MURRIETA, Calif., March 23, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ActionView International, Inc. (Pink Sheets:AVEW) and its wholly owned MatchFights LLC subsidiary today announced that sign-ups to watch the pay-per-view broadcast of the April 3, 2010 World Championship Full Contact (WCFC) fight event can now be taken at www.WCFC.com and that the first 1,000 people who create a WCFC community profile will be able to watch the event free of charge.
Registration for the pay-per-view broadcast is $14.95 for non-WCFC members and $9.95 for WCFC members who are not among the first 1,000 to sign up. Creating a WCFC profile is free and is a great way to access the latest in MMA news, video and blogs while networking with fighters, promoters and other fans.
The April 3rd event is being held at The Rail Event Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, and fans interested in buying tickets to attend the event in person can do so on the WCFC website by clicking the appropriate link on the home page, which links to the SmithTix website. The fight card for the April 3rd event consists of two main event bouts plus six additional fights featuring professional fighters that range from flyweight to light heavyweight classifications.
Fight fans are encouraged to visit the WCFC website to view the commercial for the April 3rd event, which recently ran on SpikeTV.
MatchFights delivers the most exciting brand of full contact fighting under its World Championship Full Contact banner. MatchFights' events are broadcast live to a worldwide audience over the Internet and revenue is derived from pay-per-view buys.
WCFC is building its own unique brand of MMA events, pioneering new technology to capitalize on the enormity of the Internet and its 1.7 billion users. WCFC's strategy is to accomplish its goals by advancing the visibility and versatility of its website at www.wcfc.com. In addition to developing an online venue where MMA fans can enjoy an unprecedented rich media experience via a live proprietary streaming platform and interact in real-time with other members in an integrated chat room, Matchfights has taken an innovative and intuitive approach to traffic generation. Capitalizing on the tremendous growth of social networking and the growth of the MMA industry, WCFC offers its visitors the ability to register and create profiles, interact with other members, post blogs, upload and share videos and pictures, join specialized groups, check the event calendar to find the latest in upcoming events on various media, and more.
More significantly, WCFC has integrated a Facebook Connect feature into its website, leveraging Facebook's 100 million user base. By clicking the Facebook Connect button the WCFC website, users can link their WCFC and Facebook profiles so that activities on the WCFC website are mirrored on their Facebook walls and on the WCFC Facebook fan page at www.facebook.com/worldcfc, which has attracted over 3,000 fans in the short time since its introduction. Fans have enjoyed being the first to receive fight news as it breaks through the notification feature built into the site that aggregates news stories from around the world and posts the link to WCFC users' Twitter or Facebook pages. The viral marketing potential of this approach projects to substantially accelerate WCFC membership growth, thereby increasing the potential pay-per-view audience from which WCFC expects to derive its primary revenue.
The recent addition of a payment gateway to the new site will enable visitors to purchase PPV event tickets for online broadcasts of MMA events broadcast on the WCFC network. Matchfights also plans to broadcast non-WCFC MMA events from local venues across the nation on a PPV basis, vastly expanding the choices for WCFC members and MMA fans and opening new global opportunities for revenue.
"We are very pleased that the WCFC site is ready to take subscribers for the April 3rd event, as well as having the link to purchase tickets for those lucky enough to attend the event in person," said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gary Nerison. "We expect this to be a tremendously exciting event and hope that a large number of fight fans will take the opportunity to join our community, experience the WCFC brand for themselves and begin interacting with other MMA fans around the world."
Fight fans, fighters, promoters, trainers and ring girls are all encouraged to visit www.WCFC.com to set up a personal profile and join the WCFC community.
Shareholders and anyone interested in monitoring the progress of the company are encouraged to subscribe to the electronic mailing list at www.actionviewint.com.
About ActionView International, Inc.
ActionView International (www.actionviewint.com), its wholly owned MatchFights, LLC subsidiary and the World Championship Full Contact brand deliver live, pay-per-view events, including no-holds-barred, full contact fights, in an interactive venue over the Internet to a global audience. Revenue is derived from pay-per-view buys. The live events have broad appeal and include elements of fighting, music, ring girl contests, and other live entertainment as part of the broadcast. For additional information about MatchFights and its World Championship Full Contact brand, please visit www.wcfc.com and join the world's premier fight-based network.