Thousands report Netflix live-stream crashes during Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight
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Jake Paul (left) punches Mike Tyson during their heavyweight bout at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Nov 15.
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CALIFORNIA - Tens of thousands of Netflix users reported that the service was not working for them before a fight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul
The keyword #NetflixCrash was trending on the social platform X in the United States on the night on Nov 15 as Downdetector, which tracks user reports of internet disruptions, received more than 500,000 reports that people were having problems streaming on Netflix.
Netflix declined to comment.
Many of the complaints about a Netflix outage on social media were centred on the eight-round heavyweight boxing match between Tyson, a former heavyweight world champion, and Paul, a YouTuber. The livestream for that fight began at 10pm Eastern time, before the fight started.
Frustrated viewers posted videos showing the frozen stream on their monitors.
The live show, Paul v Tyson, was scheduled to stream for about 4-and-a-half hours globally. Netflix has 283 million subscribers in more than 190 countries.
“We crashed the site,” Paul said in an interview after defeating Tyson, though the exact cause of the problem was not immediately known.
“I’m in the classic torture chamber,” Mr Dave Portnoy, the founder of the Barstool Sports media network and a social media personality, said on X, “where I can’t tell if my internet keeps going out or whether #Netflix is just constantly buffering and unwatchable for everybody”.
The outage reports on Downdetector, which started to rise around when the livestream began for the Paul-Tyson fight, came from across the United States, according to a map provided by the tracking service. NYTimes
