Here’s the De La Hoya-Pacquiao rebate deal

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I’ve been deluged with questions about how potential pay-per-view buyers of tonight’s Oscar De La Hoya-Manny Pacquiao fight can gather rebates for the $54.95 bout.

De La Hoya actually confused the situation by suggesting that tequila company Cazadores offered one of the rebates. That’s not true, a spokesman for the company told me. ‘We have a sweepstakes [promotion], but there was an error in communication between Golden Boy Promotions and Cazadores,’ spokesman Sean-Patrick M. Hillman said.

But beer company Tecate and Coca-Cola Co.’s Full Throttle Energy Drink do indeed offer rebate deals on certain packages of products. The consumer should be sure to purchase the respective product with the rebate promotion on the packaging, and company officials say the products should be found at major grocery and convenience stores in the Southland.

The deals can cut $30 off the pay-per-view price, and the rebates will come, officials say, when buyers mail in the receipts of their Tecate and/or Full Throttle purchases with their cable-satellite bills.

-- Lance Pugmire