FIGHT SPORTS has secured Live rights to the biggest Championship Boxing event of the summer, as ring legend and one of the superstars of boxing, Manny Pacquiao, takes on one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the sport, Keith Thurman from the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.  The WBA Welterweight World Championship will be on the line. Pacquiao looks to continue what has been a historic and hall-of-fame worthy career, one which has seen him score victories over Oscar De La Hoya, Miguel Cotto, Shane Mosley, Adrien Broner, and many others.  He faces one of his toughest challenges to date […]

Coming off of the exciting broadcast of the WBC Heavyweight World Championship classic between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury, followed by HBO’s farewell boxing broadcast headlined by longtime Female Welterweight World Champion Cecilia Braekhus, FIGHT SPORTS™ ends the year with three more World Championship events. First, on December 15th, FIGHT SPORTS™ will showcase Canelo Alvarez’s move to the Super Middleweight division as he takes on WBA titleholder Rocky Fielding. Canelo returns to the ring three months after his victory over Gennady “GGG” Golovkin in a match-up of two of boxing’s best pound-for-pound fighters. Through the agreement, FIGHT SPORTS™ will broadcast […]

FIGHT SPORTS, the linear sports channel and digital service, has agreed a carriage deal in Spain with telco operator Orange. FIGHT SPORTS has a similar deal already in place with Orange in France, and the latest agreement continues the channel’s global expansion. FIGHT SPORTS’ programming line-up includes weekly live premium events including world title boxing matches, as well as championship kickboxing, mixed martial arts, martial arts and exclusive reality, documentary and original programming series. FIGHT SPORTS, which is owned by CSI Sports, reaches more than 40 countries globally with over 200 carriage agreements having been signed since it launched in […]

Extending its major distribution in the region and South East Asia, CSI Sports has signed a new carriage agreement with StarHub TV in Singapore which will see transmission of channels principally including its 24/7 HD network Fight Sports. With boxing and MMA thriving globally, the Fight Sports network now reaches over 40 countries with more than 200+ carriage agreements across Europe, Asia and the Caribbean since launch in 2012. The new StarHub programming line-up will include broadcasting some of boxing’s biggest live world title fights from WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO, Championship kickboxing, K-1, MMA, martial arts and exclusive reality, […]

FIGHT SPORTS, the channel owned by New York-based fight sports production and distribution company CSI Sports, is to show the March 31st fight between boxing heavyweights Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker, after picking up rights to the bout. FIGHT SPORTS will exclusively air the world title fight, which is taking place in Cardiff on 31 March, in over 30 countries. In the lead up to the fight, the network will be showcasing exclusive content from both fighters. The deal was struck between FIGHT SPORTS and promoters Matchroom Boxing and Duco Events. FIGHT SPORTS becomes the latest broadcaster to acquire rights […]

“SKYcable are excited to partner with the leading international provider and add the FIGHT SPORTS network and content to our cable TV platform.” – James Dumlao, Programming & Packaging Head at SKYcable. CSI Sports’ 24/7 live sports channel, FIGHT SPORTS, dedicated to cover the best across the fight industry, has landed another punch in the Philippines by extending its distribution with a carriage agreement with multi-channel, multi-media company SKYcable. The programming line-up includes live world title boxing events (WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO), championship kickboxing, K-1, MMA, martial arts and exclusive reality, documentary and original programming series. It also features […]

FIGHT SPORTS’ New York-based parent company CSI Sports has agreed to a deal to acquire rights to the Deontay Wilder vs. Luis Ortiz WBC Heavyweight World Championship Live event, taking place March 3rd at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The deal covers rights in over 50 countries, including in Japan, Spain, Germany, Belgium, India, Singapore, and throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Wilder, 39-0 with 38 knockouts, looks to defend his title for the 7th time since claiming the belt in a unanimous decision victory over Bermane Stiverne in January of 2015 – the only fight to go the distance in Wilder’s spectacular career […]

CSI Sports, a provider of FIGHT SPORTS, has signed a new carriage agreement for its 24/7 HD Network Fight Sports in Finland, with leading Nordic and Finnish multi-channel media company SANOMA. The programming line-up includes some of the highest profile `LIVE’ World Title Boxing events (WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO), Championship Kickboxing, K-1, MMA, Martial Arts and exclusive Reality, Documentary and original programming series.

FIGHT SPORTS is adding several boxing titles to its broadcast line up, including HBO World Championship Boxing titles; Glory Redemption; and Live Grand Finale of EFC’s reality series The Fighter. On 9 December Fight Sports will have two championship events. Glory Redemption is an international kickboxing match featuring Rico Verhoeven vs Jamaal Ben Saddik for the heavyweight title. This will be followed by the first-ever clash of two-time Olympic gold medallists when Vasyl Lomachenko faces Guillermo Rigondeaux, who is moving up two weight divisions, for the fight at the Madison Square Garden Theatre. The following week on 16 December, the sports network […]

FIGHT SPORTS, the channel owned by New York-based fight sports production and distribution company CSI Sports, has acquired rights to show Miguel Cotto’s final bout tomorrow. The six-times world champion from Puerto Rico will end his 16-year career by defending his WBO light-middleweight title against Sadam Ali at Madison Square Garden, New York. Fight Sports will broadcast the fight live in more than 50 countries where it has carriage deals in place, including the likes of Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Spain, Belgium, Germany and sub-Saharan Africa. Other bouts on the Fight Sports schedule for this month include: Jeff Horn’s first defence […]