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~Watch McGregor media day to promote Mayweather fight!LIVE
Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor are set to enter the ring on Saturday, August 26, at 9 p.m. ET in Las Vegas, Nevada for what's expected to be the most watched fight... ever. As usual, the fight is only available to those who pay the nearly $100 pay-per-view fee. However, breaking from the traditional means of purchasing directly from a cable or satellite provider, CBS recently announced the fight will also be available to stream on the Showtime PPV website or iOS and Apple TV app. (Disclaimer: CBS is CNET's parent company. For those who want to stream the fight on a computer, you can visit ShowtimePPV.com and purchase access for $99.95. Keep in mind, if you purchase through the website you will only have access to the fight on a computer — and not on your mobile device or Apple TV. The iOS and Apple TV apps aren't available in the iTunes store, but according to the announcement, the apps should be live any time now. We will update this post once we spot the apps. Unfortunately, there's no mention of access for users of the Android, Roku or Amazon Fire ($49.99 at Amazon.com) platforms. Right now, it seems, the mobile experience is limited to Apple devices. As an added bonus for those who pay to stream the fight, you will also have access to a free trial of Showtime and CBS All Access.
Watch Mayweather vs Mcgregor Fight Live
Brazilian fans will have a chance to watch Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor meet inside the ring on Aug. 26 in Las Vegas, as the mega event will air live on pay-per-view through Combate in the country. The network announced the deal on Friday. UOL first reported the news. Mayweather fights usually air on cable channel SporTV in Brazil, except for his highly anticipated clash with Manny Pacquiao in 2015, which aired on pay-per-view on Combate. Both channels are owned by Globo. Combate airs every UFC event live in Brazil on pay-per-view, even the Fight Night and Fight Pass cards, but in a different system. For R$ 74,90 (24 dollars) a month, fans can watch every UFC card, and several other Brazilian shows. Those subscribers (more than 300,000, sources say) won’t have to pay more to watch Mayweather-McGregor. Fans also have the option to purchase a single event without subscribing to the channel, but a separate card usually costs more than the monthly subscription fee. Combate has yet to announce the separate pay-per-view price for Mayweather-McGregor.
According to a report by UOL, Combate executives expects to sell 25-30,000 pay-per-views for Mayweather-McGregor (not including their hundreds of thousands of subscribers). Mayweather-Pacquiao sold 16,500 pay-per-views in 2015, the report says.As August 26th approaches the hype train for Mayweather-McGregor continues to plow forward. Early this evening, with a scheduled start time of 5:00pm ET, Showtime Sporst will live stream Floyd Mayweather’s open media workout ahead of his scheduled fight with Conor McGregor. You can catch the stream right here on BLH. We’ve already seen a couple of glimpses of Floyd recently, and by all accounts he looks to be in tremendous shape, and today we’ll get a closer look at Floyd’s preparation for this fight. Realistically, I don’t expect this to be much different than any of Floyd’s other media workouts, his fight preparations are always pretty consistent. But Floyd did surprise us us last time out by hosting a live open sparring session instead of a typical media workout for the Berto fight. So I suppose anything is possible! Conor McGregor will host his live media workout tomorrow evening, and we’ll have live coverage of that for you as well.
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