Jon J. Franklin

Jon J Franklin (aka "Jon Franklin") is a sports marketing, combat sports, and sports television business executive. Most recently promoter for 2025 Glory Underground fights. Franklin was Chief Executive Officer of the revitalized World Pro Ski Tour through 2024 and Chief Executive Officer of "Ski Racing Media" through 2022. The World Pro Ski Tour, begun in 1968, is the world's number one professional head to head dual format ski race tour. Through the start of 2018, Franklin was CEO of Glory Sports International, the parent company of Glory Kickboxing that was 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 in 2017 Glory was named the World's leading Kickboxing promotion by Combat Press and one of the World's most influential combat sports promotions by Fox Sports that same year (Along with the UFC and Bellator). As Glory CEO Franklin brought investment from Liberty Global, Yao Capital and others to Glory Sports. 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. From 1999 through 2002 Franklin was President of Golden Gloves boxing. He currently serves on the boards of the World Pro Ski Tour, the Sports and Entertainment Company and other sports related entities. To be noted, Jon J Franklin has been a strong supporter of women's sports at the highest levels, having brought female fighters into Golden Gloves during his tenure as President, matched top female boxers on PPV cards at America Presents, started a women's division of Glory Kickboxing while he was CEO and in 2022 brought women's ski racing into the World Pro Ski Tour with equal pay racing the same courses as the men.