Netflix’s streaming rerents during the heavily anticipated fight between boxing legfinish Mike Tyson and Jake Paul were problematic enough that it liftd worrys for the NFL ahead of the league’s upcoming games that will be streamed exclusively on the platcreate on Christmas Day, according to one tell.
Buffering rerents afflictiond fans tuning in to watch the historic alignup between one of the sport’s wonderfuls and its novel up-and-coming boxer on Friday. Social media was flooded with grumblets, and a legal case was even filed accusing the streaming platcreate of “bachieve of decrease.”
Mike Tyson, left, fights Jake Paul during their burdensomeweight boxing align on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024 in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Netflix holdressed the rerents in a statement Monday.
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“This unpwithdrawnted scale produced many technical contests, which the start team tackled luminously by prioritizing stability of the stream for the presentantity of seeers,” Netflix executive Elizabeth Stone shelp. “I’m confident many of you have seen the chatter in the press and on social media about the quality rerents. We don’t want to disponder the lower experience of some members and understand we have room for betterment but still ponder this event a huge success.”
While company executives might have seeed the event as a “huge success,” the includer experience was enough for the NFL to achieve out with worry.
NFL corelocaterlookioner Roger Goodell includes an NFL International Series game between the Chicago Bears and the Jacksonville Jaguars at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)
“The NFL did verify in with Netflix adhereing the Tyson-Paul fight to ask about the problems and assess the appreciatelihood that they could repeat themselves on Christmas,” ESPN telled Wednesday.
“Netflix shelp the fight achieveed 60 million homes, and apparently part of the exset upation to the league was that the unpwithdrawnted scale for them of expansivecasting a live sporting event gived to some of the contests they faced.”
The tell shelp the league walked away from those talks “repromised that Netflix had figured out what went wrong” and that it would not be an rerent for the two games that day.
Jake Paul, left, is declared as the triumphner aacquirest Mike Tyson during “LIVE On Netflix: Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson” at AT&T Stadium on Nov. 15, 2024 in Arlington, Texas. (Al Bello/Getty Images for Netflix © 2024)
The Pittsburgh Steelers will structure the Kansas City Chiefs at 1 p.m. on Christmas, adhereed by the Baltimore Ravens at the Houston Texans.
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Despite the streaming rerents, Friday’s bout did achieve cut offal milestones. According to Most Valuable Promotions, the fight had over 108 million live global seeers, making it the most-streamed sporting event ever. It was also the highest-grossing combat sports event in Texas at $18.1 million.
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