Maywether v Pacquiao- HOW much?

[mvcg66b3r]

The Hudson Grille restaurant in Brookhaven -- a suburb of Atlanta -- was showing the fight (okay, so I saw a portion of the undercard bouts), but guess where I watched the remainder on? That's right...Periscope!!!

I sure saved my $100 by seeing it for FREE!

See post #9:
http://www.radiodiscussions.com/sho...iao-HOW-much&p=6044781&viewfull=1#post6044781

 

[installLSC]

I was in a sports bar last night, and a lot of people wanted to know if they were going to show the fight. Nope.

There's a good reason why: the PPV companies were charging up to $5000 a bar.

 

[installLSC]

Oops I meant to post that bars were being charged $5000 or more by the PPV compaines

 

[mvcg66b3r]

The Hudson Grille restaurant in Brookhaven -- a suburb of Atlanta -- was showing the fight (okay, so I saw a portion of the undercard bouts), but guess where I watched the remainder on? That's right...Periscope!!!

I sure saved my $100 by seeing it for FREE!

More on Periscope:

Hollywood’s Guard Is Up After Periscope, Meerkat Live-Stream Pirated ‘Fight of the Century’

Hollywood TV and movie executives will be keeping their guard up after Saturday’s massive pirating of the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao pay-per-view boxing match by people across the web, including Twitter users.

They used the site’s live-streaming app Periscope and Meerkat to send out the “fight of the century” to non-paying customers around the globe.

Just before the title fight got underway at 9 p.m. in Las Vegas, the number of people watching on Time Warner Cable, Charter and DirecTV became so great that the massive volume contributed to outages that forced a delay of several minutes.

That gave fans a reason to take to Twitter, and that’s when the Periscope transmission took off. That scenario – with outages prompting spikes in streaming on Twitter and Meerkat – occurred several times through the fight.

The bigger problem for Hollywood will come if the live-streaming apps broaden the spread of global piracy. The Motion Picture Association of America, the studios’ umbrella group, estimates piracy costs the U.S. film industry around $6 billion annually. That’s a lot by any standard, but especially when you consider that’s more than half of the 2014 domestic box office.

http://www.thewrap.com/hollywoods-g...kat-live-stream-pirated-fight-of-the-century/

 

[TheBigA]

Let the lawsuits begin.

 

[mvcg66b3r]

Manny Pacquiao Pummeled With Class-Action Lawsuit for Allegedly Lying About Shoulder Injury

Manny Pacquiao might be poised to take another beating.

The boxer, who suffered defeat at the fists of Floyd Mayweather Jr. during the “Fight of the Century” on Saturday, has been hit with a class-action lawsuit over the rotator cuff injury that he sustained prior to the fight.

In the suit, Nevada residents Staphane Vanel and Kami Rahbaran, who say they paid to see the bout, claim that Pacquiao and fight promoter Top Rank Inc. concealed the fact that the Filipino fighter had been injured prior to the contest, and only disclosed the injury until shortly before the fight — after fans had already ordered pay-per-view, bought tickets and/or placed wagers.

The suit claims that Pacquiao checked the “No” box on a Nevada Athletic Commission [NAC] questionnaire that asked whether he had an injured shoulder, while [Top Rank] failed to disclose the injury to the NAC prior to the fight “as required by Nevada law.”

http://www.thewrap.com/manny-pacquiao-pummeled-with-class-action-lawsuit-over-shoulder-injury/