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The Super Fight League, or SFL, is an Indian based mixed martial arts promotion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Official Website of the Super Fight League (SFL) )〕 The organisation was formed in 2012 by Sanjay Dutt and Raj Kundra.〔(Raj Kundra & Sanjay Dutt announce India's first Super Fight League (SFL) ). adcombat.com (2012-01-16). Retrieved on 2012-01-26.〕 The SFL is the first MMA promotion based in India. SFL events have been shown on Colors〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Super Fight League signs TV rights with Colors )〕 and Neo Prime in India, but now all events can be seen live on ESPN Star Sports in the country from March 29, 2013〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ESS acquires Super Fight League broadcast rights for 5 years )〕 and on YouTube live worldwide due to a 3-year contract between the promotion and the website.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=India's Super Fight League announces YouTube stream for Sapp-Thompson event )〕 It is currently sponsored by PACL India Limited (Pearls) and thus officially known as Pearls Super Fight League. ==History== The SFL was founded by celebrity entrepreneur IPL cricket team owner Raj Kundra and Bollywood megastar Sanjay Dutt in January 2012. Its intent is giving Indian mixed martial artists a platform to compete and grow in its home country whilst bringing in talented fighters from different parts of the world. They launched their first event on March 11, 2012, which was headlined by Bob 'The Beast' Sapp and James 'The Colossus' Thompson.〔Slack, Jack. (2012-01-16) (Asian MMA Update: Honorio Banario Steps In For Eric Kelly At ONE FC 2, James Thompson vs. Bob Sapp In India ). Bloody Elbow. Retrieved on 2012-01-26.〕 On January 1, 2012, Ken Pavia was named CEO of the Super Fight League. He was asked by Kundra personally to become CEO of the SFL, with Pavia saying in an interview "Raj Kundra believes he needed experienced in each department of his organisation and has put together the most impressive team that I have seen in 10 years in this sport". On February 27, the SFL announced that they had signed Todd Duffee, Trevor Prangley, Baga Agaev, Paul Kelly, Xavier Foupa-Pokam and Lena Ovchynnikova to four fight exclusive contracts. On June 23, the SFL announced that they had signed Jeff Monson, Satoshi Ishii, Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou, and Michael Page. It was announced by the Fight Network that they will show all of the SFL's events on Canadian TV. In September 2012 Pavia resigned his position as the CEO of the SFL citing "family reasons." Fighters Only magazine reported that his mother had cancer and he was expecting his first child at the age of 46. The SFL made three announcements on September 24, 2012. The first was a strategic alliance between themselves and Invicta Fighting Championships, which aims to bring the best Indian female fighters to Invicta, whilst Invicta will aim to send world class female mixed martial artists to the Super Fight League. The second announcement was the Friday Night Fight Nights. From October 12, the SFL will hold an event every Friday in a specially designed arena in Mumbai in front of an exclusive invitation only audience. This will replace the original model of holding arena events once aimed one a month. Programming will last for three hours each week with weigh-ins, live fights and interviews from Bollywood cage side guests. There will be 7 fights in total each event, with 1 of them being a female bout. It will air live on Neo Prime in India and on their YouTube page for the rest of the world. The final announcement was introducing Indian Olympic Female Boxing Bronze Medallist Mary Kom as the SFL's brand ambassador. At SFL 13: Night of Champions, the Super Fight League will reward 5 titles in the men's and women's division. Launching on 4 December 2012, the Super Fight League announces a strategic partnership Provogue to set up a new company to jointly market all merchandise for SFL. The company has been named Pro SFL and the first product to hit the market is the New Deodorant Range ‘Aspire, Inspire and Desire. At the start of 2013, the SFL partnered with Indian news outlet DNA to promote women to get into martial arts and ran self-defence courses throughout Mumbai during mid-January as a result from the 2012 Delhi gang rape case that happened just weeks prior. The SFL signed a new TV deal with ESPN Star Sport in India for all events to be shown live for the next five years, starting with SFL 14 on 29 March 2013.〔 On April 15, it was announced that the SFL has penned a three-year title sponsorship with real estate company PACL India Limited (Pearls).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Super Fight League agrees three-year title sponsorship )〕 The SFL will be undergoing another change from August, 2013. It will go from hosting fortnightly events, to returning to a weekly format comprising four fights a night as appose to their usual seven. The promotion will also be shifting venue. A new arena is being constructed at the Filmalaya Stuidos in Andheri that will have a capacity of 800 people as compared to the 250-seater set-up. "Changing the format of the show has been a collective decision of our telecast partner and myself. Making the format regular but shorter gives a stronger connect," said Raj Kundra, founder of the SFL.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SFL to get a makeover )〕 On October 4, 2014 Super Fight League will hold its inaugural show in the United States, with SFL 35 taking place in Tacoma, Washington. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Super Fight League」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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