About Official Athletes
Talent creates the story. Opportunity helps it travel.
Official Athletes connects combat athletes, gyms and commercial sponsors through a purpose-built sponsorship marketplace.
The gap
Sponsorship still runs on private inboxes
Some of the sport's most compelling athletes are commercially invisible — not because the value is missing, but because there is nowhere structured to present it.
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Talented athletes often rely on personal outreach and direct messages.
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Smaller athletes may lack professional commercial presentation.
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Sponsors can struggle to discover suitable talent in a fragmented market.
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Gyms often hold valuable communities with limited commercial visibility.
The marketplace
Three sides, built separately, joined deliberately
Athletes
Athletes
A profile that speaks commercially
Build a professional profile, set out what sponsorship you are open to, browse opportunities and talk to sponsors directly. You decide what you publish and who you answer.
- Record, discipline, weight class, gym and location
- Sponsorship interests and the value you offer
- Direct conversations with subscribed sponsors
Gyms
Gyms
The community is the commercial asset
Present your facility, disciplines, coaching team and roster in one commercial page — the partnership potential a brand can actually evaluate.
- Facilities, disciplines and location
- Fight team and member community
- Partnership opportunities in one place
Sponsors
Sponsors
Search, shortlist, start the conversation
Find suitable athletes and gyms by the criteria that matter, build campaigns, manage applications, message users and progress opportunities through tracked proposals.
- Filter by sport, city, weight class and availability
- Shortlist and compare side by side
- Message and track every proposal status
The workflow
How Official Athletes connects them
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Discover
Search athletes and gyms across five disciplines.
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Compare
Shortlist and weigh profiles side by side.
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Invite or Apply
Either side can open the opportunity.
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Message
Conversations stay inside the platform.
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Create Proposal
Deliverables and value written down.
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Progress
Every proposal carries a visible status.
Official Athletes does not guarantee sponsorship, does not negotiate as an agent, does not enforce contracts, does not guarantee payment and does not guarantee campaign performance.
The mission
Professional sponsorship infrastructure for combat sports.
Making sponsorship discovery and communication more structured, visible and accessible.
Principles
What we hold to
- Opportunity
- Sponsorship should not depend on who already knows you.
- Transparency
- Clear terms, a clear fee, no hidden agency layer.
- Athlete Control
- Athletes decide what they publish and who they answer.
- Commercial Relevance
- Profiles built around what a brand needs to decide.
- Community
- Gyms and fight teams are treated as first-class partners.
Operating model
How this actually works, stated plainly
Profiles may contain user-submitted information.
Users should conduct their own due diligence before agreeing anything.
Sponsorship terms are agreed between the relevant parties.
Official Athletes does not guarantee sponsorship.
Official Athletes is not automatically acting as an athlete agent.
Payment processing is not live; sponsorship payments are settled directly between the parties.
Straight answers
What this platform is
- Early access
- The marketplace is live and still being built out in public.
- Reviewed profiles
- Public profiles are reviewed before they are approved and listed.
- Internal messaging
- Conversations stay inside the platform between the two parties.
- Proposal tracking
- Every sponsorship conversation carries a status you can follow.
- Clear 10% fee
- Charged on completed deals only. No retainers, no agency markup.
- No guarantees
- Listing a profile does not guarantee sponsorship, and we are not an agent.
Payment processing is not live yet — sponsorship payments are settled directly between the parties. Read our Trust & Safety commitments.
Early-access marketplace