FÉNIX (Julho 14, 2017) – What’s hotter than Phoenix in July? Roy Jones Jr. Boxe eo fightnight VIVO Facebook series will answer that question this Sábado, Julho 15, em 7:30 p.m. PT (10:30 p.m. E) when the tech-forward, fan-friendly broadcast platform delivers once again – this time with a stacked fight card featuring championship action live from the desert.
Promovido pela Roy Jones Jr. e Keith Veltre, Sábado event will bring fans back-to-back championship action. The event will showcase a main attraction featuring NABA Super Welterweight Champion Banheiro “The Phenom” Vera Jr. (16-0, 10 KOs) as he takes on the former WBO Latino Champion Daniel Rosario (11-2, 10 KOs) in a 10-round contest live from in Chandler, Ariz. Super bantamweight standout and former WBA World Champion Rico Ramos (25-5, 13 KOs) will go toe-to-toe with Tony Lopez (12-2, 4 KOs) for the vacant NABA Super Bantamweight title as part of a stacked fight card filled with Arizona-area heroes.
“Roy and I have always felt that live streaming would take the place of the old platforms of delivering fights,” stated Veltre, CEO and Co-Founder of Roy Jones Jr. Boxing Promotions. “To partner up with Linacre Media and showcase our talent live with Facebook is years ahead of anyone else in the industry. This will give us the ability to reach millions of boxing fans around the world and enable us to deliver our sponsors triple the exposure we would normally get from traditional TV. Mark Fratto, the brains behind this envisioning series, is giving fighters the opportunity to showcase their talent to the world and gain a fan base. We are thrilled that his vision lines exactly where Roy Jones Jr. Boxing Promotions wants to be.”
Vera, de Fort Worth, Texas, has a perfect mark of 16-0 com dez nocautes, and is ranked No. 7 pela WBA e Não. 14 pela WBO.
O 28 year-old southpaw has built that mark on the strength of beating good competition. He has defeated Alberto Robles (3-0) and Radmir Akhmediyev (7-0). He won the NABA title with a sixth-round stoppage over Joey Rueles (10-1-1). He has defended the title successfully twice with a second-round stoppage over Milorad Zizc (12-1), and in his last bout when he won a 10-round split decision over Salim Larbi on Janeiro 27 in Phoenix.
Rosário, de Caguas, Puerto Rico, tem um registro de 11-2 com 10 nocautes. Like Vera, o 29 year-old Rosario has built his record with impressive victories over Carlos Ramos (1-0), Jordan Wisenfeld (4-0-2), Alphonso Black (8-1-1), and won the WBO Latino Super Welterweight title with a second-round stoppage over Aaron Garcia (14-3-1). Rosario is coming off an eight-round split decision loss to Norberto Gonzalez on November 18, 2016, em Las Vegas.
Ramos, of Watts, Calif., tem um registro de 27-5 com 13 nocautes. O 30 year-old won the WBA Super Bantamweight title with a seventh-round stoppage over Akifumi Shimoda in 2011. After losing the title, he fought for the world championship again, but lost to Jesus Cuellar. Ramos is on a three-fight win streak with his latest victory coming via a 10-round unanimous decision over Erik Ruiz on Março 11 em Las Vegas.
Lopez, de Fort Worth, Texas, tem um registro de 12-2 com quatro nocautes. Lopez has defeated three undefeated fighters; included in that is a win over highly regarded Jerren Cochran (11-0). Lopez is coming off a fifth-round technical decision over Ranel Suco this past Abril 27 em Dallas.
The stacked undercard includes an eight-round welterweight clash between Abel Ramos (17-2, 12 KOs) of Phoenix battling Emmanuel Robles (15-2, 4 KOs). Four more undercard fights will start the bill off with fights featuring undefeated bantamweight Max Ornelas (8-0-1, 3 KOs) rematching fellow undefeated warrior, Leopoldo Martinez (6-0-1, 3 KOs) – their last bout ended in a technical draw following a headbutt. Super featherweight Randy Moreno (8-1, 7 KOs) takes on local favorite Ivan De La Madrid (3-1) e meio-médio Vernon Brown (4-0, 3 KOs) of Chicago puts his undefeated slate on the line against fellow unbeaten battler Daniel Castro Jr. (2-0, 2 KOs) of Durango, México.
Lutas e os lutadores estão sujeitos a alterações;
limited tickets are still available at www.WinGilaRiver.com.
A tape-delayed version of the live show will air on BeIN Sports one week after the live show on Facebook.
Supporters of the Sweet Science can take advantage of the multi-camera FIGHTNIGHT LIVE broadcast on Facebook –
completely free wherever Facebook is available –
and also check out all of the action in ULTRACAST 360˚ or ULTRACAST VR by downloading the ULTRACAST app and subscribing to the PPV feed for only $.99.
Available for IOS and Android,
fans simply need to download the ULTRACAST app in the App store or by visiting www.ultracast.com/app.
“We’re excited to be able to capitalize on cutting-edge technology to give the Roy Jones Jr. Boxing audience a ringside seat, live from the greater Phoenix area,” dito Mark Fratto, Principal da Linacre mídia. “Our Facebook Live series continues to keep fight fans at the forefront, now with not just one – mas três – high-quality viewing experiences available.”
The numbers on the FIGHTNIGHT LIVE series have showed promise and potential for the new platform. The May “Slugfest at the Sun” from Mohegan Sun and the June “Rosemont Rumble” from Chicago drew audiences of 44,000 e 31,000, respectivamente, with more than 3,000 of hours of LIVE video consumed by Facebook users. Em adição aos números de visualização brutos, o totalmente interactiva, fan-friendly productions have seen more than 15,000 compromissos pós vivo coletivas, incluindo mais de 9,000 “gostos” ou “O amor é,” mais do que 5,000 comments and 800-plus shares.
Facebook FIGHTNIGHT LIVE has been delivered to fans absolutely free since its May 2017
launch courtesy of corporate partners like Barbour One 9,
Talent Management and Entertainment Production (
www.barbourone9.com)
and Northeastern Fine Jewelry (
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No Sábado noite, Julho 15, live from Wild Horse Pass Casino in Chandler, Ariz., os fãs podem esperar um alto impacto, multi-camera streaming experience – now also available in ULTRACAST 360˚ and ULTRACAST VR – complete with graphics, animações, replays, interviews and an announce team anchored by blow-by-blow announcer Miguel Flores of Premier Boxing Champions and analyst Michael Woods of the TalkBox Podcast, NYFights.com and The Ring. Joining the broadcast team once again will be world-ranked light heavyweight Mike Lee. University of Notre Dame alum Lee (19-0, 10 KOs) está classificado n º. 12 pela WBO, Não. 12 pelo IBF, Não. 13 pela WBA e Não. 14 pelo WBC, and will be ringside with Flores and Woods to provide expert analysis. To provide spectators with a fully-interactive ringside experience, comentaristas vai perguntar e responder a perguntas da platéia Facebook em todo o transmissão.
Criado e produzido por Linacre mídia fora de Nova York, the FIGHTNIGHT LIVE series features multiple camera angles, graphics, replays e behind-the-scenes de acesso e entrevistas. Os shows de streaming estão disponíveis globalmente onde quer que Facebook está disponível. A iniciativa não só permite que os fãs de todo o mundo para sintonizar, mas também dá lutadores up-and-coming uma plataforma global para mostrar suas habilidades, dá promotores um acessíveis “transmissão” solução e dá patrocinadores a capacidade de atingir um público de massa através de conteúdo de marca.
FIGHTNIGHT LIVE strap season continues on Sábado, Julho 29, in Raleigh, N. C., as Tar Heel State undefeated super flyweight Dewayne Beamon competes for the IBO Inter-Continental and UBF World Junior Bantamweight titles. More FIGHTNIGHT LIVE dates will be officially announced in the coming weeks.
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