NEW YORK (Feb. 16, 2018) – Beginning gaba Jumma'a, Facebook FIGHTNIGHT LIVE serves up tripleheader action inside the squared circle. To open the weekend, the fan-friendly boxing and MMA streaming service partners once again with renowned promoter Jimmy Burchfield Sr. for a red-hot CES Boxing card to start the boxing year in New England. Fans from across the globe can catch all the action beginning at 8 p.m. DA live from Twin River Casino in Rhode Island on any device wherever Facebook is available.
“This is an exciting main event between two deserving championship contenders and there’s no better partner than FIGHTNIGHT LIVE to provide fight fans all around the globe a front-row seat to the action. Ray Olivera Jr. has paid his dues though the years while other fighters in New England have had the opportunity to see their name in lights. Now he gets his shot to headline for the first time in his career while competing for his first championship,” said Burchfield, Sr.
Recently hitting the 1,000,000 views mark, Friday’s show rings the opening bell on FIGHTNIGHT LIVE’s Feb. 23-24 back-to-back-to-back Friday and Saturday shows spanning from the casinos of New England to the Boardwalk of Atlantic City.
“At this point, CES and FIGHTNIGHT LIVE are family,” ya ce Mark Fratto, Principal na Linacre Media. “Mun san juna, we love working on shows with the Burchfield and CES Family and have relationships with the promoters and fighters that extend long past the bell. These are great people and great athletes and we’re excited as always to give them a platform to showcase their talent and tell their stories. What a great way to open a jam-packed weekend of Facebook fights.”
CES Boxing kicks off the 2018 Twin River Casino Fight Series on Jumma'a, Feb. 23, with Fall River, Taro., ƙarami middleweight Ray Olivera Jr. (9-1, 1 KO) headlining for the first time in his career and vying for the World Boxing Union (WBU) Super Welterweight Canadian-American-Mexican (CAM) Championship in an eight-round showdown against New Haven, Conn., tsohon soja Edwin Soto (11-2-2, 4 Kos), plus a six-round heavyweight co-feature between Sicilian Juiseppe Cusumano (13-1, 11 Kos) and battle-tested Pittsburgh, Pa., 'yan qasar Fred Latham (9-1-2, 5 Kos).
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 close to 90,000 fight fans tuning in per event and more than one-million fans served.
A Bakwai. 9 “Real Deal Kiran: Empire State” daga Resorts Duniya Casino (225,000), da Agusta CES “Super Saturday” daga Foxwoods (203,000), da Satumba. CES “Twin River Twinbill” daga Lincoln, R.I. (157,000) duk shugaba 150,000 views, and collectively the 12-show series saw a total of more than 21,000 total hours of Facebook video consumed by 1,067,435-plus users across all devices.
Bugu da kari ga raw viewership lambobin, da cikakken-m, fan-friendly productions have seen fiye da 142,000 gama live post alkawari (kusan 12,000 per show), including almost 97,000 “kwatankwacinku” ko “Yana son,” fiye da 22,000 comments and almost 6,000 shares.
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE broadcasts are viewed by 76 kashi maza, 24 kashi mata. The top demographic is comprised of males ages 25-34, wanda yalwaci kamar 30.0 bisa dari na masu sauraro, a kan talakawan.
A Bakwai. 9 “Real Deal Kiran: Empire State” set a new bar with 224,658 views da kuma Bakwai. 15-16 DiBella-CES doubleheader carried the series to three-quarters-of-a-million views in just over four months. The Feb. 10 Hard-Hitting Promotions “Philly Fight Night” show tsaye daga daidaiku da 3,421 live hours of content viewed, yayin da Bakwai. 15 DiBella card saw fiye da 40,000 viewer interactions including almost 39,000 “kwatankwacinku” ko “Yana son.”
The FIGHTNIGHT LIVE page on Facebook has more than 80,000 magoya kuma fiye da 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:
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) da kuma
BallWash (
ballwash.com).
A ranar Jumma'a da dare, Feb. 23, live from live from Twin River Casino in Lincoln, R.I., magoya iya sa ran a high-tasiri, Multi-kamara streaming kwarewa cikakken tare da graphics, rayarwa, replays, 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 and Notorious Boxing. To provide spectators with a fully-interactive ringside experience, Malamai zai tambaye kuma amsa tambayoyi daga masu sauraro Facebook cikin watsa shirye-shirye.
Halitta da kuma samar da Linacre Media daga New York City, da FIGHTNIGHT LIVE jerin siffofi masu sana'a labarai, mahara kyamara kusassari, talabijin graphics, replays da kuma a baya-da-scenes damar da hirarraki. A jerarrun nuna suna samuwa a duniya a duk inda Facebook ne samuwa. A shirin ba kawai sa magoya daga ko'ina cikin duniya zuwa tune a, amma kuma ya ba up-da-zuwa mayakan mai duniya dandali zuwa Showcase kwarewarsu, ba promoters wani m “watsa shirye-shirye” bayani da kuma ya bada tallafawa da ikon isa wani taro masu sauraro via akayi abun ciki.
More FIGHTNIGHT LIVE Winter / Spring 2018 kwanakin za a sanar a cikin makonni masu zuwa.
Follow all the action via social media at FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE on Facebook, @FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE on Instagram and@FIGHTNIGHTLIVE_ on Twitter, or by using the hashtag #FIGHTNIGHTLIVE. Ga sabuwar Linacre Media events da kuma watsa shirye-shirye jadawalin, follow@LinacreMedia across all social platforms or use the tags #LinacreMediaEvents or #LinacreMediaOnTV.
