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)
Original release
Network Eurosport
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]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "K1 WGP on Eurosport 2010" . Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  2. 1 2 3 Gancu, Alexandru (Eurosport) (2011-04-15). "Fight club - Kickbox cu români pe Eurosport - Consumer Site" (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 2011-08-31. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  3. 1 2 "Fight Club". Archived from the original on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  4. ↑ "Eurosport Guide 2010" . Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  5. 1 2 3 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. Archived from the original on 2011-04-24. 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)". Archived from the original on 2011-11-03. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  9. ↑ "WFC 13: Heavy Hitters (World Freefight Challenge) odbrojavanje" (in Serbian). 2003-07-13. Archived from the original on 2011-08-20. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  10. ↑ "Thailand vs Challenger presented by Elite Boxing" . Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  11. ↑ "Thailand Vs. Challenger – Press Conference". Archived from the original on 2012-05-24. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  12. ↑ "Thailand VS Challenger(2011) Series". 2011-07-11. Archived from the original on April 7, 2012. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  13. 1 2 "Arkın'ın ringdeki öğrencileri" (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  14. ↑ Cevizcioğlu, Cemal (2008-10-19). "Benzersiz Bir Turnuva, Ring Masters Olympia" (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  15. ↑ "Fred Royers". Archived from the original on 2011-10-06. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  16. ↑ ThaiGym Mons (2007-04-15). "Fred Royers" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  17. ↑ "Fred Royers" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  18. ↑ "William "The Sensei" Vanders". 2003-11-21. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012. 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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