ESPN and ONE Championship Enter Exclusive Multi-Year Broadcast Agreement for Australia and New Zealand – ESPN today announced a multi-year agreement with ONE Championship (ONE), the world’s largest martial arts organization, which will make ONE events available exclusively via ESPN in Australia and New Zealand.
ESPN will air all ONE events live, excluding select pay-per-view events, across its most widely distributed sports network spanning Disney+, Foxtel, Kayo Sports, Fetch TV, and Sky NZ.
Those broadcasts will include flagship ONE numbered events, monthly ONE Fight Night shows, and the weekly ONE Friday Fights event series. ONE features action across multiple martial arts disciplines, including MMA, Muay Thai, submission grappling, and kickboxing, showcasing the organization’s global roster of elite fighters from more than 80 countries.
ESPN’s coverage will begin with ONE Fight Night 40: Buntan vs Hemetsberger II, live from Bangkok’s iconic Lumpinee Stadium on Friday, February 13, at 11:30 PM AEDT.
The main event will feature ONE Women’s Strawweight Kickboxing World Champion Jackie Buntan defending her gold against ONE Women’s Strawweight Muay Thai World Champion Stella “Always Hungry” Hemetsberger in a highly anticipated rematch. Also, the co-main event will feature a battle for the ONE Interim Featherweight Muay Thai World Title between top contenders Shadow Singha Mawynn and “King of the North” Nico Carrillo.
ONE Fight Night 40 will also showcase former ONE Flyweight MMA World Title challenger Danny “The King” Kingad, 19-year-old MMA star Adrian “The Phenom” Lee, Japanese wrecking ball Shozo Isojima, and IBJJF World Champions Fabricio “Hokage” Andrey and Joao Mendes, among others.
About ONE Championship™
ONE is the world’s largest martial arts organization, ranking among the world’s top-five sports properties for viewership and engagement with a cumulative reach of over 400 million fans, according to Nielsen. ONE produces and distributes world-class events across more than 195 countries, featuring martial artists and World Champions from over 80 nations and all styles of martial arts including MMA, Muay Thai, kickboxing, submission grappling, and more.
ONE can be viewed on many of the largest global free-to-air and digital broadcasters, including Prime Video, U-NEXT, Sky Sports, Globo, beIN SPORTS, Channel 7 HD, Star Sports, TNT Sports, Moji, RMC Sport, Douyin, One Sports, Vidio, Mediapro, Skynet, Match TV, and more.
ESPN and ESPN2 is available via Disney+, Foxtel, Kayo Sports, Fetch TV and Sky NZ.
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ESPN and ONE Championship Enter Exclusive Multi-Year Broadcast Agreement for Australia and New Zealand
