South Africa’s renowned fight promotion Extreme Fighting Championship has a TV home in the UK after a deal was struck with UK channel Extreme Channel.
The promotion, which counts reigning UFC middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis and English UFC flyweight Jake Hadley among its former champions, helped produce the current UFChas inked an exclusive TV broadcast deal with Extreme Channel, which will air EFC’s big monthly events on its UK channel, which can be accessed via Freeview TV.
Extreme launched on Freeview TV last week, opening up the channel and its content to 16 million homes on Freeview Channel 295.
The first EFC event to benefit from that increased exposure is the replay of EFC 114, which airs at 6pm on Saturday, June 15. EFC joins fellow combat sports programming including IMMAF events, BKK and Fighting Fit.
EFC 114 featured a battle for the EFC interim flyweight title in the main event, as South Africa’s Terance Balelo faced off with Belgium’s Liridon Ramani. There was plenty of heat ahead of the co-main event, with EFC featherweight Grand Prix rivals Ayanda Zwane and Simbarashe Hokonya needing to be separated at the weigh-ins ahead of fight night.
