Eurosport Fight Club

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
Also known asEurosport Fight Club
GenreKickboxing
Martial Arts
MMA
Country of originEurope
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production locationsIssy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France
EditorsSamuel Pagal [1][2]
Annie Vicaire
Charles-Henri Odin
Running time120[3]-180 mins. (within commercial breaks)
DistributorDiscovery Communications
Release
Original networkEurosport
Original release2001 (2001)
External links
Website

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 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.

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]
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

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. "K1 WGP on Eurosport 2010". Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  2. Gancu, Alexandru (Eurosport) (2011-04-15). "http://tv.eurosport.ro/fightclub/storynews_sto2750820.shtml" (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 2011-08-31. Retrieved 2011-10-19. External link in |title= (help)
  3. "Fight Club". Archived from the original on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
  4. "Eurosport Guide 2010". Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  5. 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". Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  12. "Thailand VS Challenger(2011) Series". 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  13. "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). 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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