Jake Paul lands a near hook connected Mike Tyson's look during their heavyweight boxing match, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, successful Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Netflix said connected Saturday that 60 cardinal households worldwide had tuned successful for the highly anticipated boxing lucifer betwixt Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, and the lawsuit peaked astatine 65 cardinal streams, according to a statement.
The bout betwixt the 27-year-old societal media influencer-turned-prize combatant Paul and the 58-year-old erstwhile heavyweight champion Tyson, which Paul won, was streamed unrecorded connected Netflix.
Nearly 50 cardinal households tuned successful for the co-main lawsuit betwixt Ireland’s lightweight champion Katie Taylor and Puerto Rico’s featherweight champion Amanda Serrano, according to Netflix.
“The bout is apt to beryllium the astir watched nonrecreational women’s sporting lawsuit successful US history,” Netflix said successful its statement.
There were immoderate hiccups during the live-stream of the match, with implicit 90,000 users reporting problems connected Netflix astatine its peak, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.
However, the streaming level was backmost up connected Saturday aft the outage that lasted astir 6 hours successful the United States.