With lots of anticipation main as much as the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson battle on Netflix, followers weren’t too pleased with ongoing display screen buffering and freezing points throughout the reside occasion.
Whereas the 27-year-old former YouTube star finally defeated the 58-year-old former undisputed heavyweight, some followers have been actually fortunate in the event that they even caught the showdown because of technical points. All through Friday night time, together with throughout the earlier fights, some followers took to X (previously Twitter) to share their complaints, together with Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy.
“Im in the classic torture chamber where I cant tell if my internet keeps going out or whether #netflix is just constantly buffering and unwatchable for everybody,” he wrote on X earlier within the night time earlier than later including, “So the reports are in. #netflix wasnt ready for this. This is unwatchable.”
Many others appeared simply as aggravated, with one other particular person writing, “Netflix telling me to check my internet speed knowing full well it’s an issue on their end.” And another person known as it “the worst Live in sports entertainment history.”
Whereas the highest 13 trending subjects on X have been all associated to the battle all through the night time, main as much as the primary occasion, “NetflixBroken,” “unwatchable” and “#buffering” have been additionally all trending.
This isn’t the primary time Netflix has confronted technical issues throughout a reside occasion. Final yr, the reside reunion for season 4 of Love is Blind was delayed by greater than an hour because of points. Although the streamer didn’t give any motive for the delay on the time, Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters later mentioned the corporate was “really sorry to have disappointed so many people.”
The chief additionally burdened that the streamer has the infrastructure wanted to do reside broadcasts sooner or later… however that’s clearly nonetheless up for debate following the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson battle.
