NEW YORK (Februari. 21, 2018) – Recently reaching 1,000,000 views for the series, Facebook FIGHTNIGHT LIVE looks to establish another benchmark denna fredag–Lördag, Februari. 23-24, with back-to-back-to-back shows spanning from the casinos of New England to the Boardwalk of Atlantic City. A red-hot card from the Jersey Shore caps the epic weekend, as the fan-friendly streaming service partners with Rising Star Promotions på lördag natt, Februari. 24. Fans from across the globe can catch seven bouts beginning at 7 p.m. wherever Facebook is available, including a crossroads main event battle featuring Thomas “Cornflake” Lamanna (25-2, 9 Kos) och Gabriel “Tito” Bracero (24-3, 5 Kos).
“We’re excited to be taking this next step for the series, and to be capping the weekend with an outstanding card that will delight fight fans, called by Ray Flores och Paulie Malignaggi,” sa Mark Fratto, Rektor Linacre Media. “Boardwalk Boxing at The Showboat will be back in a big way på lördag night with names like LaManna, Bracero, Rainone, Julan, Varmall and hot prospects and local favorites all displaying their talents and passion on Facebook. As a bonus, we’re proud to produce the PPV and pro debut of Mike Rashid, who has conquered the worlds of fitness and digital media and is looking to do big things in the fight game.”
I main event på lördag natt, New Jersey’s LaManna fights for the 19th time in the shore town, as he takes on the battle tested, Brooklyn-based Bracero. The card will feature some of the best prospects in the region that includes Jahmal Dyer från Baltimore, Md. (4-0, 2 Kos), Donald “No Love” Smith (5-0, 3 Kos) av Philadelphia, Frederick Julan (8-0, 6 Kos) of Brooklyn and Alvin Varmall, Jr. (14-0, 12 Kos) of Catskill, N.Y..
“We are excited to be bringing this great event and our first Boardwalk Boxing card from The Showboat to the fans all over the world on FIGHTNIGHT Live. We have a main event that everyone is talking about, and we are featuring some terrific prospects on an outstanding undercard,” sa Debbie LaManna, President of Rising Star Promotions.
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.
Den Sju. 9 “Real Deal Promotions: Empire State” från Resorts World Casino (225,000), augusti CES “Super Lördag” från Foxwoods (203,000), Sept. CES “Twin River Twinbill” från Lincoln, R.I. (157,000) alla toppade 150,000 visningar, 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.
Utöver de råa tittandet numren, det fullt interaktiva, fan-friendly productions have seen mer än 142,000 kollektiva levande placera uppdrag (nästan 12,000 per show), including almost 97,000 “gillar” eller “älskar,” mer än 22,000 comments and almost 6,000 shares.
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE broadcasts are viewed by 76 procent män, 24 procent kvinnor. The top demographic is comprised of males ages 25-34, som omfattar approximativt 30.0 procent av publiken, i genomsnitt.
Den Sju. 9 “Real Deal Promotions: Empire State” set a new bar with 224,658 visningar och Sju. 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 sticker ut individuellt med 3,421 live hours of content viewed, medan Sju. 15 DiBella card saw more than 40,000 tittar interaktioner including almost 39,000 “gillar” eller “älskar.”
The FIGHTNIGHT LIVE page on Facebook has more than 80,000 fläktar och mer än 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) och
BallWash (
ballwash.com).
På lördag natt, Februari. 24, live from live from The Showboat in Atlantic City, N.J., fans kan förvänta sig en stor genomslagskraft, flera kameror streaming upplevelse komplett med grafik, animationer, repriser, interviews and an announce team anchored by blow-by-blow announcer Ray Flores of Premier Boxing Champions, Showtime Boxing, HBO Boxing and CBS Sports Network and former IBF and WBA World Champion Paulie Malignaggi, now of Showtime, Sky Sports and CBS Sports Network. To provide spectators with a fully-interactive ringside experience, kommentatorer kommer att be och svara på frågor från Facebook publiken hela sändningen.
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.
Mer FIGHTNIGHT LIVE Winter / Spring 2018 datum kommer att tillkännages officiellt under de kommande veckorna.
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