Joshua-Ruiz had 1.8 million viewers on DAZN

[Fanofreason]

225k views in the US. Lmao pathetic

[RoyJonesJrp4pno1]

1.8m is an average of 200k per country. That's not a good number.

Boxing used to be watched by billions of people worldwide.

[Kezzer]

Is 1.8M across 9 markets good, average or bad? Seems bad to me still. Although its still the noob & this seems bigger than the last numbers across multiple markets. Itd be more interesting to see the US numbers specifically.

To consider its outside his main market and the majority of those 9 don’t really watch boxing it’s impressive. At a guess you would suggest 300k Germany, 300k Canada and majority of the rest in America - so maybe about 1 mil in America. Obviously that’s working on logic which may not be completely the case.

But Ortiz wilder did less than 300k? So as a comparison it’s really the same ball park for a fight which wasn’t prime time in the USA and Joshua not being American.

[Someone88]

That's great for Boxing!

[NC Uppercut]

My DAZN script is in the trash now. It’s the commentary (Chris Mannix in particular) I can’t stand to here. However I do like Sergio Mora, but he needs some better people to work with!

[Eff Pandas]

To consider its outside his main market and the majority of those 9 don’t really watch boxing it’s impressive. At a guess you would suggest 300k Germany, 300k Canada and majority of the rest in America - so maybe about 1 mil in America. Obviously that’s working on logic which may not be completely the case.

But Ortiz wilder did less than 300k? So as a comparison it’s really the same ball park for a fight which wasn’t prime time in the USA and Joshua not being American.

Idk that we should be making direct comparisions between subscription services & PPVs.

Im just trying to gauge what the US numbers are cuz thats where DAZN is wanting to hit the hardest not to mention Im US based.

Do we know these are live numbers as well or views over 24hrs since this isnt even the same ole way of viewing fights?

Im super curious how many watch events live vs after the fact. Itd be cool to see how that breaks down not just over the day of but weeks & months after or whenever it stops doing any views or a marginal number of views.

[andocom]

Well PPV has changed a bit in the last 30 years. As has technology.

In the UK I'm assuming they buy it through their Sky box... it validates through the internet and charges their account.

I'd be shocked if they couldn't tell you the precise number of PPV buys at any given time.

What would they be doing in this extra time needed? Counting coins?

The National Lottery knows exactly how many tickets have been sold and immediately knows how many winners there are when the draw is made. It's all online and automated.

Exactly, I think there might be some differences between the UK and US which is adding to the confusion, I live in neither so I'm not 100% but in the US don't you have the distributor (Showtime/previously HBO), then the cable companies like Comcast/Cox/Charter whoever. Whereas isn't it just all through Sky for this PPV?

So in the US you have to wait for the various cable companies to report in, where as in the UK it would literally be a query on a single database table at Sky?

Anyway regardless, broke the UK PPV record, sounds like the biggest dazn fight yet add in that monster site fee, loosing to Ruiz while under a rematch clause was the best thing to ever happen to Joshua financially speaking.

[BigZ44]

I actually couldn't believe how big this fight was on a Saturday afternoon. I went to a bar to meet 4 people that wanted to watch it and the place was PACKED! Standing room only when I got there about 15 minutes before the fight. Crowd was going crazy with every punch that landed, huge Pro-Ruiz crowd where I was obviously. Even my brother who doesn't watch any boxing was texting me midway thru the fight to get my account info for DAZN so he could watch. Despite not being an action packed war, I think the HW division came out better for it. Walking out everybody at the bar was debating Joshua vs the winner of Wilder/Fury.

[LacedUp]

Primetime is still primetime; let's not act like the US has some massive subscriber base for DAZN either or that Germany/Italy/Spain somehow have no population.

C'mon man

The DAZN guy confirmed that more than half of the viewers came from the U.S.

So I guess you were wrong.

[bigdunny1]

Great numbers. For the Canelo fight with jacobs half of the reported global viewers came from the US. Makes sense since a majority of the boxing content caters to the US while other DAZN regions are heavy on soccer and others sports. Likely the US viewers 700-900K.