Bilgehan Demir

Mehmet Bilgehan Demir (born 18 June 1976) is a Turkish journalist, sports commentator, and producer.

Biography
Demir was born in Bayburt in June, 1976. He moved to Bursa in 1979 and graduated from Emek Primary School. He studied at Private Bursa Baran High School for a while. He was playing football and because of that he had to change several schools during his secondary education. Sequently, he studied at Yıldırım Beyazıt High School, Karacabey High School, Karacabey Industrial High School, Bursa Ertuğrulgazi High School, İstanbul Nevzat Ayaz High School, Bursa Atatürk High School.

He graduated from Uludağ University, Faculty of Education, Physical Training Department. Without working as a physical trainer, he took a step in the media life.

Media career
Bilgehan Demir became a member of Flash TV Club in Bursa in 1994, thus taking his first step in the TV world. He continued with both his school and work life. He worked as manager in Bursa FM and Kanal 16 TV's. He was responsible for Football from Europe at the channel Super Spor which is the sister organization of Cine 5 TV. He was the live reporter after the match in the year that Galatasaray was the UEFA Champion. He was transferred to TGRT in 2000 where he presented the sport news for 4 years. After having finished his military services in 2004 he continued to work as a reporter as responsible for live broadcasts of Beşiktaş and Turkey National Football Team at channels Kanal D and CNN Turk which are connected to Doğan News Agency. He reported the Super League games for a while at Radio D which is connected to Doğan Media. He turned back to TGRT in 2006. He took part in the new staff of TGRT of which name was changed into Fox TV after it was sold to News Corperation. Demir was Turkish commentator of English Premier League on Fox Turkey. Demir, who founded his own company in January 2011, took a step to trading and started to work independently. Later, he work at Cine 5 for a while and today he reports the TNA and TPW games which are presented at Beyaz TV. He also continues reporting at TRT as the contracted ring sports reporter.

Football career
Demir, who sequently played for Karacabey Esnaf Spor, Sönmez Filament and Tekelspor, has also took part in the youth team of Beşiktaş. While he was about to be transferred to Karabük due to his injury during the Gerede camp he had to quit playing football and preferred to continue studying Physical Training.

He became the provincial football referee of Istanbul in 2003. He worked both as refeere and side referee for two years but due to his frequent travels he had to quit his job as a refeere.

Ring sports television career
He continued with his ring sports broadcasting, which he started at Fox Turkey, for 5 years with no breaks. He presented K-1 kickboks, boks, Pro Wrestling Smackdown, Raw, TNA Impact Wrestling and TPW games both live and from tapes and reported them. Especially with the games he reported from Japan and the Netherlands he reached high rating scales. He wrote articles for WWE Magazine in Turkey in 2011 and reached his fans through interviews.

Producing career
He presented Professional Wrestling organizations with the producing company which he founded in 2011. He presented Turkish Power Wrestling shows in January 29 2011 at Ankara Atatürk Spor Salonu, in February 12 2011 at Kayseri Kadir Has Spor Salonu, in May 8 2011 at Bursa Atatürk Spor Salonu and in October 16 2011 at Istanbul Arena Park, and he produced these organizations. He included the publication rights of the TNA Impact Wrestling organizations which are held in the USA to his company. Formerly, TNA and TPW games were presented at Cine 5, Beyaz TV and Kanaltürk.

He protest physical violence to women on TV with his pro wrestlers...

TV channels worked for

 * 1998-2000 Cine 5
 * 2000-2004 TGRT
 * 2004-2006 DHA
 * 2006-2011 Fox

Works

 * TPW Magazine
 * WWE Magazine
 * Altin Yumruklar
 * Fox'ta Boks
 * TGRT Sport News