Kenya finish second in Anthony vs Andy Ruiz Jr illegal live stream

Ruiz celebrates his victory over Joshua (Image: Action Images via Reuters)

Piracy Company MUSO has revealed that 93 per cent of unlicensed audience watched Anthony Joshua lose his heavyweight world titles to Andy Ruiz Jr on YouTube.

According to BBC Sport, MUSO’s data showed that more than 13 million people around the world watched an illegal stream with 998,027 in Kenya – the second highest on the list after Nigeria.

There were 921,994 unlicensed viewers in the UK with biggest share- 2.35m viewers coming from Nigeria where Joshua's parents hail from.

The total figure is four million more than the number of people who watched Deontay Wilder's controversial draw with Tyson Fury last December.

"We saw how popular the Fury v Wilder fight was across piracy networks," Muso's co-founder, Andy Chatterley told the BBC.

"The Joshua v Ruiz fight has been the largest unauthorised audience that we've ever tracked across boxing and it's staggering to see that 93 per cent of the audience watched via YouTube.

"The official pay-per-view audience figures have yet to be published, but this is a massive audience that's being ignored.

"This highly engaged audience offers up huge insight and perhaps, more importantly, significant commercial opportunity."

These latest figures suggest the television networks are struggling to contain the spread of illegal streaming.