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Karate Combat Inks Deal to Air on ESPN Deportes in U.S.

The burgeoning karate promotion Karate Combat has found a new broadcast home in the United States.

Karate Combat, which has aired 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 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.