Free live telecast of the mega fight between Philippine boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and the undefeated champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. will be available for Negrenses this Sunday.

Giant screens will be set up at the Bacolod Arts, Youth and Sports Center, the Bacolod Government Center, and in barangays Bata, 16, Banago-, Sum-ag, Granada and Handumanan, Bacolod Mayor Monico Puentevella said.

The same set up will be available at the public plaza of Victorias City and Murcia town, at Natalio G. Velez Sports and Cultural Center in Silay City, Talisay Gym, and at Wilkinson Social Court in EB Magalona courtesy of third district Rep. Alfredo Benitez.

Numerous hotels in the city are also offering live telecast viewing of the event for a fee, while cable subscribers opted for the for the pay-per-view telecast that ranges from P2,000 to P2,500.

In Davao, where the 2015 Palarong Pambansa is scheduled to open this Sunday, officials said competitions in some of the 17 sporting events will start but the opening ceremonies will be held on Monday to give way to the Pacquiao-Mayweather megafight.

The Davao del Norte Sports and Tourism Complex, main venue of the competitions, will be transformed into the biggest outdoor gathering of Filipino fans rooting for Manny Pacquiao as Palaro delegates from the 17 regions are expected to watch the fight through the four giant LED screens that will be installed at the DNSTC.

Meanwhile, reports from the wires said the potential pay-per-view television revenue for the blockbuster welterweight showdown is so high that an actual figure is impossible to predict.

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. 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," Espinoza said.*NAB

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