NEW YORK (
Augusti 25, 2017) –
Fight fans who want to whet their appetite prior to Mayweather-McGregor will be able to do so on Lördag, Augusti. 26,
thanks to a new partnership between veteran promoter Jimmy Burchfield Sr. och
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE Facebook series.
CES Boxing and the tech-forward,
fan-friendly Facebook broadcast platform are set to deliver once again –
this time from Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut – från
6-9 p.m. OCHdenna lördag before action heats up in the desert later that night.
Highlighting the CES Boxing card at Foxwoods’ Premier Ballroom is New London, Conn., nativ 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 Richie Rivera (2-0, 2 Kos) ochJose Rivera (3-1, 3 Kos), Miguel Ortiz (2-0, 1 KO) 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.”
Biljetterna kostar $55, $90, $155 och $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,” saMark Fratto, Rektor Linacre Media. “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 på solen” from Mohegan Sun and the June “Rosemont Rumble” from Chicago drew audiences of 65,000, 44,000 och 31,000, respektive, with more than 6,000 of hours of LIVE video consumed by Facebook users. Utöver de råa tittandet numren, det fullt interaktiva, fan-friendly productions have seen more than 27,000 kollektiva levande placera uppdrag, inklusive mer än 15,500 “gillar” eller “älskar,” mer än 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).
På lördag natt, Augusti 26, live from Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, Conn., fans kan förvänta sig en stor genomslagskraft, flera kameror streaming upplevelse komplett med grafik, animationer, repriser, interviews and an announce team anchored by blow-by-blow announcer Michael Woods of the TalkBox Podcast, NYFights.com and The Ring and analyst Xavier Porter of BrooklynFights.com, Notorious Boxing and the “Shoot the 5” radio show. To provide spectators with a fully-interactive ringside experience, kommentatorer kommer att be och svara på frågor från Facebook publiken hela sändningen.
Skapad och producerad av Linacre Media av New York City, the FIGHTNIGHT LIVE series features multiple camera angles, graphics, repriser och bakom-kulisserna-tillgång och intervjuer. De strömmade visar är tillgängliga globalt varhelst Facebook är tillgängligt. Initiativet inte bara gör det möjligt för fans från hela världen för att ställa in, men ger också up-and-coming kämpar en global plattform för att visa upp sina förmågor, ger promotorer en tillgänglig “sändning” lösning och ger sponsorer möjlighet att nå en masspublik via branded content.
More FIGHTNIGHT LIVE dates will be officially announced in the coming weeks.
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE finns online på: https://www.facebook.com/FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE /
Follow all the action via social media at FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE on Facebook, @FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE on Instagram and @FIGHTNIGHTLIVE_ on Twitter, or by using the hashtag #FIGHTNIGHTLIVE. De senaste Linacre Media händelser och broadcast schema, follow @LinacreMedia across all social platforms or use the tags #LinacreMediaEvents or #LinacreMediaOnTV.
