Boxing

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The welterweight world title unification boxing clash between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas earlier this month has smashed the US record for pay-per-view buys.

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Kayvon Beykpour, the co-founder of Periscope, has defended Twitter’s new live video streaming application against criticism that it was used to infringe copyright of coverage of Saturday night’s world welterweight boxing clash between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.

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The start of Saturday’s world welterweight title fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas was delayed by about 45 minutes due to problems surrounding the processing of late pay-per-view orders through US pay-television providers.

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The welterweight clash between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas this Saturday is set to smash all records for media-rights revenue for a single fight.

American Football

Media rights clips from April 16 to 29

Boxing

Interview with Todd duBoef, president of the Top Rank Boxing promoter, on the broadcast sales process for the ‘fight of the century’ between Floyd Mayweather Jr. v Manny Pacquiao.

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Argentinian state broadcaster TV Publica has agreed a deal to televise the highly-anticipated Copa Libertadores clash between domestic football clubs Boca Juniors and River Plate, while it has also acquired rights to Saturday’s world welterweight title boxing bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.

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US pay-television broadcasters HBO and Showtime have filed a joint lawsuit against a set of websites that have allegedly been advertising unauthorised live online coverage of the Floyd Mayweather Jr. v Manny Pacquiao welterweight world title boxing clash this Saturday.

Boxing

Broadcasters in Mexico, France and Italy have acquired rights for the world welterweight title boxing clash between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, which is scheduled to take place this Saturday night in Las Vegas, US.

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Russian state broadcaster Channel One and Fijian commercial and pay-television broadcaster Fiji TV have acquired rights to the world welterweight title fight between boxing’s pound-for-pound superstars Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.

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BET, the Viacom-owned US cable and satellite television channel, has announced its first move into professional boxing.

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Rights for the heavily anticipated boxing bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao have been acquired by the Mediapro agency in Spain.

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UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has secured the exclusive live rights to the IBF super-middleweight world title bout between James DeGale and Andre Dirrell.

Boxing

Hong Kong telecommunications group PCCW has secured the rights to the world welterweight title fight between boxing’s pound-for-pound superstars Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao for its pay-television broadcaster Now TV.

Baseball

Media rights clips from March 26 to April 15

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Mexican beer brand Tecate is offering a reduced pay-per-view television price in the United States for customers buying the boxing world title fight between pound-for-pound superstars Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, through its sponsorship of the bout.

Boxing

Filipino commercial broadcaster ABS-CBN has struck a deal to distribute media rights across the Middle East for the upcoming world welterweight boxing clash between Manny Pacquiao from the Philippines and Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Boxing

Polish public-service broadcaster TVP has acquired rights to next month’s boxing bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, according to Super Express.