Eurosport Fight Club
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Fight Club is a martial arts TV magazine program which is 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 could be followed on 21:00 CET on Mondays. The replays are generally scheduled in weekends with shortened versions.
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[edit] Content
The fight club program is notable for airing K-1 events. Its whole calendar is 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 Kick Boxing and Muay Thai (within modified rules in European standards) events from Europe including international tournaments such as:
- It's Showtime Trophy (the Netherlands)
- Slam Event: Thailand vs Holland (the Netherlands)
- Klash Event (Sweden)
- Champions League (Portugal)
- Ring Masters (Turkey)
- Le Choc des Titans (France)
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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Commentators
Eurosport broadcasts in 20 different languages all around Europe and in English in Asia-Pacific Zone. The commentators for each language are below:
Central and West Europe
- English: Will Vanders
- German: Alexander Von der Gröben
- Dutch: Fred Royers
- French: EMBARGO (sometimes in association with Marc Chavet, the TNA and extreme sports commentator)
- Italian: Giorgio Ambrogi & Stefania Bianchini
- Spanish: Emilio Marquiegui
- Portuguese: Carlos Ramjanali
South Europe
Scandinavia
- Swedish: Jörgen Kruth & Ronny Lindqvist
- Danish: Thomas Larsen
- Finnish: No commentary, broadcasted in English
- Norwegian: No commentary, broadcasted in English
East Europe and Balkans
- Bulgarian: Kamen Petrov & Ognyan Georgiev
- Polish: Andrzej Janisz
- Russian: Roman Mazurov
- Romanian: Teo Avramescu & Alex Ganci
- Hungarian: Ferenc Varhegyi
- Czech: Ondrej Novotny
- Serbian: Ognjen Veljic
[edit] Technical Support
The program is edited in Eurosport Central Building studios which is located in Issy-Les-Moulineaux commune, Paris by Samuel Pagal and Charle-Henri Odin, the two editors of the show.
