Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson Shatters Netflix Record With 60 Million Views

“60 million households watched the Paul vs. Tyson main event live around the world, peaking at 65 million concurrent streams. Nearly 50 million households globally tuned in live for the co-main event of Taylor vs. Serrano 2. Additionally, the bout is likely to be the most watched professional women’s sporting event in US history.

“Joe Hand Promotions, the leader in premium live sports and entertainment programming for the out-of-home market, also distributed last night’s event to over 6000 bars & restaurants in the US, setting the record for commercial distribution of a combat sports event in the company’s 50+ year history.

“#PaulTyson was the No. 1 trending topic worldwide on X on Friday, with #Serrano at No. 2 in the US, Brazil, Spain, and Canada. The fight dominated social conversation, accounting for 11 of the Top 11 trending topics in the US.”

Although the main event that everyone worldwide was anticipating did not deliver fireworks, who did were the other fights, such as Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano 2 and Mario Barrios vs. Abel Ramos. These fights made the event worth watching live in Dallas or on Netflix. There was more talk about those fights and Tyson exposing his butt cheeks in the locker room than the actual main event between Paul and Tyson.

Regardless, the event was a huge success, but there are still plenty of questions that Netflix needs to ask themselves regarding the technical side of hosting a live event. Thousands of subscribers complained about buffering and the stream freezing, which made the event uncomfortable for viewers. Netflix should now have an internal audit of its systems to find out what happened, what broke, and how it can avoid a similar situation from happening in the future. For now, let’s hope they are willing to do another boxing event as the sport greatly benefited from the attention this event produced.