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VIVA SPORTS EXPANDS INTO MMA COVERAGE ON TELEVISION
By Ronnie Nathanielsz PhilBoxing.com Sun, 17 Jan 2016

Viva Sports which has carved a name for itself by its coverage of the top-rating weekly boxing show ?The Main Event? over Pinoy Box Office (PBO) on Sky Cable at 8:30 p.m. on Saturdays with a replay on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. has ventured into the coverage of Mixed Martial Arts in an initial agreement with the Promoter and UGB MMA president and founder, Ferdinand Abadilla Munsayac.
The inaugural venture will be the Foreign Invasion Battle Series featuring international and local pro MMA fights to be held at the Makati Coliseum on Friday, January 22 with a Main Event and two-co main events.
Headlining the fight card will be the middleweight battle between the Philippines Mark Palomar and Brad Robinson of the United States while the two supporting main events will feature Rodian Menchavez of the Philippines and Ahmed Mujtaba of Pakistan in a featherweight clash while Filipino bantamweight Michael Mondragon will face off with Pakistan?s Uloomi Karim.
The fights will be telecast on ?The Main Event? boxing show time slot on January 30.
There will be nine fights on the undercard with a catch-weight bout between Anton Larsson of Sweden and RJ Redula of the Philippines plus eight fights featuring promising Filipinos against each other.
The agreement between UGB (Underground Battle) and Viva Sports after the World Series of Fighting-Global Championship announced the signing of a strategic agreement with Philippine-based promotion-Underground Battle MMA under the WSOF-GC promotional banner powered by World Series of Fighting Global Championships.
WSOF-GC United States president Shawn Wright ?this is a first step down an exciting road for us.?
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