Showtime sues Top Rank for megafight legal fees

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More than a year after the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao megafight left most viewers disappointed, the fight continues, albeit outside the ring.

Showtime, which had Mayweather under exclusive contract for the record-setting joint pay-per-view with HBO, sued Pacquiao promoter Top Rank in federal court Wednesday.

Showtime is seeking $682,754.07 in legal fees for having to pay lawyers to defend the network against numerous civil lawsuits filed by fans upset that they shelled out a record $100 apiece for the pay-per-view telecast of a bad fight in which Pacquiao knew he was injured ahead of time.

The day before the fight, Pacquiao signed the standard Nevada State Athletic Commission prefight medical questionnaire — which included a specific question about shoulder injuries — on which he swore under the penalty of perjury that he did not have any injuries going into the fight.

But Pacquiao said after the fight that he had faced Mayweather with a serious right shoulder injury, leading many fans to feel defrauded.

Manny Pacquiao said after his fight with Floyd Mayweather that he went in with a serious right shoulder injury, leading many fans to feel defrauded. John GursinskiAFP/Getty Images

Pacquiao said after the fight that he initially hurt his shoulder in training camp. He said he went into the long-awaited welterweight title unification fight on May 2, 2015, with the injury — a reason given for his clear unanimous-decision loss — and then had surgery days later to repair his torn rotator cuff.

The fight, held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, set every revenue record imaginable, including for total revenue (around $600 million) and live gate ($72.2 million). It also set the mark for pay-per-view …

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