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"GETAFIGHT" HANDHELDS ARE THE FUTURE IN MMA AND BOXING It's only a matter of time before every fighter, his trainer and manager, and every promoter and his matchmaker -- everyone in the MMA and boxing business, including fight fans -- will have a handheld "GetAFight" with them constantly. They will use it to watch fights, challenge other fighters, accept fights, market their made fights to promoters, send short messages and data from the Web to their managers and promoters, other fighters, and their fans. THE HANDHELD "GETAFIGHT" All fighters and trainers have cell phones. Some have two. In gyms, cell phones are sometimes even ringing inside gym bags. All of the managers, matchmakers, and promoters have cell phones. Skyrocketing Market Handheld devices may be the story of the decade as sales of the net enabled cell phones skyrocket. With sales for handheld devices expected to exceed $100 billion in 2010, it's not surprising that businesses and application developers are eager to ride the wave. It's an even larger market in Latin America where MMA and boxing are extremely popular. Variety of Applications in MMA and Boxing A handheld GetAFight will tap into applications that will help fighters, trainers, managers, matchmakers, and promoters do their jobs better. The easy-to-use features will add notification in real-time of challenges and challenges accepted by fighters, their managers, and promoters with fighters under contract. A handheld GetAFight will greatly simplify getting fights and putting together high-drawing cards and exciting shows. Personal 24/7 Matchmaker The always-on capability is the flexibility of having the Internet with you all the time. To walk down the street and have the alert come up that your fighter has been challenged, or the fighter you challenged has accepted the fight, will add spontaneity, will spur things, and encourage everyone in the fight business to use the handheld GetAFight. Simple-to-Use Promoters and professional fighters and their managers will be able to use simple techniques to customize and sort every database of information related to specific weight classes and regions. That's what fighters and promoters are interested in -- getting specific information, knowing it's accurate, saving time and making more money. They will want a wireless handheld GetAFight. Fans and Coaches in Other Sports Major League Baseball has provided baseball fans with a MLB Wireless PDA. Basketball and hockey coaches and scouts are using handheld PDA's called the Advance Scout to enter and retrieve scouting data. The software enables them to discern game patterns. Licensees of MMAShow.com and BoxingShow.com The franchise to promoter-licensees will include a handheld GetAFight, which will enable them to take the special software with them everywhere for promoting a show. OUTSOURCING DEVELOPMENT Verizon Wireless has its "Get It Now" services for wireless subscribers. Verizon says its millions of customers will be able to personalize their BREW devices by downloading games, ring tones, and entertainment and productivity applications to their phone. They can use the "Get Going" line of applications to get real-time airport status and flight information, create and send expense reports, and find locate on a map when visiting a new city. The company is also offering a new "Get It Now" color handset, the Motorola T720. Sounds like the "Buy It Now" eBay feature of FightAuction.com. i3 Mobile offers handhelds with a diverse range of customized content, information services for professional enterprises, stock quotes, weather reports, real-time sports scores, news, even horoscopes and email. They give their customers customized databases and information that matters to them -- right on their wireless devices as text messages. GetAFight.com intends to do the same for fighters, managers, promoters, and venues. Why not let fighters and their managers and others in the MMA and boxing business tap into customized on-demand databases of fighters' records, matchmaking, and fight auction marketing applications that will help them get more fights and better purses? Handheld business applications have been referred to as "islands of information that businessmen can use while on the move, synchronization techniques to use the Internet." That's why everyone in the boxing business will be interested in a GetAFight. ARTICLE ON HANDHELDS The first cell phone for sports fanatics: Mobile ESPN combines scores, stats, fantasy leagues and video - FightersOnline Home - GetAFight Home |