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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