Mayweather-Pacquiao Broadcast Team Still Being Picked

by David P. Greisman

 

The last time that HBO and Showtime worked together for a pay-per-view, the announce team for Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson combined talent from both networks.

 

You can expect a similar arrangement for Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao on May 2. But the exact lineup is still being worked out.

 

“We’ve had significant discussions about who will make up the team. We haven’t resolved all of that yet,” said Showtime’s Stephen Espinoza on a media conference call held Feb. 20, shortly after the fight was officially announced. “It will be an all-star team — that being said, a combination of talent from both networks.

 

“We’ll be ready, probably, to announce that in the coming weeks, but at this point it’s not yet final,” he said. “We’re not quite ready to confirm any of those arrangements. We’d like to finalize everything so we can give you a complete picture of what’s going on. We expect to be able to do that fairly shortly.”

 

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