FilmOn to Broadcast Live Hitman Fighting MMA Pay-Per-View Event from the Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, California
FilmOn to Broadcast Live Hitman Fighting MMA Pay-Per-View Event from the
Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, California
Event Marks First Collaboration Between FilmOn and the Hitman Fighting
Organization
PR Newswire
LOS ANGELES, June 8, 2011
LOS ANGELES, June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Media Mogul Alki David in
collaboration with the Hitman Fighting Organization will present "Round 5 on
the Road to the Hitman Amateur World Championships," live on Pay-Per-View
(PPV) at the Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, California, Sunday, June 12th.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110608/LA16627 )
Tickets for the event are available at www.mmafighttickets.com . The event
will be available for $7.95 at http://www.Filmon.com/Hitman or free to FilmOn
subscribers. Purchase of the event includes a free month of Filmon.com.
There will be more than 30 amateur fights with fighters competing from all
over the world to be the first ever Hitman World Champion. Gates for this
event will open at 9 AM. The co-main event will showcase a Gladiator Challenge
Featherweight Championship between Greg Guzman and Paul Webb. In addition,
returning Gladiator Challenge favorites Keith "KO Kid" Berry, Deutsch Pu'u,
and Robbie Peralta will put their skills on display.
After the Hitman portion of the day will be a special performance by Long
Beach Rehab, a superband consisting of members from Sublime (Q-ball) , White
Zombie (Ivan De Prume) , Fishbone (Angelo Moore) and Bad Brains (Israel
Joseph).
The Gladiator Challenge professional MMA event will follow the concert with an
additional 18 fights. "Full Force" will open at 4:30 PM, with the first fight
hitting at 6 PM. UFC veteran Gabe "Godzilla" Ruediger will battle Aaron Neveu
for the Gladiator Challenge Lightweight Championship. The event marks the
inaugural Pay-Per-View event for The Gladiators.
"We are very excited to partner with Hitman Fighting Productions in bringing
premier MMA content to the FilmOn arsenal of programming," said Alki David.
"We are creating a robust sports platform alongside other genres like Hip Hop
and Comedy that provide online entertainment options for subscribers who want
to take their cable channels with them on any mobile device or computer."
The proprietary FilmOn technology will allow paid PPV subscribers to stream
live chat to the online event.
FilmOn has additional content deals, partnering with Hip Hop Weekly and
Worldstarhiphop brands recently to present the Hip Hop Weekly Awards from the
Hard Rock 12 in Miami. Worldstarhiphop and Hip Hop Weekly have become among
the most recognized and trusted brands in hip hop media, serving a market now
estimated to consist of more than 50 million members of the Millennial
Generation who identify with hip hop culture. Worldstarhiphop will also be
carrying the PPV event bringing a whole new audience to the MMA arena.
FilmOn subscriptions start at $7.95 ($19.95 with adult added) or $79.50 yearly
($195.00 yearly with adult added). The FilmOn Web cable television service is
delivered through the freely downloadable multi-platform HDi player or in
Flash or app free to mobile devices. Filmon.com streams videos in high
definition and utilizes proprietary video compression technology to achieve
high quality even over basic broadband connections.
In addition FilmOn will provide subscribers with the ability to stream up to
six movies from FilmOn's nearly 40,000 title film library per month.
FilmOn currently carries more than 60 channels of live content. FilmOn also
carries a number of their own exclusive content channels including FilmOn
Movies, Sports, Docu (Documentary), Drama, Horror, and adult content.
ABOUT FilmOn Inc.
FilmOn Inc. was founded in March 2009 by Filmon.com Plc, a Berlin-listed
company (2F0A-BER) and is operated independently by a dedicated U.S.
management team with offices in Los Angeles and London. Battlecam.com (
http://www.Battlecam.com ), is the 24 x 7 live reality community TV channel of
Filmon.com
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