Over 41 million watched Terence Crawford beat Canelo Álvarez: Netflix

The Terence Crawford-Canelo Álvarez title fight as part of a Riyadh Season showdown over the weekend drew 41.1 million viewers on Netflix, the streaming service said on Tuesday.

Per Netflix, the audience that saw Crawford take the championship from Álvarez on Saturday was the highest for a men’s championship boxing match of this century.

The peak viewership for Crawford-Alvarez was more than 24 million concurrent streams, according to Netflix. The bout was the top-ranked program on Netflix in 30 nations, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Philippines, Australia and Argentina.

The live gate at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, where 70,482 were in attendance, was more than $47 million, a record for the facility. According to ESPN, the only boxing matches with higher gate receipts were Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao in May 2015 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, at $72 million, and Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor in August 2017 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, at $55 million.

Crawford won the Saturday match by unanimous decision to become the undisputed world super middleweight champion.