Netflix says Jake Paul and Mike Tyson's boxing match drew in 108 million viewers. The streamer is claiming over 100 million people worldwide watched social media star turned boxer Paul beat the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion. Those figures are based on U.S. viewing tallies from analytics company TVision and Netflix's first-party data for the rest of the world.
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00:00Netflix says Jake Paul and Mike Tyson's boxing match drew in 108 million viewers.
00:06The streamer is claiming over 100 million people worldwide saw social
00:11media star-turned-boxer Paul beat the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion.
00:15Those figures are based on U.S. viewing tallies from analytics company T-Vision
00:19and Netflix's first-party data for the rest of the world. This makes the Paul
00:23Tyson fight the most streamed sporting event ever, but it falls behind some
00:27huge global sports telecasts, though worldwide viewing figures are notoriously fuzzy.
00:32The NFL said February's Super Bowl 58 had a global audience of about 186 million people
00:39— 123.7 million domestically. And soccer's governing body FIFA claimed that more than
00:44one billion people watched the 2022 Men's World Cup final between Argentina and France.
00:49A 2017 heavyweight fight also claimed a nine-figure audience worldwide,
00:53with estimates as high as 500 million viewers.
00:56Leading up to the Paul Tyson bout on Netflix, a title fight between women's super lightweight
01:01champion Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano brought in 74 million viewers worldwide,
01:06with 47 million watching in the United States, according to T-Vision.
01:10That would make the Taylor-Serrano fight the most-watched professional women's sporting event
01:14ever in the U.S. All those viewers came despite a glitchy live telecast that led scores of viewers
01:19to complain about buffering and audio problems during the fight. For much more on this story
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