US retired pro-boxer Mike Tyson (L) and US YouTuber/boxer Jake Paul (R) combat 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 file books.
Netflix mentioned 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 mentioned 50 million households watched Katie Taylor tackle Amanda Serrano, making it the most-watched skilled ladies’s sporting occasion in U.S. historical past.
The combat was additionally streamed in additional than 6,000 bars and eating places within the U.S., setting the file 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 combat’s promoter, Most Precious Promotions, which is co-owned by Paul, informed CNBC 72,300 attended the Friday evening 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 combat surpassed 18 million in income, the promoter mentioned.
It was the most important boxing gate in historical past exterior of Nevada. The earlier file was $9 million in gate receipts for the 2021 combat between Canelo Álvarez and Billy Joe Saunders at AT&T Stadium.
MVP mentioned the gate can be larger than for any non-Las Vegas UFC combat, aside from Conor McGregor versus Eddie Alvarez in New York Metropolis in 2016.
The combat dominated the social dialog, with #PaulTyson changing 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 capability to look at the combat.
Data from Downdetector confirmed folks reporting points all through the evening, with outages peaking at greater than 95,000 round 11 p.m. ET.
Nakisa Bidarian, co-founder of MVP, informed CNBC’s “Closing Bell” on Friday that each Tyson and Paul will make eight figures from this combat and Taylor and Serrano can even have file paydays for girls’s boxing.
(L-R) Jake Paul introduced as winner towards Mike Tyson throughout Dwell On Netflix: Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Nov. 15, 2024.
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The combat 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 crucial anticipated ladies’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 area and as boxing sidesteps the pay-per-view mannequin.
“Numbers do not lie,” Paul mentioned Wednesday at a press convention for the combat. “Individuals need to see this and that is an incredible accomplishment. … It is a assertion that we had the most important reside gate exterior of Vegas in U.S. boxing historical past.”
Tickets for the combat 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 experience which comes with ringside seats. The promotions firm mentioned its 375 VIP seats offered out.
For comparability, Vegas’ greatest combat in historical past occurred in 2015 between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. That combat took in additional than $72 million, in keeping with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
