A Florida man punched Netflix this week, bringing a lawsuit against the media behemoth after buffering problems irritated viewers who watched Friday night’s highly anticipated bout between former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and social media sensation Jake Paul.
Three days after Paul, a YouTuber and actor who began boxing in 2018, defeated Tyson, who retired from the ring in 2005, by unanimous decision after eight rounds, Ronald Blue Dalton filed his case on Monday.
Iron was eagerly anticipated by 60 million Americans. According to the complaint, Mike Tyson, The Baddest Man on the Planet, was against Jake Paul, a former YouTuber who is now a prizefighter. “The Baddest Streaming on the Planet” is what they witnessed.
With constant buffering and obstructed coverage, Netflix dealt its users the first blow of the evening, the report continued. Not because of the fight or fights, but because of the money Netflix took, the most anticipated bout in boxing history ended up being a record night.
Paul’s copromoter and cofounder of Most Valuable Promotions, Nakisa Bidarian, responded to the streaming issues.
Bidarian stated, “I believe that we broke the internet first and foremost.” There has never been anything like what we did. 23 million concurrent streams set a record in the United States, correct? That was blown away by us. Thus, Netflix has demonstrated its capacity to perform tasks that no other media platform has before accomplished.
According to the lawsuit, Netflix acknowledged that there were numerous technical issues that affected the stream’s stability for most viewers, but maintained they were expertly resolved.
According to the paper, Netflix seems to be the only company among the more than 100,000 people who have voiced their displeasure online to call this fight night “brillliant.”
The fight with the largest digital distribution for combat sports was the one between Paul, 27, and Tyson, 58. According to the lawsuit, it was given to over 6,000 pubs and eateries nationwide.
However, tens of thousands of Netflix subscribers experienced buffering problems, streaming hiccups, and no access.
According to the complaint, Tyson seemed to bite his glove several times during the battle, which made the plaintiffs angry because they did not receive what they had hoped for and missed a significant amount of the fight.
Several viewers claimed that during the fight, Netflix kept crashing.
With 46.6 million views for the whole event, Netflix stated that the fight easily won the most-watched title of the week, knocking out the competition at number one on the English TV List. It also reached No. 1 in 78 countries and the Top 10 in all 91 countries that were tracked.
In front of 72,300 spectators, the fight took place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. According to Netflix, the battle was also the most popular subject on X, getting over 1.4 billion impressions on its social media channels and ranking among the top 11 trending topics in the US.
Terms like #NetflixBroken and #NetflixCrash were also popular.
WMAQ, a local NBC affiliate, said that Netflix declined to comment on the issues.
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