ġ6 August 2022 Glory announced a multi-year broadcast deal with Viaplay in Poland. The deal covers all Glory events starting from Glory 81: Ben Saddik vs. Glory 75 and later events have been available exclusively through pay-per-view.Ģ8 June 2022 Glory announced a multi-year broadcast deal with Videoland in the Netherlands. The first event to be broadcast as part of this partnership was Glory 63: Houston on February 1 and the last event was Glory 75: Utrecht on February 29, 2020. īeginning in 2019, Glory initiated a partnership with the UFC for the former's events to be exclusively carried in the U.S by UFC Fight Pass. Franklin announced a new multi-year deal with ESPN. The broadcast deal with Spike was extended in May 2014 to cover 2015. event in New York, Glory 9: New York on June 22, 2013, Spike TV signed a multi-year agreement to broadcast Glory kickboxing events their partnership began with Glory 11: Chicago on October 12 of that year.
In June 2013, after having its first U.S. On May 26, 2020, Glory Sports International went into receivership, and soon after ownership of Glory was transferred to London-based GSUKCO Limited. On May 15, 2020, Glory announced Zelaznik had resigned as Glory CEO. Franklin had moved to the role of Chief Development Officer, and former UFC executive Marshall Zelaznik had been hired as the new CEO. In 2018, Glory announced that former CEO of Glory Sports International, Jon J. In February 2013, Glory announced that former WWE Executive VP Andrew Whitaker had been hired as the global CEO of Glory Sports International. The company's investors include Yao Capital, Liberty Global, and TwinFocus Capital Partners. The company includes a mix of entrepreneurs and senior level executives from different environments. Glory Sports International has its offices in the Netherlands, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US. Glory World Series signed most of the world's top kickboxers, such as Peter Aerts, Remy Bonjasky, Semmy Schilt, Gokhan Saki, Daniel Ghiţă, Albert Kraus, and Giorgio Petrosyan. A number of people formerly involved with these three entities event became Glory consultants. Forming the Glory World Series, Pierre Andurand was named Chairman and Scott Rudmann was named vice-chairman. In the aftermath, Pierre Andurand, TSA, and the other investors decided to start a brand new kickboxing promotion and acquired United Glory, Golden Glory, and It's Showtime to secure a top event production team and contracts to each promotion's top fighters. K-1 was instead sold to Mike Kim and EMCOM Entertainment Inc.
When K-1 began suffering from extreme financial difficulties in 2011, Total Sports Asia, TSA CEO Marcus Luer, Pierre Andurand, and Scott Rudmann of Nectar Capital attempted to buy the brand.
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