The Andy Ruiz-Anthony Joshua heavyweight rematch on Dec. 7 was the most streamed event on DAZN in 2019, the company announced.
This is the first time that the over-the-top streaming service has released figures pertaining to its viewership, although it stayed mum on its total subscriber base. Its executives in the past have said that it does plan to provide those numbers anytime soon.
DAZN, which operates in nine countries, also announced that it doubled its viewership of all sports in 2019, citing 507 million streamed hours, or a 98% increase from 2018.
Three other boxing cards were among the 10 most-streamed events. No. 4 was the Canelo Alvarez-Sergey Kovalev light heavyweight title fight, followed by KSI-Logan Paul II at No. 5 and the Alvarez-Daniel Jacobs middleweight title fight at No. 10.
In all, DAZN users spent 22.6 million hours watching boxing events. By comparison, soccer, the company’s most-watched sport, logged 314.6 million hours.
According to a third party report in November, DAZN had amassed 8 million subscribers worldwide, nearly 10% of whom come from the U.S.
Here are the Top 10 most-streamed events on DAZN in 2019:
1. Ruiz-Joshua II (Dec. 7)
2. UEFA Champions League: Tottenham-Liverpool (June 1)
3. UEFA Champions League: Liverpool-Barcelona (May 7)
4. Alvarez-Kovalev (Nov. 2)
5. KSI-Logan Paul II (Nov. 9)
6. UEFA Champions League: Tottenham-Bayern Munich (Oct. 1)
7. Serie A: Milan-Internazionale (Sept. 21)
8. UEFA Champions League: Ajax-Tottenham (May 8)
9. UEFA Champions League: Barcelona-Liverpool (May 1)
10. Alvarez-Jacobs (May 4)