Nearly 50 million households tuned in for Katie Taylor's unanimous-decision victory

She`s a cheat who can`t score a KO.

 

I don`t get it.

 

The 1 billion estimated viewers was for the rumble in the jungle, I made that clear in that paragraph

 

Both of those dy%es performed far better than Tyson and Paul.

 

Well her juicing makes up for Taylor`s butting.

 

Fair enough but the word estimated is used because it was based on how many people worldwide had access to the fight since a lot of countries could watch the fight without paying because it was shown on regular TV, they didn`t have to pay, doesn`t mean they all actually watched though, so it was potentially 1 billion.

 

Most countries in Europe had TV sets in 1974.

 

Caution should be exercised here, as the only officially confirmed event with a billion viewers before 2011 was the 2008 Summer Olympics, with most such claims otherwise being highly exaggerated.
In the United States, the fight had an estimated three million closed-circuit viewers in 400 venues, with tickets sold at $20 (inflation-adjusted $120), grossing $60 million (inflation-adjusted $370 million) in the United States. The promoters and fighters received over half of the US closed-circuit revenue, generating an income of at least $30 million for the promoters and fighters; Ali and Foreman were paid a record $5 million each.
It had a large television audience in the United Kingdom, where the fight was watched by 26 million viewers on BBC One, nearly half of the UK's 56 million population in 1974.