PFL bolsters expansion with ESPN Africa broadcast deal for 2022 season

NEW YORK (April 13, 2022) -The Professional Fighters League, (PFL), the fastest growing and most innovative sports league, today announced a media rights agreement with ESPN Africa for the 2022 Season, highlighting the company’s commitment to bringing the world’s best MMA action to fight fans on the continent. Under the agreement, the network will become the exclusive PFL content provider in Sub-Saharan Africa and include live coverage of the Regular Season, Playoffs and PFL World Championship.

In addition to live event coverage, audiences will have access to the PFL highlights show and
other thrilling content from the league. ESPN is the home of U.S. sports in Africa and PFL will be broadcast alongside other leading global sports properties, such as the NFL and NBA. PFL Lightweight Don Madge, a Johannesburg, South Africa native, will make his PFL Regular Season debut on April 20 in the co-main event against 2021 PFL Lightweight World Champion Raush Manfio. Madge defeated Nate Williams by a 2nd round submission at the PFL World Championship in October 2021 in a showcase bout and will look to continue the momentum at PFL 1 at Esports Stadium Arlington.

“The PFL is thrilled to announce our exclusive broadcast agreement with ESPN Africa to deliver
the PFL 2022 Season events to MMA fans across the continent and expand our partnership with
the worldwide leader in sports,” said PFL CEO Peter Murray. “Africa is a priority market for the
PFL and we are committed to signing fighters from the continent as well as hosting future events
there to help accelerate the growth of the sport.”

“We are excited to have secured the broadcast rights to the 2022 season of the Professional
Fighters League for ESPN Africa,” said Kyle De Klerk, Director: Sports, The Walt Disney Company
Africa. “The PFL will complement our current international and local sports offering, bringing
viewers the excitement, adrenalin and exhilaration that are synonymous with this no holds barred,
world-class mixed martial arts league,” he added.

PFL is the first and only MMA league with a true sports-season format where elite fighters from
around the world compete in a regular season, playoffs and championship. The four competitors
in each division who earn the most points in the regular season advance to the win-or-go-home
playoffs, followed by the biggest night in MMA – the PFL World Championship – with each winner
going home with the $1 million prize.

Professional Fighters League is the No. 2 MMA company globally and features an elite talent
roster with 25 percent of its fighters independently ranked in the top-25 of the world, including
2021 PFL champions Kayla Harrison and Ray Cooper III. PFL has live event coverage in 160
countries on leading distribution platforms and delivers a unique, innovative product to the more
than 600 million MMA fans globally.

How to tune in:

ESPN: DStv 218, Starsat 248
SABC Sport
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