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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