According to the Gemini AI, the most streamed event in history was the November 15, 2024 professional boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, which attracted an estimated global audience of just over 100 million, peaking at 65 million concurrent live viewers. I’ll admit I only vaguely remember anything about that sports event and until I glanced at the Wikipedia page wasn’t even sure which boxer had won.
But if the Russian government were sufficiently shrewd in its understanding of political psychology and media strategy, it could stage a match of its own that would probably attract a vastly larger global audience and have a geopolitical impact far greater than did Paul’s eight-round unanimous decision.
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