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Pay-per-view issues to delay Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight
The Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor main event Saturday night in Las Vegas will be delayed due to pay-per-view outages, sources told ESPN's Sal Paolantonio.
"Due to the overwhelming demand, capacity of cable systems around country are being overwhelmed. They are shutting down and rebooting some of these cable systems," Showtime executive vice president Stephen Espinoza told ESPN.
It was unclear how many people were affected by the outages. Among the carries affected were Xfinity, Atlantic Broadband and Frontier, but it was unclear the extent of their outages.
Some cable carriers have told customers that if the reboot is successful and they do receive a feed, it will only be in standard definition, which would be a $10 reduction off the $99.95 price (for high-definition).
UFC officials and WWE/IMG have not replied to ESPN's repeated requests for comment.
UFC Fight Pass tweeted this earlier Saturday:
.@UFCFightPass customers: Due to overwhelming traffic you may be experiencing log in issues. This will be resolved shortly.
9:28 PM - Aug 26, 2017