The controversial clash takes place on November 15, and will be the first match to take place live on Netflix. There will be no extra pay-per-view option, with standard subscribers being able to tune in without any charge on top of their monthly fee. And with over a quarter of a million paid subscribers to the service around the world, the fight has potential for massive amounts of viewership.
The AFC wild card football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins in last year’s NFL holds the current streaming record at 23million. Jake Paul believes Mike Tyson fight could break streaming record for live sport and massive fight has drawn the ire of the combat world as the pair compete in a fully-sanctioned professional boxing match. There will be a slight alterations to usual pro rules as they compete over two-minute rounds with larger gloves.
But the controversy has bred intrigue, and with no pay-per-view paywall it is expected that the duo will draw in monstrous numbers. When the pair shared a card in 2020 as co-headliners against Nate Robinson and Roy Jones Jr respectively, they reportedly sold north of 1.8million PPVs.
“I think that was like the eighth biggest ever,” Paul told Bloody Elbow during a media scrum today ahead of PFL’s big October 19 ‘Battle of the Giants’ between and . “I think everyone would be happy with like 25million. “That would break the streaming record of the AFC game, the one before the Super Bowl, which was streamed on P.