Eurosport Fight Club

"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.

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.

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:

"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"
*Turkish: Umut Isik
*Greek: Makis Kolethras"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

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.

ee also

*Eurosport
*Sports channel

External links

* [http://www.eurosport.com Official Eurosport website]

Top 10 KO Samples

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t69jxh99L3E Danish Edition]
* [http://video.aol.com/video-detail/eurosport-fight-club-top-10-knock-outs/4290176199 German Edition]