page_title: Jon J. Franklin
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caption_attribution_description: English: Jon J Franklin
context_page_description: Jon J Franklin is a sports marketing and sports television business executive who is currently Chief Executive Officer of the revitalized World Pro Ski Tour. Originally founded by Bob Beattie in 1969 with champions from Billy Kidd and Spider Sabich to Jean Claude Killy to Phil Mahre to Phil Brown, the World Pro Ski Tour is dual ski racing in a single elimination format akin to drag racing on snow and is in expansion mode. For 2020 Franklin has brought Double Olympic Gold Medalist Ted Ligety onto the World Pro Ski Tour. Up to the challenge, Ted immediately jumped into the top ten of the standings. Through the start of 2018, Franklin was CEO of Glory Sports International, the parent company of Glory Kickboxing that's seen on ESPN in the USA along with UFC Fightpass and Veronica/SBS Holland and others in more than 170 countries. Franklin began working with Glory in 2012 and joined full time as CEO in 2014. Under Franklin's leadership, Glory Kickboxing was named the World's Number One Kickboxing promotion for 2017 by Combat Press and as one of the World's most influential combat sports and martial arts promotions by Fox Sports the same year.
context_section_description: Jon J Franklin (aka "Jon Franklin") is a sports marketing and sports television business executive who is currently Chief Executive Officer of the revitalized World Pro Ski Tour. Originally founded by Bob Beattie in 1969 with champions from Billy Kidd and Spider Sabich to Jean Claude Killy to Phil Mahre to Phil Brown (skier), the World Pro Ski Tour is dual ski racing in a single elimination format akin to drag racing on snow and is in expansion mode. For 2020 Franklin has brought Double Olympic Gold Medalist Ted Ligety onto the World Pro Ski Tour. Up to the challenge, Ted immediately jumped into the top ten of the standings. Through the start of 2018, Franklin was CEO of Glory Sports International, the parent company of Glory Kickboxing that's seen on ESPN in the USA along with UFC Fightpass and Veronica/SBS Holland and others in more than 170 countries. Franklin began working with Glory in 2012 and joined full time as CEO in 2014. Under Franklin's leadership, Glory Kickboxing was named the World's Number One Kickboxing promotion for 2017 by Combat Press and as one of the World's most influential combat sports and martial arts promotions (along with Bellator and UFC) by Fox Sports the same year. Franklin continued at Glory as USA Promoter and Chief Development Officer in 2018 and early 2019. In this role he secured Monster Energy as Glory's first global sponsor.
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