Forge Fight League: A New Era of Combat Sports in New England
ShadowForge Media is proud to announce the launch of Forge Fight League (FFL) — a bold new combat sports league uniting Boxing, Kickboxing, and MMA under one banner. With a vision to create opportunities for fighters across New England and beyond, FFL blends tradition with innovation, offering athletes a platform to showcase their skills and fans a league that delivers raw intensity, grit, and spectacle.
FFL Showcase 1: Forging the Roster
The journey begins with FFL Showcase 1, a three-day event scheduled for January 2026 (dates and locations TBA). This showcase will serve as the proving ground for fighters aiming to enter the league’s first official tournaments.
Friday: Boxing (Middleweight – 160 lbs)
Saturday: Kickboxing (Lightweight – 155 lbs)
Sunday: MMA (Welterweight – 170 lbs)
Each discipline will feature 16 fighters competing to advance into an 8-man tournament bracket. The Showcase itself will not be recorded on fighters’ professional records, but it will determine who qualifies for the official, sanctioned tournaments that follow.
What’s at Stake
Champions of each discipline will claim:
An official FFL Championship Belt
A signed contract with Forge Fight League
Recognition as the first champions of a league built to grow into a New England institution
Rules of the Showcase
Fighters must be 18+ with prior experience
Fighters are required to bring their own coach and gear
All participants must sign a waiver and media release
Fights are for scouting purposes only; advancing fighters qualify for the tournaments
More Than Fights: Building Stories
Forge Fight League isn’t just about competition — it’s about storytelling and opportunity. Fighters will be spotlighted across FFL’s media channels, with coverage, interviews, and highlights distributed through ShadowForgeMedia.com, ForgeFightLeague social platforms, and potentially Twitch livestreams.
The league is designed to empower fighters to grow their personal brands alongside their fighting careers. FFL is committed to helping athletes not only step into the ring or cage, but also step into the spotlight.
The Road Ahead
This is just the beginning. From one weight class per discipline, FFL will expand into multiple divisions, larger venues, and full-scale events across New England. Fighters who join at the ground floor will not just compete — they’ll be part of building something historic.
Forge Fight League. Three disciplines. One league. One forge.
📩 Fighters & Coaches Apply Now: shadowforgemedia@gmail.com
Forging a Creative Empire: The Rise of ShadowForge Media
How audacity, craft, and community build IP across film, live sports, and transmedia — and the roadmap to scale to $1.5–3B by 2036.
Read the storyWe started ShadowForge Media as a small, stubborn studio with a simple hypothesis: original stories and live culture, when built with craft and community, can be more than art — they can be a self-sustaining creative economy. Over the last few years we've launched a collection of divisions — Forge Fight League (FFL), Forge+, ForgeyWorld, 40RUM Films, and the Hammer Index — each one a different engine in the same ecosystem: IP creation, live events, merchandising, and serialized storytelling.
Why multi-pronged IP matters
Film, live sports, and transmedia each have different economics and audiences. Film builds cultural credibility and shelf-life. Live sports (FFL) creates intense, local-to-global audience moments you can monetize repeatedly — tickets, PPV, sponsorships, merch. Transmedia (ForgeyWorld, Forge+) keeps fans inside our sandbox through serialized drops, collectibles, short-form series and community experiences. When these elements are designed to feed one another — films that spotlight a fighter, live events that seed a series, toys that make characters tactile — you get compound returns instead of one-off spikes.
How we monetize attention (and scale)
The playbook is simple, but execution requires discipline:
- Owned IP first. We own the characters, formats, and leagues we create. Ownership unlocks licensing, merchandising, and repeatable content windows.
- Multi-format launches. A film festival premiere → limited digital series → live crossover event → merchandise drop. Each step is another revenue layer.
- Community-driven product design. Fans tell us what they want; we build it fast and sustainably. That reduces inventory risk and increases LTV.
The FFL model — local roots, national reach
Forge Fight League started as small, electrifying fight nights with community gyms. Because we control production, rules, and narrative framing, a game-changing fight becomes promotional content, ticket revenue, PPV, and a brand moment for sponsors. Scale comes from repeatability: consistent events, serialized storytelling around athletes, and a clean sponsorship stack for local and national brands.
Risk-aware growth: regulatory, insurance, production
Combat sports and live events are high-touch businesses. We’ve put real infrastructure in place — legal, sanctioning compliance, insurance strategy, and venue partnerships — to manage risk while maintaining what makes the product raw and immediate.
The roadmap to $1.5–3B by 2036
Ambition without a plan is vanity. Here’s our roadmap — a multi-wave plan that composes revenue streams to reach a large enterprise valuation:
- Years 1–3 (foundation): Build repeatable live events, secure regional sponsorships, and launch 2–3 filmed projects that expand brand recognition.
- Years 3–6 (scale): National PPV distribution for FFL, licensing deals for ForgeyWorld IP, and a subscription/paid community product through Forge+ with exclusive drops.
- Years 6–11 (expansion): Global distribution partnerships, major brand licensing, TV/streaming deals across multiple territories, and scalable merchandising. Enter new verticals (games, toys, experiential touring) with proven IP.
By vertically aligning the revenue — box office/streaming, PPV/live events, recurring subscription services, product licensing, and sponsorship — we model a path to consolidate recurring cashflow and enterprise scale. Concretely: our financial modeling shows a credible path to scale to $1.5–3 billion in gross revenue by 2036 with disciplined reinvestment and solid partner distribution.
Culture, not just growth
Numbers matter, but culture is the engine. We hire storytellers who are producers, athletes who are characters, and partners who understand iterative merchandising. We prioritize creative autonomy with rigorous product cycles. Audiences sense authenticity — that’s the unfair advantage.
Call to action for collaborators
If you’re a creator, a brand, a gym, or an investor who likes building the future out loud — we’re looking to co-create. Drop us a line at ffl@shadowforgemedia.com or visit shadowforgemedia.com/contact.
