Comments Thread For: Netflix: Jake Paul-Mike Tyson seen by 60 million households

[PBR Streetgang]

This event was huge. I went out for dinner with my 10 year old nephew and 12 year old niece yesterday and they both knew about it. My nephew asked if he could borrow my phone to watch the highlights. They know no other boxers, but they know Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. That's a remarkable level of penetration into the public consciousness. For all Tyson's faults, he is remarkably famous; as the article says, he is the most famous living boxer. It's a shame, then, that such a success in terms of viewship and buzz was a circus of a main event. Great exposure for Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano and, more generally, for women's boxing.

It would be very interesting if Netflix were to try and regularly do a Friday night event. Imagine what they could do with Inoue.

Similar experiences, my nephew was talking about it, coworkers who know nothing about boxing planned their evening around it, even my buddies 10 year old son asked his dad if he could stay up to watch it.

They were all texting me during the card about the Barrios/Ramos and Serrano/Taylor fights. Netflix has to be elated at the exposure they got from the event.

And you're right about Tyson, he's an icon.

[Lefty0616]

That's half the people who tune in to watch the Super Bowl. That's an impressive stat. Netflix might be on to something. This was a good card - meaning the undercard. I'd tune in again to watch two great undercard matches, along with a challenger looking to beat Paul.

I'd be rooting for the Challenger btw

[khabib]

I think the situation with expensive PPVs is starting to get exhausting. Boxing is a sport, but it has become too commercialized, with many promoters prioritizing profit over the quality of the fights. If giants like Netflix or Amazon start broadcasting boxing, it could be a real breakthrough and change the whole approach to broadcasting. At the same time, fights with people like Jake Paul are more entertainment than real sport, and I'm not sure they're helping to promote boxing as a legitimate sport.

[Smash]

mike tyson is an absolute scumbag, this is what he said before his 'fight' with Roy Jones & his purse

"It's going to be for various charities," he told TMZ Sports.

"Nobody has to ever worry about me getting rich, or getting jealous, or saying I'm doing [the comeback] for money.

"I'm not getting anything. I just feel good doing this because I can."

He did a tyson fury on it, connection both called tyson, i dont think either tyson gave a penny let alone their entire purse to anyone but themselves

Now, he once again cons the gullible paying public with an ever bigger con, the gimp couldnt even hop around the ring let alone fight

whatever he had with don king, it rubbed off on him thats for sure

[morph_resurrected]

PPV models like cable. Dead. Down with PPV.

Less eyes on the sport, less exposure. Just a bunch of greedy promoters and CEO bastards want PPV. Terrible for the sport.

Same with sanctioning belts charging fees. Killing the sport.

[Oldskoolg]

Haymon already has a deal with amazon to stream boxing. The problem is Al & greed putting almost everything so far behind a ppv wall when the card's simply aren't ppv worthy.

So clearly you hate the man but that doesn’t change the fact that he is currently in conversations with Discovery and has in the past had conversations with Netflix as well. The deal with Amazon isn’t exclusive

[TintaBoricua]

First loss? Paul already lost to the great Tommy Fury.

My bad. I meant first KO loss.

[Willow The Wisp]

Did ANY UFC event, PPV, Cable or Free ever draw this many viewers?

[djtmal]

Get that loose change Mike

[QballLobo]

Unless they saw an influx of new subscribers that will stick around well after the fight then those views don’t mean much.