{"id":146090,"date":"2025-09-15T23:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146090\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:47:07","slug":"canelo-crawford-drew-over-41-million-viewers-netflix-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146090\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo-Crawford drew over 41 million viewers, Netflix says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757980027_427_hale_andreas.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Andreas HaleSep 16, 2025, 09:34 AM<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>Andreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas&#8217; free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM&#8217;s Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a senior writer at DAZN and Sporting News. He started his career as a music journalist for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z&#8217;s Life+Times. He is also an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker as a producer for the animated short film &#8220;Bridges&#8221; in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Over 41 million viewers tuned in to Netflix for the undisputed super middleweight title fight that saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46251831\/terence-crawford-tops-canelo-alvarez-historic-undisputed-crown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Terence Crawford dethrone Canelo Alvarez<\/a> in front of a sold-out Allegiant Stadium crowd Saturday night in Las Vegas, the streaming service announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Canelo-Crawford didn&#8217;t eclipse the 108 million viewers who watched Jake Paul&#8217;s fight with Mike Tyson last November &#8212; but it was easily the most viewed men&#8217;s championship boxing match of the century.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46274242\/terence-crawford-rejects-challenge-ufc-ilia-topuria\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/r1545224_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46251831\/terence-crawford-tops-canelo-alvarez-historic-undisputed-crown\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/r1545226_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>According to Netflix, Canelo-Crawford peaked at over 24 million concurrent streams, with the main event scoring an estimated average minute audience (AMA) of 36.6 million live+SD viewers from opening to closing bell, per VideoAmp and Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>The event was also No. 1 on Netflix in 30 countries, including the US, Mexico, Canada, Ireland and Australia, while also cracking the top 10 in 91 other countries.<\/p>\n<p>The fight, the first boxing event held at Allegiant Stadium, also generated a gate of over $47 million, the largest gate in the history of the stadium and the third largest of all time, behind Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor ($55 million) and Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao ($72 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andreas HaleSep 16, 2025, 09:34 AM CloseAndreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. 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