Former ONE Championship exec Loren Mack has eye on helping Professional Fighters League expand into Asia
- PFL’s new vice-president of communications hopes to tap into the ‘incredible’ talent pool in Asia after leaving Singapore-based ONE
- ‘I saw how bad the athletes in Asia want to fight on an international global scale, and I think that’s gonna work well for the PFL,’ says Mack
Former ONE Championship executive Loren Mack has an eye on helping the Professional Fighters League expand into Asia after joining the US-based promotion this week.
New York-native Mack spent 10 years in Asia, helping Singapore-based martial arts promotion ONE get its operations off the ground. “I’m extremely proud of what my team and I did in my time there,” Mack, who will act as vice-president of communications for the PFL, told SCMP MMA. “But I was looking for new and exciting opportunities.”
The PFL, formerly the World Series of Fighting, presents MMA through a league format with a regular season, playoffs and championship bouts, and the winners in the six weight classes each get US$1 million. The promotion signed a two-year broadcast deal with ESPN in 2019, and now going global could be the next step.
“In regards to who they have their eyes on, Ray Sefo is the best in the business, a former fighter himself in K-1, an incredible kick-boxer. He’s in charge of recruiting all the talent,” Mack said.
“I’ve definitely got in his ear – living 10 years in Asia, I saw how incredible the talent is there and how bad the athletes want to fight on an international global scale, and I think that’s gonna work well for the PFL and future athletes out of Asia.”
The 2019 PFL season played out at Nassau Coliseum in New York, the Ocean Resort Casino in Atlantic City, the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, and the Hulu Theatre at Madison Square Garden.
