Comments Thread For: Joshua-Ruiz Rematch DAZN's Most-Streamed Event Of 2019

[The Big Dunn]

It's not a direct head to head comparison, because DAZN stream Matchroom events in more European countries than the EUFA Champions League matches, but it still must have done great numbers to beat them all, including the final.

Unless the numbers for the champions league and the final were very poor during the course of the year. Could that be a possibility?

I just don't know how we can gauge this without any concrete numbers.

[paulf]

I think the Champions League numbers are only for Canada and Japan. Theyve got the rights for Champions League in Germany from next season, so theyll be going a lot higher then.

Yep. It was on Fox in the US.

[killakali]

Unless the numbers for the champions league and the final were very poor during the course of the year. Could that be a possibility?

I just don't know how we can gauge this without any concrete numbers.

what we can tell and what has Motorcity a Cobra so upset is that AJ and Ruiz on a streaming service had three times as many views as Tank vs Gamboa. Even WBO WBF IBA is super pissed and is formulating his post to bash these numbers.

[kafkod]

Unless the numbers for the champions league and the final were very poor during the course of the year. Could that be a possibility?

I just don't know how we can gauge this without any concrete numbers.

I just did a check and I need to amend what I said there. DAZN didn't stream the EUFA Champions League in any European countries this season, lol.

They streamed it in Canada and Japan only. I don't know how big football (soccer) is in Canada, but I know the game as a whole, and the EUFA Champions League in particular, is very popular in Japan. The UK Premier League is also big in Japan, and this years EUFA Champions League final was between 2 Premiership clubs, so I would think it got a lot of viewers over there.

So AJ/Ruiz 2 beating it isn't as big an achievement as I first thought, but still impressive.

[CocoonOfHorror]

I think the Champions League numbers are only for Canada and Japan. Theyve got the rights for Champions League in Germany from next season, so theyll be going a lot higher then.

This is the key point: what is the population of the markets where the rights to the boxing and the UCL matches were held by DAZN.

As far as I know, DAZN has rights to the boxing in all nine markets (total population maybe 600 million), but they only have rights to UCL in Japan and I guess Canada (total population about 150 million).
Still I think it's pretty surprising that boxing could be getting 1/4 the viewership of UCL final and semifinal ties like Liverpool-Barcelona. The equivalent in the US would be a boxing event drawing something like 1/4 of the viewership of a college football national championship or semifinal game (for example, Clemson-OSU had 20 million viewers) and LSU-Clemson will probably have 30 million+.

[rolshans]

It was a massive event, and DAZN is getting more and more well known every day. Crazy what a billion dollars can do lmao.

[uppercut510]

good news for aj, I watched it

[Curt Henning]

I watched...and it was a big event

because of the embarrassment/upset factor of the first one....if it weren't for that it was not a big event....AJ got upset and embarrassed by a replacement underdog....people wanted to watch out of intrigue to see if it would happen again

and to be honest I don't think AJ won any new fans with his performance....just being honest...yes it did big numbers and was a big event....but without the shock of the first fight its just ho hum....

[rudy]

Just goes to show KSI garbarge was not great as everybody thinks.

Because it had so many from YouTube viewers it crossed over but who of the fools gonna watch another boxing match none

[alexnation]

But people keep claiming worldwide subs/viewers don't matter only the US when it comes to boxing. This list proves them wrong. Boxing is a sport watched worldwide.

well that's a dumb claim. why would anyone say that?