Presentation by: Damian Thompson 12 July, 2001

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Presentation by Damian Thompson 12 July, 2001
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SecondsOut.com MaxBoxing.com - Launched 2000
News Features
Social Network
Breaking Results
Interviews
Live Broadcasts
OD Video
5 million page impressions1.5 million unique
users
Boxing Worlds Largest Boxing Media Outlets
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SecondsOut is Boxing on YouTube

• Biggest dedicated boxing channel on YouTube
• Working in partnership with YouTube to promote to
  key markets
• 3000 Subscribers and Friends
• Pioneer of YouTubes Content Management System to
  monetise and manage media
• 1 million views a month
• http//www.youtube.com/boxing
• Other managed channels include
• InThisCornerTV
• RomanGreenberg

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MaxBoxing on YouTube

• Launched 2009
• Content to compliment subscription area of
  MaxBoxing
• Working with YouTube USA to promote to key US and
  Canadian markets

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Editorial Content

• Dedicated columnists
• Thomas Hauser
• Clive Bernath
• Paul Uphamand many more
• USA, UK and World Portals
• Updated results and schedules
• Exclusive interviews
• Breaking news from ringside
• Exhaustive rankings
• Updated results
• Fight schedule and champions
• Interviews
• Fight Reports

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Social Network

• Blogs
• Message Boards
• Forums
• Invite Friends
• Whos Online
• Member Search
• To be launched
• User uploads
• Pictures
• Videos
• Audio
• User events
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• Community rewards

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Other Features

• Weekly SecondsOut Radio
• Presented by Eddie Goldman
• Ask The Editor
• Readers fill in a form to ask our editors any
  question they like
• A weekly ATE article responding to fans
• RSS News Feeds
• Allows users to add the latest boxing news,
  interviews and fight reports to their own website
• Visitors to these websites are sent back to
  SecondsOut to read the full article

• Today's Press
• News feed of all the boxing news from around the
  web
• Interactive Polls
• Allows readers to vote for their preferred option
  also used in annual SecondsOut Awards
• Annual SecondsOut Awards
• Readers vote for the Fight of the Year, Fighter
  of the Year, etc.
• Winners are interviewed and the articles
  published of Christmas and the New Year

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SecondsOut.tv Overview

• Subscription and PPV Service
• All hosting technology provided by our partners
• Digital Rights Management system
• content tailored for different geographical
  markets
• Access and pricing by location
• Integrated advertising
• Before, during and post video
• Channel promotion
• directly through SecondsOut.com
• Partner sites, e.g. Eurosport
• Leading commentators
• Richie Woodall
• Colin McMillan
• Jean Philippe Lustyk

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Audience/Syndicate Segmentation
Seconds Out
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Syndicates
Portals/Newspapers/General Sites/ Related Niches
eg. Gambling
Industry/Fan sites
Viewers
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Sample Broadcast Events

• Wladimir Klitschko v Calvin Brock
• Wladimir Klitschko v Ray Austin
• Wladimir Klitschko v Lamon Brewster
• Steve USS Cunningham v Krzysztof Wlodarczyk
• John Duddy v Anthony Bonsante
• David Tua v Saul Montana
• Roman Greenberg v Damon Reed
• Roman Greenberg v Alex Vassilev
• Roman greenberg v Alexei Varakin
• Sultan Ibragimov v Evander Holyfield

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The 13th World Senior Amateur Championships

• In partnership with Fight
• 4 days of coverage
• Quarter and Semi Finals delayed broadcast
• Finals Live and on demand once live broadcast
  finishes
• Discount for current SecondsOut.tv subscribers
• Competition to win ringside tickets to see Ricky
  Hatton
• The only way to see all the action from the
  tournaments last 4 days
• The only way to see the any of the action in
  North America
• Highlights DVD available at a discount rate to
  subscribers

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SecondsOut.tv Pay Per View Broadcast Income
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MaxBoxing Subscribers Features

• 5.99 per moth
• Over 3,500 at end of 2008
• Exclusive Video Content
• The Next Round
• Interviews
• Press Conferences
• Training
• Fights
• Exclusive Editorial Content
• Exclusive Member Offers
• 10 off at Everlast.com

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Some of our Commercial Partners
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THE TEAM

• Appendix A

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The Team

• Robert Waterman
• Robert graduated from University with a degree in
  accounting and has since spent time completing a
  course at LBS for entrepreneurs. He entered the
  world of boxing in 1997 by partnering with
  respected promoter Jim Evans. They established
  Evans and Waterman Boxing Promotions, licensed by
  the British Boxing Board of Control.
• In 2001 Evans Waterman entered into a joint
  venture with Dennis Hobson Promotions and Fight
  Academy was born. In 2002 agreement was reached
  with the BBC to become one of their approved
  promoters and, by 2004, Fight Academy had become
  the premier promoter for the BBC.
• When the BBC stopped covering professional
  boxing, BSkyB immediately agreed to work with
  Fight Academy. The first BSkyB tournament with
  Fight Academy took place in September 2005 and
  featured Clinton Woods successfully defending his
  IBF world title.

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The Team

• Robert Waterman
• Robert decided to leave Fight Academy in 2006 in
  order to further his vision of the future of
  boxing. That vision is centered around two
  factors Professional boxing will be focused
  around a new axis and that new media will
  revolutionise the boradcasting of boxing.
• Robert Waterman is also the founder and largest
  shareholder of Knockout Entertainment Ltd, the
  owner of www.SecondsOut.com

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The Team

• Clive Bernath
• SecondsOut Editor in Chief Clive Bernath has been
  involved in professional boxing for more than 22
  years. He is highly experienced and has worked
  within the sport as a press and PR man for
  various promoters as well as in event management
  and as a supervisor and field representative for
  on of the world governing bodies.
• Clive also spent four successful years as BBC
  Boxings official statistician for professional
  boxing.
• Rish ap Wiliam
• SecondsOut Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Rish ap
  Wiliam has been developing internet technologies
  for over 15 years and has worked on projects as
  varied as a car parts ordering system, an online
  Arabic-English Physics Dictionary to providing a
  solution for integrating web and satellite based
  commerce systems. He has been driving
  SecondsOuts technology since its inception.

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The Team

• Thomas Hauser
• Thomas Hauser is widely considered the most
  gifted living boxing writer. He is the author of
  32 books including Muhammad Ali His Life And
  Times. In 2005, he was honoured by the Boxing
  Writers Association of America, with the Nat
  Fleischer Award for career excellence in boxing
  journalism. He was the writer of the Hollywood
  movie Missing, has been nominated for the
  Pulitzer Prize and has a monthly column in The
  Observer. Thomas describes writing for
  SecondsOut.com as a chance to explore new
  frontiers and deliver cutting-edge material to
  website readers.
• Paul Upham
• Paul is the voice of boxing Down Under, known for
  his relentless dedication and enthusiasm for the
  sport, which often involves talking to various
  boxers at 3am. Upham is the Jeff Harding of
  boxing writers, forceful, resilient and immovable
  when a great story is at stake.

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The Team

• Richie Woodhall
• Richie has won just about every amateur and
  professional boxing title available to him. In a
  career that spanned some 15 years, Richie won
  Commonwealth Games Gold and Olympic Bronze medals
  before turning professional in 1990 and winning
  the Commonwealth and European middleweight crowns
  as well as the WBC super- middleweight title.
  Since his retirement Richie has become an
  invaluable and respected broadcaster for the
  BBCs boxing team, Setanta and SecondsOut.com.
• Colin McMillan
• London born Colin is a former British,
  Commonwealth and WBO world featherweight champion
  and like Richie Woodhall, was an excellent
  amateur. Colin reached the pinnacle of his career
  in May 1992 when he produced a masterful display
  to out-point Itialian Maurizio Stecca to become
  world champion. And like Richie, since his
  retirement, Colin has earned himself a reputation
  as a respected and informative commentator and
  analyst with SecondsOut.com and othe boxing
  broadcasters.

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The Team

• Jean Philippe Lustyk
• Paris born Lustyk is literally Mr Boxing in
  France and the current head of boxing for
  Eurosport television.

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PROMOTERS AND CONTENT PROVIDERS

• Appendix B

The following established promoters or content
providers have been signed to exclusive internet
broadcast contracts.
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Promoters and Content Providers

• DiBella Entertainment USA
• The name Lou DiBella is synonymous with exciting
  world championship fights and compelling
  television programming over the last 10 years.
  Between 1989 and 2000, DiBella was senior
  executive at HBO Sports, responsible not only for
  recruiting big name stars such as Oscar De La
  Hoya, Roy Jones Jr, Shane Mosely and Prince
  Naseem Hamed, but ensured that they featured in
  some of the greatest match-ups the world has ever
  witnessed.
• In 2000 DiBella decided he had taken his role at
  HBO as far as he could and decided to try his
  luck as a promoter, setting up DiBella
  Entertainment. Over the last six years currently
  promotes undisputed middleweight king Jermain
  Taylor.

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Promoters and Content Providers

• Seminole Warriors Boxing Promotions USA
• Warriors Boxing are arguably the fastest growing
  promotional outfit in the US. Since the Holywood,
  Florida, based company was formed some three
  years ago, Warriors have made significant strides
  in the boxing world, as their impressive list of
  promoted boxers indicates.
• Warriors currently promote world class fighters
  ONeil Bell and Krystov Wlodarcyzk, former IBF
  junior welterweight king Juan Urango as well as
  former light-heavyweight champ Glen Johnson and
  world title contender Edison Miranda - Warriors
  are certainly promoters to take seriously.

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Promoters and Content Providers

• Other boxers promoted by Warriors
• Heavyweight
• Sultan Ibragimov (World Champion)
• Timor Ibragimov
• Lance Whitaker
• Carl D. Drummond
• Cruiserweight
• Vadim Tokarov
• Felix Cobra Jnr
• Super-Middleweight
• Juan C. Vasquez
• Middleweight
• Sam Miller
• Junior-welterweight
• Randall Bailey
• Danny Jiminez
• Lightweights
• Ricky Quiles
• Jesus Pabon

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Promoters and Content Providers

• Knockout Promotions and World Promotions Canada,
  Monte Carlo, USA
• London based Knockout Promotions is run by Robert
  Waterman and Jim Evans. Both Jim and Robert have
  many years experience and have promoted shows all
  over the world, including Las Vegas, Monte Carlo
  and of course, the UK.
• This year will not only see Jim and Robert
  promote more shows in the US and Monte Carlo, but
  also a series of shows in Canada and Macao, all
  of which will be broadcast live on SecondsOut.tv.
  The star performer in Knockout camp is undefeated
  heavyweight prospect Roman Greenberg.
• Virgin Islands based World Sports Promotions is
  headed up by one of Europes top boxing agents
  Philippe Fondu. Over the last few years Philippe
  has promoted some of the very best boxers in
  Europe, and most recently has signed many top
  boxers from China. 2007 has seen Philippe promote
  an array of foreign talent which will be
  showcased on SecondsOut.tv

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Promoters and Content Providers

• Boxers promoted by Knockout and World Sports
• Heavyweight IBO Intercontinental heavyweight
  champion, Roman Greenberg
• Featherweight Yuri Voronin
• Lightweight European Lightweight Champion, Yuri
  Romanov
• Flyweight Zhang Xi Yang
• Cruiserweight Wu Zhi Yu
• Welterweight Jackson Osei Bonsu
• Welterweight Vyacheslav Senchenko
• Super Middleweight Stas Kashtanov
• Light Heavyweight Yuri Barashyan
• Female Boxers
• Super Flyweight Zhang Xi Yang
• Featherweight Galina Ivanova

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Promoters and Content Providers

• MaxI Promotions Czech Republic
• Prague based MaxI Promotions is one of the
  leading promoters in the Czech Republic. Head of
  MaxI Roman Pokorny currently broadcasts around
  four shows a season, all of which will be
  broadcast LIVE on www.secondsout.tv
• National Box Promos Ukraine
• Like MaxI, National Box Promos are the No1
  promoter in their country and currently have
  signed some of the biggest names in Eastern
  Europe. Again, www.secondsout.tv will be
  broadcasting around five LIVE shows and will
  showcase the best boxers in Ukraine and eastern
  Europe.
• Irish Ropes
• New York based Irish Ropes is run by Eddie
  McLaughlin and promoted Irish Prospect John Duddy
  and former amateur star James Moore.

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Other online properties

• Appendix C

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RomanGreenberg.tv
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IrishRopes.com
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JodieMarsh.tv
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NellMcAndrew.tv
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