ONE Championship anticipates core business profitability by the second half of 2024, CEO and Chairman Chatri Sityodtong said in an interview with CNBC.
ONE Championship has witnessed huge growth in its global viewership numbers in recent years, broadcasting its shows that feature bouts in Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Submission Grappling, and MMA to more than 190 countries and making its debut on American soil in May 2023.
ONE is set to hold four shows in the United States in 2024 in addition to events in Europe, Singapore, Japan, and Qatar, making the best of its global appeal and its growing roster of fighters from more than 80 nationalities.
ONE Championship has also struck strategic broadcast partnerships with global and regional powerhouses such as Amazon Prime, BeIN Sports, and Globo’s Combate, substantially increasing its level of international reach in the last 12 months.
ONE Championship By the Numbers
200 million dollars: The revenues that ONE Championship expects to hit in 2024 – almost doubling its $100m+ figure in 2023.
63: The number of shows ONE Championship is about to finish this year with. This is more than triple the number of shows it broadcast in 2022. ONE is set to hold 46 shows of its weekly ONE Friday Fights series and 17 shows of its monthly ONE Fight Nights series by the end of 2023.
13.84 billion: The total organic video views on ONE Championship’s Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok accounts. The figure places ONE as the second largest global sports property in total organic video views, ahead of the European Champion League, NFL, and UFC, according to a 2021 report by Nielsen.
406 million: ONE Championship’s broadcast TV reach in 2021, according to Nielsen. The report ranks ONE as the fourth largest global sports property by broadcast TV reach, only behind the European Champions League, Euro 2020, and Tokyo 2020, and ahead of Formula 1, NFL, NBA, UFC, and the English Premier League.
1.4 billion dollars: The valuation of ONE Championship, according to its latest funding round in early 2021. The figure makes the martial arts organization the largest in the world while its main competitor, UFC, puts together MMA-exclusive fight cards.
