The Jake Paul and Mike Tyson fight shows that Netflix still has problems with live events

Viewers were talking in regards to the Friday night boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul – but probably not for the explanations Netflix hoped for.

Yes, 27-year-old Paul (YouTuber turned skilled boxer) defeated 58-year-old Tyson (a former heavyweight champion who got here out of retirement for this match) in eight rounds, but the true headline was a difficulty with viewers watching live on Netflix, with freezing and buffering a seemingly common occurrence.

As Downdetector found, the hashtag #NetflixCrash was trending on the X platform received over 1 million reports Netflix problems in 50 countries, including 530,000 reports within the United States, with peak problems around 11 p.m. EST.

“This is the biggest event,” Paul announced after the match. “Over 120 million people on Netflix. Site crashed.”

Netflix has stumbled upon live shows before, with the fourth season of Love is Blind reuniting airing last yr. delayed by over an hour. Since then, the streamer has expanded its live offering to incorporate exhibitions golf AND tennis matches, live talk showAND award ceremonies, with none major problems.

While the streamer only releases selective data on its viewership, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that the fight peaked at 65 million concurrent viewers (in comparison with 1.8 million concurrent live streams for Tom Brady), so it’s probably protected to say that the Tyson-Paul match was the largest test of Netflix’s live infrastructure to this point.

The streamer now has just over a month to make improvements before broadcast two NFL games on Christmas Dayand then WWE Raw in January.