Eurosport Fight Club

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Eurosport Fight Club
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Also known asFight Club
Genre Kickboxing
Martial Arts
MMA
Country of originEurope
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production locations Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France
EditorsSamuel Pagal [1] [2]
Annie Vicaire
Charles-Henri Odin
Running time120 [3] -180 mins. (within commercial breaks)
Release
Original network Eurosport
Original release2001 (2001)

Fight Club was a martial arts TV magazine program, created by Samuel Pagal and 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.

Contents

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

Content

The Fight Club program was notable for airing K-1 events. Its whole calendar was usually shown over the course of the year. The K-1 martial arts organization had 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 covered various kickboxing and Muay Thai events from Europe, within modified rules in European standards.

OrganizationCountryDiscipline(s)Notes
Le Choc des TitansFranceKickboxing
K-1 JapanKickboxing [1] [5]
WAKO Pro World Grand Prix ItalyKickboxing [6]
United Glory NetherlandsKickboxing
It's Showtime NetherlandsKickboxing/MMA [7] [8]
Klash EventsNetherlandsKickboxing [3]
King of Kings LithuaniaKickboxing
SLAMM!! Events NetherlandsKickboxing
Champions LeaguePortugalKickboxing
SUPERKOMBATRomania Kickboxing [2]
World Freefight Challenge (WFC)SloveniaKickboxing/MMA [9]
Thailand vs. ChallengerThailand Muay Thai [10] [11] [12]
Ring MastersTurkeyKickboxing [5] [13] [14]
King of KingsMoldovaKickboxing

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:

LanguageCommantator(s)Notes
Central and West Europe
Dutch Fred Royers [15] [16] [17]
English Will Vanders [18] [19]
FrenchSamuel 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
SpanishEmilio Marquiegui
Turkish Umut Isik & Birol Topuz [5] [13]
Former Rosters
ItalianGiorgio Ambrogi
RussianRoman Mazurov
SerbianOgnjen Veljic
SwedishJörgen Kruth

Technical support

The program was 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]

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