Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul was the most streamed event Netflix has ever seen, marking its entrance into live sports coverage. The fight brought over 120 million viewers to the platform, and Netflix struggled to stay afloat.
Over 100,000 people reported some sort of issue while streaming the fight, and Netflix attempted to solve the issues. However, many fans continued to take to social media with their frustrations.
One fan took to Hacker News Hacker News to point out that Netflix shouldn’t consider live events, especially ones with worldwide audiences, because it can’t handle broader fan bases all tuning in at once.
“I don’t think the reputation is deserved,” the commenter said, referencing that Netflix is making many deals with multimillion-dollar companies to livestream their most significant sports events on its platform.
Why Was Netflix Crashing During Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson?
“Look to broadcast news, sports/Olympic broadcasters, etc, and you’ll see technology, equipment, bandwidth, planning, and professionalism at 1000x of Netflix,” they said, completely tearing into Netflix.
The tweet that took the screenshot from Hacker News made a phenomenal point about the Tom Brady event. “the Tom Brady Roast did decently well since he’s more USA-centric while Mike Tyson is globally famous,” the fan commented.
The Hacker News post was finished after the user commented, “Netflix is good at many things; live streaming is not one of them. ” This was true for many fans of last night’s Paul vs. Tyson fight, and anyone who had the issue wasn’t happy.
Let’s just say that Netflix needs to deal with this issue before they even consider another boxing match!
