More than 60 million households watched the
much-hyped boxing match
between 58-year-old retired boxing legend Mike Tyson and the far-younger Jake Paul on Friday night, Netflix said.
The match between Tyson, former heavyweight champion of the world, and Paul, a 27-year-old social media star-turned-boxer, ended with no knockdowns and a win by unanimous decision for Paul.
The event was
plagued by reports of problems with the video quality
or interruptions during the undercard matches, but reports of issues tracked by website downdetector.com had dropped by the time of the main event at around 11 p.m. local time in Texas.
Netflix on social media acknowledged the problems, which were lampooned by X users who posted heavily pixelated videos purported to be the match.
“The boxing mega-event dominated social media, shattered records, and even had our buffering systems on the ropes,” the company
wrote on X Saturday
.
There were around 65 million concurrent streams at the peak of the Tyson-Paul fight, which was held at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Netflix said
said in a statement
Saturday.
Around 50 million households watched the fight between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano, the co-main event that directly preceded the fight between Tyson and Paul. Taylor won via unanimous decision.
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