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."

Watch : Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather final press conference

For just the second time after their fight was announced, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather went face-to-face in a press conference ahead of their May 2 bout. The two fighters showed mutual respect during the event, perhaps saving all their animosity for when they climb on top of the ring. It was perhaps fitting the final press conference ahead of the long-awaited fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao took place in the Kà theater, home to Cirque du Soleil’s longtime MGM Grand residency, considering the three-ring quality of the build-up to what’s certain to be the richest fight in the history of boxing.

Yet Wednesday’s polite exchange of remarks between the fighters belied the promotion’s circus-like atmosphere and proved typical of what’s by and large the least interesting of fight week’s well-worn rituals, the stations of the cross that mark time until the fighters climb through the ropes on Saturday night – save for one memorable moment when longtime Pacquiao promoter and legendary shade-thrower Bob Arum steered the proceedings into a proxy dick-measuring contest for network superiority.

Pacquiao was Pacquiao, humble and genial and God-fearing as ever. Mayweather was the Mayweather that’s become familiar throughout the promotion – let’s call it Floyd 3.0 – a self-assured all-time great who’s all but sworn off his trademark slander in an apparent effort to exit the sport gracefully. Anyone hoping for fireworks or even the slightest trace of ill will from Saturday’s main players was bound to be disappointed.



The event was closed to the public – leaving several hundred writers and photographers to fill out the lower bowl of the 1,950-seat theater – though several Mayweather congregants inevitably negotiated their way into the proceedings and made themselves heard.

Pacquiao’s five-minute remarks were longer than he normally speaks at these types of things. He thanked the sponsors, the media, the fans.

“It’s going to be a good fight,” said the Filipino congressman, dressed in a conservative navy blue suit jacket with no tie. “There’s a lot of questions in your minds that only God can answer for us on Saturday. I just want to mention though that everything that I have accomplished, it is God who gave me the strength. I just want to be an example and an inspiration to everybody how my life, before I became a boxer, I used to sleep in the street, starving, hungry, and now I can’t imagine the Lord raised me into this position with blessings I could never imagine. That the boy who doesn’t have food and is sleeping in the street can be raised to this level of life.”

He continued.

“Nothing personal. He’s going to do his best, I’m going to do my best on Saturday to put our name in boxing history. But the most important thing, I’m hoping that after the fight, we can have a conversation with Floyd about sharing my faith in God. We can inspire more people, especially those children who are looking to us and supporting us.”

Mayweather, dressed in head to toe in red, white and black The Money Team apparel (topped by leather baseball hat that retails for $88 in the MGM lobby), spoke for half as long and said maybe a quarter as much. He thanked the sponsors, the media, the fans. The muted, measured tones that have become his calling card over the past 10 weeks bore little resemblance to the insufferable trash talker who incinerated hundred-dollar bills in nightclubs, tweeted photos of his six-figure betting slips and collected Maybachs like they were Silly Bandz.

Notably, he thanked longtime adversaries Arum and Freddie Roach – a chief instigator throughout the promotion who’s repeatedly invoked Mayweather’s domestic-violence record – underscoring the love-thy-enemies underpinnings of his latest iteration.

“It’s time to fight now,” Mayweather said. “You guys came out here to see excitement, you guys came out here to see a great event, and I think that’s what both competitors bring to the table: excitement.

“The biggest fight in boxing history.”

It’s not the final time the fighters will meet before Saturday’s career-defining showdown. That will be Friday’s weigh-in at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, for which the promoters have taken the unprecedented step of charging $10 admission – though tickets on the secondary market were ranging from $136 to $446 on Wednesday afternoon.

So whatever theater remains in store was put on hold as Mayweather and Pacquiao – the two finest fighters of their generation – met downstage center and posed for photographs, then faced inward for a 13-second staredown that saw Pacquiao break into a wry grin midway through. As he does.

All it seems that’s left is the fight, which – though a tantalizing three days away after more than half a decade in the making – can’t arrive soon enough.