Over the weekend, Netflix’s live boxing match sparked significant discussion on LinkedIn, fueled by widespread reports of buffering. Although we enjoyed the verbal online jousts, we are the only publication to put hard numbers on the table, to back our conclusions. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) later shared traffic statistics, revealing the network load generated by the event. Netflix announced a peak of 65 million viewers worldwide for the Tyson versus Paul match, across 60 million households, and an average minute audience (AMA) of 108 million live viewers globally. AMA reflects the average number of active viewers during any given minute, not households, showing here an average of 1.8 viewers per household. However, in some cases when using an AMA count,…