Is it safe to assume that worldwide, 400-500M people will watch this fight? In the U.S. alone, the 2015 Super Bowl was watched by 114M people (about a third of the country). Since this is the Super Bowl of boxing and unlike the NFL which isn't nearly as popular worldwide, this will be watched by at least 100M Americans and way more people internationally than American football is, I believe that between 400-500M people will watch this fight. Pretty much all of the Phillipines will be watching this fight. Their population is 98M. China alone has a population of 1.3B. If 5% of that country watches this fight that amounts to 65M. So between the U.S. the Phillipines and China alone that's 263M. Add Europe, Australia, South America, Mexico and Canada and I believe the number could easily get to at least 400M. What do you guys think?
I think it will reach a billion. I thought Bob made a PPV expansion in China so just expect a huge number viewing from Chinese people.
When I was in Thailand fights in America were starting at 8-10am. May not be practical for much of of the Chinese population to watch the fight with work and sleep issues. Not sure of the time difference there, but just a thought.
They are 12 hours ahead of the U.S. (EST) so the fight will go off at around noon on Sunday in China. I don't think they will be working or sleeping at that day and time.
