NEW YORK and TORONTO – TSN is the exclusive Canadian home of the Professional Fighters League (PFL), the first organization to present MMA through a regular season, playoffs and championship format.
Thanks to PFL’s multi-year deal with ESPN and ESPN+ in the United States, TSN will air all ten PFL events. Six, five-hour PFL regular season events will take place on Thursday nights from May to August, followed by three PFL playoff events featuring the top eight fighters in each of the competition's six weight classes attempting to fight—and win—twice in the same night to advance to the PFL Championship. The season culminates with the PFL 2019 Championship on New Year's Eve, with winners of each title bout crowned PFL World Champion in their weight class and awarded $1 million.
"The PFL was created to offer the 300 million global MMA fans the sport-season format that other major sports like the NFL and NBA have, which is the transparency and meritocracy of a regular season, playoffs and championship," said PFL co-founder and chairman Donn Davis, in the news release. "Fans can now follow the stories, and business partners can engage in the journeys, of the PFL fighters throughout the season.”
