Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson was super interesting until Netflix started streaming it. The hype was real, the two titans were against each other and watching them live is something that the audiences would have loved.
But, it was almost like suffering torture. Why?
Because of the extremely poor streaming quality.
But you can’t really blame it all on Netflix. Their servers must be burning all through that time. Why?
Because 108 million households worldwide tuned in to watch the much-hyped boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson.
The live-stream peaked at 108million streams and it became one of the platform’s largest-ever events. Paul triumphed over 58-year-old boxing legend Mike Tyson in a match that captivated audiences globally.
The excitement wasn’t limited to the main event. The co-main fight between Katie Taylor, Ireland’s lightweight champion, and Amanda Serrano, Puerto Rico’s featherweight champion, drew nearly 50 million viewers. Netflix claimed this was likely the most-watched professional women’s sporting event in U.S. history and that’s a significant milestone for women’s sports.
At its peak, over 90,000 users reported streaming issues on Downdetector, with viewers facing outages, buffering, and quality drops. These problems persisted for nearly six hours in the United States, but the platform managed to resolve them.
Despite the hiccups, Netflix’s entry into live sports seems to have been a massive success in terms of engagement.