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Jim Ross Signs on as Spokesman For Flipps Media
– Flipps Media, the parent company of the Flipps App which a number of professional wrestling entities have used to provide PPV and streaming of events, announced the official launch of FITE TV, a new streaming service dedicated to streaming combat sports programming, including professional wrestling, MMA, arm-wrestling and more. Jim Ross has signed on to be the company spokesman and executive adviser. Here is the full press releaseā¦
Flipps Media Launches FITE TV with Jim Ross as Spokesperson
Free mobile app delivers live and on demand fighting sports video on TV
San Mateo, CA (February 9, 2016) – Flipps Media, a popular mobile app for entertainmententh usiasts to easily discover and project digital content onto a TV using only a smartphone, launches a new product, FITE TV. FITE is a one-stop shop for viewing all sports within the fighting discipline globally including MMA, professional wrestling, boxing and traditional martial arts.
āThe global popularity of fighting sports was a catalyst to our decision to developing this new product, āsaid Kosta Jordanov, co-founder and CEO of Flipps Media. āFlipps has been downloaded by more than 15 million people and many of them gravitate towards our sports content. With over 300 million fighting sports fans and 150 million practitioners worldwide, FITE plans to leverage the global popularity of the sports by providing seamless TV access to all fighting related content.ā
FITE is launching free and pay-per-view programming including live events, shows, movies and documentaries in collaboration with over 20 organizations such as: TNA Wrestling, Tuff-N-Uff MMA, Ring of Honor Wrestling, Legacy Fighting Championships, WWN Live, World Armwrestling Championships, USA Sumo and Xtreme Power TV.
āBy leveraging the global popularity of combat sports, Flipps existing audience and their unique TV streaming technology, FITE is set to disrupt this space,ā said Tim Draper, investor in Flipps Media. āAs an early investor in Justin.TV to become Twitch, Iāve seen the power of niche video focus in establishing an exceptionally strong brand, attracting key partners and delivering an amazing value to viewers,ā added the legendary investor Draper, inventor of viral marketing and an investor in numerous great companies including Skype, Hotmail, Tesla, Twitch, and Baidu.
FITE partnered with Jim Ross as the brandās celebrity spokesperson, executive advisor and investor. Ross is widely known as the āVoice of WWE.ā With over 40 years of experience in the professional wrestling, boxing and mixed martial arts world, the 2007 WWE Hall of Famer is one of the most prolific wrestling announcers and renowned wrestling executives at Mid-South Wrestling, Turner Broadcastingās World Championship Wrestling and more recently for over 20 years at WWE. The two-time New York Times Bestselling Author also hosts a wildly popular weekly podcast, The Ross Report, with over 750,000 weekly listeners on Podcast One and is a main stay in the Twitter Universe with 1.4 million followers. As WWEās EVP of Talent, Ross was instrumental in attracting and developing such world-renowned personalities as The Rock, āStone Coldā Steve Austin, John Cena, Kurt Angle and Brock Lesnar.
“Getting involved with FITE is an opportunity I couldnāt pass up. It is the future of televised fighting sports,ā said Jim Ross, executive advisor at FITE TV. āThere is no easier way to stream wrestling, MMA and other fighting sports content including special commentaries on those sports by me.ā
To learn more about FITE, go to www.fite.tv or to download the app, log on to Google Play: http://bit.ly/1QnPolu or iTunes: http://apple.co/1PxQGKT.
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