Friday’s highly-anticipated Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul boxing event, streaming on Netflix, faced criticism due to issues with video streaming quality, pixelation, stuttering, and crashes. Social media lit up with complaints well before the main event at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, as undercard fighters battled it out. downdetector.com showed a surge of reports of problems with Netflix’s website starting just before 8 p.m. local time, peaking at over 88,700 reports by 9:30 p.m.
The fight between Tyson and Paul began around 11 p.m., but users continued to experience streaming issues, sharing gifs of pixelated videos and joking about Netflix’s IT department. Hashtags like #NetflixFight, #buffering, and #netflixcrash trended on social media. Netflix did not immediately comment on the situation.
Despite ongoing technical difficulties, the marquee event between Tyson, a former heavyweight champion, and Paul, a social media star turned boxer, proceeded as scheduled. Tyson, 58, and Paul, 27, fought to a unanimous decision, with Paul emerging as the winner. The event was originally scheduled for July 20 but was postponed due to Tyson’s health issues earlier in the year.
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