Gradinar-Carabajal to clash for vacant IBF World Championship on fan-friendly, FREE Facebook platform.
Uppkopplad: https://www.facebook.com/FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE/
PRESSMEDDELANDE
NEW YORK (April 8, 2019) – An IBF Female World Title is on the line and women’s boxing history will be made on Saturday, April 13, som FIGHTNIGHT LIVE Powered by Everlast once again works alongside Showtime Sports to deliver a great night of action to fight fans everywhere. Med början vid 6 p.m. ET live from the hallowed Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J., the interactive, FREE Facebook series sets the table for the Shields vs. Hammer undisputed middleweight championship showdown with five fights, including a world title contest and a main event preview featuring the undefeated champion Claressa Shields herself.
“We’re excited to have a role in what will be a historic night in women’s boxing, and it speaks to the strides our platform has made to exclusively air our first world championship matchup,” sa Mark Fratto, Principal and Director of Business Development, Linacre Media. “The world title fight will be part of an outstanding evening of Facebook action with championship contenders and budding stars, and an exclusive interview with Claressa Shields, and of course we’re thrilled to be working alongside Showtime once again.”
The FIGHTNIGHT LIVE lineup is headlined by unbeaten Russian Elena Gradinar (9-0, 2 Kos), who vies for her first world title when she takes on two-time title challenger Brenda Karen Carabajal (15-4-1, 9 Kos) for the vacant IBF Featherweight World Championship – the first-ever world title fight for the popular Facebook series. In super flyweight action, 23 year-old Detroit-native Ja’Rico O’Quinn (11-0, 8 Kos) looks to remain unbeaten in an eight-round fight against Minnesota’s Vicente Alfaro Martinez (9-4, 3 Kos). The card will also include former heavyweight title challenger Samuel Peter (37-6, 30 Kos) in an eight-round matchup and Jesse Angel Hernandez (12-2, 7 Kos) of Fort Worth, Texas, stepping in for an eight round super bantamweight contest. Local standout Isiah Seldon(12-2, 4 Kos) opens the free show on Facebook three hours before Showtime Boxing hits the airwaves.
“April 13 is a fantastic fight card, top-to-bottom, from former heavyweight champion Samuel Peter to top American super flyweight prospect Jarico O’Quinn and the highly competitive IBF Featherweight World Title fight between No. 1-ranked Elena Gradinar from Russia and No. 2 contender Karen Carbajal from Argentina fighting for the vacant belt,” said boxing champion-turned-promoter Dmitriy Salita of Salita Promotions. “Some of the best boxers on the planet will be on display on the most popular social media platform in the world, Facebook FIGHTNIGHT LIVE, on April 13.”
Now in its second season, FIGHTNIGHT LIVE Powered by Everlast is the fan-friendly Facebook platform that – among other aspects – prides itself on the real-time conversations held between fight commentators and the viewing audience. FIGHTNIGHT LIVE has showcased more than 545 fighters and 16 promotions during 33 live event broadcasts from 19 different cities since May 2017, and in doing so, the interactive platform has generated the loyal interest of fight fans from across the United States and around the globe, including significant audiences in Mexico, the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe, and even fans in South America, Asia and Australia.
Since May 2017, the numbers on the 33-show FIGHTNIGHT LIVE series showed promise and potential for the new platform with an average of 171,589 visningar per event and more than 5.6 million total views for the franchise. Since Sept. 2018, sixteen FIGHTNIGHT LIVE Season II shows have reached 4.2 million fans och have averaged almost 265,000 visningar.
The Sept. 2018 “Kings Boxing Tuesday Night Fights” (594,447) from the Sands in Bethlehem, the Dec. 2018 “Queens and Kings of Queens Card” (379,758) i New York, the Nov. 2018 “Hard Hitting Showtime Collaboration” (372,662), the Dec. 2018 “Roy Jones Jr.. Texas Throwdown” (318,886), the Oct. 2018 “Hard Hitting Philly Special” (297,545), the Oct. 2018 hour-long Bareknuckle “Freeview” (292,253), the Nov. 2018 “Titans In The Capital” (256,871), the March 2019 Murphys Boxning “St. Patrick’s Day Clash” (252,065), Sept. 2017 “Real Deal Promotions: Empire State” från Resorts World Casino (225,000), the March 2019 Murphy’s Boxing “Melrose Mayhem” (218,409), the Feb. 2019 “Raging Babe Philly Special” (203,000) and the August 2017 CES “Super Saturday” från Foxwoods (203,000) all logged 200,000 or more views, and collectively the 33-show series has seen a total of more than 5,662,450 views across all devices.
Utöver de råa tittandet numren, det fullt interaktiva, fan-friendly productions have seen mer än 430,000 kollektiva levande placera uppdrag (mer än 13,000 per show), inklusive mer än 330,000 “gillar” eller “älskar,” mer än 58,000 comments and more than 19,000 shares.
The Sept. 2018 “Kings Boxing Tuesday Night Fights” from the Sands in Bethlehem set a new bar with 594,447 visningar. The Sept. 2017 DiBella card saw mer än 40,000 tittar interaktioner including almost 39,000 “gillar” eller “älskar” and the March 17, 2018, Murphy’s “St. Patrick’s Day Clash” set a new high-water mark for shares with 2,182.
The FIGHTNIGHT LIVE page on Facebook has more than 87,000 fläktar och mer än 95,000 followers.
Skapad och producerad av Linacre Media av New York City, den FIGHTNIGHT LIVE serien har professionella announcers, flera kameravinklar, TV grafik, repriser och bakom-kulisserna-tillgång och intervjuer. De strömmade visar är tillgängliga globalt varhelst Facebook är tillgängligt. Initiativet inte bara gör det möjligt för fans från hela världen för att ställa in, men ger också up-and-coming kämpar en global plattform för att visa upp sina förmågor, ger promotorer en tillgänglig “sändning” lösning och ger sponsorer möjlighet att nå en masspublik via branded content.
Additional FIGHTNIGHT LIVE Spring 2019 datum kommer att tillkännages officiellt under de kommande veckorna.
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE finns online på: https://www.facebook.com/FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE/
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE finns online på: https://www.facebook.com/FaceFIGHTNIGHTLIVE/
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