By Miguel Rivera

Golden Boy President Eric Gomez confirms that his company has a plan in place to combat the widespread piracy of internet pay-per-view events.

On May 6th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Golden Boy will be staging a major pay-per-view event where Mexican superstars Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. will collide in a grudge match taking place at 164.5-pounds.

Since the mega pay-per-view between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao in May 2015, which generated 4.6 million  guys, not a single boxing pay-per-view has cracked the 1 million mark.

The last pay-per-view to get close to a million buys was Canelo's fight with Miguel Cotto in November 2015 - where the show generated around 900,000 buys.

Since that card, Canelo's fight from last May with Amir Khan was able to get near 500,000 buys - but every other boxing pay-per-view has fallen short of even that number.

In today's age of technology, fight promoters are not only worrying about streaming websites, they are also worrying about social media sites - like Facebook, Twitter and Instragram - which allow live streaming. In the last year, nearly every boxing pay-per-view could easily be found on social media with a few clicks.

Gomez admits the growing problem of internet piracy is a big concern for his company.

"The world is changing and there are ways to get events and it is something we are studying. Very soon there will be a change, we are digitally entering an era where everything is digital," said Gomez to Eduard Cauich.

 "We are taking precautions, there are ways to fight that. We have security to fight that. I can not give you the details but we are worried that they are changing things [ in the way they steal events]."

"The UFC has done well with pay-per-view, despite the changes [in technology]. So when you have a fight with known names, with a very strong card, and a lot of emotion - it's the type of show that the sport of boxing needs."

"Sponsors are calling us more and more, it's a special fight for Mexico, everybody wants to see it. And in the United States it's becoming one of the most important fights in recent years."