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For our third and final story, this weekend, Netflix hosted the most watched boxing match in 50 years. What's Netflix's wild new sports strategy? Go direct to athlete. D-T-A, direct to athlete. We'll explain. But first, Jack, I know, I know, you wanted to do some trivia. You told me before the pod. Okay, you got trivia, trivia. What do we got, Jack?

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What's the most watched boxing match of all time? I'm going to say Thrilla in Manila because I like the way that rhymes. Really good guess. It was Muhammad Ali, but it was not the Thrilla in Manila. Muhammad Ali versus George Foreman, 1974, in a soccer arena in Africa. It happened in the middle of the night so that New York City could watch it during primetime.

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Do you know how many people watched that match? How many people watched the match? One billion people. A quarter of the world's population in 1974. I'm not a boxing guy. I'm not a boxing guy. I believe you should drink punches, not throw punches. But last Friday night, Netflix hosted its first ever boxing match, Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul.

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Mike Tyson, a 58-year-old man who's way past his boxing prime. Versus a 27-year-old man in his peak influencer Instagram prime. There was a 31-year age gap between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. That's the biggest age gap in boxing history. It was basically Gen Z versus Baby Boomer with no earlobes harmed during the boxing match.

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Now, interestingly, they did change the rules of boxing just to make this match happen. The rounds were two minutes each instead of three minutes each. And they gave the boxers heavier gloves to make the punches a little less dangerous, I think. But here was the key. Netflix offered this boxing match at no extra cost.