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.
00:00Netflix says Jake Paul and Mike Tyson's boxing match drew in 108 million viewers.
00:07The streamer is claiming over 100 million people worldwide saw social media 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 and Netflix's first-party data for the rest of the world.
00:22This makes the Paul Tyson fight the most streamed sporting event ever, but it falls behind some other huge global sports telecasts.
00:29Though worldwide viewing figures are notoriously fuzzy.
00:32The NFL said February's Super Bowl 58 had a global audience of about 186 million people, 123.7 million domestically.
00:41And soccer's governing body FIFA claimed that more than 1 billion people watched the 2022 Men's World Cup final between Argentina and France.
00:50A 2017 heavyweight fight also claimed a nine-figure audience worldwide with estimates as high as 500 million viewers.
00:56Leaving up to the Paul Tyson bout on Netflix, a title fight between women's super lightweight champion Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano brought in 74 million viewers worldwide, with 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 ever in the U.S.
01:15All those viewers came despite a glitchy live telecast that led scores of viewers to complain about buffering and audio problems during the fight.
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