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Netflix Books Three Years of Ibai’s Boxing Spectacle
· New York time
Netflix has reached a deal to become the exclusive home of the next three editions of Ibai Llanos’s influencer boxing event, La Velada del Año. The editions are scheduled for 2027, 2028 and 2029. The agreement brings an established Twitch attraction into the subscription streamer’s live-event lineup, rather than merely testing a one-off appearance. Ibai has staged the annual spectacle in Spain for five years, breaking several Twitch viewership records and building recognition across Latin America. That history gives Netflix an existing audience to pursue. It does not guarantee that viewing habits will transfer intact to a different service, where access and expectations differ. The business experiment is whether enthusiasm organized around a creator can travel with the event when its platform changes. The fighters provide the most visible contest; the distribution arrangement supplies another one, conducted through subscriptions, schedules and the universal household question of who remembers the password. For creators, the deal demonstrates the negotiating value of building a recognizable event rather than only a stream of individual posts. For Netflix, it is a multiyear commitment to an internet-native spectacle. The ring stays familiar, but the entrance now includes a different login screen.
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