LIVE FIGHT CANCELLED

Bandera First Posted 07:30:00 03/13/2010 Filed Under:

LIVE FIGHT CANCELLED

GENERAL Santos City — Residents here, who are excited about watching Manny Pacquiao's fight with Joshua Clottey on Sunday but could not afford to pay, were exasperated to learn that the city government has decided to cancel the live airing of the fight due to uncertain power supply.

The free live showing via satellite of Pacquiao's fights had already become a tradition for the city government and South Cotabato Rep. Darlene Custodio.

But the city mayor's office has announced it had to cancel the scheduled showing at the 6,000-seat gymnasium in Lagao village because the South Cotabato Electric Cooperative II (Socoteco II) could not give assurance regarding the stability of the power supply on Sunday.

For Dionito Galagaran, the cancellation of the Lagao gym satellite showing was disgusting.

But Galagaran said he was lucky because he could at least afford the fees charged in pay-per-view locations such as the KCC Mall Cinema.

The KCC Mall, which has generating sets, charges P150-P200 per person.

In Sarangani province, where Pacquiao is a congressional candidate, generator sets will be used so that the live airing of the southpaw's first defense of his International Boxing Organization welterweight title will push through.

Minvelez Gulle, Pacquiao's legal counsel, said the fight will be aired live and free of charge in the towns of Kiamba and Alabel.

For Dionisia Pacquiao, the pugilist's mother, the rotational brownouts being experienced did not matter at all.

Dionisia said she doesn't watch her son's bouts live on television anyway.

She said, as in the past she will be spending the time praying for her son's victory at her newly-finished house in Labangal.—Inquirer

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