What in the Lag Is This?
More people watched an illegal stream of my fight…than what the NBA playoffs averaged… – Jake Paul
It’s Monday afternoon, and my Netflix stream is still stuck on 78% loading for the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson event. I don’t know how long it will take to fix itself, but hopefully, I can watch the action before Christmas arrives because this Squid Game season 2 is more important.
Me trying to watch the #PaulTyson event🥊👀🍿 pic.twitter.com/OILM7GlMJQ
— LockerRoom RAW (@LockerRoom_RAW) November 16, 2024
60 Million Angered Viewers
Jokes aside (my stream wasn’t that bad), this past Friday’s Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson event was met with mass criticism in celebrity news, as streaming giant Netflix suffered serious issues in the debut of live-streaming boxing.
60 million households around the world tuned in live to watch Paul vs. Tyson!
The boxing mega-event dominated social media, shattered records, and even had our buffering systems on the ropes. pic.twitter.com/kA8LjfAJSk
— Netflix (@netflix) November 16, 2024
Millions across the planet sat eagerly in front of their televisions, awaiting the in-ring return of Mike Tyson and the hope that he’d beat the sh*t out of Jake Paul. The latter didn’t surface in the end, but some wouldn’t have known the difference because their stream was either dead or so pixelated that the fights looked more like Mike Tyson Punch Out on the SNES as opposed to a high-definition live sporting event stream.
Amazon Prime IT guys waking up Saturday morning after seeing the Netflix shi* show:
pic.twitter.com/h2jkvdUSH5— 🌷David☘ (@DManyun_) November 16, 2024
Netflix has spread boxing rumors and still claimed a huge success for the event, with allegedly more than 60 million people tuning in. Those are great numbers, but I can almost guarantee those 60 million also witnessed some form of lag, delay, pixelation, or complete disruption during the Paul/Tyson event – all you had to do was look on social media to know this.
Scrolling X during Friday’s boxing festivities was impossible without finding complaints regarding the stream. It wasn’t restricted to one area, either, and no matter how many times you unplugged your router for 30 seconds, it didn’t fix the internal issue with Netflix servers.
Everyone is complaining about the #PaulTyson stream on Netflix.
Mine looks fine: pic.twitter.com/jlE9Aateie
— 🌷David☘ (@DManyun_) November 16, 2024
Antonio Brown Saved 6.6 Million Viewers
Embarrassing scenes for Netflix.
NFL standout Antonio Brown streamed the video board from the Tyson vs. Paul event, and over 6.6 million tuned in.
6.6 million watching Antonio Brown streaming the video board in Dallas. Way to go Netflix pic.twitter.com/ORogmb85dd
— Alex Barth (@RealAlexBarth) November 16, 2024
Even Jake Paul jokingly highlighted the illegal streaming of his fight, saying: “More people watched an illegal stream of my fight with Mike Tyson than what the NBA playoffs averaged in 2024.”
More people watched an illegal stream of my fight with Mike Tyson then what the NBA playoffs averaged in 2024 @netflix https://t.co/4mRJvvQojv
— Jake Paul (@jakepaul) November 17, 2024
Sports fans want to hope this event was a testing ground for Netflix, as the streaming company has NFL games and WWE live events scheduled for the future. UFC President Dana White is also in talks with Netflix, but the head honcho of the No.1 mixed martial arts promotion profusely stated that their streaming issues wouldn’t affect him as he always does his own production.
Fortunately, Jake Paul’s next fight will likely be versus an opponent so slow and old that we won’t notice any lagging anyway.
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