ONE FC Set To Become Multi-Billion Dollar TV Property

SINGAPORE — When Patrick Murphy took charge of the sale of media rights for UEFA’s Champions League in 2001, revenues per year were just over €100 million (S$176 million).
After exactly 12 years at the helm, he had boosted the European football governing body’s coffers to more than €1.8 billion a season.

Armed with a global contact list of key broadcast decision-makers, Murphy is looking for new challenges and has picked One FC as his next target.

The mixed martial arts (MMA) promoter came into his sights after he left Zurich last year and moved to Hong Kong, which his wife Rebecca Ngan calls home, to start the Catalyst Media Group.
Speaking from the Chinese territory, Murphy told TODAY that he decided on the Singapore-based property after carefully consulting authoritative data on their sport.
He said it has the right Asian content that he wants to sell to the world’s television networks and, as a result, deals are being negotiated.

“The reality is Asians are very good at some sports such as table tennis, badminton and gymnastics, but does anybody really care about those sports outside of Asia?” the Irishman asked.
“If you look from a business point of view that I want to bring Asian content to the world, and if you look at the fact that Asia is really the home of martial arts, all those things made One FC an attractive proposition for me.”

Even more compelling, said Murphy, is the data on global interest in MMA.
In a survey across 23 countries conducted by leading sports research firm Repucom, football still leads with 41 per cent followed by Formula One, among 22 per cent of the 23,023 respondents.

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it would be great if ONE FC could get more global attention

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Great to hear. ONE FC is a fun company to watch.