Showtime Gets Pacquiao-Mosley Airing Rights

It will be Showtime instead of HBO that will telecast the live fight between pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 7, 2011.

Pacquiao's management said in an interview that they are not moving out of HBO, but merely trying something different to broaden viewership.

HBO has a potential audience of some 28 million while CBS' Showtime has a wider audience of around 115 million.

CBS, Showtime's mother network, will promote the fight.

Pacquiao will start training for the WBO welterweight title defense in March.

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