FIGHTBALL – Inventing the word’s most intense sports + entertainment brand
Founded and created a new 21st century sports + entertainment passion property and brand - the perfect mash up of court and club and a world of intense mobile-first content that moves at the speed of social. FIGHTBALL garnered massive popularity amongst fans (50 million video views and 420,000 social fans within 4 weeks), mainstream and culturally influential media (1.5 billion impressions, including features in the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal), and the sports and music community.
Led FIGHTBALL’s business, brand experience and all IP development - the game format (sped up and intensified version of 1-on-1 basketball), the live experience (combining b-ball and Hip-Hop culture), the unique mobile-first content slate and social media effort (including a live Snapchat launch), the fashion and apparel merchandise line etc.
“FIGHTBALL combines street basketball with a prizefight atmosphere, offering its patrons stories of grit, second chances and redemption” – The New York Times
“One-on-one basketball with an edge…it already looks amazing, and that isn’t a small feat” - The Wall Street Journal
“FIGHTBALL is something you’ve never seen before, but once you’ve seen it, you can’t stop and you will want more” - Vice
“FIGHTBALL takes the attitude born on concrete courts and brings it under the light” – Complex
“FIGHTBALL has no fighting, but it does have balls” – Vice