US retired pro-boxer Mike Tyson (L) and US YouTuber/boxer Jake Paul (R) battle in the course of the heavyweight boxing bout at The Pavilion at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, November 15, 2024.
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The extremely anticipated boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson has already secured its place within the report books.
Netflix stated 60 million households worldwide tuned in as Jake Paul defeated Mike Tyson, with the occasion peaking at 65 million streams. The subscription streaming service additionally stated 50 million households watched Katie Taylor tackle Amanda Serrano, making it the most-watched skilled girls’s sporting occasion in U.S. historical past.
The battle was additionally streamed in additional than 6,000 bars and eating places within the U.S., setting the report for the game’s largest business distribution.
“The boxing mega-event dominated social media, shattered data, and even had our buffering methods on the ropes,” Netflix posted on X Saturday.
The battle’s promoter, Most Worthwhile Promotions, which is co-owned by Paul, instructed CNBC 72,300 attended the Friday night time bout at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Dallas Cowboys stadium has a seating capability of 80,000.
(L-R) Mike Tyson, Nakisa Bidarian and Jake Paul pose onstage in the course of the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson Boxing match press convention at Texas Dwell! in Arlington, Texas, on Could 16, 2024.
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Gate receipts for the battle surpassed 18 million in income, the promoter stated.
It was the most important boxing gate in historical past exterior of Nevada. The earlier report was $9 million in gate receipts for the 2021 battle between Canelo Álvarez and Billy Joe Saunders at AT&T Stadium.
MVP stated the gate can also be larger than for any non-Las Vegas UFC battle, aside from Conor McGregor versus Eddie Alvarez in New York Metropolis in 2016.
The battle dominated the social dialog, with #PaulTyson turning into the primary trending subject on X, previously Twitter.
It wasn’t all excellent news for Netflix, nonetheless. Many viewers skilled buffering points, streaming glitches and low-resolution video, disrupting their means to look at the battle.
Knowledge from Downdetector confirmed folks reporting points all through the night time, with outages peaking at greater than 95,000 round 11 p.m. ET.
Nakisa Bidarian, co-founder of MVP, instructed CNBC’s “Closing Bell” on Friday that each Tyson and Paul will make eight figures from this battle and Taylor and Serrano can even have report paydays for ladies’s boxing.
The battle between Paul, a 27-year-old YouTube influencer-turned-boxer and Tyson, a 58-year-old boxing legend aired on Netflix, free to subscribers.
The occasion additionally featured one of the vital anticipated girls’s boxing rematches in historical past: undisputed tremendous light-weight champion Katie Taylor versus unified featherweight champion Amanda Serrano.
Netflix has upward of 283 million paid memberships in additional than 190 nations. The bout was an necessary take a look at for the streamer because it ventures deeper into the sports activities house and as boxing sidesteps the pay-per-view mannequin.
“Numbers do not lie,” Paul stated Wednesday at a press convention for the battle. “Folks wish to see this and that is an incredible accomplishment. … This can be a assertion that we had the most important dwell gate exterior of Vegas in U.S. boxing historical past.”
Tickets for the battle on Friday ranged on StubHub from about $58 to $1,500 apiece. MVP has additionally offered higher-end packages, together with a $2 million VIP expertise which comes with ringside seats. The promotions firm stated its 375 VIP seats offered out.
For comparability, Vegas’ largest battle in historical past occurred in 2015 between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. That battle took in additional than $72 million, in keeping with the Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal.
