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. 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.
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.
Featured events Organization Country Discipline(s) Notes Le Choc des Titans France Kickboxing K-1 Japan Kickboxing WAKO Pro World Grand Prix Italy Kickboxing United Glory Netherlands Kickboxing It's Showtime Netherlands Kickboxing/MMA Klash Events Netherlands Kickboxing King of Kings Lithuania Kickboxing SLAMM!! Events Netherlands Kickboxing Champions League Portugal Kickboxing SUPERKOMBAT Romania Kickboxing World Freefight Challenge (WFC) Slovenia Kickboxing/MMA Thailand VS Challenger Series Thailand Muay Thai Ring Masters Turkey Kickboxing King of Kings Moldova Kickboxing
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 English Will Vanders French Samuel Pagal / Charles-Henri Odin / Pascal Iglicki 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 Former Rosters Italian Giorgio Ambrogi Russian Roman Mazurov Serbian Ognjen Veljic Swedish Jörgen 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.
See also
Eurosport Sports channel
References
External links Portal site Corporate information site