NEW YORK (Feb. 16, 2018) – Beginning Rāmere muri, 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. AND 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,” mea Mark Fratto, Tumuaki o Linacre Media. “E matau ana matou tahi i te tahi, 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 Rāmere, Feb. 23, with Fall River, Mass., whitu tekau teina 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., hōia Edwin Soto (11-2-2, 4 Koó), plus a six-round heavyweight co-feature between Sicilian Juiseppe Cusumano (13-1, 11 Koó) and battle-tested Pittsburgh, Pa., taketake Fred Latham (9-1-2, 5 Koó).
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.
Te E whitu. 9 “Whakatairanga Deal Real: Empire State” i Resorts World Casino (225,000), te August CES “Super Saturday” i Foxwoods (203,000), te Hepetema. CES “Twin awa Twinbill” i Lincoln, R.I. (157,000) i haaati katoa 150,000 whakaaro, 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.
I tua atu ki te tau feia mata'ita'ii raw, te tino-pāhekoheko, fan-friendly productions have seen neke atu i te 142,000 ngā ngā akiakitanga pou ora (tata 12,000 per show), including almost 97,000 “momo” ranei “aroha,” neke atu i te 22,000 comments and almost 6,000 shares.
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE broadcasts are viewed by 76 ōrau tangata, 24 wahine ōrau. The top demographic is comprised of males ages 25-34, e rarawhi āhua 30.0 ōrau o te minenga, i runga i toharite.
Te E whitu. 9 “Whakatairanga Deal Real: Empire State” set a new bar with 224,658 whakaaro me te E whitu. 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” tu i roto i takitahi whakaatu ki 3,421 live hours of content viewed, ia te E whitu. 15 DiBella card saw neke atu i te 40,000 taunekeneke pūtirotiro including almost 39,000 “momo” ranei “aroha.”
The FIGHTNIGHT LIVE page on Facebook has more than 80,000 pā me te neke atu i te 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(
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BallWash (
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I te po te Paraire, Feb. 23, live from live from Twin River Casino in Lincoln, R.I., Ka taea e pā titau i te nui-pānga, wheako roma maha-kāmera oti ki whakairoiro, hākoritanga, 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, ka ui körero, me te whakautu ki ngā pātai i te whakarongo Facebook puta noa te haapurororaa.
Hanga, ka whakaputaina e te Linacre Media i roto o New York City, ngā te raupapa FIGHTNIGHT LIVE kaipāho ngaio, koki kāmera maha, whakairoiro pouaka whakaata, replays a muri-te-scenes wāhi me ngā uiuinga. E wātea ana nga whakaaturanga rere te ao nga wahi katoa he wātea Facebook. Ko te kaupapa e kore anake e āhei pā i huri noa i te ao ki te rangi i roto i, engari homai ano hoki ki runga-a-haere mai whawhai i te papa ao ki te whakaatu i ō rātou āheinga, homai ngā kaiwhakatairanga te wātea “pāhotanga” otinga me te homai kaitautoko te kaha ki te tae te whakarongo papatipu mā te ihirangi parani.
Ētahi atu FIGHTNIGHT LIVE Winter / Spring 2018 rā ka kia mana kauwhautia i roto i te wiki e haere mai.
Follow all the action via social media at FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE on Facebook, @FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE on Instagram and@FIGHTNIGHTLIVE_ on Twitter, or by using the hashtag #FIGHTNIGHTLIVE. Hoki te hou ngā Linacre Media me rärangi päho, follow@LinacreMedia across all social platforms or use the tags #LinacreMediaEvents or #LinacreMediaOnTV.
