Karate Combat, which has aired its second season on the promotion’s YouTube page this season, announced via press release that it has signed a deal with ESPN Deportes. Broadcasts on the channel will start immediately and on a weekly basis, with the first on Oct. 22. The broadcast will be in Spanish, marking the company’s first jaunt into U.S. Spanish-language television. The full-contact karate organization airs hourly episodes on its YouTube channel, with a virtual world rendered using the Unreal Engine from Epic Games.
CEO of Karate Combat, Rob Bryan, wrote, “We’re proud to present our full contact entertainment in Spanish in the U.S. for the first time with ESPN Deportes. We’ve brought one of the world’s most practiced sports to pro-level for the first time, and we’re making it incredibly entertaining.”<…