A new Chapter, a new Venture: Talkin’ Fight
This story begins two years ago and, as with most stories, it really started rather innocently with a phone call and a meeting in a pub. I was asked, intially, in that phone call, whether I could write a business plan for a new company, a start-up, seeking to acquire funding from potential investment partners — the so-called Angel Investor. I didn’t think it would take too long to cobble an appropriate document together and agreed to meet with three other chaps (one being the caller, a friend of my oldest son) in the winter months, late January or early February, of 2019.
The onset of Covid severely impacted the plan, to make a long story short. Flash forward. I have now launched a website, actually a content streaming channel, called Talkin’ Fight, and produce a variety of talkshows that are now being viewed around the world. The hosts — and I am one — contribute all sorts of ideas and create compelling content on the subject of boxing, whether focussed on an individual boxer from the annals of history or a modern-day knockout artist, or a trainer or coach, or perhaps a bad decision made one fateful day, impacting not one but two fighters in the ring.
So, having hired the team to develop the first phase of the website, the plan now is simple: to create a huge database of content and deliver each piece to a global audience. The content is aired live and held in archive to be viewed on demand. When content is aired live it is streamed not only on TalkinFight, but also via YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Periscope, Instagram and reddit, to name a few, as well as then circulated through numerous social media pages.
A long time ago, as mentioned in a previous story, at the tail end of Raw Energy in the late 90s, each week we were producing the Raw Energy Radio Show for legions of punk fans across the internet, and subsequently in January 2000 I was the seniormost cog in the Magicorp team hired to oversee the launch of the very first website that would actually streamed edited personality-driven video clips in full motion on full screen globally, in order to promote new shopping centres (in fact the spaces created by architects deemed “Entertainment Use”, integrating everything from nightclubs and mini-putt courses to movie theatres and gaming venues, that upon opening would appeal to a youthful demographic) for their client in Hong Kong who was investing in new properties around the world.
The tagline of that online venture, btw, was: Connected As One, and within a year young people who watched these videos became quite familiar with the name of the brand, which was TribeNation, and would surely have visited these shopping centres, if they had ever opened. Another long story.
Talkin’ Fight is an ironic name. It seems a lot of the ventures I end up launching face an uphill battle, but I rest my laurels on credibility and build trust with my intended audience. Quality over quantity. At the moment, there are several shows on Talkin’ Fight, all with a unique twist:
My Two Minutes With You airs typically at noon — depending on my schedule — and all show times are Monday to Friday EST. Knuckle Up (4pm) is hosted by Mike Orr, Neil The Deal airs at 7PM, except on Friday when we air The Friday Night Panel at 7pm, and thus Neil The Deal comes on at 6:30pm, and each day is concluded with The Scoop, featuring Canadian heavyweight champ Bola Ray, at 8:30pm. We have launched a new show in 2021, at noon on Friday, called The Female Fist, all about women in boxing, hosted by Scarlett Delgado, and a new show just debuting is now updating fans on the road to the Olympics this summer in Tokyo.
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