UFC announces Japanese mobile-media and Internet-television deals

The Ultimate Fighting Championship will increase its presence in Japan thanks to two new deals.

At a Monday press conference at UFC fighter Yoshihiro Akiyama’s Cloud Dojo in Tokyo, officials announced deals with TV Bank Corp. and Hikari TV.

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The Ultimate Fighting Championship will increase its presence in Japan thanks to two new deals.

At a Monday press conference at UFC fighter Yoshihiro Akiyama’s Cloud Dojo in Tokyo, officials announced deals with TV Bank Corp. and Hikari TV.

The first puts the UFC’s official mobile site on all three major Japanese cellular networks, and the second puts live and archived UFC bouts on Hikari TV, an internet protocol television network operated by NTT Plala Corp.