MANILA, Philippines – Executives of boxing promotion company Top Rank will meet with television network Showtime to discuss the broadcast rights for the November 12 fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez.
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports tweeted that Top Rank head honcho Bob Arum will meet with Showtime tomorrow to negotiate the television deal for Pacquiao-Marquez III.
But Arum is also expecting to receive an offer from HBO soon.
With the two networks both presenting offers to Top Rank, the TV rights to Pacquiao-Marquez III may ignite a bidding war, according to Scott Christ of BadLeftHook.com.
Pacquiao’s most recent match against Shane Mosley was broadcasted by Showtime and earned Pacquiao the highest pay-per-view numbers of his career with 1.3 million PPVs sold.
Christ said that if Top Rank and Arum are determined to bring boxing back to network television, they may opt to give Showtime the broadcast rights.
But Christ said that HBO has more money to offer than Showtime, and can come with a proposal that Top Rank cannot refuse.
Source: abs-cbnnews.com
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