calendar is usually shown over the course of the year. The K-1 martial arts organization has tournaments in K-1 MAX for a 70.5 kg (155 lb) weight division, and in K-1 World Grand Prix for the +90 kg (200 lb) weight division. In addition, fight club often covers various kickboxing and Muay Thai events from Europe, within modified rules in European standards.

Featured events

Organization Country Discipline(s) Notes
Le Choc des Titans France Kickboxing
K-1 Japan Kickboxing [1][5]
WAKO Pro World Grand Prix Italy Kickboxing [6]
United Glory Netherlands Kickboxing
It's Showtime Netherlands Kickboxing/MMA [7][8]
Klash Events Netherlands Kickboxing [3]
SLAMM!! Events Netherlands Kickboxing
Champions League Portugal Kickboxing
SUPERKOMBAT Romania Kickboxing [2]
World Freefight Challenge (WFC) Slovenia Kickboxing/MMA [9]
Thailand vs. Challenger Thailand Muay Thai [10][11][12]
Ring Masters Turkey Kickboxing [5][13][14]
King of Kings Moldova Kickboxing

These events usually include bouts for the 75 kg (165 lb) weight division, a weight at which fighters cannot enter into K-1 MAX. The show has also recently taken to air women's fights or tournaments.

Top 10 KOs

The program also supplies special features like exclusive interviews with fighters and a popular Top 10 KOs list, which encloses the most spectacular knock outs made that year.

Commentators

Eurosport broadcasts in 20 different languages all around Europe and in English in Asia-Pacific Zone. The commentators for each language are below:

Language Commantator(s) Notes
Central and West Europe
Dutch Fred Royers [15][16][17]
English Will Vanders [18][19]
French Samuel Pagal / Charles-Henri Odin / Pascal Iglicki [1]
Portuguese Carlos Ramjanali
Eastern Europe and Balkans
Bulgarian Kamen Petrov & Ognian Georgiev
Czech Ondrej Novotny & Jan Dominec
Hungarian Ferenc Várhegyi & Róbert Opál
Polish Andrzej Janisz & Piotr Zwierzchowski
Romanian Teo Avramescu & Alex Ganci
Russian Stanislav Golovanov
Serbian Dusko Milanovic
Scandinavia
Danish Tania Presutti
Finnish Simo Halmevuo & Petri Martinez
Norwegian No local commentary, broadcast in English
Swedish Kasra Ashami & Ronny Lindqvist
Southern Europe
Greek Makis Kolethras
Italian Dario Puppo & Stefania Bianchini
Spanish Emilio Marquiegui
Turkish Umut Isik & Birol Topuz [5][13]
Former Rosters
Italian Giorgio Ambrogi
Russian Roman Mazurov
Serbian Ognjen Veljic
Swedish Jörgen Kruth

Technical support

The program is edited in Eurosport Central Building studios which is located in Issy-Les-Moulineaux commune, Paris by Samuel Pagal, Annie Vicaire and Charle-Henri Odin, the editors of the show.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "K1 WGP on Eurosport 2010". Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gancu, Alexandru (Eurosport) (2011-04-15). "http://tv.eurosport.ro/fightclub/storynews_sto2750820.shtml" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Fight Club". Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  4. ↑ "Eurosport Guide 2010". Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Arna, Sibel (2007-07-29). "K-1 İyi dövüşmek yetmiyor güzel yüz, atletik vücut gerekiyor" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  6. ↑ "Wako Pro World Grand Prix on Eurosport h. 10:00 pm, March 31st". 2011-03-29. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
  7. ↑ "Il primo reality di kick boxing è su Eurosport – video" (in Italian). Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  8. ↑ Vujic, Slaven (2005-03-25). "Interview with Zlatko Mahic (WFC)". Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  9. ↑ "WFC 13: Heavy Hitters (World Freefight Challenge) odbrojavanje" (in Serbian). 2003-07-13. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  10. ↑ "Thailand vs Challenger presented by Elite Boxing". Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  11. ↑ "Thailand Vs. Challenger – Press Conference". Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  12. ↑ "Thailand VS Challenger(2011) Series". 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Arkın’ın ringdeki öğrencileri" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  14. ↑ Cevizcioğlu, Cemal (2008-10-19). "Benzersiz Bir Turnuva, Ring Masters Olympia" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  15. ↑ "Fred Royers". Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  16. ↑ ThaiGym Mons (2007-04-15). "Fred Royers" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  17. ↑ "Fred Royers" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  18. ↑ "William "The Sensei" Vanders". 2003-11-21. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  19. ↑ Doyle, Paul (2005-02-03). "Why K-1 is the toughest, most exciting sport in the world". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 2011-10-21.

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