BWI: Catch ‘World Combat League’ on STAR Sports

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: ESPN STAR Sports
Monday, April 06, 2009 06:34 PM IST (01:04 PM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, Entertainment, People, Sports; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Media & entertainment, Sports
Release no: 19637
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Catch 'World Combat League' on STAR Sports
Every Tuesday and Wednesday at 8:00 pm

New Delhi, Delhi, India, Monday, April 06, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- ESPN STAR Sports, Asia's leading sports broadcaster, will showcase a 15 episode series on World Combat League (WCL) - a full-contact, team Combat Martial Arts league. STAR Sports will broadcast WCL every Tuesday and Wednesday at 8:00 pm starting April 07, 2009. The sports channel will also show a repeat of these episodes every Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 pm.

The WCL is the vision of Martial Arts icon Chuck Norris. He was a martial arts star, winning many martial arts championships including being a six-time undefeated World Professional Middle Weight Karate Champion, a renowned teacher in the martial arts, a motivational speaker, an actor, an author.

About World Combat League

Each WCL team is comprised of six fighters (five men and one woman) who have mastery of one or more of three different disciplines: Kickboxing, Karate, and Tae Kwon Do. Each fighter also holds a spot in one of six predetermined weight classes so that any league team can compete on even ground against any other league team. There is no wrestling or grappling to slow down the action. WCL athletes use lightning fast combinations of boxing, bone crunching impact of kicks, along with devastating power of knee strikes, to knock out their opponent or score points that will accrue to a team victory. WCL contests combine the excitement of martial arts combat with the thrill of rooting for your favorite team. The goal is to provide sports fans with an unprecedented level of "full throttle" martial arts fighting action in every second of each round of every team contest.

The teams are divided into 2 divisions. West Conference and East Conference. The teams are as follows:

West Conference:-

-- Denver Fury
-- Los Angeles Stars
-- Oklahoma Sestroyers
-- Texas Dragons.

East Conference:-

-- St.Louis Enforcers
-- Miami Force
-- New York Clash
-- New Jersey Tigers

About ESPN STAR Sports

ESPN STAR Sports is a 50:50 joint venture between two of the world's leading cable and satellite broadcasters. As Asia's definitive and complete sports broadcaster and content provider, ESPN STAR Sports combines the strengths and resources of its ultimate parent companies - Walt Disney (ESPN, Inc.) and News Corporation Limited (STAR) - to deliver a diverse array of international and regional sports to viewers via its encrypted pay and free-to-air services.

ESPN STAR Sports showcases an unparalleled variety of premier live sports from around the globe 24 hours a day to a cumulative reach of more than 310 million viewers in Asia. ESPN STAR Sports has 17 networks covering 24 countries, each localised to deliver differentiated world-class premier sports programming to Asian viewers. This includes ESPN SEA, ESPN China, ESPN Hong Kong, ESPN India, ESPN Malaysia, ESPN Philippines, ESPN SEA 2, ESPN Taiwan, MBC-ESPN (Korea), STAR Sports Asia, STAR Sports Hong Kong, STAR Sports India, STAR Sports Malaysia, STAR Sports SEA, STAR Sports SEA 2, STAR Sports Taiwan, and STAR Cricket.

On the ground, the ESPN STAR Sports Event Management Group manages and promotes premier sporting events around Asia. ESPN STAR Sports aims to reach consumers at any time, any place and through all new media platforms, both internet and mobile. The multi-lingual, online platforms, espnstar.com, espnstar.com.cn and espnstar.com.tw and footballcrazy.tv interact with millions of users providing them with in-depth sports news, results and competitions. Developed for the sports fan that is constantly on the move, mobileESPN and STAR Sports Mobile delivers differentiated mobile content targeted at its various audiences. mobileESPN enables the serious sports fan to follow their favourite sports more closely than ever before with a combination of specially produced video news clips, in-depth news coverage and analysis. STAR Sports Mobile aims to provide interactive and entertaining opportunities to engage with sports, delivering exclusive video excerpts from leading football clubs Arsenal and Liverpool as well as highlights from STAR Sports original programmes covering opinions, instructional tips and the latest online game reviews.

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CONTACT DETAILS
Nancy Agnihotri, Asst. Manager - Corporate Communications, ESPN Software India Pvt., +91 9810768588, nancya@espnstar.co.in
Subhashish Bharuka, IPAN, +91 9810122833, subhashish.bharuka@ipan.com

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CONSUMER, ENTERTAINMENT, PEOPLE, SPORTS, MARKETING, MEDIA

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