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Eurosport Fight Club | |
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Also known as | Fight Club |
Genre | Kickboxing Martial Arts MMA |
Country of origin | Europe |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Production locations | Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France |
Editors | Samuel Pagal [1] [2] Annie Vicaire Charles-Henri Odin |
Running time | 120 [3] -180 mins. (within commercial breaks) |
Release | |
Original network | Eurosport |
Original release | 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.
Fight Club was aired on 21:00 CET on Thursdays. The replays were generally scheduled in weekends in shortened versions.
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.
Organization | Country | Discipline(s) | Notes |
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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] |
King of Kings | Lithuania | Kickboxing | |
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 |
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.
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 |
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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 |
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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