Where to watch Pacquiao vs Mayweather for free in PH

Here's a list of venues where you can watch the Mayweather-Pacquiao bout on Sunday, May 3. The much-awaited match between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr is finally happening this weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada.

On Sunday, May 3, Filipinos all over the country will be glued to their television sets to watch the fight between the two boxing greats.

Pacquiao (57-5-2, 38 knockouts) and Mayweather (47-0, 26 KOs) will fight it out to decide who is the best fighter of this generation.

Pacquiao, 36, of General Santos City, Philippines has won titles in 8 divisions while Mayweather, 38, has won titles in 5.

Local government officials and business establishments will be sponsoring free public viewings of the fight.

In the provinces? Watch the fight for free in these venues.

In Metro Manila? Here's a list of venues where you can watch the bout for free. Check back here for an updated list as fight day nears.

Know of other free venues in your city? Let us know in the comments section below.

CALOOCAN

    Caloocan City Hall Gazebo
    Caloocan High School
    University of Caloocan City (UCC) South campus
    Bagong Barrio Elementary School
    Caloocan City Hall – North
    Glorieta Tala
    Camarin-D Elementary School
    Bagong Silang Phase 1 Auditorium
    Bagong Silang Phase 10 Kaliwa
    Bagong Silang Phase 7 Kanan
    Deparo covered court
    Northville Bagumbong covered court

LAS PIÑAS

    Verdant Covered Court, Brgy. Pamplona 3
    LP Central Elem. School Covered Court, Brgy. E. Aldana
    Saging Covered Court, Brgy. CAA
    Timog Covered Court, Brgy. CAA
    Golden Acres Covered Court, Brgy. Talon 1
    TS Cruz Covered Court, Brgy. Almanza 2
    Talon 4 Covered Court, Brgy. Talon 4

MAKATI

    Makati Coliseum in Barangay La Paz - open starting 7 am; 1,000 tickets to be given to senior citizens and persons with disabilities for priority seating. First come, first served seating for viewers without tickets.

MANILA

    San Andres Sports Complex in Malate
    Tondo Sports Complex near Sto. Niño Church in Tondo
    Del Pan Sports Complex
    Sen. Arturo Tolentino Sports Complex (formerly Dapitan Sports Complex)
    Rizal Sports Complex at Alvarez St. cor. Rizal Ave., Sta. Cruz
    Patricia Sports Complex in Gagalangin, Tondo
    Sarmiento Sports Complex in Sta. Mesa
    168 Mall, Divisoria

MARIKINA

    Marikina Freedom Park
    Parang Playground
    Marikina Heights Covered Court

MUNTINLUPA

    Muntinlupa Sports Complex
    Bayanan Baywalk
    Cupang Elementary School
    Sucat Elementary School
    Southville Elementary School
    Soldier’s Hills Subdivision Covered Court
    Alabang Elementary School
    Buli Covered Court
    Filinvest Socialized Housing Covered Court
    Covered Court Basilan Street, Maguindanao Avenue, Ayala Alabang

NAVOTAS

    Navotas sports complex

PASIG

    Rizal High School oval - starting 7 am. Bring recyclable materials to the city hall for admission.

QUEZON CITY

    Amoranto Stadium in the 4th district; gates to open at 8 am; Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr will join constituents

    Armed Forces of the Philippines Grandstand in Camp Aguinaldo - for at least 1,000 soldiers and their dependents; soldiers recuperating from battle injuries will watch at the multi-purpose hall inside the AFP Medical Center

SAN JUAN

    Filoil Flying V arena - open starting 9 am

TAGUIG

    Cayetano Sports Complex
    Hagonoy Gym
    Tipas Elementary School
    Ususan Covered Court
    Bagong Lipunan Condominium covered court
    Bagong Tanyag covered court
    Em's Signal Village Elementry School
    Maharlika Elementary School
    Pinagsama Phase 2 covered court
    Taguig City University auditorium

VALENZUELA

    Valenzuela City Astrodome
    Our Lady of Lourdes Gymnasium

Pacquiao-Mayweather pay-per-view to historic records

Stephen Espinoza, vice president and general manager of Showtime Sports, said interest in the bout is unprecedented to a degree that the usual markers for predicting the number of purchases and revenue just don't apply. "Usually we get day by day updates of where the cable operators are in terms of their buys," Espinoza told AFP. "I can compare Wednesday to prior Wednesdays in prior pay-per-views. "In general, that's fairly accurate. On this particular week, we're seeing numbers that have no precedent so encouraging and so massive that you really can't extrapolate anything from them." Certainly Pacquiao-Mayweather, a fight more than five years in the making between the top pound-for-pound fighters of their generation, will shatter the records for pay-per-view purchases and at a price in most markets of about $100 for a high-definition version crush the record for PPV revenue. The potential pay-per-view television revenue for Filipino icon Manny Pacquiao's blockbuster welterweight showdown with Floyd Mayweather is so stratospheric that with just four days to go, an actual figure is impossible to predict.

It's just a question of how much more the fight will garner than the record 2.48 million pay-per-view purchases for Mayweather's 2007 fight with Oscar De La Hoya and the record pay-per-view revenue of $150 million set by Mayweather v Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in 2013. "Do we think it's a record-breaker? Absolutely," Espinoza said. "Whether that's 2.7 million buys or 3.2 I think both are possible but there's no way to choose one or the other right now." More than 3 million buys could spell revenue to the camps of the two fighters near $200 million. Television revenue is just one of the financial records the fight is set to break. Anticipated live gate receipts of some $70 million dwarf the previous record for a Nevada fight, the $20 million for Mayweather-Alvarez. Regardless of the outcome, each fighter could make more than $100 million, with Mayweather saying this week he expects to pocket $200 million. The fight is one that boxing fans have craved for years teased by the disintegration of talks in late 2009 and years of back-and-forth between the hostile camps ever since. Crossover appeal While the delay has purists grumbling that the bout comes too late, with each boxer past his prime, the will they-won't they narrative has added to the fight's crossover appeal. "There is unquestionably a broader fan base that's attracted by this fight," Espinoza said. "Anecdotally we know this is attracting a lot of people who never ordered pay-per-view."

 
The pay-per-view revenue is also coming from a wider range of countries with 13 international pay-per-view territories. "You'd have to go back to the Mike Tyson days to get near that figure," Espinoza said, although he noted that back when Iron Mike loomed over the heavyweight landscape fewer countries even had the technology to distribute fights via pay-per-view. The television production is a joint effort between rivals Showtime which has a contract with Mayweather and Pacquiao telecaster HBO. Working out the rare deal between the two was just one of the hurdles to be overcome in making the fight, although such a joint effort is not unprecedented. The model is similar to that used by the two networks in the 2002 fight between Lennox Lewis and Tyson. No free rides Not surprisingly, Showtime and HBO are doing everything they can to protect their asset. Showtime this week filed a federal lawsuit in California targeting boxinghd.net and sportship.org, claiming the two internet sites are advertising free streaming of the bout. In court documents, Showtime notes that boxinghd.net's homepage touts, "If you can't afford to buy tickets then simply watch Mayweather vs Pacquiao here. We will provide nothing but the freshest and the most reliable high quality live links." While the issue of on-line piracy isn't limited to Saturday's mega-fight, Espinoza said the efforts to protect the bout are "a multiple of what we've done before." He said the aims of the lawsuit are twofold. "It's eliminating these very active piracy sites and it sends a message that we're very serious about it, we're going to continue to pursue this all the way through and after the night of the fight."