By Jeff Zimmerman
It was a record-breaking night for Netflix. 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, Taylor-Serrano is likely to be the most watched professional women’s sporting event in US history.
The event shattered records, achieving the following milestones:
- Netflix and Most Valuable Promotions made AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the epicenter of boxing last night as 72,300 total attendees gathered to witness the fight card.
- Paul-Tyson/Taylor-Serrano 2 produced the largest boxing gate outside of Las Vegas in US history, surpassing $18 million, double the previous Texas gate record for combat sports in both boxing and MMA, and smashing Canelo Álvarez’s record of $9 million.
- #PaulTyson was the top trending topic worldwide on X on Friday with #Serrano at number 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.
- Joe Hand Promotions distributed last night’s event to over 6,000 bars & restaurants in the US, setting the record for commercial distribution of a combat sports event in the company’s 50+ year history.
Plenty of suckers out there. As a true boxing fan, it saddens me.
Yep, I watched the YouTube highlights for free. I don’t even have a Netflix account.
You wouldn’t have seen it anyway. It crashed like everywhere haha. The idea that this was a “success” is crazy. It was a travesty.
To all of you who contributed to this, shame on you! You’ll ruin the sport of boxing by supporting these circus fights who turn out to be a huge financial success! So fu!!!
Whats next? Kamala Harris vs Hillary Clinton in a 4rounder?
Harris will KO Clinton, LOL
Ikr, the younger of both dudes wins
Paul made $40 million and Tyson made $20 million! Jake got the ladies their biggest purse by far and in the rematch it was even better. This is prize fighter meaning we are fighting not for trophies but for real $. So you are saying that you would not want to make that kind of money? Prize fighting. Records were shattered and 75,000 people were at this fight in the stands and millions on Netflix, which was Netflix first foray. The fight was free to watch. It was a huge success.
That’s not what he’s saying at all, but money isn’t and shouldn’t be the sole motivator in life. Perpetuating this sort of thing has not helped actual boxing at all. Paul’s fight revenue has gone way down. Tyson was the real draw here. If we are at a point in boxing where we have to risk the lives of seniors for monetary gain, what’s next?
Do we have any standards as a country or is it just always excusable if it makes money? Will it be ok if someone ends up dying? Also, it was literally one of the worst boxing broadcasts ever. It crashed for millions of people and wasn’t watchable. Somehow they even had Mike’s bare ass on screen for a bit.
Generations of the past are looking at all of us in disgust.
Time will tell, but I feel that Mr. Paul has done a lot to bring some interest back in the spoRT, esspecially in the USA. I much prefer this than to when Butterbean was called THE KING OF THE FOUR ROUNDERS. Over 70 thousand people were in attendance. these people might one day have interest to see other matches. We shall see.
You can already see it now… the people who aren’t boxers are outearning boxers. Real boxers aren’t making more because of this phenomenon. On top of it, even the interest in influencers boxing has gone down. This fight is an exception because of how unique this circumstance is. Problem is A. it’s not safe B. it’s almost impossible to be replicated. Plus it was free, and it was such a bad broadcast, I’m not sure anyone felt good after it.
But Jake Paul’s two fights before this did not get much interest. He’s running out of people to fight.
They didn’t even fight. They played pittypat and didn’t even do that, no effort from either side. They ripped off the fans, it wasn’t a success for fans, I’m done with boxing . It was only fun to watch drunk anyway, yall can have your lgbtq boxing
Jake paul said he didn’t try to knock mike tyson out because he didnt want to hurt him. That is the object of the sport. He fixed the fight . It’s criminal.
So you wanted to see him hurt Mike? Mike was hardly in a position to even protect himself. What would be the point of pressing the fight? To risk getting caught and giving away a decision you had in the bag or to potentially seriously hurt a near senior citizen?
Are we serious people?
If you were so concerned about Tyson the senior citizen you should have objected to the fight.
I am 67 years If they had offered me to get 20 million dollars, even before taxes and maybe even other things I might have to pay, and maybe I am left with 6 million dollars. Hey it would be awful, but would I think be a fool not to take it. So no, I am not so concerned about Mike the Senior Citizen.
He does of course seem to have a lot of health issues if what is being said is true.
So because you’ll take or he’ll take it, that means you shouldn’t be concerned about the potential danger? So if a person is willing to get shot for a certain amount of money and televise it, we should just be ok with it? Makes literally no sense.
Just because a person says they will take the money for facing a much better opponent doesn’t mean they are not concerned about the potential danger.
Every fight has potential danger. Your comparison of being ok with watching somebody get shot on tv for money lol. That “Makes literally no sense”.
I did?
Tyson used to say he wanted to knock peoples noses through their brains. Your worried about this man getting knocked out. ?
Some fools actually believed and were so certain tyson had a chance to best jake! Anyways, great to know tyson survived and jake had to slowed down and had mercy after round 3!
Yeah… HUGE success smh. An older man’s (a legend in the sport) life was put at risk. They accidentally showed his bare ass on camera. Netflix crashed for millions of people, many of whom didn’t see the best fight of the night.
I guess that’s the world we live in today though. We just make up reality as we go.
Them undercard fights were hard in he gave Mike a check can’t be mad that barrios fight going be fight of the year candidate and the serrano fight
All you cynics aren’t real boxing fans. The undercard was pretty good. Taylor Serrano was a classic. Paul Tyson was a force, but it brought eyeballs to the sport, Netflix has the money to potentially df invest in boxing. So all you cry babies complain about PPV, you better hope Netflix stays involved with boxing. They have the platform and resources to put on major fights that we normally would be asked to pay 90 dollars for. Get your heads out of the sand.
– Cut the crap.
– Was NOT a huge success……………….
Hey, the bottom line was that people watched it in hoping that Tyson knocked out Paul at least that was my take. If Netflix takes this and starts promoting fights, I’m in. I will see it for free. It comes with my cell phone. Maybe some of these exorbitant ppv prices become extinct.
Huge success or con job on gullible fans?
Success for the combatants. They got paid
handsomely. More power to them. However,
seeing one of the all-time greats, almost a senior citizen, and wearing a knee brace lose
to someone perpetrating as a professional fighter (JP), sad. Maybe Mike still thinks he has things to prove to himself at his age.
At any rate, Jake Paul, please start fighting
ranked professional fighters if you want to continue on. You’ll make a better name for yourself that way. Do the honorable thing,
please.
Robbing a bank w out getting caught is also a huge success. Guess it depends on your standards and values
What does this say about our society if a boxing novice vs a long retired, 58 year old legend is “boxing’s biggest night ever”? It’s says people don’t care about substance, legitimacy, or value. I too was very curious about this fight. How it would end? I knew Tyson had no chance, but I thought he would be a little more competitive. He literally had nothing! I respect Jake Paul as a human being for not tee’ing off on Mike and how he bowed down to him at the end. Jake Paul can claim he beat Mike Tyson, but that is more of an admission of embarrassment than accomplishment. Paul continues to call himself the face of boxing and said Canelo needs him more than he needs Canelo. He’s probably right! I don’t think Paul has any intention of fighting actual contenders and earning the right to fight Canelo. There was even talk of him fighting Gervontae Davis. I wouldnt be surprised if that actually happens! If Paul can beat 2 or 3 legitimate, active, young contenders, and earn the right to get in the ring with Canelo, I’m all for it. If he’s going to fight a retired hockey player, or Oscar DelaHoya comes out of retirement to challenge Jake or something ridiculous, screw that! I’ve said this before: I would love to see Jake Paul fight Brandon Glanton. Glanton is the opposite of of Jake- A tough as nails, little known Cruiserweight who travels the world fighting tough opponents for little pay and fanfare. Make it happen!
You know what this means, don’t you? Going to be a Boomerpaloza of ancient fighters lacing them up now to fight on Netflix. They should call it Boomer Fights.
Waiting for the Larry Holmes-George Foreman wheelchair fight. Let’s see if Larry still has that lateral movement.
Sure, to everyone that got paid. For the rest of us it was a disappointment and ripoff. It’s well past time that the Paul clown show got shut down.
Success? Maybe in terms of a circus attraction. Successful scam maybe. Might as well have been a WWE match.
Ok, Let’s see that Paul vs Fury 2 then. So he can get another L. Money grab smart no doubt kid, but against a real boxer your age you suck.
Huge success with Netflix buffering and poor quality. They should be ashamed.