PHOENIX (Juillet 14, 2017) – What’s hotter than Phoenix in July? Roy Jones Jr. Boxe et la fightnight EN DIRECT Facebook series will answer that question this Samedi, Juillet 15, à 7:30 p.m. PT (10:30 p.m. ET) when the tech-forward, fan-friendly broadcast platform delivers once again – this time with a stacked fight card featuring championship action live from the desert.
Promu par Roy Jones Jr. et Keith Veltre, Samedi event will bring fans back-to-back championship action. The event will showcase a main attraction featuring NABA Super Welterweight Champion Jean “Le Phenom” Vera Jr. (16-0, 10 KOs) as he takes on the former WBO Latino Champion Daniel Rosario (11-2, 10 KOs) in a 10-round contest live from in Chandler, Ariz. Super bantamweight standout and former WBA World Champion Rico Ramos (25-5, 13 KOs) will go toe-to-toe with Tony Lopez (12-2, 4 KOs) for the vacant NABA Super Bantamweight title as part of a stacked fight card filled with Arizona-area heroes.
“Roy et moi avons toujours pensé que le streaming en direct remplacerait les anciennes plates-formes de livraison de combats,” stated Veltre, PDG et co-fondateur de Roy Jones Jr. Promotions de boxe. “To partner up with Linacre Media and showcase our talent live with Facebook is years ahead of anyone else in the industry. This will give us the ability to reach millions of boxing fans around the world and enable us to deliver our sponsors triple the exposure we would normally get from traditional TV. Mark Fratto, the brains behind this envisioning series, is giving fighters the opportunity to showcase their talent to the world and gain a fan base. We are thrilled that his vision lines exactly where Roy Jones Jr. Promotions de boxe veut être.”
Vera, de Fort Worth, Texas, has a perfect mark of 16-0 avec dix KO, and is ranked No. 7 par la WBA et n. 14 par la WBO.
Le 28 year-old southpaw has built that mark on the strength of beating good competition. He has defeated Alberto Robles (3-0) and Radmir Akhmediyev (7-0). He won the NABA title with a sixth-round stoppage over Joey Rueles (10-1-1). He has defended the title successfully twice with a second-round stoppage over Milorad Zizc (12-1), and in his last bout when he won a 10-round split decision over Salim Larbi on Janvier 27 à Phoenix.
Chapelet, de Caguas, Puerto Rico, a un dossier de 11-2 avec 10 KO. Like Vera, la 29 year-old Rosario has built his record with impressive victories over Carlos Ramos (1-0), Jordan Wisenfeld (4-0-2), Alphonso Black (8-1-1), and won the WBO Latino Super Welterweight title with a second-round stoppage over Aaron Garcia (14-3-1). Rosario is coming off an eight-round split decision loss to Norberto Gonzalez on November 18, 2016, à Las Vegas.
Ramos, of Watts, Calif., a un dossier de 27-5 avec 13 KO. Le 30 year-old won the WBA Super Bantamweight title with a seventh-round stoppage over Akifumi Shimoda in 2011. After losing the title, he fought for the world championship again, but lost to Jesus Cuellar. Ramos is on a three-fight win streak with his latest victory coming via a 10-round unanimous decision over Erik Ruiz on Mars 11 à Las Vegas.
Lopez, de Fort Worth, Texas, a un dossier de 12-2 avec quatre coups de grâce. Lopez has defeated three undefeated fighters; included in that is a win over highly regarded Jerren Cochran (11-0). Lopez is coming off a fifth-round technical decision over Ranel Suco this past Avril 27 à Dallas.
The stacked undercard includes an eight-round welterweight clash between Abel Ramos (17-2, 12 KOs) of Phoenix battling Emmanuel Robles (15-2, 4 KOs). Four more undercard fights will start the bill off with fights featuring undefeated bantamweight Max Ornelas (8-0-1, 3 KOs) rematching fellow undefeated warrior, Leopoldo Martinez (6-0-1, 3 KOs) – their last bout ended in a technical draw following a headbutt. Super featherweight Randy Moreno (8-1, 7 KOs) takes on local favorite Ivan De La Madrid (3-1) et welters Vernon Brown (4-0, 3 KOs) of Chicago puts his undefeated slate on the line against fellow unbeaten battler Daniel Castro Jr. (2-0, 2 KOs) de Durango, Mexique.
Combats et les combattants sont sujets à changement;
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A tape-delayed version of the live show will air on BeIN Sports one week after the live show on Facebook.
Supporters of the Sweet Science can take advantage of the multi-camera FIGHTNIGHT LIVE broadcast on Facebook –
completely free wherever Facebook is available –
and also check out all of the action in ULTRACAST 360˚ or ULTRACAST VR by downloading the ULTRACAST app and subscribing to the PPV feed for only $.99.
Available for IOS and Android,
fans simply need to download the ULTRACAST app in the App store or by visiting www.ultracast.com/app.
“We’re excited to be able to capitalize on cutting-edge technology to give the Roy Jones Jr. Boxing audience a ringside seat, live from the greater Phoenix area,” dit Mark Fratto, Principal des Médias Linacre. “Our Facebook Live series continues to keep fight fans at the forefront, now with not just one – mais trois – high-quality viewing experiences available.”
The numbers on the FIGHTNIGHT LIVE series have showed promise and potential for the new platform. Le mai “Slugfest au Soleil” from Mohegan Sun and the June “Rosemont Rumble” from Chicago drew audiences of 44,000 et 31,000, respectivement, with more than 3,000 of hours of LIVE video consumed by Facebook users. En plus des numéros de téléspectateurs premières, la entièrement interactive, fan-friendly productions have seen more than 15,000 engagements post collectifs en direct, dont plus de 9,000 “aime” ou “aime,” plus que 5,000 comments and 800-plus shares.
Facebook Fightnight a été livré en direct aux fans absolument gratuit depuis sa mai 2017
launch courtesy of corporate partners like Barbour One 9,
Talent Management and Entertainment Production (
www.barbourone9.com)
and Northeastern Fine Jewelry (
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Samedi nuit, Juillet 15, live from Wild Horse Pass Casino in Chandler, Arizona, les fans peuvent attendre un fort impact, multi-camera streaming experience – now also available in ULTRACAST 360˚ and ULTRACAST VR – complete with graphics, animations, replays, des interviews et une équipe annonce par annonceur coup ancré par coup Miguel Flores of Premier Boxing Champions and analyst Michael Woods of the TalkBox Podcast, NYFights.com and The Ring. Joining the broadcast team once again will be world-ranked light heavyweight Mike Lee. University of Notre Dame alum Lee (19-0, 10 KOs) est classé No. 12 par la WBO, Ne Pas. 12 par l'IBF, Ne Pas. 13 par la WBA et n. 14 par le WBC, and will be ringside with Flores and Woods to provide expert analysis. Pour fournir aux spectateurs une expérience de près du ring entièrement interactive, les commentateurs demanderont et répondre aux questions de l'auditoire Facebook tout au long de l'émission.
Créé et produit par Linacre médias de New York City, the FIGHTNIGHT LIVE series features multiple camera angles, graphics, replays et l'accès derrière les coulisses et interviews. Les spectacles diffusés en continu sont disponibles dans le monde où Facebook est disponible. L'initiative permet non seulement les fans de partout dans le monde à l'écoute, mais donne aussi plein de promesses combattants une plate-forme mondiale pour mettre en valeur leurs capacités, donne des promoteurs d'un accès “diffusion” solution et donne sponsors la possibilité d'atteindre un public de masse via le contenu de marque.
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE strap season continues on Samedi, Juillet 29, in Raleigh, N.C., as Tar Heel State undefeated super flyweight Dewayne Beamon competes for the IBO Inter-Continental and UBF World Junior Bantamweight titles. More FIGHTNIGHT LIVE dates will be officially announced in the coming weeks.
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