Exclusive video interview with Professional Fighters League MMA CEO Peter Murray

Professional Fighters League CEO Peter Murray was in Fort Lauderdale, visiting family and taking care of PFL business. South Florida is a hotbed of MMA talent.

It has been an interesting 2020 for PFL.

The company decided to cancel its 2020 season because of COVID-19, taking the pandemic very seriously.

The goal is to return for 2021 with a modified bubble type option.

Here is my video interview with PFL CEO Peter Murray.

PFL, which has a TV deal with ESPN and is seen on ESPN2 with reach in 160-plus countries, is the first organization to present MMA through a regular season, playoffs and championship format.

The finals are New Year’s Eve at Madison Square Garden in NYC. Before the ball drops in Times Square, PFL drops some money that night on its fighters, awarding each champion in each division $1 million.

In 2019, boxing legend Mike Tyson presented each winner a championship belt and participated in the giant check presentations.

Prior, Murray was vice president of Global Brand and Sports Marketing at Under Armour. Before that, he was co-founder and CEO of Insignia Sports Agency and executive vice president of Marketing & New Business at William Morris Endeavor.

PFL branding, content in 2020

With the 2020 competition sidelined, PFL still remained busy, rolling out a new OTT platform, providing fight fans with access to hundreds of hours of premium PFL content wherever they are, with no restrictions.

PFL MMA content also includes fighter profiles and some special series, hosted by PFL ring announcer, singer and WWE alum Lilian Garcia.

Check out PFL’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPrONRG9hO1f-OrxW-WH-xg

The PFL MMA app is available now for free on Apple TV, Roku, Fire, Android, and iOS devices.

For more info, visit www.PFLmma.com and follow PFL on Instagram (@PFLmma), Twitter (@ProFightLeague) and Facebook (@PFLmma).

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Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. He also covers pro wrestling, something he’s done since his college days in the late 1980s. Now in his fifth decade of coverage, he currently follows WWE (Raw, SmackDown and NXT), AEW, Ring of Honor, TNA Impact Wrestling, MLW, WOW, NWA, and the South Florida indies, mainly CCW. He writes MMA, too -- mostly profile stories and video interviews with American Top Team and Sanford MMA fighters in South Florida. As for pro wrestling, he writes feature stories and profile pieces, updates upcoming show schedules in South Florida, photographs the action and interviews talent (audio and video) -- sharing the content here and via social media on his Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel: jim varsallone (jimmyv3 channel). Support my work with a digital subscription