07.05.04 – Committed to revitalizing boxing as a weekly broadcast event, CMXsports and Guilty Boxing announced today a new Latin Boxing Show. The agreement calls for 48 two-hour shows a year over a three-year period. The Friday night show, called “CMX Boxeo de Campeones” (CMX Champions of Boxing) is scheduled to begin May 28th, 2004 at one of its principal venues, The Orleans Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. It will showcase the very best in action-packed fights, as well as, an extensive amount of high-quality features on boxing. With a focus on Latin Boxers the show targets one of the fastest growing and most active boxing audiences.
A. Demeterius (Tony) Brown, Chairman of the CMX family of companies, said “As the broadcast partner with Guilty Boxing, CMXsports is excited to fill a void in providing weekly boxing entertainment. We view this as a natural extension of our CMXsports market growth strategy that is focused at rapidly becoming a major force in innovative sports entertainment.”
Mr. Brown added, “Complimenting the broadcast, we expect to leverage the CMXsports Internet capability to provide fans around-the-clock, behind-the-scenes information about the fighters before and after the show. Past fights, interviews with the fighters and families, special commentary by noted boxing analysts, and our state-of-the-art CMXlivecam that allows fans unprecedented access to the fighters on a real-time basis will all be brought to bear to provide the best boxing fan experience possible.”
Nick Rattenni, President of Guilty Boxing said, “Our fights at the Orleans have been universally praised as some of the best-matched fights that boxing fans have enjoyed. We at Guilty Boxing are excited about building on this reputation and evolving our Latin Boxing Show into the mainstream broadcast and Internet market. The focus, commitment, and resources of CMXsports made them a natural candidate for us to partner with and we are looking forward to satisfying the requirements of the serious boxing fan.” Mr. Rattenni concluded, “I hope that all boxing fans will come to www.cmxsports.com every Friday at 8:00 p.m. p.d.t. and join us for what we believe will be a great boxing experience.”
CMXsports is one of the rapidly growing members of the CMX family of sports and entertainment companies founded by A. Demeterius (Tony) Brown. Mr. Brown is a former professional basketball player who established a successful metal trading company that later evolved into a successful Internet-based trading exchange. In just the last two years, Mr. Brown has purchased or created a number of companies focused at a range of sports and entertainment products and services.
CMXsports is focused at “expanding the fan experience.” Leveraging the latest in Internet technology, CMXsports is focused at providing the most complete fan experience via Internet streaming and interactive technology with live and “Behind-the-Scenes” event coverage, comprehensive sports reference and trivia, and the most insightful sports analyses.
Guilty Boxing has been a leader in Latin Boxing for over a decade. With the finest group of latin fighters assembled in the Las Vegas, Southern California and Tijuana areas they put on some of the best action packed bouts anywhere. For the past five years Guilty Boxing has celebrated sold out crowds at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. They have become a fan favorite by putting on exciting matches with worthy contenders evenly matched for great boxing events.