Close<\/a>Brett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at ESPN since 2010. He has covered all of the biggest events in combat sports during that time, including in-depth interviews and features with names such as Dana White, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Conor McGregor, Nate Diaz, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Georges St-Pierre. He was also a producer on the 30 for 30 film: “Chuck and Tito,” which looked back at the careers and rivalry of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz. He lives in Las Vegas, and is an avid, below-average golfer in his spare time.<\/p>\nJake Paul delivered another ratings home run for Netflix, as his knockout loss to former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua on Friday night drew 33 million viewers globally.<\/p>\n
The figure, released by Netflix on Tuesday, represents the average minute audience for the fight, which took place at Kaseya Center in Miami.<\/p>\n
According to Netflix, the event was the network’s No. 1-ranked program in 45 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Germany, Australia, Mexico and Argentina. Everpass, a commercial streaming service, estimated another 600,000 viewers took in the event at various commercial properties.<\/p>\n
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Paul vs. Joshua was the second major boxing event on Netflix this year, following a September fight between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford, which drew 41.5 million viewers. Paul’s November 2024 event against Mike Tyson is the most-streamed sporting event ever, peaking at 108 million viewers, according to Netflix.<\/p>\n
Paul (12-2, 7 KOs), 28, was a heavy underdog against Joshua (29-4, 26 KOs), a former Olympic gold medalist and two-time heavyweight world champion, and some in the boxing world criticizing the Florida Athletic Commission for even sanctioning the fight. Paul was knocked out in the sixth round and suffered a broken jaw on Joshua’s fight-ending right hand.<\/p>\n
Paul has made light of the injury on social media and already vowed a return to the ring.<\/p>\n
The event was co-promoted by Paul’s Most Valuable Productions and EverWonder and produced the highest-grossing boxing gate in Kaseya Center’s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brett OkamotoDec 23, 2025, 04:43 PM ET CloseBrett Okamoto has reported on mixed martial arts and boxing at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-364645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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