Squid Game, Stranger Things and Bridgerton were all Netflix originals — next up for the streaming giant is Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul in the ring.
Netflix’s first live boxing event is expected to attract millions of viewers later this week, despite Paul, 27, being a YouTube-sensation-turned-boxer and the fact Tyson, once the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, is 58 years old.
While there is a lot of money at stake (the exact details of who is earning what have not been made public), the controversial fight has been frowned upon by members of the boxing community, with British promoter Eddie Hearn describing it as “disrespectful” to the sport.
Purists will regard the card’s co-main event as the truer form of boxing — and the better quality fight.
The world’s two best female boxers, Katie Taylor (who Hearn promotes) and Amanda Serrano, meet in a rematch two-and-a-half years after their brutal first bout, with Taylor putting up her IBF, WBC and WBO super-lightweight titles on the line in what has been called the richest fight to date in women’s boxing.
Katie Taylor (left) and challenger Amanda Serrano pose after the final press conference ahead of their upcoming fight (Ed Mulholland/Getty Images)
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