The numbers coming in about piracy of the fight in social media sites are astounding. VFT Solutions, which specializes in monitoring live streams in social media, is reporting records in its books for a single live event. One of the biggest challenges our industry currently faces is having this volume of streams shutdown in a timely manner by the social media channels." The unusual merging of two sports audiences, boxing and MMA, may have contributed to the massive views on illegal streams. The fight was advertised heavily, including ads for illegal streams.

Source: Forbes August 28, 2017 15:59 UTC