Why did Ali`s fight against Holmes get a record 2 billion viewers worldwide?

2 billion viewers my ass. Yes people knew he was washed up. The fight was on OnTV not regular channel. Why do all fighters fight on? Money money money. Where do you get yr facts. Do you read books on boxing subjects to REALLY learn or just mimic others.

 

You keep quoting stuff like it's new information.
People who take the time to look into boxing history know this stuff that your constantly quoting from wiki and quora or Google ect. Just stop already

 

mark ant, just a little advice, if you want to take it,...you should rely less pn your "cookie cutter" approach to your threads. Instead of leaning so heavily on new agey crap like Quora, Google, and that infernal 1996 issue of Ring magazine...just come up with your own, original content for your threads, whether they're good or bad, at least everyone will know you aren't just parroting someone else's thoughts.

 

Yeah, there's no ****ing way. Flatly impossible. There were nowhere near enough functioning televisions in the world to accomodate 2 billion viwers in 1980, which, without checking, would be either a little more or a little less than half the total world poulation at that time, man woman and child. If every single man on earth between that age of sic=xteen and sixty watched the figt, that would still probably be quite bit less than two billion.

 

The fight was on closed circuit tv which makes 2 billion people impossible.

 

LOL!

Yes, WIKI states it. I clicked the link (3) which took me to this:
Nevada Magazine, Volumes 41-42



I clicked on Nevada magazine which took me to

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I will stick with the stats below....but hey, somebody felt 2 billion watched
Closed-circuit telecasts peaked in popularity with Muhammad Ali in the 1960s and 1970s,[17][18] with "The Rumble in the Jungle" fight drawing 50 million CCTV viewers worldwide in 1974,[20] and the "Thrilla in Manila" drawing 100 million CCTV viewers worldwide in 1975.[21] Closed-circuit television was gradually replaced by pay-per-view home cable television in the 1980s and 1990s.[18]

 

In 1980 there were hundreds of millions of people in China, India, Africa and South America who did not own televisions at all and probably didn't even have access to one at the local pub or something. I'm willing to bet there were not in fact 2 billion televisions in the world in 1980 even if you count those sitting around on store shelves and in warehouses. I could be wrong on that last point but I'm about 80% confident.

 

The population of the entire planet was just under 4.5 million in 1980. Half the world was watching this fight?

No, just no.