Shawne Merriman was used to blitzing quarterbacks for eight years within the NFL which noticed him earn three Professional Bowl appearances and a Defensive Rookie of the Yr award.
Now, Merriman is taking up the problem of constructing his personal streaming service.
He not too long ago launched Lights Out Sports activities — a free sports activities TV streaming service that may showcase a mess of sports activities genres, together with his personal blended martial arts promotion, Lights Out Xtreme Combating.
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Shawne Merriman attends Michael Rubin’s Fanatics Tremendous Bowl celebration on the Marquee Nightclub at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on February 10, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Pictures)
Merriman instructed Fox Information Digital in a current interview he received the thought from watching different free TV channels and observed the shortage of sports activities content material on them. He mentioned his channel will embody chess tournaments, World Poker Tour and even TNA Wrestling.
“I’ve had this concept for therefore lengthy to create a locker room in a single place and we received it,” he mentioned. “It’s utterly free, 100% free. It’ll be on each main TV platform. And shortly, you’ll have the ability to get it everywhere in the world and that was my essential factor.”
Merriman mentioned he partnered with OTTera to assist create the channel. He mentioned he needed to be taught the advert tech aspect of the streaming enterprise whereas developing with the concepts of what he needed the channel to seem like.
The previous San Diego Chargers star mentioned even earlier than stepping into Lights Out Xtreme Combating and Lights Out Sports activities he had a curiosity for a way the manufacturing aspect labored.
Sep. 20, 2009; San Diego, CA, USA; San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman appears to be like on the scoreboard within the fourth quarter towards the Baltimore Ravens at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports activities)
“I look again on it now and I had a distinct stage of curiosity,” he instructed Fox Information Digital. “I keep in mind going to Sunday night time video games and seeing the cameras and the lights and all of the folks working again there and I simply keep in mind asking questions on a regular basis.
“That’s what led to me understanding and loving the manufacturing aspect of issues, which is why I received into the manufacturing aspect with Lights Out Xtreme Combating. We now have all in-house manufacturing and I used to be all the time inquisitive about it. I had no concept that this is able to lead me right here.”
Lights Out Xtreme Combating’s Lights Out 16 will stream on Lights Out Sports activities. There shall be 19 fights on what’s anticipated to be a five-hour present.
Shawne Merriman attends Michael Rubin’s Fanatics Tremendous Bowl celebration on the Marquee Nightclub at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on February 10, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Pictures)
Whereas Merriman tried to cover his pleasure for the entire main strikes he’s made, he couldn’t assist however be ecstatic over the launch of the channel and the success of his MMA promotion.
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“I don’t actually get excited… I do excited however I simply don’t pat myself on the again anymore. I’ve this sense that I’m alleged to do it. Sure issues, I don’t actually have fun a complete lot. However once I noticed it on each main TV platform, I used to be like, man that is it. OTTera has been an enormous assist.”
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