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ADVANTAGES TO BOXERS In addition to the obvious advantages of getting more fights and better purses as a result of free agency, there are other advantages. Instant Notice by ChallengeAlert Fighters and their representatives can also receive an email alert or voice mail on their cell phone as soon as another fighter challenges them. Customize Offers for Fights Fighters can customize the arrangement of their challenges on their Page of Challengers, e.g., by date, purse, win-loss record, or fan polling. Each fighter can personalize and sort the arrangement. This will enable him to better analyze the challenges and to accept first the fights which would be the most consistent with his experience and career status. Instant Acceptance of Desired Fights Fighters will frequently check their stored voice-mail messages hoping for desired challenges and other fighters' acceptances of their challenges. If they have researched the opponent, they can instantly accept the challenge and it will be added to their Page of Made Fights available for sale to promoters at MadeFights.com. Boxers can check the action on other new fights made and transferred to the promoters' page, MadeFights.com. Instant Notice by Accepted Challenges Fighters will receive an email or voice mail as soon as one of their challenges is accepted. FightersScrapbook At Fighter'sScrapbook, a fighter will find all of each day's boxing articles which mention him. This will have enormous value to each fighter, his manager, and promoter -- even his family. He will also have a searchable archive of past articles about himself. In choosing opponents to challenge, he will also be able to go to their FightersScrapbook and thoroughly reseach the news and fight analysis on their previous fights before deciding who to challenge and the purse to ask, or which challenges to accept and for how much. The benefits of easily accessing all of the fight analysis coverage in one place on a possible opponent are enormous. FightersScrapbook will function as a very efficient and thorough news clipping service in real-time, which is organized for the fighter and those who support his career, to whom broad and deep information is important. For the advantages to promoters, publicists, sports writers, and fans, see FightersScrapbook. Instant Messaging for Fighters This feature will enable a fighter or his representatives to establish "competitor lists" of fighters in their weight class, or their representatives, from their cell phone. This feature lets them know if opponents they have their eye on to fight -- their "competitors" -- have received competitive offers to fight or are online and available to get messages. With Instant Messaging, the fighter can see competitive offers and who's live and online, a real advantage in preparing a challenge. Fighters also can send messages between wireless devices and PCs, see messages pop up on the screen without clicking an icon and more easily have multiple conversations. complete story Review Other Fighters' Purses Every boxer will know the market value and asking prices for all of the fighters with his experience and comparable record in his weight class and in his geographical area. With this information available to him, he will know whether he should ask more or less for an opponent. Residuals from Videos of Past Fights Boxers are popular as opponents for many reasons. Every time a video clip is viewed by another boxer or his manager or promoter shopping for an opponent, or one of his fans, it will provide residuals to the boxer for years. This will be a source of revenue for those who put on exciting, memorable fights, or fights that other fighters can use as learning tools. This will be an incentive to put on exciting fights. Royalties from E-commerce Boxer-specific apparel will be offered to boxing fans all over the world. As they visit their favorite boxer's page to watch his interview or recent fight, they can also purchase a T-shirt or cap without ever leaving his page. Boxer Apparel Merchandising Strategy Merchandising of boxer's apparel is more effective if content about his fights and opportunities to purchase are in one location (boxing news will be customized by fighter as well as by weight class and country). If a boxer has a great fight and his fan polling suddenly surges, a customized item online can be instantly offered on his page. However, if merchandise is only offered on a sports site, the chance of reaching fans of a particular boxer is low, but if it's on that boxer's page, getting thousands of hits a day, the chance of them seeing his ad and clicking through to order is almost double. Boxers can negotiate with television broadcasters to direct viewers to their Web page at GetAFight.com, where they can buy the fighter's sports apparel. Relocation for Better Sparring and More Fights By sorting thousands of fighters by weight class and location, boxers may consider relocating closer to more fighters in their weight class for free sparring, more fights, and better purses. For example, a bantamweight might get better sparring and more fights in southern California where a larger percentage of his opponent base lives. More data sortable in valuable ways will lead to better career decisions and many more opportunities. Many boxers will discover better places to fight, and in some cases, realize opportunities to be paid for sparring between fights. Size and Location of Fan Base Boxers will get market data for choosing the best opponents to challenge and arriving at an asking purse. Fan polling and tracking data will provide information about boxers' popularity, the location of their fan base, who their fans want to see him fight, and the best locations. They can fight closer to their fan base for greater purses. They may decide to ask for a percentage of the live gate, co-promote their own fight, or choose to be an opponent for a local hero. With market and fan location data, boxers may be surprised that they and selected opponents have fan bases in certain cities. They can discover the best markets -- even those which have never had professional boxing. More Fights for Hard-to-Match Fighters Difficult-to-match punchers and undefeated boxers can get on a faster career track through a direct connection to fighters, managers, promoters, and television matchmakers. Fighters who have a high percentage of wins by KO have a hard time getting offers for fights from opponents with exciting styles and credible records. They will now have an abundance of options for challenging opponents and will be able to quickly evaluate challenges, the purses asked, and compare each opponent's potential draw at the gate using the fan polling and tracking data. Greater Marquee Value Interaction with fans at their personal Fan Club Page and e-commerce sales of boxer-specific merchandise will further satisfy the passions of the fans of popular fighters. Their fans will want to wear their apparel and watch tapes of their favorite past fights (more residuals), or comment online about a fighter they would like to see him challenge. - FightersOnline Home - GetAFight Home |