NEW YORK (Feb. 16, 2018) – Beginning lotsatira Friday, Facebook FIGHTNIGHT moyo 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,” anati Mark Fratto, Akuluakulu a Linacre Media. “Ife tikudziwa mzake, 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 Friday, Feb. 23, with Fall River, Misa., juniyo 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., msirikali wakale 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., mbadwa 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.
The Zisanu Ndi Ziwiri. 9 “Real Pezani Zokwezedwa: ufumu State” kuchokera Resorts World Casino (225,000), August CES “Super Saturday” kuchokera Foxwoods (203,000), ndi Sept. CES “Didimo Mtsinje Twinbill” kuchokera Lincoln, R.I. (157,000) onse aposa 150,000 maganizo, 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.
Kuwonjezera pa manambala yaiwisi viewership, nazonso-zokambirana, fan-friendly productions have seen kuposa 142,000 gulu moyo engagements positi (pafupifupi 12,000 per show), including almost 97,000 “amakonda” kapena “amakonda,” kuposa 22,000 comments and almost 6,000 shares.
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE broadcasts are viewed by 76 peresenti amuna, 24 peresenti akazi. The top demographic is comprised of males ages 25-34, lomwe limalamulira pafupifupi 30.0 peresenti ya omvetsera, pafupifupi.
The Zisanu Ndi Ziwiri. 9 “Real Pezani Zokwezedwa: ufumu State” set a new bar with 224,658 maganizo ndi Zisanu Ndi Ziwiri. 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” amasonyeza chionekera payekha ndi 3,421 live hours of content viewed, pamene Zisanu Ndi Ziwiri. 15 DiBella card saw kuposa 40,000 Mwanjira wowerenga including almost 39,000 “amakonda” kapena “amawakonda.”
The FIGHTNIGHT LIVE page on Facebook has more than 80,000 mafani ndipo woposa 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),
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BallWasH (
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Lachisanu usiku, Feb. 23, live from live from Twin River Casino in Lincoln, R.I., mafani angayembekezere mkulu-amadza, Mipikisano kamera zinachitikira kusonkhana wathunthu zithunzi, makanema ojambula pamanja, 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, ndemanga ndidzapempha ndi kuyankha mafunso kuchokera kwa omvetsera Facebook mu kulengeza kwa.
Analengedwa ndi opangidwa ndi Linacre Media kuchoka ku New York City, ndi FIGHTNIGHT moyo mndandanda zimaonetsa kuti analengeza akatswiri, kumathandiza kupeza ngodya zabwino angapo kamera, yakanema zithunzi, replays ndi kumbuyo-ndi-zithunzi mwayi ndi zoyankhulana. The mapulogalamu akukhamukira zilipo lonse kulikonse Facebook akupezeka. The kanthu osati chimathandiza mafani padziko lonse kwa khutu, koma limaperekanso mmwamba-ndi-akubwera omenyana nsanja lonse akuonetsa luso lawo, amapereka ochirikiza ndi Kufikika “kuulutsidwa” njira ndi amapereka othandizira luso kufika omvera misa kudzera zili kuwasindikiza.
More FIGHTNIGHT moyo Zima / Spring 2018 masiku adzakhala mwalamulo analengeza mu masabata kubwera.
Follow all the action via social media at FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE on Facebook, @FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE on Instagram and@FIGHTNIGHTLIVE_ on Twitter, or by using the hashtag #FIGHTNIGHTLIVE. Pakuti atsopano zochitika Linacre Media ndi kuulutsa ndandanda, follow@LinacreMedia across all social platforms or use the tags #LinacreMediaEvents or #LinacreMediaOnTV.
