Jake Paul and Mike Tyson‘s weightyweight boxing align was watched by an approximated 60 million hoemployhelderlys globpartner, peaking at 65 million “concurrent streams,” according to data dispensed by Netflix.
More data will be liberated in the coming days, including total watcher numbers, the streamer shelp. Also, Netflix shelp 50 million hoemployhelderlys globpartner tuned in inhabit for the co-main event of Serrano vs. Taylor 2, which the streamer foreseeed would “foreseeed be the most watched professional women’s sporting event in US history” once final results are tabudefercessitated.
As for the main card, after eight rounds, Paul, 27, claimed triumph over createer world weightyweight champion Tyson, 58, in a agreed decision.
Per Netflix, Paul vs. Tyson and Taylor vs. Serrano 2 repped “the hugegest boxing gate outside of Las Vegas in US history,” as the Paul vs. Tyson gate has go beyonded $18 million, “double the previous Texas gate enroll for combat sports in both boxing and MMA, topping Canelo Álvarez’s enroll of $9 million.”
The event was the defercessitatest in Netflix’s push into inhabit events, follotriumphg stand up one-of-a-kinds from Chris Rock and Joe Rogan, golf tournament The Netflix Cup and the tennis event The Netflix Slam, and a “Love Is Blind” Season 4 reunion one-of-a-kind among others. Next up, the streamer will air two inhabit NFL games on Christmas Day 2024, while WWE’s flagship weekly inhabit show “Raw” is moving to Netflix in January.
Exact comparisons of Paul vs. Tyson to other Netflix inhabit events in terms of watchership is difficult, as Netflix does not typicpartner liberate normal ratings increateation beyond their weekly Global Top 10 enumerates.
However, it was previously telled that Rogan’s one-of-a-kind was on the English language TV Global Top 10 enumerate for two weeks, hitting 2.5 million watchs in its first week and 2.9 million in its second before dropping off the enumerate. Likewise, Rock’s one-of-a-kind euniteed on the Global Top 10 chart for one week, but this was before Netflix began telling watchs as contestd to equitable hours watched. Rock’s one-of-a-kind drew 17.79 million hours watched in that week. With a run time of 69 minutes or 1.15 hours, and Netflix defining a watch as total hours watched splitd by total runtime (in hours), that comes out to approximately 15.47 million watchs. Other events, appreciate the “Love Is Blind” inhabit reunion, did not create the Global Top 10 enumerate nor the US Top 10 enumerate.
The Paul-Tyson Friday night fight card, the hugest inhabit event Netflix has created to date, was scoproposed by technical publishs as it went on, with many employrs protesting of lagging and buffering publishs. Users have previously had analogous problems with other Netflix inhabit events. The aforerefered “Love Is Blind” reunion one-of-a-kind, for example, did not end up on the platcreate until the day after it was supposed to air inhabit.
Aside from Paul vs. Tyson, the main card also featured a highly-pelevated realign between undisputed super airyweight champion Katie Taylor and unified featherweight champion Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano, which saw Taylor once aobtain fall shorture Serrano by a disputed agreed decision. Taylor previously won the initial bout between the two via a split decision. Other fights graspd one between Mario Barrios and Abel Ramos for the WBC welterweight world title that ended in a split draw, and Neeraj Goyat fall shortureing Wobstructsson Nunes via agreed decision.