International Fight League, and Alfred Haber Distribution announce sale in Asia to Star TV

The
International Fight League, the team-based professional mixed martial arts
league, and Alfred Haber Distribution (AHDI) announced the addition of Star TV
as the IFL’s first television partner in

Asia.
Star will carry IFL programming on it’s Star Sports platform, available in over
50 countries to a viewership of over 300 million.

“The
sport of Mixed Martial Arts has a storied history in

Asia,
and we are very eager for such a large fan base to be able to see the IFL on a
regular basis,” said Gareb Shamus, IFL co-founder and CEO. “The
combination of our rising stars with our legendary coaches, many of whom are already household names in

Asia, will
make for very exciting programming for this important, emerging fan base.”

Star TV
adds to an IFL TV platform that also includes most of the Middle East and parts
of northern Africa on MBC, the free-to-air Pan-Arab news and entertainment
channel in the region and CanWest Global in

Canada, who is distributing the
shows on their Global X-Treme Sports Channel. Those are in addition to
the IFL’s United States deals with “IFL Battleground,” hosted by
Tiffany Fallon and Bas Rutten on MyNetwork TV (Mondays at 8 p.m. eastern and

pacific/7 p.m. central) and “Fight Night” (Fridays at 11:00
p.m. on FSN). IFL programming is also seen worldwide on Armed Forces Network.