Mayweather, Pacquiao fight delayed as cable companies fix overload issues

Saturday, May 2, 2015
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The historic bout between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao was delayed for a short time so that several cable systems across the country could fix overload issues.

Many people reached out to Charter, Cox Cable and Time Warner Cable regarding the delay issues.
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Singer John Legend even tweeted out to Time Warner Cable about the outage issue.



Dennis Johnson with Time Warner Cable issued a statement to Eyewitness News:



"We're working on an issue affecting a small number of customers from ordering the fight successfully and are doing everything we can to resolve it as soon as possible."
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