CHICAGO (Juin 19, 2017) – After a successful pilot that was viewed by more than 40,000 boxing fans live on Facebook, fightnight EN DIRECT hits the Chicago area on Vendredi, Juin 23, from Rosemont, Illinois, with hardware on the line in a rematch of a hotly-contested draw as Micro “Hollywood” Jimenez (20-1-1, 14 KOs) et “Son of the Legend” Aaron Pryor, Jr. (19-10-2, 12 KOs) square off in a ten-round main event for the WBC Continental Americas Super Middleweight Championship.
Longtime Chicago fan favorite and perennial contender Donovan “Da Bomb” George, (25-7-2, 22 KOs) will join his previously-announced #BOMBSQUAD teammate Jimenez in an eight-round light heavyweight co-feature. Undefeated in his hometown of Chicago, George will be fighting locally for the first time en trois ans, facing off against area arch-nemesis Derrick “Superman” Findley (26-21-1, 17 KOs) of Gary, Indiana.
Legendary Chicago-based National Anthem singer Jim Cornelison will once again honor our country prior to the start of the main event – fans can catch that highly-anticipated performance along with all of the action in the ring live on Facebook.
“It’s a tremendous honor to take our Facebook FIGHTNIGHT LIVE platform to the Windy City area. It’s becoming a national platform already during its infancy – with East Coast and West Coast dates on the calendar and now this opportunity in the No. 3 media market in America – and we’ve been thrilled with the response from fight fans so far,” dit Mark Fratto, Principal des Médias Linacre. “We’re looking forward to working with the Village of Rosemont, as well as legendary promoters like Bobby Hitz et Frank Mugnolo on this card.”
The numbers on the Mai 11 FIGHTNIGHT LIVE pilot from Mohegan Sun Resort showed promise and potential for the new platform. With only two days of promotion, the premiere broadcast amassed 43,000 total video views by 38,000 unique viewers. Un total de 1.4 thousand hours of LIVE video was consumed by Facebook users during the first show alone. In addition to the raw numbers, la entièrement interactive, fan-friendly production saw 9,021 live post engagements for the show, qui comprenait 5,000 “aime” ou “aime,” 2,989 comments and 628 actions.
Vendredi nuit, Juin 23, live from The Dome at The Ballpark in Rosemont, les fans peuvent attendre un fort impact, expérience de streaming multi-caméra avec graphiques, animations, replays, des interviews et une équipe annonce par annonceur coup ancré par coup Ray Flores du Premier Champions de boxe, Showtime Boxing, HBO Boxing and CBS Sports Network boxing fame. Pour fournir aux spectateurs une expérience de près du ring entièrement interactive, les commentateurs demanderont et répondre aux questions de l'auditoire Facebook tout au long de l'émission.
Joining the broadcast team will be world-ranked light heavyweight, Mike Lee.
University of Notre Dame alum Lee (19-0, 10 KOs) est classé No. 12 par la WBO, Ne Pas. 12 by the IBF and No. 14 par le WBC, and was originally scheduled to be in the main event but now joins Flores for expert analysis. Television host Danielle Robay of WCIU-Chicago and Entertainment Ce soir, NBC-4 Los Angeles and HLN-fame will bring fans exclusive pre-and post-fight interviews from ringside.
Créé et produit par Linacre médias de New York City, the FIGHTNIGHT LIVE series features multiple camera angles, graphics, replays et l'accès derrière les coulisses et interviews. Les spectacles diffusés en continu sont disponibles dans le monde où Facebook est disponible. L'initiative permet non seulement les fans de partout dans le monde à l'écoute, mais donne aussi plein de promesses combattants une plate-forme mondiale pour mettre en valeur leurs capacités, donne des promoteurs d'un accès “diffusion” solution et donne sponsors la possibilité d'atteindre un public de masse via le contenu de marque.
Un Juillet 15 date in Phoenix, Arizona, avec Roy Jones Jr. Promotions de boxe has already been released on the FIGHTNIGHT LIVE calendar. FIGHTNIGHT LIVE strap season continues on Samedi, Juillet 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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