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Welcome to the promotion that has built Swedish and Nordic MMA!
Superior Challenge is Northern Europe’s largest MMA promotion and an international MMA organisation with operations in Sweden, which produces high quality, and adrenalin-full sports entertainment. Superior is internationally recognized as one of the world's premier MMA organizations and amongst a few promotions in the world that has internationally top ranked fighters.
The first event in 2008, broke the record attendance for all MMA events in Scandinavia, and since then the record has been broken several times. The Live TV broadcasts have also broken the all-time Nordic viewer record for all Nordic martial arts TV programs with 400 000 viewers on TV10 in Sweden (broadcasts on Viaplay and FITE are not included). Superior Challenge’s broadcasts compete with the largest traditional sports such as Football and Ice hockey in Sweden. The promotion has also broken the Nordic international TV reach record with millions of viewers world-wide.
Superior Challenge is included in Viaplay’s Sports Package and is broadcast live exclusively on Viaplay in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Netherlands. 48 hours after the live broadcasts the programs are moved to Superior Challenge’s series page on Viaplay. The events are also broadcast live on TV10 in Sweden, and on Triller owned FITE TV globally outside Viaplay’s territory.
Superior Challenge is part of Superior World that was established 2005 together with Superior Wear, Superior Gear, and Superior Management. Since the start Superior has invested large resources in Swedish MMA and Swedish MMA athletes, which has resulted in the current prosperous MMA market in the region. The promotion has produced the majority of Sweden’s UFC, Bellator, and PFL fighters and is Northern Europe’s largest exporter of international MMA athletes. Superior Challenge’s main priority is to create heroes and future MMA stars.
Some Superior Challenge athletes:
Alexander Gustafsson, Simon ”The Gentleman” Sköld, Reza ”Mad Dog” Madadi, Joachim ”Hellboy” Hansen, Thales Leites, Jeremy Horn, Marcus Davis, Rich Clementi, Junie Browning, Andreas Ståhl, Daniel Acacio, Papy Abedi, Besam Yousef, Ilir Latifi, Hamid ”Akira” Corassani, Magnus ”Jycken” Cedenblad, Nicklas Bäckström, Sami Aziz, Sirwan Kakai, Tor Troéng, David Bielkheden, Lina Länsberg, Luis Ramos, Carlo Prater, James McSweeney, Danny Mitchell, Cody McKenzie, Jens ”Little Evil” Pulver, Emil Weber Meek, Joachim Christensen, Marcin Bandel, Josh Stansbury, Efrain Escudero, Diego Nunes, Dylan Andrews, Malin Hermansson, Kevin Petshi, Marcin Bandel, Oliver Enkamp, Nico Musoke, Pannie Kianzad, Guram Kutateladze, Guram Kutateladze, Karl Albrektsson etc.