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Jake Paul and Mike Tyson clasp aft their heavyweight boxing lucifer successful Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Mike Tyson and Jake Paul Fight: An eventful Friday astatine the AT&T Center successful Arlington Texas whitethorn not person deed a cleanable ending, but legendary Mike Tyson and Youtuber-turned-fighter Jake Paul did capable to whip up a societal media storm, and adjacent bring down streaming giants Netflix during the evening.
While the 58-year-old Tyson, an unstoppable heavyweight unit successful his premier during the 1980s and 1990s, was brought to an unceremonious decision by Paul, 31 years his junior, the passable combat did not service up to the billing. Tyson landed 18 punches to a whopping 78 by Paul crossed 8 two-minute rounds.
However, a pre-bout last face-off connected Thursday that ended with Tyson slapping Paul and a show of bonhomie aft the contention took the spotlight.
Paul hails G.O.A.T Tyson
After registering a unanimous determination triumph implicit the erstwhile heavyweight satellite champion, Paul was effusive successful his praise of Tyson, who entered the combat with a braced genu owing to an injury.
“First and foremost, Mike Tyson – it’s an honour to beryllium capable to combat him. He is the G.O.A.T (Greatest of each Time),” said Paul. “It was arsenic pugnacious and hard arsenic I thought it would be.”
Tyson defers status question
Despite the wounded interest successful the lead-up to the contest, Tyson did not spot an excuse connected his part. “Yeah, but I can’t usage that arsenic an excuse. If I did, I wouldn’t beryllium successful here,” Tyson said. “I knew helium was a bully fighter. He was prepared, I came to fight. I didn’t beryllium thing to anybody, lone to myself. I’m not 1 of those guys that unrecorded to delight the world. I’m conscionable blessed with what I tin do.”
Even arsenic his archetypal sanctioned bout since 2005 ended successful a defeat, Tyson refused to springiness up connected a imaginable instrumentality to the future. “I don’t know. It depends connected the situation,” helium said.
Netflix crash
Netflix’s archetypal effort astatine handling a unrecorded sports lawsuit did not person a passing people crossed the globe, prompting wide trolls and disapproval connected societal media.
“This is the biggest event, implicit 120 cardinal radical connected Netflix. We crashed the site, The biggest U.S. boxing gate, $20 million, successful U.S. history, and everyone is adjacent connected the list,” Paul said aft the fight.
If Netflix broadcasted NFL games… pic.twitter.com/jHC9zST3WT
— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) November 16, 2024
The combat experienced streaming problems according to galore viewers connected societal media. Many viewers took to Twitter/X and Bluesky to explicit their frustrations with streaming and buffering problems earlier and during the fight. According to the website Down Detector, astir 85,000 viewers logged problems with outages oregon streaming starring up to the fight.
The Tyson-Paul clash was Netflix’s biggest unrecorded sports lawsuit to date, and an accidental to marque definite it tin grip assemblage request with the NFL and WWE connected the horizon. It streamed globally to Netflix’s 280 cardinal subscribers astatine nary further cost.
– With AP inputs
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