The long-awaited fight between Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul from AT&T Stadium was set to be one of Netflix’s biggest streaming events of the year, but technical problems made the event extremely difficult to watch long before Tyson or Paul ever walked to the ring.
Constant buffering and blurry images marred Friday’s undercard, leaving many upset viewers wondering what sort of stress testing Netflix did before millions of people were expected to tune in at the same time. Midway through the Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano lightweight title bout, nearly every trending topic on X was related to the fight, with thousands of people complaining about their experience.
MORE FROM THE FIGHT: Photos of Jake Paul and girlfriend Jutta Leerdam celebrating
This is a major issue for Netflix, as Tyson vs. Paul is a tune up for Christmas Day, when Chiefs vs. Steelers and Ravens vs. Texans will stream exclusively on the platform. Not long after, WWE Raw will move off broadcast television and air in January on Netflix each week.
Needless to say, fans are worried.
Jerry Jones saying Netflix is a huge part of the NFL’s future into a mic that doesn’t work and then less than a minute later the stream goes down.
— Michael Mulvihill (@mulvihill79) November 16, 2024
Netflix is finding out in real time how hard it is to produce live TV.
They need to get these Mic issues fixed before the NFL broadcast’s on Christmas.
— Emmanuel Acho (@EmmanuelAcho) November 16, 2024
If Netflix can’t do a boxing match how are they supposed to do a primetime NFL game that might determine AFC seeding in six weeks
— Brett Kollmann (@BrettKollmann) November 16, 2024
If Netflix broadcasted NFL games… pic.twitter.com/jHC9zST3WT
— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) November 16, 2024
Hey @NFL, if yall ever give any broadcast rights to @netflix I’ll quit
— Matt Dawson (@SaintRPh) November 16, 2024
The NFL and WWE watching these Netflix live streaming problems: pic.twitter.com/UUmwac0SlY
— Jeremy (@ManaByte) November 16, 2024
If Netflix can’t handle the bandwidth tonight how I’m suppose to be confident they can handle NFL games or WWE Raw
— Jono Barnes (@JonoBarnes) November 16, 2024
Based on what I’ve seen from the production, this is what WWE will look like on Netflix pic.twitter.com/x52murOnro
— Brad Williams (@funnybrad) November 16, 2024
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