ProSieben inks exclusive content deal with Karate Combat
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| 22 March 2019

In the company’s first exclusive and non-English deal, 7Sports, the sport business unit of ProSiebenSat.1, has inked an exclusive agreement with Karate Combat to bring its full contact karate competitions to free-to-air and online audiences.

The new martial arts league is the first mainstream, professional full contact league and has received international praise since its launch in April 2018.

Competitions in Budapest, Athens, Miami, New York City and Hollywood were viewed by millions live, with many more watching replays. A new championship structure, leading to the awarding of the Golden Belt in each weight class has riveted fans as returning fighters take on new challengers. In 2019, Karate Combat will broadcast events live from Japan, China, Brazil, Spain, France, Italy, Latvia and the US.

7Sports belongs to the leading German entertainment player ProSiebenSat.1 Group and under the terms of the deal, content will run across Germany, Switzerland and Austria on ProSieben MAXX and dedicated combat sports digital platform ran FIGHTING which boasts Germany’s largest combat sports archive, including ONE Championship and German Mixed-Martial-Arts Championship (GMC).

Eight events from all over the world will air throughout 2019, live, near-live or on demand on ran FIGHTING. Selected events will be shown free-to-air on TV channel ProSieben MAXX. Karate Combat: One World Centre will celebrate its premiere in German-language Free TV on 24 March 24th at 22:00 CET.

“We’re very pleased to reach a large audience of German speaking TV viewers with 7Sports,” said Karate Combat CEO Michael DePietro. “Broadcasting on the free-to-air ProSieben MAXX channel means we’ll reach mainstream viewers as well as ran FIGHTING’s sports fans, and we’re confident they’ll be hooked on Karate Combat’s action.”

Zeljko Karajica, CEO of 7Sports added: “Karate Combat is uniquely created. The highest martial art meets unique production. We bring the combination of the two to the German-speaking viewers onto all screens.”