Fubo Co-Founder & CEO David Gandler
Joins BKFC Board of Directors
FuboTV Inc. (d/b/a Fubo) (NYSE: FUBO), the leading sports-first
live TV streaming platform, has made a minority investment in Bare
Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC), the world’s fastest growing
combat sports promotion, through an investment announced by the
companies today. Fubo Co-founder and CEO David Gandler will also
join BKFC’s board of directors.
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The strategic investment expands the companies’ current
partnership, which includes live distribution rights on Fubo
Sports, Fubo’s FAST (free ad-supported streaming TV) linear
network, and Pay-Per-View (PPV). BKFC’s live combat fights are
consistently among the top 10 most watched programming on Fubo
Sports while BKFC 48 on August 11, 2023, headlined by social media
star Bryce Hall vs. Gee Perez, was the most watched combat sports
event in the channel’s four year history.
Through the expanded partnership, Fubo will stream select BKFC’s
live events, including BKFC 57 on February 2, 2024, live from the
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL. The headline
event features a welterweight clash between BKFC #1 Pound-for-Pound
Fighter Luis 'Baboon' Palomino and former boxing World Champion
Austin 'No Doubt' Trout.
Fubo will also stream upcoming BKFC original programming
including BKFC Prospect Series, and the companies will co-develop a
reality series, BKFC: What’s Your Why?, aimed at creating an
emotional connection between fighters and fans.
“Fubo is committed to bringing consumers an aggregated content
experience that includes the widest choice of live sports
programming,” said Gandler. “The singularity of bare knuckle
fighting has already made BKFC an important strategic partner for
our Fubo Sports linear channel. BKFC was our best performing MMA
property in 2023, and we have been very impressed with its
continued viewership and engagement growth on Fubo Sports. With
this investment, Fubo is committed to the future of BKFC and
working with David Feldman and his team to scale the sport.”
“The investment by Fubo is not only a milestone for BKFC because
it signifies and validates our continuing growth and evolution, but
also will increase viewership and distribution exponentially
through Fubo’s extended reach,” said David Feldman, president and
founder, BKFC.
About Fubo
With a global mission to aggregate the best in TV, including
premium sports, news and entertainment content, through a single
app, FuboTV Inc. (d/b/a Fubo) (NYSE: FUBO) aims to transcend the
industry’s current TV model. The company operates Fubo in the U.S.,
Canada and Spain and Molotov in France.
In the U.S., Fubo is a sports-first cable TV replacement product
that aggregates more than 300 live sports, news and entertainment
networks and is the only live TV streaming platform with every
Nielsen-rated sports channel (source: Nielsen Total Viewers, 2023).
Leveraging Fubo’s proprietary data and technology platform
optimized for live TV and sports viewership, subscribers can engage
with the content they are watching through an intuitive and
personalized streaming experience. Fubo has continuously pushed the
boundaries of live TV streaming. It was the first virtual MVPD to
launch 4K streaming and MultiView, which it did years ahead of its
peers, as well as Instant Headlines, a first-of-its-kind AI feature
that generates contextual news topics as they are reported live on
air.
Learn more at https://fubo.tv
About Bare Knuckle Fighting
Championship (BKFC)
Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) is the first promotion
allowed to hold a legal, sanctioned, and regulated bare knuckle
event in the United States since 1889. Based in Philadelphia, and
headed by President and former professional boxer David Feldman,
BKFC is dedicated to preserving the historical legacy of bare
knuckle fighting, while utilizing a specifically created rule set
that emphasizes fighter safety. BKFC holds all of its bouts in a
revolutionary circular four-rope ring, designed to encourage
fast-paced and exciting bouts. The patented BKFC “Squared Circle”
contains scratch lines, based on the Broughton Rules which governed
bare knuckle fighting in the 19th century, and which requires
fighters to “Toe the Line”: start every round face to face, and
just inches apart.
In BKFC, only those fighters who are established professionals
in boxing, MMA, kickboxing, or Muay Thai are allowed to compete.
The referees and judges are required to have extensive professional
combat sports experience. All fights are held under the auspices
and control of an Athletic Commission. Unlike other fighting
organizations and combat sports internationally which claim to be
“bare knuckle”, but require wraps, tape, and gauze; BKFC is true to
its word as fighters are not allowed to wrap their hands to within
one inch of the knuckle. This makes BKFC unquestionably the truest
form of bare knuckle fighting. BKFC is dedicated to not just
creating the safest, most exciting, and highest-level bare-knuckle
fighting organization in the world, it’s also leading the way for a
new fully recognized professional combat sport. BKFC is truly the
sport of the future, which fully respects its remarkable past.
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