Super Fight League is a mixed martial arts promotion, based in India. The organisation was formed in 2012 by actor

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and British-Indian businessman

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, and is currently co-owned by British-Indian businessman Bill Dosanjh and British boxing champion Amir Khan. Super Fight League has had 67 live televised events, with over 100million views. It has produced at least 50 live televised events broadcast on

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and

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History

The Super Fight League was formed in 2012 by actor Sanjay Dutt and British Indian businessman Raj Kundra, with the intent of giving Indian mixed martial artists a platform to compete and grow in its home country whilst bringing in talented fighters from different parts of the world. They launched their first event on 11 March 2012, which was headlined by Bob 'The Beast' Sapp and James 'The Colossus' Thompson. On 27 February, the Super Fight League announced that they had signed

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, Baga Agaev, Paul Kelly, Xavier Foupa-Pokam and Lena Ovchynnikova to four fight exclusive contracts. On 23 June, the Super Fight League announced that they had signed

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, and

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. It was announced by the

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that they will show all of the Super Fight League’s events on

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TV. In September 2012 Pavia resigned his position as the CEO of the Super Fight League citing "family reasons." The Super Fight League made three announcements on 24 September 2012. The first was a strategic alliance between themselves and

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, which aims to bring the best Indian female fighters to Invicta, whilst Invicta will aim to send world class female mixed martial artists to the Super Fight League. The second announcement was the Friday Night Fight Nights. From 12 October, the Super Fight League will hold an event every Friday in a specially designed arena in Mumbai in front of an exclusive invitation only audience. This will replace the original model of holding arena events once aimed one a month. Programming will last for three hours each week with weigh-ins, live fights, and interviews from Bollywood cage side guests. There will be 7 fights in total each event, with 1 of them being a female bout. It will air live on

in India and on their YouTube page for the rest of the world. The final announcement was introducing Indian

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Female

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Bronze Medallist

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as the Super Fight League's brand ambassador. At Super Fight League 13: Night of Champions, the Super Fight League rewarded 5 titles in the men's and women's division. Launching on 4 December 2012, the Super Fight League announced a strategic partnership

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to set up a new company to jointly market all merchandise for Super Fight League. The company has been named Pro Super Fight League and the first product to hit the market is the New Deodorant Range 'Aspire, Inspire and Desire'. The Super Fight League signed a new TV deal with ESPN Star Sport in India for all events to be shown live, starting with Super Fight League 14 on 29 March 2013. On 4 October 2014, Super Fight League held its inaugural show in the United States, with Super Fight League 35 taking place in Tacoma, Washington, followed by Clash of Titans in Dubai, a fight night rivalry between two countries, India and Pakistan On 27 February 2015. British boxer Amir Khan announced his share in the SFL in 2016, and would set up the first team-based MMA league.

Super Fight League Challengers

On 5 August 2012, the Super Fight League aired their reality show Super Fight League Challengers. Similar to

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, the show took 8 male and 8 female up-and-coming Indian mixed martial artists, place them in the same house whilst they compete to become the winner of the show. Every alternate episode has 2 fights where 2 fighters (male and female) graduate to the next round whereas the other two have to leave the camp. The show went on for 50 days and the fighter will a be given tasks each week, as well as being trained by some of the best international trainers available. The winner received Rs. 20 lakhs (approx. $30,000 / £22000) and a 3-year contract worth Rs. 25 lakhs with the promotion. The show was aired on

and Zoom TV. The inaugural season was won by Kario Isaac Maheo and Manjit Kolekar.

Teams & owners

League structure

There are two groups, ‘A’ and ‘B’, consisting of four teams each. Every team has six players (a break of five male fighters and one female fighter) and skheh Kheix back-ups. These six players belong to six different weight categories. The four teams compete to play twelve League Level Matches. (All the matches are played between the respective teams of the allotted groups only, i.e., Group A teams do not compete against teams of Group B. Two Semi Final Matches are played and a match for the third and fourth place.)

Scoring System

The following are the five scales the contestants are scored on: 1. Draw = 1 point Unanimous/Majority/Split 2. Referee Decision = 3 points Unanimous/Split 3. TKO = 4 points 4. Submission = 5 points 5. KO = 6 points

Teams

Active

Sher-e-Punjab Goa Pirates Delhi Heroes Bengaluru Tigers Haryana Sultans Mumbai Maniacs U.P. Nawabs Gujarat Warriors

2017 Tables

Location – Siri Fort Sports Complex,

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PF = Points For PA = Points Against PD = Points Draw Group A Group B

Rules

Super Fight League's current rules are based upon the ''

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'' that were originally established by the

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and modified by the

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Cage

Super Fight League uses a structure called the 'O'Zone. The 'O'Zone is a circular cage of

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that has been coated in black vinyl. The height of the fence varies between and , is in diameter and sits atop a platform. There are two gates on opposite sides of the cage to allow for people to enter and leave the cage.

Current champions

Men's Divisions

Women's Divisions

* List of Champions

Past events

2012 in Super Fight League The year 2012 was the inaugural year for Super Fight League, an Indian-based mixed martial arts (MMA) league. Its first event was held in March and featured a bout between the two MMA veterans Bob Sapp and James Thompson. The league has schedul ...

2013 in SFL numbered events 2013 is the second year for Super Fight League, an Indian-based mixed martial arts (MMA) league. Whilst the SFL began holding events from February 22 with their SFL Contenders event, which are untelevised events that take place in the SFL Training ...

2014–2016 in SFL numbered events Super Fight League has scheduled several fights cards throughout 2014 to 2016: List of events Event summaries SFL - Warriors SFL Warriors took place on March 30, 2014 in Mumbai, India. As with the previous events, it was streamed on YouTube, on ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Super Fight League Mixed martial arts organizations Martial arts in India Sports organisations of India Organisations based in Mumbai 2012 establishments in India Sports organizations established in 2012 Amir Khan (boxer)