Biography
Leigh Simons has created groundbreaking and award-winning content working side by side with Hollywood A-Lister's, Grammy-award-winning musicians, and World-renowned athletes. For Screen media films, he has been involved in the production, distribution, and marketing of over 25 feature films. With BMG, Leigh produced live events and concerts with the biggest names in music entertainment. For HBO, Cinemax, Ring TV, and the Discovery Network he worked as a on air host and spokesperson. He produced the Discovery series "Secrets of Superstar Fitness" with episodes that featured Johnny Depp, Sylvester Stallone, Hugh Jackman, Christie Brinkley, Petra Nemcova, Oscar De La Hoya, Martina Navratilova, Jim Courier and Dolph Lundgren. Simons formed a strategic alliance with Golden Boy Promotions in 2003, the then startup boxing promotional company founded by 10-time world champion Oscar DE la Hoya. Working with the HBO, SHOWTIME ESPN and FOX television networks, Leigh Simons Productions delivered internationally televised sports advertising and documentary programming in English and Spanish for more than 60 Pay-Per-View events generating over one billion dollars in revenue. These groundbreaking documentaries included 7 Pay-Per-View campaigns for Floyd Mayweather, 6 for Canelo Alvarez and multiple campaigns for Oscar De La Hoya, Manny Pacquiao, Bernard Hopkins, Gennady Golovkin, Shane Mosley and Juan Manuel Marquez. During the course of working first with Floyd Mayweather and then with Canelo Alvarez and developing their brands, each became the number one grossing Pay Per view fighter in the world during their careers. In 2013, Simons wrote, directed, and produced the sports documentary "Countdown to The One" for Showtime and Fox Networks. The PPV event became the highest grossing event in the history of Pay-Per-View. In the world of Mixed Martial arts, Leigh Simons productions launched the then fledgling UFC on SPIKE which led to it becoming the fastest growing sports franchise in history. Subsequently, Simons consistently delivered documentary programming for the UFC and Bellator Fighting championships for the Spike Television Network (Now Paramount). These prime-time Network documentaries featured many of the greatest fighters in MMA History including multiple shows with Fedor Emelianenko, Tito Ortiz, Wanderlei Silva, Randy Couture, Rampage Jackson, Ken Shamrock, Chuck Liddell, and the late great Kimbo Slice. For Spike Television Network:
* In 2016 Simons chronicled the comeback of the legendary Joyce Gracie as he prepared for his second epic match-up with his arch Rival Ken Shamrock
* In 2017 Simons produced and directed a Glory Kickboxing Documentary starring former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world Mike Tyson
* In 2018 Simons produced and directed for two additional Glory Kickboxing Documentary's starring WWE Superstar Bill Goldberg
* In 2019 Simons chronicled the debut of Blade superstar and internationally acclaimed actor Wesley Snipes at the Monaco Anime Games International Conference (MAGIC) in Monaco
* In 2020 for Human Development Guru John Amaral's Body Centered Leadership, as COO and Chief Creative Leigh created the 7 Day from Flight to Flow challenge and oversaw the production of a Netflix special that chronicled Amaral's career.
