FightZone TV Enters Fourth Year Of Broadcasting With Over 100 Hours Of National MMA Programming

Posted on | January 6, 2010 | No Comments

When FightZone TV began airing MMA events in 2006, they began with a modest four shows per month on FSN Affiliate Sun Sports, wired into 6 million plus Florida Homes and 4 million national subscribers on DIRECTV and The Dish Network.

There were four original Promoter Partners: Real Fighting Championships (RFC), Mainstream MMA, Ultimate Warrior Challenge (UWC) and Combat Fighting Championships (CFC). Now there are sixteen with new leagues and events being added monthly.

Starting their fourth year of broadcasting, FightZone TV will air 112 hours of MMA content in January to over 25 million homes on Sun Sports, Sport South, DIRECTV, The Dish Network and ATT U-verse and be available to over 65% of the homes in America with cable TV. Look for FightZone TV to even increase their distribution coverage in 2010 both on more cable networks and on various websites making their content available on demand and to video capable phones.

FightZone TV programming now includes three shows:

• FightZone Presents the best in MMA events from around the country, UK, Aruba and Hawaii.

• Jay Adams’ Brawl Call, an up close and personal, behind the scenes, Interview Show with FightZone co-owner Jay Adams talking to the biggest stars in MMA today.

• And MMA 30, a fast paced monthly News Program based in Las Vegas, and hosted
by Dave Farra, who is always right on top of every breaking MMA story. In addition MMA 30 supplies a 2 minute Breaking News update inserted in every FightZone Presents show.

This past year saw FightZone TV expanding its support in the MMA Community with sponsorships of the record setting Inaugural UFC Fan Expo in Vegas, World Expo in New York, World MMA Awards held in Las Vegas, Florida MMA Awards and numerous local and national events.

Providing commentary and hosting most of FightZone’s live events, Jay Adams traveled across the globe in 2009 to bring their viewers MMA action from such diverse places as Hawaii, Aruba, Belfast Ireland and various mainland US locations such as Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Smith Arkansas, Cincinnati, Sarasota, Southern California, Tampa, Ft. Myers and Washington DC,

Debuting on FightZone TV in January will be Cage Wars Champioship’s “Nightmare” Part 1 from the historic King’s Hall in Belfast, Ireland featuring MMA superstar Rich “No Love” Clementi against Irish sensation Chris “Menace to Society” Stringer in an all out international super fight. The Machine, John Lober stepped out of retirement to face Lee “Dragon” Mc Kibbin and was out to put the young Dragon in his place. Colin “The Gift” McKee was intent on increasing his six fight winning streak by facing down undefeated Brazilian Ju Jitsu black belt Neydson Santos Ferrara from Spain. Nightmare features a host of International and European talent in a non stop action packed event that was so big it had to be split in half with Part 2 airing in February.

Also debuting will be FightZone’s newest Promoter Partner, Unconquered Martial Arts’ “November Reign,” held at the BankUnited Center located on the University of Miami’s campus. This event saw fighters leaving it all in the cage with the judge’s scorecards only being read once. The action packed event was called by Jay Adams, Jen Boronico and Din Thomas cageside.

The card featured two female fights with Amanda Duval from Animal House taking on the tough ATT fighter Jessica Aguilar and the televised bout of Michelle Gutierrez and Fight Girls’ Felice Herrig, a Muay Thai Champion.

Other featured bouts included Jen Boronico’s pick for Fight Of The Night, Allan Arzeno vs. Patrick Mikesz in a crowd pleaser ending with a standing ovation.

Another fight that had the crowd on their feet was the Miami street fighting legend Rene Martinez vs Charlie Champion.

In other action, The Miami Hometown Hero, Luis “Baboon” Palomino took on Rafael Dias and ATT’s eighteen-year-old prodigy, Yuri Villefort against Joshua Lee.

This truly International card, which saw fighters from the US, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Venezuela and Czech Republic among others, set the stage for many more Unconquered events to come.

And, of course, FightZone TV will be there to bring you all the action.

Rounding out FightZone TV’s January’s debuts is X1’s “Legends” from Hawaii. This event features some of the most know and loved Hawaii fighters over the past years, plus some newcomers trying to become fan favorites on their way to future legends. Bouts include two fighters, who according to Russell Shimooka, a legendary commentator himself, were not legends coming into this fight but will soon be after this explosive TV coverage. Welterweight Champion, Chad Reiner and Brandon Wolff, after having a five, 5 minute war of non stop action, will certainly be local legends after these airings. Also on the card were: Kolo Koka vs Michael Brightmon; Ray “Bradda” Cooper vs Ritchie Whitson and Egan Inoue vs Hans Marrero.

Fight Zone’s Promoter Partners include Cage Wars Championships (CWC-UK), Unconquered (UMA – FL), Art Of Fighting (AOF-FL). Vendetta, (Aruba), X1 (Hawaii), Ultimate Warrior Championships (UWC – Washington, DC), Mainstream (Iowa), Xtreme Fighting Association (XFA – Las Vegas), Pure Combat (CA), Real Fighting Championships (RFC-Tampa, FL), Reality Combat Championships (RCC – Jacksonville), Gladiator Challenge (CA), World Fighting Championships (WFC, Tampa, FL) Combat Fighting Championships (CFC – Orlando, FL), .

For Airing Schedules, Commercial availability and Media Kit, visit www.FightZone.TV or email FightZoneMedia@aol.com or call 727-577-5500.