Megastreamer Ibai Llanos announced that La Velada del Año III would be offered in English. The event includes a fight featuring U.S. streamer Amouranth.
Llanos, a Spanish creator who is one of the platform’s biggest streamers in any language, announced the news in a stream late Thursday. Now in its third year, the Velada has historically only been offered in Spanish on Llanos’ Twitch channel. However, given that one of the event’s main fights features U.S. streamer and
, who will be fighting against the Spanish streamer Mayichi, Llanos has been trying to make more content about the event available to English speakers., who speaks both Spanish and English and is also fighting in the event, to act as a translator during Velada streams with Amouranth. “La Velada del Año will be broadcast in English,” Llano said in Spanish on Thursday. “There are going to be official, top English commentators that are going to be commenting the event from a box at the Metropolitan [soccer stadium]. In addition, Twitch has found a way to count the viewers for the English stream towards the total for our official Spanish stream.”It’s not yet clear who will be commenting the Velada, or whether they’ll be boxing experts or streamers.
Last year’s Velada broke the world record for most the simultaneous live viewers on Twitch. The event had 3.3 million viewers watching at its peak and an average of 2.5 million throughout the broadcast, according toGizmodo reached out to Twitch for comment on the decision on Friday morning but did not immediately receive a response. Although Llanos broadcasts the Velada on Twitch, the event is managed by his team alone from end-to-end.
earlier this month. All of the streamers involved have been training with professional boxing coaches for months to prepare for the Velada.
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