NEW YORK (Mars 14, 2018) – Facebook FIGHTNIGHT LIVE has something for everyone denna lördag as the fan-friendly and completely FREE platform celebrates St. Patrick’s Day in Boston with the Dropkick Murphys and Murphys Boxing. Music fans and fight fans from across the nation and around the globe can catch the Dropkick Murphys in concert and an outstanding card with international appeal on any device wherever Facebook is available from 7-10 p.m., brought to fans by the promotion born out of the Dropkick Murphys popular Celtic punk band.
Following the three-hour FREE show – featuring Dropkick Murphys music, fighter interviews and four free bouts live from the House of Blues adjacent to Fenway Park – fans can tune into the iN Demand, Vubiquity, DISH and the FITE.TV app for four more pay-per-view fights and a live acoustic set from the band. Canadian fight fans can tune in via Super Channel.
“Times are changing for boxing just like streaming changed music. We are proud of the fights we are putting on and the big audiences we are drawing, and it’s great for our fighters to get the exposure,” sa Ken Casey, Dropkick Murphys Frontman and President and Founder, Murphys Boxning.
Recently surpassing 1.2 million views for the series, Lördagens St. Patrick’s Day Clash continues FIGHTNIGHT LIVE’s meteoric 10-month rise, which has already included five live shows in the first two months of the New Year.
“We’re excited to continue our two-fight promotion with Murphys Boxing and can’t wait to hoist a pint with them during our St. Patrick’s Day show in Boston,” sa Mark Fratto, Rektor Linacre Media. “Facebook is a terrific medium to deliver these great early fights and interviews for free, and set the St. Paddy’s tone with some great music from Ken Casey and the fellas. We encourage fight fans and music fans to check out the PPV portion as well, there’s more music and unbelievable action coming up later in the evening.”
As part of the Facebook bouts, New England champion Greg “The Villain” Vendetti (17-2-1, 10 Kos) of Stoneham, Mass., tar på Engleberto Valenzuela(11-12, 3 Kos) av Mexiko; the Fighting Pride of the Yezidi People Yurik “Don’t Be Sorry, Be Careful” Mamedov (6-1, 3 Kos) av Brooklyn, N.Y.. möter Daniel Sostre(13-16-1, 5 Kos), or Puerto Rico; fjäder Amanda Pavone (2-0, 1 KO) or Burlington, Mäss. Faces Sarah Click (för debut) från Framingham, Mass.; och lätt Tomas Romain (6-1) av Brooklyn, N.Y.. tar på Israel Rojas (13-20, 5 Kos) av Mexiko.
Over the first nine-plus months of programming, the numbers on the 12-show FIGHTNIGHT LIVE series have showed promise and potential for the new platform with an average of 82,153 fight fans tuning in per event and more than 1.2 million fans served.
Den Sju. 9 “Real Deal Promotions: Empire State” från Resorts World Casino (225,000), augusti CES “Super Lördag” från Foxwoods (203,000) and the Sept. CES “Twin River Twinbill” från Lincoln, R.I. (157,000) alla toppade 150,000 visningar, and collectively the 15-show series has seen a total of almost 28,000 total hours of Facebook video consumed by 1,232,299 users across all devices.
Utöver de råa tittandet numren, det fullt interaktiva, fan-friendly productions have seen mer än 155,000 kollektiva levande placera uppdrag(mer än 10,000 per show), including almost 103,000 “gillar” eller “älskar,” mer än 27,000 comments and more than 7,000 shares.
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE broadcasts are viewed by 76 procent män, 24 procent kvinnor. The top demographic is comprised of males ages 25-34, som omfattar approximativt 30.0 procent av publiken, i genomsnitt.
Den Sju. 9 “Real Deal Promotions: Empire State” set a new bar with 224,658 visningar och Sju. 15-16 DiBella-CES doubleheader carried the series to three-quarters-of-a-million views in just over four months. Den Februari. 10 Hard-Hitting Promotions “Philly Fight Night” show sticker ut individuellt med 3,421 live hours of content viewed, medan Sju. 15 DiBella card saw mer än 40,000 tittar interaktioner including almost 39,000 “gillar” eller “älskar.”
The FIGHTNIGHT LIVE page on Facebook has more than 80,000 fläktar och mer än 82,000 followers. And Facebook itself has taken notice – the world’s No. 1 social network recently profiled FIGHTNIGHT LIVE on its “Success Stories” media blog, noting the series’ use of industry best practices for production and interactivity:
https://www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/success-stories/fightnight
Facebook FIGHTNIGHT LIVE has been delivered to fans absolutely free since its May 2017 launch courtesy of series corporate partners like Elite Heat Water, Montauk Iced Tea (montaukbev.com), Mr. Custom Made (mrcustommade.com) and BallWash (ballwash.com).
På Lördag, Mars 17, live from live from the House of Blues in Boston, 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 Ray Flores of Premier Boxing Champions, Showtime Boxing, HBO Boxing and CBS Sports Network, och analytiker Marc Abrams of AWE, NBC Sports Philadelphia, 15Rounds.com och AbramsBoxing.com. 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, den FIGHTNIGHT LIVE serien har professionella announcers, flera kameravinklar, TV grafik, 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 Spring 2018 datum kommer att tillkännages officiellt under de kommande veckorna.
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