NEW YORK (
August 15, 2017) –
Fight fans who want to whet their appetite prior to Mayweather-McGregor will be able to do so on Lørdag, August. 26,
thanks to a new partnership between veteran promoter Jimmy Burchfield Sr. og
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE Facebook series.
CES boksning and the tech-forward,
fan-friendly Facebook broadcast platform are set to deliver once again –
this time from Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut – fra
6-9 p.m. OGon that Lørdag before action heats up in the desert later that night.
Highlighting the CES Boxing card at Foxwoods’ Premier Ballroom is New London, Conn., indfødte Jimmy Williams (13-0-1, 5 KOS), as he defends his WBC-USNBC Welterweight Title against veteran Bronx N.Y. pugilist Kinda issouf (18-4, 7 KOS). Also appearing on the card: New London’s Cristobal Marrero (4-0, 3 KOS), Hartford’s Richard Rivera (2-0, 2 KOS) og Jose Rivera (3-1, 3 KOS), Miguel Ortiz (2-0, 1 KO) af Springfield, Mass., and others.
“CES Boxing starts the fireworks with a live, action-packed card at Foxwoods Resort Casino leading up to the Mayweather-MacGregor PPV,” proudly states CES President Burchfield Sr. “We are extremely excited to be partnering with Linacre Media to broadcast this event worldwide on the FIGHTNIGHT LIVE Facebook page.”
Billetter er prissat til $55, $90, $155 og $325 and can be purchased online atcesboxing.com, foxwoods.com, eller ticketmaster.com, eller på telefon 401-724-2253 eller 800-200-2882. As an added bonus, all CES ticket holders receive a free, reserved seat to the exclusive Pay Per View showing of Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor in Foxwoods’ Grand Theater.
“We’re happy to be involved in what will be a great night for fight fans all over the globe,” sagdeMark Fratto, Rektor for Linacre Medier. “In addition to the great crowd that Jimmy Burchfield Sr. and Team CES is sure to deliver with a packed, local card and the May-Mac PPV following on the big screen at Foxwoods, we’re thrilled to deliver all of the action from coast-to-coast and around the world through our Facebook FIGHTNIGHT LIVE channel. We hope a lot of boxing and MMA fans having fight parties will enjoy our free New England Facebook show on any device before turning their attention toward the desert and Showtime.”
The numbers on the FIGHTNIGHT LIVE series have showed promise and potential for the new platform. The July Roy Jones Jr. “Desert Showdown” from Phoenix, the May “Slugfest at the Sun” from Mohegan Sun and the June “Rosemont Rumble” from Chicago drew audiences of 65,000, 44,000 og 31,000, henholdsvis, with more than 6,000 of hours of LIVE video consumed by Facebook users. Ud over de rå seertallet numre, det fuldt interaktiv, fan-friendly productions have seen more than 27,000 kollektive levende indlæg engagementer, herunder mere end 15,500 “kan lide” eller “elsker,” mere end 9,000 comments and 1,600-plus shares.
Facebook FIGHTNIGHT LIVE has been delivered to fans absolutely free since its May 2017 launch courtesy of corporate partners like Barbour One 9, Talent Management and Entertainment Production (www.barbourone9.com) and Northeastern Fine Jewelry (www.nefj.com).
Lørdag nat, August 26, live from Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, Conn., fans kan forvente en stor effekt, multi-kamera streaming oplevelse komplet med grafik, animationer, replays, interviews og et annonceret hold forankret af blow-by-blow-annoncør Michael Woods of the TalkBox Podcast, NYFights.com and The Ring and analyst Xavier Porter of BrooklynFights.com and Notorious Boxing. At give tilskuere en fuldt interaktiv ringoplevelse, kommentatorer vil bede og svare på spørgsmål fra Facebook-publikum i hele udsendelsen.
Lavet og produceret af Linacre medier ud af New York City, FIGHTNIGHT LIVE-serien har flere kameravinkler, grafik, replays og bag-kulisserne adgang og interviews. De streamede shows er tilgængelige globalt, hvor Facebook er tilgængelig. Initiativet ikke alene gør det muligt for fans fra hele verden for at stille ind, men også giver up-and-coming krigere en global platform til at fremvise deres evner, giver initiativtagere en tilgængelig “broadcast” løsning og giver sponsorer mulighed for at nå et bredt publikum via branded content.
Flere FIGHTNIGHT LIVE-datoer vil blive annonceret officielt i de kommende uger.
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE er tilgængelig online på: https://www.facebook.com/FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE /
Følg alle de foranstaltninger via sociale medier hos FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE på Facebook, @FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE på Instagram og @FIGHTNIGHTLIVE_ på Twitter, eller ved at bruge hashtag #FIGHTNIGHTLIVE. For de seneste Linacre Media begivenheder og broadcast tidsplan, følg @LinacreMedia på tværs af alle sociale platforme eller bruge tags #LinacreMediaEvents eller #LinacreMediaOnTV.
