Ibai Draws 3.4 Million Viewers for Boxing Match, Breaking His Twitch World Record

Spanish megastreamer Ibai Llanos has damaged the world report of concurrent viewers on Twitch, drawing 3.4 million spectators inside minutes of the primary combat of his streamer vs. streamer boxing match, La Velada del Año III, based on Streams Charts.

Llanos held the third version of his occasion, which interprets to “The Night of the Year” in English, earlier than an viewers of practically 70,000 folks on the Civitas Metropolitano stadium in Madrid, Spain. The first combat featured Twitch streamer Ampeterby7, whose actual identify is Andrés López, and Spanish pop star Abraham Mateo.

Llanos achieved this feat regardless of issues with Twitch, which seemed to be affected by an outage. More than 4,800 reported issues with the streaming app shortly after 2 p.m. ET, based on Downdetector, throughout the Velada’s second fight. Over on Twitter, the web’s water cooler, #Twitch was trending, with many customers stating that app wasn’t working.

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The earlier Twitch world report for concurrent viewers was additionally held by Llanos, which he set final yr with La Velada del Año II. More than 3.3 million folks tuned in to observe the occasion, which is broadcast for free on his Twitch channel.

Llanos’ new report is yet one more reminder of the may of Spanish-speaking group. After Llanos, Spanish streamer TheGrefg, actual identify David Cánovas, holds the report for the second most-watched Twitch stream, garnering 2.4 million viewers in 2021. He is adopted by Spanish streamer elxokas, or Joaquín Domínguez, whose stream drew 1.2 million viewers in 2022.

Although all the things indicated that Llanos would set a brand new report this yr, from the streamers scheduled to combat to the musical visitors, the occasion has been affected by setbacks. Three streamers needed to pull out of the Velada as a result of harm or well being points, forcing Llanos and his staff to look for one other streamer to take their place. Llanos had taken to calling this yr’s occasion “the cursed Velada.”

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