For cord-cutters, the options for watching the boxing match between undefeated Floyd Mayweather and UFC star Conor McGregor are limited. Go to a bar? A friend’s house? The next best option would be to stream the much-awaited fight — which you can do on Sling TV. The pay-per-view fight is set for Saturday from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
The fight is available to new and existing Sling TV customers for $99.99 plus taxes, in both English and Spanish, and can be fast-forwarded, rewinded and paused at will on Sling-supported devices.
It marks the second pay-per-view event offered on Sling TV. Last month, Sling TV also offered UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones 2. Traditionally, both boxing and UFC have required pay-per-view in order to view their top events, but streaming has started to proliferate into other mediums of consumption with Sling TV now doing its first boxing PPV event,
Purchasing the Mayweather-McGregor stream includes bouts between Andrew Tabiti and Steve Cunningham for the USBA cruiserweight title, Badou Jack and Nathan Cleverly for the WBA light heavyweight world championship and Francisco Fonseca and Gervonta Davis for the IBF junior lightweight world championship.
Other ways to purchase streams of the Mayweather-McGregor fight include on PlayStation consoles, ShowtimePPV.com, the SHOWTIME PPV for Apple TV, iPad or iPhone, and UFC.TV.