The billion-dollar streaming service Netflix appeared amateurish with its first live sporting event, which featured Mike Tyson taking on Jake Paul in the year’s boxing match.
More than 60 million tuned in to watch the event that took place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
The brawl between the legendary boxer and the famous YouTuber was described as disastrous, a nightmare, and a failure of an event.
Netflix did not have the bandwidth to handle the massive traffic that crashed or froze the platform during some of the boxing match’s highlights.
The broadcast malfunctioned at the most unfortunate part of the event, Mike Tyson showing his bare butt to millions of unhappy and shocked subscribers.
Sports fans dragged the company for its mishandling of the boxing event and are anxious that it will ruin their big Christmas Day NFL doubleheader with tons of buffering issues.
On December 25th, viewers will tune in for the Chiefs vs. Steelers and the Ravens vs. Texans games, with Beyoncé performing during the halftime show.
OutKick founder Clay Travis took to X to share his concern about everything that could go wrong during the football game.
He wrote: “This is a disaster for Netflix. They have no chance of successfully airing a Chiefs-Steelers Christmas Day NFL game based on this performance.”
Sports talk radio host Randy Baumann jumped into the Netflix debacle to share an “everything goes south” scenario about the games next month.
He stated: “If the Steelers Chiefs Christmas Day game on #Netflix looks like this, there are going to be tables overturned with half-eaten Christmas hams all over western PA. Scalloped potatoes will be hurled at aunts and uncles. #BedlamInBlawnox.”
Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone, aware of the technical issues that occurred during the Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul boxing match, has announced that all will be done to prevent that from happening during future live sporting events.
Bloomberg obtained a letter that Stone sent out to Netflix employees, in which she explained: “This unprecedented scale created many technical challenges, which the launch team tackled brilliantly by prioritizing the stability of the stream for the majority of viewers. I’m sure many of you have seen the press and social media chatter about the quality issues.”
She added that despite the challenges, Netflix sees the event as successful. She concluded: “We don’t want to dismiss the poor experience of some members, and we know we have room for improvement, but we still consider this event a huge success.”
Time will tell if she is right in this assessment.
