Professional Fighters League Teams With Starzplay on Multi-Year Middle East Rights Deal (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent The Professional Fighters League (PFL) has forged a major media rights agreement with Starzplay, a leading streaming service in the Middle East and North Africa.
The multi-year deal will bring PFL’s full range of mixed martial arts franchises to fight fans in the MENA region, including the PFL World Tournament, Champions Series, PFL Europe, PFL MENA, PFL Africa, and the newly announced PFL Pacific event that will debut in December.
Starzplay, which has more than three million subscribers, is available in 20 MENA countries, including Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., Egypt and Pakistan.
Mixed Martial Arts has a global audience of 550 million fans, which it says makes it the third largest sports audience, behind only soccer and basketball.
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