{"id":28225,"date":"2013-04-17T16:28:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T20:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=28225"},"modified":"2013-04-17T16:28:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T20:58:40","slug":"cbs-sports-network-and-glory-sign-tv-agreement-kickboxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=28225","title":{"rendered":"CBS Sports Network and GLORY Sign TV Agreement \u2013 Kickboxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=28225 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24738 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"glory header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/glory-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Glory Sports International and CBS Sports Network have reached an agreement to showcase action from the world\u2019s premier kickboxing league, beginning with the star-studded GLORY 7 event in Milan, Italy on Saturday, April 20.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The CBS Sports Network telecast of the nine-bout GLORY 7 Milan kickboxing event from Mediolanum Forum, headlined by a showdown between world No. 1 ranked lightweight (154 pounds\/70 kilograms) Giorgio Petrosyan (75-1, 35 KOs) of Italy and fellow sensation Hafid El Boustati (67-7-3, 18 KOs) of The Netherlands, will air at 1:00 a.m. ET\/10:00 p.m. PT on Sunday, April 21 (Same day delay).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to expanding our relationship with CBS Sports Network, a tremendous national sports television platform, and bringing U.S. sports fans some of the hardest-hitting, world-class kickboxing action featuring elite martial arts fighters from around the world,\u201d said GLORY Sports International CEO Andrew Whitaker.<\/p>\n<p>GLORY action on CBS Sports Network continues from Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan with a one-night, eight-man, single-elimination tournament in GLORY\u2019s featherweight (143 pounds\/65 kilograms) division that airs Sunday, May 5 at 2:00 a.m. ET\/11:00 p.m. PT (Same day delay). In addition to the tournament, several Superfights, including a heavyweight rematch between all-time great Jerome Le Banner (73-21-2, 59 KOs) of France and Muay Thai champion Koichi (26-8-1, 15 KOs) highlight the card.<\/p>\n<p>Additional CBS Sports Network telecast dates of GLORY events will be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p>GLORY made its debut on CBS Sports Network from Tokyo on December 31, 2012 with GLORY 4 Tokyo, a one-night, 16-man \u2018Grand Slam\u2019 tournament loaded with an unprecedented lineup of the world\u2019s greatest heavyweight fighters.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Sports Network is available across the country through local cable, video and telco providers and via satellite on DirecTV Channel 613 and Dish Network Channel 158. For more information, and to access the CBS Sports Network channel finder, go to www.cbssportsnetwork.com.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit www.gloryworldseries.com.<\/p>\n<p>About GLORY:<br \/>\nGLORY World Series (www.gloryworldseries.com) is the world&#8217;s premier kickboxing league, producing live events across the globe and offering up to $2 million in prize money to the winners of one-night, 16-man \u2018Grand Slam\u2019 tournaments and 8-man \u2018Slam\u2019 tournaments, which are open to only the best fighters in each of six different weight classes. The fight series also includes events with traditional, single bouts.<br \/>\nWith television deals spanning every continent, online live video streaming of all shows and the world&#8217;s largest online martial arts library, GLORY is one of the world&#8217;s most widely distributed sporting organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Owned and operated by Glory Sports International (GSI), the organization has offices in the UK, Netherlands, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the US. Its personnel include an unprecedented mix of accomplished entrepreneurs and senior level executives from the diverse worlds of finance, sports marketing, television and martial arts fighting.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, GLORY launched the Road To GLORY tournament fight series to identify and develop new kickboxing talent in the United States, Japan and elsewhere around the globe into future champions and superstars of the sport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzbreaker.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19486\" title=\"NEWZBREAKER-BANNER\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/NEWZBREAKER-BANNER.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glory Sports International and CBS Sports Network have reached an agreement to showcase action from the world\u2019s premier kickboxing league, beginning with the star-studded GLORY 7 event in Milan, Italy on Saturday, April 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3062,6574,7767],"class_list":["post-28225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-cbs","tag-glory","tag-kickboxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28225"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}