Ken Pavia

On January 1, 2012, Pavia was named as CEO of the Super Fight League (SFL), India's first major mixed martial arts promotion founded by celebrity entrepreneur IPL cricket team owner Raj Kundra and Bollywood mega star Sanjay Dutt.

On March 9 it was announced that SFL had signed a deal with COLORS TV in India to broadcast its events. In an interview given to Bleacher Report on April 3, 2012, Pavia stated that the TV deal with COLORS means that SFL will reach 500 million homes.

In September 2012 Pavia resigned his position as the CEO of the SFL citing "family reasons." Fighters Only magazine reported that his mom had cancer and he was expecting his first child at the age of 46.

In September 2011 Pavia announced that he had sold the majority of the assets in his company, MMAagents, to Paradigm Sports Management but he would be staying on as a consultant during the transition. In an interview with MMAJunkie regarding the sale of MMAagents Pavia was quoted as saying: 'It was a move that was good for everybody involved, so we took the jump.'

MMAagents represented over 55 fighters, the majority of whom fought in the UFC, Strikeforce, and Bellator. In 2010 MMAagents' clients competed in over 192 fights in 60 different organizations in 18 countries, and Pavia or MMAagents' employees attended virtually every event. Due to the nature of representing international clients, Pavia is sometimes required to take calls at all hours of the day. He also claimed to fly over 150,000 miles in 2010 and 2011 and 200,000 in 2012 for mixed martial arts.

Ken Pavia is a former sports agent, founder of the Huntington Beach, California based sports agency MMAagents and the former CEO of India’s first MMA Promotion Super Fight League. From 2005 to September 2011 Pavia represented a client roster of 75 professional mixed martial artists at MMAagents, most of whom competed in top tier mixed martial arts promotions such as the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC), Pride Fighting Championships, Strikeforce, DREAM, and Bellator Fighting Championship.

Pavia’s career representing professional mixed martial artists began on May 9, 2005 when he was approached by former UFC heavyweight champion Ricco Rodriguez with the request that Pavia assume his representation. Pavia, who had been a fan of mixed martial arts from the time he purchased UFC 1, agreed and thus began the career that would lead to the creation of MMAagents. Soon afterwards, former WEC Champion Razor Rob McCullough became a client and moved into Pavia's home in Huntington Beach, California where he resided for four years. Pavia formerly wrote a bi-monthly article for Versus.com, is frequently published on MMAjunkie.com, is a regular lectured at the USC Marshall School of Business for the past 4 years and has been selected as the 'agent expert' lecturer for the annual MMA Fight Summit.

Pavia is an American of Italian descent who was born in Rochester, New York in 1966. In 1978 he relocated to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina where he attended prep school at Sea Pines Academy. He obtained his collegiate undergraduate degree from the University of California Los Angeles in 1989 where he was the goalie on the Pac-10 champion ice hockey team. Pavia then attended the University of Miami School of Law, graduating in 1991. Soon thereafter, Pavia opened Fiduciary Management Group and began his career in athlete representation.