The Spaniard Ibai Llanos Garatea, who appears on Twitch with his first name, is currently the most-watched streamer in the world. For his annual boxing event, he managed to bring the famous actor Will Smith on board.
What kind of streamer is he? Ibai Llanos Garatea, known online simply as Ibai
, is a Spanish Twitch streamer who became famous for content related to League of Legends. Nowadays, he is primarily active in the Just Chatting
category – he is less involved with gaming, however.
Since 2021, Ibai has held an annual boxing event called “La Velada del Año,” which translates roughly as “The Night of the Year.” At that time, the event attracted up to 1.5 million concurrent viewers on Twitch. The following year, Ibai set a new world record with a peak of 3.34 million concurrent viewers, which he broke for the third time in a row on July 13, 2024 (via TwitchTracker).
With such numbers, even xQc, the former star of Twitch, cannot keep up.
Twitch personally names Ibai a legend
What was the new record stream? La Velada 4 took place on July 13 and attracted a peak of 3.8 million concurrent viewers to their screens. This once again surpasses his own records from 2023 and 2022.
With this, Ibai reached as many viewers at once as the record streamers in second and third place combined: The absolute peak of TheGregf is 2.4 million viewers, which he achieved in 2021 when he introduced his own skin in Fortnite. The streamer Squeezie reached 1.3 million viewers in September 2023 with a Formula 4 racing event and thus holds the record in the French area.
However, the boxing event can not only be followed on Twitch but also live in the stadium. There, 80,000 fans cheered in the sold-out Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid, the home of Real Madrid. You can get an impression of the crowd on X.
Ibai has become so big that he even managed to get the global star Will Smith for an appearance at his event. He performed together with his son Jaden (via X).
A very specific song likely evoked nostalgia in many. You can see it here in the video:
Such a success is also recognized by Twitch itself. In a post on the official X account of the streaming platform, it says: “Ibai and the Spanish-speaking community have made history again. You are legends of the internet.” (via X)
Ibai himself appeared moved on X. In a post, he shared a video of Will Smith’s performance, writing: “Nine years ago, I commented on LoL from my grandparents’ house. Today this happened at an event on my channel. Thanks to everyone who has accompanied me on this journey.”
When Twitch launched as a standalone website in 2011, no one would surely have expected that events of this magnitude would one day take place there. However, even back then, the streaming platform produced its own stars: Who was actually the first Twitch streamer and what is he doing today?
