UFC Fight Pass to host Glory Kickboxing and EBI jiu-jitsu

Great news for UFC Fight Pass subscribers today as the UFC have announced that the online streaming service has secured deals to bring Glory SuperFight Series kickboxing and EBI jiu-jitsu to it customers.

Eric Winter, UFC Senior Vice-President and UFC FIGHT PASS General Manager, made the announcement this afternoon and in a press release this evening said: “We are proud to announce our new partnerships with the GLORY kickboxing and EBI Brazilian jiu-jitsu organizations. This is a huge development for FIGHT PASS. We haven’t just added some kickboxing and some BJJ to FIGHT PASS – we partnered with leaders in both sports. GLORY has established itself as the pinnacle of world kickboxing while EBI leads the way in exciting, fast-paced submission grappling. Both of these organizations are tremendous additions to FIGHT PASS.”

Winter went on to say that: “BJJ legend Eddie Bravo is well-known to UFC fans, having trained dozens of UFC athletes over the years and also having served as a UFC broadcaster on occasion. What Eddie has been doing with his EBI events over the last couple of years is make BJJ accessible to MMA fans. EBI uses the same weight-classes as we do in the UFC, and the rules are set up to encourage athletes to be very aggressive and go for submissions from start to finish. The result is an exciting product that I know our loyal FIGHT PASS customers are going to love.”

GLORY co-founder Scott Rudmann was also quoted and seemed overjoyed to have a much-needed platform for one of the leading kickboxing brands: “UFC FIGHT PASS is at the top of the global MMA world, and GLORY is the world’s leading kickboxing league. This is an unprecedented partnership that brings the best of MMA and the best of kickboxing together on a single platform that is available to fight fans around the world.”

EBI creator and MMA personality Eddie Bravo also said that “The UFC FIGHT PASS partnership is nothing short of a dream come true.”

“UFC is responsible for the explosion of popularity for BJJ around the world, and having EBI on UFC’s digital streaming service is the perfect fit for us. I am incredibly confident that MMA and jiu-jitsu fans will love the full-throttle entertainment EBI is going to deliver on UFC FIGHT PASS.”

Live GLORY SuperFight Series action will hit FIGHT PASS in just two weeks, while live EBI will next take place in April.