MTK Global has announced that long-time boxing figure Bob Yalen has been hired as its new President. Yalen was instrumental to the boxing coverage of ABC Sports for over 20 years, as well as producing the boxing coverage for NBC Sports at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics. He went on to become ESPN’s Director of Programming & Acquisitions in 1996, and after eight successful years there, positions as Director at Mohegan Sun and CPTV Sports followed. Most recently he was the Technical Director and Chairman of the WBC Ratings Committee. Yalen is regarded as one of the world’s leading boxing historians and record-keepers. In 2016 he was elected to the Boxing Hall of Fame in Connecticut, where he currently resides.
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MTK Global is a worldwide fighter management company headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was founded by former boxer Matthew Macklin.