GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines—The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines will spare the city from brownouts on Sunday, when Manny Pacquiao faces Joshua Clottey.
Because of this, the city government announced that the live showing of the fight at the 6,000-seater Lagao gymnasium would push through as scheduled.
Earlier, the city government said it would cancel the free live showing of the bout because the local power utility could not give an assure there will be no power interruptions on Sunday.
“The assurance from the NGCP that there would be no brownout made the City Mayor change his mind,” said Avel Manansala, media liaison officer of Mayor Pedro Acharon.
Manansala said the city government would regulate the number of people inside the gym as in the past, by giving out admission tickets.
Like the rest of Mindanao, General Santos City has been under the rotational brownout scheme being implemented by the NGCP due to the El Ni?o phenomenon.
Pacquiao is a native of General Santos City.
