The Motown of Combat Sports: 🎙️🎵JT Tilley’s Evolution from Showbiz to Extreme Sports Legend

Around the same time that JT began working with Power Slap, he was contacted by two New York based sports agents, Bill Yucatonis and Mike Salvaris. Initially, they worked together to popularize JT's SlapFIGHT Championship league and develop a new sport called CarJitsu, where competitors wrestle each other within the confines of a small sedan.

As their working relationship developed, they began to recognize a synergy between Bill and Mike’s business expertise and JT's creative passion. Tilley had already been making strides in diversifying the world of combat and extreme sports, and the platform that Bill and Mike offered gave him the backend support he needed to fully submerge himself in his creative process.

The trio went on to officially join forces in 2022, Bill and Mike registering Pro League Network in New York. Meanwhile in Branson, JT broke ground on a new production headquarters, PLN Studios, a place he would later dub "The Motown of Combat Sports." Pro League Network is an innovative organization, with a vision targeted at licensing and producing bettable niche sports. Their business model was designed to capitalize on the expanding market of sports bettors who were looking for more to bet on–something engaging and different.

​​Here’s how developing a new sport for PLN works:

1.) Ideation Stage: JT conceives a new sport (or stumbles upon an idea in the wild, like slap fighting). 

2.) Testing: Tilley’s team, BFC Extreme, runs trial matches to iron out rules and safety concerns. 

3.) Production & Distribution: Once polished, they figure out the best way to film/produce events for distribution via PLN’s global network. 

The separate project phases guarantee a constant flow of fresh, outlandish content, perfectly engineered for online engagement and virality. Between JT's far-reaching imagination and PLN's commitment to managing monetization and wagering approvals, the group established an efficient process, or as JT calls it "an assembly line," that opened up an entirely new sector in sports entertainment.

Pro League Network would become a launching pad not just for CarJitsu, which has already featured guests such as Kai Cenat, but a range of other niche sports as well. With hot new sports like Coffin Wars, where participants try to grapple their way out of a coffin, to Ultimate Tire Wrestling, where fighters wrestle each other into the center of a large tire for points, PLN has championed a process to test, produce and distribute extreme sports on a scale like never before.

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