Videographer Mastu unveiled a documentary on his training for the DTR Fight at the cinema this December 14. Entitled “7 months to become a boxer”, the feature film is also available on YouTube.
“The journey of a little guy who watched too much shōnen.” The synopsis of the new documentary by YouTuber Mastu remains very evasive. However, it retraces the journey of the 27-year-old videographer, followed by 6.4 million subscribers on YouTube, to become a boxer.
Indeed, on December 7, ten content creators competed against each other during the DTR Fight, an English boxing gala at Paris La Defense Arena organized by the streamer Rebeudeter. Among the fighters, therefore, was the name of Mastu.
Before May, however, he had never practiced English boxing. He was then coached by Bruno Fouché, former coach of the French kung fu team, who organized two boxing sessions per week for him. Despite an arm injury in the home stretch, Scalethus won his fight against Djilsi. All this, in front of more than 30,000 people on site, and 1.2 million spectators on Twitch.
A sold-out cinema screening
A feat that the content creator decided to bring to the big screen. This Saturday, December 14, he broadcast in a single session the documentary retracing his journey. Titled 7 months to become a boxerthe film of just over an hour was played to a sold-out audience in front of 400 people at the Pathé cinema in Angers.
For fans who were unable to get their tickets, the documentary is also available on YouTube. And here again, success is there. It has already been viewed nearly 700,000 times.
“The Rocky shots, Bekar’s music and the fact that it starts and ends with Mastu as a child… it’s really so well done,” enthuses a user. “Big heart to the editor who honestly did a crazy job (superb documentary),” adds another.
This is not the first time that a YouTuber has released a documentary in the cinema. So, Kaizen: one year to climb Everestthe documentary by YouTuber Inoxtag was broadcast in a single session on September 13 in several hundred rooms. The feature film has exceeded 300,000 cinema admissions. The film even rose to second place in the weekly box office, behind Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”.
At the same time, the YouTube video of the documentary which retraces the videographer’s exploit to reach the roof of the world has accumulated more than 17 million views in 48 hours. In total, the video prances has over 39 million viewsmaking it the most viewed video of 2024 on the platform.
