cebu living

Everyone in Cebu is raring to watch Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao’s Sunday bout with Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto for the latter’s World Boxing Organization (WBO) 145-pound welterweight title.

Of course, the best way to watch this anticipated title fight dubbed by philboxing.com as the “most exciting…in 40 years” — if you don’t have the means to do it ringside — is through live telecast uninterrupted by advertisements.

Skycable offers an uninterrupted viewing of the “Firepower: Pacman vs. Cotto” through pay-per-view subscription.

If you want to watch it with other Pacquiao fanatics, the following establishments offer live showing of the bout:

• SM City Cebu
  Cinema 7, 8 a.m.
  P500 (premium and deluxe seats)
  231-3876
• Royal Krua Thai, 9 a.m.
  Banilad Town Centre
  P399 (with brunch buffet)
• Sports Exchange Bar and Grill, 8:30 a.m.
  3rd Floor, Mango Square
  P550 (buffet breakfast)
  Tickets available Friday and Saturday, 4 pm to 3 am
  412-6446
• Crown Regency Hotel and Towers
  Functions Halls (3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th levels), 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.Fuente Osmena
  P699 per person
  2 buffets (breakfast and lunch)
• Crown Regency Suites and Residences
  Sport and Convention Hall, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
  Basak, Lapu-Lapu City
  P499 per person
  2 buffets (breakfast and lunch)
• Metrosports Center
  Badminton Court Area, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
  Lahug, Cebu City
  P250 per person (inclusive of snack)
• CICC
  North Reclamation, Mandaue City
  Plenary Hall, P150
  Exhibition Hall, 100
  Gates open at 7 a.m. (tickets sold at gate only)
• Fisherman’s Net, 8 a.m.
  Lahug, Cebu City
  P175 per ticket
  Free pilsen, juice, coffee, and cookies
• Hola Espana
  Ayala Terraces and Banilad branches
  P590 per head (inclusive of Spanish lunch buffet)
  Tickets are now on sale
  Call 236-0643, 5050-801 for Terraces branch and 344-6493 and 344-6149 for Paseo Saturnino, Banilad branch
• Pino! Express Grill
  WC Commercial Complex, Minoza St., Talamban
  Pino! Filipino Restaurant
  Wilson Street, Lahug
  P590 per head (with lunch buffet)
• Gustavian Banilad
  Tap Room, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
  P550 net per person (with buffet extravaganza that comes with bottomless iced tea)
  Call 344-7653 for reservations