Netflix says the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight was ‘the most-streamed sporting event ever’

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The combat averaged 108 cardinal viewers.

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Nov 19, 2024, 8:04 PM UTC

A photograph showing Mike Tyson and Jake Paul successful the boxing ring

Despite wide issues with video prime and buffering, Netflix’s live-streamed Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul boxing lucifer brought successful an mean of 108 cardinal viewers, based connected TVision information successful the US and first-party information successful planetary markets. With 65 cardinal concurrent streams, Netflix says the combat was the “most-streamed planetary sporting lawsuit ever.”

Of those simultaneous streams, 38 cardinal were from households successful the US, and the TVision information says it accounted for 56 percent of TV viewing betwixt midnight and 1AM that day.

Meanwhile, the lucifer betwixt Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano broke the grounds for the “most-watched nonrecreational women’s sports lawsuit successful US history,” with 47 cardinal mean viewers nationwide, according to Netflix. Even with grounds viewership numbers, galore NFL and WWE fans are acrophobic astir whether Netflix tin grip the ample audiences tuning successful for aboriginal unrecorded events.

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