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MANILA, Philippines—The megabuck bout between Manny Pacquiao and Oscar De La Hoya on Dec. 6 (Sunday, Dec. 7 in Manila) in Las Vegas will be aired in the Philippines by GMA 7 in partnership with Solar Sports.

Expected to draw record viewership, the fight set at 147 pounds will be covered live on pay per view via Solar All Access. Succeeding replays can be viewed at C/S 9.

There will also be live radio coverage of the year’s biggest boxing fight on dzBB 594 khz and 97.1 Barangay LS FM.

According to Jude Turcuato, Solar vice president for sales and marketing, the GMA-Solar coverage renews their partnership in showing Pacquiao’s fights across the country.

With fight tickets at the MGM Grand Casino sold out, joint promoters Top Rank and Golden Boy are hoping the Pacquiao-De La Hoya encounter will surpass the all-time record of 2.4 million PPV buys, worth $120 million, when Floyd Mayweather Jr. bested De La Hoya in May last year.

Toward this end, De La Hoya and Pacquiao are doing a promotional tour in key cities of the United States for the fight that is predicted to bring in at least $15 million for Pacquiao and $25 million for De La Hoya.

For its part, HBO will be doing a 24/7 coverage of the bout, similar to what it did for the De La Hoya-Mayweather encounter.

After the official announcement of De La Hoya-Pacquiao in New York, the protagonists have gone on to the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, Chicago, Houston and the Fort Mason in the Marian District of San Francisco. The final stop of the six-city tour will be held in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Pacquiao will begin heavy training at Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Gym in Hollywood and De La Hoya to proceed to Big Bear, a mountain resort in the Los Angeles outskirts, for isolated training under legendary taskmaster Ignacio “Nacho” Beristain.

• Laput wins WBO crown
• Pacquiao draws bigger fan support
• Pacman’s main weapon will be speed–Roach

• Camacho insists wushu polls valid
• Beermen out to equal team record