Netflix users experience plenty of streaming issues trying to watch the fight, caused be the tremendous load on servers.

Jake Paul easily defeated an old Mike Tyson in what turned out to be a sad sight to behold. Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images for Netflix © 2024

Wil Esco is an assistant editor of Bad Left Hook and has been covering boxing for SB Nation since 2014.

While doing live coverage for this past weekend’s boxing card headlined by Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson, more fans complained of buffering and crashing issues with Netflix than ever before as we deduce that the streaming company was ill-prepared for the demand on their servers.

Netflix has announced that the fight was a massive hit with worldwide audiences even if the product in the ring failed to live up to the hopes of those looking to see a glimpse of the Mike Tyson of old. The streaming company says 60 million households were streaming the fight live worldwide, topping out at a whopping 65 million concurrent streams, as reported by ESPN.

“The boxing mega-event dominated social media, shattered records and even had our buffering systems on the ropes,” Netflix said Saturday.

Not only did this provide Paul with an insane amount of exposure for him largely toying with an immobile, elderly man en route to a unanimous decision win, but the co-main event — an actual legitimate matchup between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano — had 50 million households streaming their fight, which is expected to be the most viewed professional women’s fight in history.

The massive success of the card as a whole will likely only perpetuate these kind of events going forward, even if most ended up dissatisfied with the actual quality of the main event itself.