NEW YORK (Feb. 16, 2018) – Beginning Vandredi kap vini, 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. AK 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 Oliveira 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,” di Mak Fratto, Direktè lekòl la nan Linacre Media. “Nou konnen youn ak lòt, 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 Vandredi, Feb. 23, with Fall River, Mass., jinyò middleweight Ray Oliveira 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., veteran Edwin Soto (11-2-2, 4 Ko), plus a six-round heavyweight co-feature between Sicilian Juiseppe Cusumano (13-1, 11 Ko) and battle-tested Pittsburgh, PA., natif natal Fred Latham (9-1-2, 5 Ko).
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.
Nan Sèt. 9 “Imobilye Deal Pwomosyon: Empire State” soti nan dèstinasyon kazino Mondyal (225,000), CES nan mwa Out “Super Saturday” soti nan Foxwoods (203,000), Sept la. CES “Twin River Twinbill” soti nan Lincoln, R.I. (157,000) tout antèt 150,000 opinyon, 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.
Anplis de sa nan nimewo yo lodyans anvan tout koreksyon, konplètman-entèaktif nan, fan-friendly productions have seen plis pase 142,000 kolektif ap viv pòs angajman (prèske 12,000 per show), including almost 97,000 “renmen” oswa “renmen,” plis pase 22,000 comments and almost 6,000 shares.
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE broadcasts are viewed by 76 pousan moun, 24 pousan fanm. The top demographic is comprised of males ages 25-34, ki englobe apeprè 30.0 pousan nan odyans lan, an mwayèn.
Nan Sèt. 9 “Imobilye Deal Pwomosyon: Empire State” set a new bar with 224,658 opinyon ak nan Sèt. 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” montre vle di soti endividyèlman ak 3,421 live hours of content viewed, pandan y ap nan Sèt. 15 DiBella card saw plis pase 40,000 visualiseur entèraksyon including almost 39,000 “renmen” oswa “renmen.”
The FIGHTNIGHT LIVE page on Facebook has more than 80,000 fanatik ak plis pase 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) ak
BallWash (
ballwash.com).
Sou Vandredi swa, Feb. 23, live from live from Twin River Casino in Lincoln, R.I., fanatik ka atann yon-wo enpak, milti-kamera difizyon eksperyans ranpli ak grafik, Animations, rple, 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, kòmantatè ap mande epi reponn a kesyon soti nan odyans lan Facebook nan tout emisyon an.
Kreye epi ki te pwodwi pa Linacre Media soti nan New York City, seri a FIGHTNIGHT LIVE karakteristik anonseur pwofesyonèl, ang kamera miltip, televizyon grafik, rple ak dèyè-sèn aksè a yo ak entèvyou. montre yo difuze yo disponib globalman tout kote Facebook se disponib. Inisyativ sa a pa sèlman pèmèt fanatik yo atravè mond la sou ton an, men tou, bay moute-ak-ap vini avyon de gè yon platfòm mondyal yo montre kapasite yo, bay pwomotè yon aksesib “emisyon” solisyon e li bay moun ki ap sipòte kapasite a yo rive jwenn yon odyans mas atravè marque kontni.
Plis FIGHTNIGHT LIVE Winter / Spring 2018 dat yo pral ofisyèlman anonse nan semèn kap vini.
Follow all the action via social media at FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE on Facebook, @FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE on Instagram and@FIGHTNIGHTLIVE_ on Twitter, or by using the hashtag #FIGHTNIGHTLIVE. Pou dènye evènman yo Linacre Medi ak orè emisyon, follow@LinacreMedia across all social platforms or use the tags #LinacreMediaEvents or #LinacreMediaOnTV.
