About Official Athletes
Built For The Fighters Who Deserve To Be Seen.
Official Athletes is a UK combat sports sponsorship marketplace helping athletes, gyms and sponsors connect professionally.
Combat sports athletes often build their careers through discipline, sacrifice and personal networks — but sponsorship opportunities are still too often left to Instagram DMs, word of mouth or who you know. Official Athletes gives fighters and gyms a professional platform to showcase their value and gives sponsors a better way to discover talent.
Mission
Our Mission
Our mission is to professionalise combat sports sponsorship by giving athletes and gyms the tools to present themselves properly, and giving sponsors a clear way to find, compare and support talent.
Make fighters sponsor-ready
Structured profiles, media kits and metrics built for brand decisions.
Give gyms commercial visibility
Showcase your team, sport mix and partnership opportunities.
Help sponsors discover talent
Search by sport, location, audience and sponsorship availability.
Track sponsorship conversations
Proposals, messages and deal status in one place.
The Reality
The Problem In Combat Sports
Many fighters train like professionals but have no professional way to attract sponsors. Sponsors often want to support athletes, but they lack a simple way to search by sport, location, record, audience, gym or sponsorship availability.
Fighters rely on Instagram and word of mouth
Sponsors cannot easily compare athletes
Gyms lack commercial profile pages
Sponsorship conversations are hard to track
Local brands miss opportunities to support rising talent
The Platform
The Official Athletes Solution
Official Athletes creates one ecosystem for athletes, gyms and sponsors. Athletes build sponsorship media kits. Gyms showcase teams and partnership opportunities. Sponsors search, message and create proposals through one structured platform.
Athlete media-kit profiles
Gym sponsorship profiles
Sponsor search access
Direct messaging
Sponsorship proposal tracking
10% commission on future completed deals
Note
Live payment processing is not currently enabled. Deal tracking is proposal-based and designed for early-access use.
The Ecosystem
Built For The Combat Sports Ecosystem
Athletes
For boxers, MMA fighters, BJJ competitors, Muay Thai fighters and wrestlers who want to look professional to sponsors.
Join as AthleteGyms
For fight teams, martial arts academies and coaches who want to showcase athletes and attract partnerships.
Join as GymSponsors
For businesses and brands looking to support combat sports talent and create authentic local or niche partnerships.
Join as SponsorDisciplines
Starting With Combat Sports
Official Athletes starts with combat sports because these athletes often have powerful stories, loyal audiences and serious sponsorship potential — but limited infrastructure.
Boxing
MMA
BJJ
Muay Thai
Wrestling
Trust
Built With Trust In Mind
Official Athletes is not an agent, legal adviser or financial adviser. The platform helps users connect, message and track sponsorship proposals, but athletes, gyms and sponsors remain responsible for due diligence and agreeing terms directly.
No sponsorship guarantees
Profiles added with permission
Deal tracking only
No live payment processing yet
Due diligence encouraged
Trust & Safety guidance
Founder Note
Why Now?
Combat sports is growing fast, but sponsorship infrastructure has not kept up. Athletes build audiences on social media, gyms create communities, and sponsors want authentic partnerships — but there has not been a dedicated, professional marketplace built around this ecosystem.
We're building the platform fighters, gyms and sponsors should have had a decade ago.
Combat sports is growing
Audiences are bigger than ever
Brands want authentic stories
Join The Future Of Combat Sports Sponsorship.
Whether you are an athlete looking for support, a gym building a fight team, or a sponsor looking for authentic partnerships, Official Athletes gives you a professional place to start.