Saturday, May 7, 2011

Pacquiao-Mosley Fight Live on CBS over at Showtime Cable Network

The much awaited fight of the year is happening on May 7, 9ET/6PT. Top Rank promoter Bob Arum had the idea of exploring the potential 116 million subscribers of CBS and that being said with CBS' relationship with premium cable network Showtime, he worked on the partnership. With HBO it would only reach 30 million homes, thus the decision to transfer network.



This sudden move may have shocked some of the biggest boxing fans in the country. HBO's pay-per-view had always been the home for big boxing events. The network television switch could be a hit or miss so they had to make sure it has to be somewhat revolutionary, and so Showtime had to come up with something that will keep the path of the viewers from the first day until the game night. Showtime came up with some solutions.

Watch the fight on Pay-Per-View live from MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

The event kicks-off with Showtime's special documentary "Fight Camp 360: Pacquiao vs. Mosley just hours before the fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. This final installment of series of episodes will feature the life of Manny Pacquiao as a congressman in the Philippines and Mosley's high-altitude training camp in Big Bear California.

And after this feature happens, the main event. Somehow to some sports analyst this game could be a one-sided game saying that Mosley may just be too slow for the pound for pound king. But I guess we will just have to wait and see.



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