La Velada del Año VI Is Tomorrow. Here's How Big Ibai's Channel Actually Is.
Jul 25, 2026 · ShinyPull Team
If you don't follow Spanish-language streaming, the scale of this might not be obvious. La Velada del Año is Ibai Llanos's annual boxing event, streamers and creators fighting each other in a real ring, in front of a real stadium crowd, broadcast live on Twitch. It has grown every single year since it started, and this weekend is the sixth edition.
Only one channel on the entire platform is bigger
That's the actual top of Twitch. Ibai sits at #2, sandwiched between KaiCenat and Ninja, with a gap of well under a million followers on either side. Everyone else on the platform, every gaming streamer, every just-chatting channel, every esports org, is behind all three of them.
The growth this week isn't normal for him
Ibai's Twitch numbers move slowly most of the year, a few hundred to a couple thousand new followers a day, which is normal for a channel his size. That changed the moment fight week started.
Follower counts on their own don't say much day to day. A jump like this, tied to a specific week, tied to a specific event everyone can see coming on the calendar, is a much cleaner signal. People are showing up specifically for this.
Weigh-in day already has its own drama
The card gets finalized today. Weigh-ins, known online as El Pesaje, are underway as this posts, and it's already generating its usual chaos online: accusations about weight cuts, arguments about the event running behind schedule, fans picking sides before a single punch lands. That's part of the show at this point.
What actually happens tomorrow
The fights stream live on Twitch, with Ibai's channel as the main hub. Past editions have pulled some of the largest concurrent viewership numbers the platform has ever recorded for a single channel, the kind of number that makes even a 21-million-follower channel like KaiCenat's look like it's having a normal Tuesday by comparison.
Whatever happens in the ring, the numbers around this event are going to move fast for the next 48 hours. We'll keep tracking them.