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IFL Storms into Chicago for Events Leading up to First Live MMA Fights on Primetime Broadcast TV Saturday

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World champion coach Pat Miletich and team featured on ESPN's E:60 show Tuesday, player signings and appearances with USO, Warner Home Video and Muscle Milk all lead to first-ever live MMA event on broadcast primetime television on MyNetworkTV this Saturday from the Sears Centre

NEW YORK, October 29, 2007 - The International Fight League (OTC.BB: IFLI), the world's number one team-based professional mixed martial arts league, will hit the Chicago area hard with a week of partner activations and media activity, all leading up to Saturday night's live broadcast on MyNetworkTV at the Sears Centre in suburban Hoffman Estates, Ill., the first-ever live Mixed Martial Arts event on primetime broadcast television. The IFL "World Grand Prix," which will air on Saturday at 9 p.m. ET/PT, 8 p.m. CT, will feature the light heavyweight title fight between Vladimir "The Janitor" Matyushenko and Alex Schoenauer, and a highly-anticipated rematch between undefeated lightweight Chris "The Polish Hammer" Horodecki and local favorite Bart "Bartimus" Palaszewski among the nine bouts.

"This will be a big week, not just for the IFL, its coaches and athletes but also for the sport of Mixed Martial Arts," said Gareb Shamus, IFL co-founder and CEO. "Whether it is a lengthy national feature on a legend like Pat Miletich and his athletes on ESPN, our live broadcast on MyNetworkTV, or the activation of sponsorships with partners like the USO, Warner Home Video and Muscle Milk, we are continuing to show that in just over a year the sport and the IFL brand continues to make solid strides into the mainstream."

The IFL visibility will begin on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT, when the new ESPN newsmagazine "E:60" takes an in-depth look at Quad Cities Silverbacks coach Miletich, his Bettendorf, Iowa, gym and all the athletes that make up his camp. On Wednesday, the IFL, through its partnership with the USO, will host a dinner and seminar for servicemen and women at the Great Lakes USO station. On Thursday, Miletich and local athletes Rory Markham and Palaszewski will visit the General Nutrition Center store in downtown Chicago to sign autographs, while world champions Ken Shamrock and Carlos Newton and Matyushenko will sign copies of WHV's "IFL Great Knockouts and Extreme Action" at a downtown FYE. Later in the day, a suburban GNC will host a signing with world champion Bas Rutten and stars Horodecki and Benji Radach.

All this will lead to Saturday's card at the Sears Centre, which will showcase the best of the IFL's nine-event regular season in each of five weight classes. For a look at some of the top matchups on Saturday, go to
http://www.ifl.tv/Multimedia.html.


About the IFL

International Fight League
(IFL) is the world's number one professional mixed martial arts sports league. IFL has its headquarters in New York and offices in Las Vegas. For more information about IFL, please see: www.ifl.tv.



IFL, Alfred Haber Distribution Announce Live Broadcast of "IFL World Grand Prix" in Canada Saturday


Fox Sports World Canada to broadcast event from Chicago from 9-11 p.m. ET/8-10 CT in addition to live MyNetworkTV broadcast in the United States from 9-10 p.m. ET

 

NEW YORK, October 31, 2007 - The International Fight League (OTC.BB: IFLI), the world's number one team-based professional mixed martial arts league, and Alfred Haber Distribution (AHDI) today announced that Fox Sports World Canada will air this Saturday's "IFL World Grand Prix" live from the Sears Centre in Chicago from 9-11 p.m. ET/8-10 CT. It will mark the first live national broadcast of MMA in Canada on broadcast television.

The first hour of the event, which will feature many of the rising stars of Mixed Martial Arts (including Canadians Chris Horodecki and Brent Beauparlant), will also be seen live in the United States on MyNetworkTV. World champion "Bas" Rutten, Kenny Rice and Ron Kruck call all the action.

"We are very excited that Fox Sports World Canada and CanWest MediaWorks will be taking two hours of our event live to Canada," said IFL co-founder and CEO Gareb Shamus. "Combined with our MyNetworkTV coverage in the United States, this will give us the largest possible North American platform to showcase our great athletes live and in primetime on free television. Our goal for 2008 is to bring all of our events to the fans live on television, and this is the latest step in achieving that goal." 

Among the matchups featured on the broadcast will be the IFL light heavyweight title matchup between undefeated Vladimir "The Janitor" Matyushenko and Alex Schoenauer, the lightweight rematch of undefeated Canadian phenom Chris "The Polish Hammer" Horodecki and Bart "Bartimus" Palaszewski, and Montreal native Beauparlant against undefeated Benji "Razor" Radach. Nine fights, featuring the best individual athletes from the 11-event IFL season, will be featured on the card.


About Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc.

ALFRED HABER, INC. and ALFRED HABER DISTRIBUTION, INC., established 39 years ago, together form the world's largest distributor of U.S. Network (CBS, ABC, NBC and FOX) reality, music and event specials, and are major independent distributors of reality and documentary series, mini-series and made-for-television motion pictures for the U.S. and the international television marketplace. More information is available at
www.alfredhaber.com.


About the IFL

International Fight League
(IFL) is the world's number one professional mixed martial arts sports league. IFL has its headquarters in New York and offices in Las Vegas. For more information about IFL, please see: www.ifl.tv.


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