Invicta FC Signs Deal With UFC Fight Pass

Jun 5, 2014     Posted  by Invicta FC    
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UFC FIGHT PASS SIGNS HISTORIC CONTENT DEAL WITH INVICTA FC
This is a historic multi-year, multi-event deal. When we launched UFC FIGHT PASS last Christmas, we said that we would never rest in bringing the best value to our subscribers. The addition of live and archived Invicta programming is going to be of enormous interest to our existing subscribers and bring in new subscribers, too.” – UFC Fight Pass chief content officer Marshall Zelaznik

The Ultimate Fighting Championship and Invicta Fighting Championships are excited to announce that UFCFIGHTPASS.com, the UFC’s digital streaming service, is now the exclusive digital broadcaster of the world’s leading all-female MMA organization.

UFC FIGHT PASS chief content officer Marshall Zelaznik said: “This is a historic multi-year, multi-event deal. When we launched UFC FIGHT PASS last Christmas, we said that we would never rest in bringing the best value to our subscribers. The addition of live and archived Invicta programming is going to be of enormous interest to our existing subscribers and bring in new subscribers, too.”

He added: “UFC FIGHT PASS already has subscribers in over 155 countries, which is a huge platform the Invicta athletes. Invicta fighters are now sharing the same stage as elite UFC fighters like Alexander Gustafson, Conor McGregor, Cung Le and Michael Bisping. For any UFC fans that haven’t seen these women compete before – I guarantee they will be blown away when they see what Invicta is all about.”

Invicta FC president Shannon Knapp said: “This is a great day for my company. Since the start of Invicta, I’ve been committed to providing the biggest and best possible platform for women athletes and, with this distribution deal with UFC FIGHT PASS, Invicta will reach the most passionate MMA fans, wherever they are in the world.”

In addition to every upcoming Invicta event screening live, the entire Invicta archive will be made available anytime, anywhere, on UFC FIGHT PASS.

That means subscribers will be able to check out fights featuring talents like atomweight world champion Michelle Waterson and flyweight title-holder Barb Honchak, as well as Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos, former Strikeforce champ Marloes Coenen and early-career fights of UFC stars like Alexis Davis, Cat Zingano and Liz Carmouche.

The Invicta FC library joins the libraries of PRIDE FC, Strikeforce, WEC, WFA, EliteXC, Affliction Entertainment and the UFC on UFCFIGHTPASS.com.

Invicta will be announcing the first event to be screened on UFCFIGHTPASS.com shortly.

Knapp said: “We are targeting a late-summer event, headlined by a world title fight. This is an historic event for myself, the company and my athletes, and every one of them is going to want to be on this first card.”

AudaxSmoke wrote:Invicta has good fighters that the UFC will cherry pick soon, I just hate Invicta as an organization and Shanon Knapp is a fucking joke.

PRIDE4EVER wrote:hahahahaha hope Shannon Knapp enjoys the fucking unemployment line she will be there soon enough when the UFC decides they don't want them anymore!

Further more to me this is concrete proof that Zuffa owned Invicta all along, I think maybe the federal trade commission needs to be alerted.

JimGunn wrote:I saw this announcement earlier today and on every other MMA forum the reaction was almost universally positive. I knew it wasn't going to go over well here, lol. I think it's interesting. I never watched Invicta before except one time they had a free stream due to technical difficulties. But I'll definitely watch their next show since it's included in Fight Pass.

It can lead to a potential women's MMA superfight if Cybrog can show that she can make 135 lbs. and compete at Bantamweight on the late summer Invicta FC show supposedly coming up, maybe even winning the Invicta FC Bantamweight belt in the process. The UFC would have to have her fight Ronda Rousey in that case.

And everyone, whether Zuffa hater, Zuffa shill or just plain MMA fan wants to see that fight, right?

Golden Age wrote:

JimGunn wrote:I saw this announcement earlier today and on every other MMA forum the reaction was almost universally positive. I knew it wasn't going to go over well here, lol. I think it's interesting. I never watched Invicta before except one time they had a free stream due to technical difficulties. But I'll definitely watch their next show since it's included in Fight Pass.

It can lead to a potential women's MMA superfight if Cybrog can show that she can make 135 lbs. and compete at Bantamweight on the late summer Invicta FC show supposedly coming up, maybe even winning the Invicta FC Bantamweight belt in the process. The UFC would have to have her fight Ronda Rousey in that case.

And everyone, whether Zuffa hater, Zuffa shill or just plain MMA fan wants to see that fight, right?

Personally I´m hoping Zuffa gets some serious competition instead of all these feeder leagues. I still got my hopes up that DEEP Jewels will become the biggest place for wmma.

Golden Age wrote:

Yeah Jim the other forums are not paying attention. Since zuffa has focused on wmma they only have put on 6 fights in 6 months this year. Now it's almost a guarantee if you're not fighting for a belt and you're a woman you are stuck on shit pass tv. A place where fighters have admitted to losing money fighting on.

Meanwhile DEEP JEWELS had a successful IPPV and has run regular shows all during this dark time for Invicta. Crowning legit champs like Ham Seo Hee and Hashi. With Seo Hee already defending her belt.

Zuffa has been nothing but bad news for wmma fighters unless you are Rounder.

iforgotmypassword wrote:

Golden Age wrote:

Yeah Jim the other forums are not paying attention. Since zuffa has focused on wmma they only have put on 6 fights in 6 months this year. Now it's almost a guarantee if you're not fighting for a belt and you're a woman you are stuck on shit pass tv. A place where fighters have admitted to losing money fighting on.

Meanwhile DEEP JEWELS had a successful IPPV and has run regular shows all during this dark time for Invicta. Crowning legit champs like Ham Seo Hee and Hashi. With Seo Hee already defending her belt.

Zuffa has been nothing but bad news for wmma fighters unless you are Rounder.

If you're a female MMA fighter and you're fighting in Invicta you're going to be seen worldwide on UFC Fight Pass by orders of magnitude more people- especially in North America and Europe- than you would if you were fighting on Deep Jewels next iPPV card. And that doesn't include the female prospects that the UFC is grooming like Alexis Davis, Jessica Eye, Bethe Correia, Jessamyn Duke and others who were seen on Fox Sports 1 or PPV. I think it's good that there are more opportunities for female fighters everywhere. Give this deal a chance, I'm pretty certain it's going to result in a lot more WMMA fights being shown on Fight Pass and the UFC's various tv platforms.

iforgotmypassword wrote:
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Meanwhile DEEP JEWELS had a successful IPPV and has run regular shows all during this dark time for Invicta. Crowning legit champs like Ham Seo Hee and Hashi. With Seo Hee already defending her belt.
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Kingfedor wrote:Sad Day For MMA 
  
Im Pretty Sure that Titan Fc will be the next Feeder League to go on fight pass.

Hamilcar wrote:

iforgotmypassword wrote:
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Meanwhile DEEP JEWELS had a successful IPPV and has run regular shows all during this dark time for Invicta. Crowning legit champs like Ham Seo Hee and Hashi. With Seo Hee already defending her belt.
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Really? Can someone send me a link or something? How can I watch Jewels? Since it became blindingly obvious that Invicta was a part of Zoofa I have been blacklisting Invicta. But I still would like to watch a WMMA league like Jewels.

JimGunn wrote:

Kingfedor wrote:Sad Day For MMA 
  
Im Pretty Sure that Titan Fc will be the next Feeder League to go on fight pass.

Why would you think that? Titan FC signed a deal with CBS within the last year and have held two fight cards on CBSSports.com (prelims) and the CBS Sports channel so far.  If the UFC is looking for any more promotions to put on Fight Pass, they will most likely be looking for organizations that don't have a tv deal at all or at least not one in North America.