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Boxers Mike Tyson, Jake Paul, Katie Taylor, and Amanda Serrano attend a news conference, ahead of their postponed professional fight which was set to take place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
Streaming platform Netflix was down for thousands of users in the United States late on Friday, outage tracking website Downdetector.com said, just as viewers tuned into a highly anticipated boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul.
Party Time#PaulTyson pic.twitter.com/pzDPxFIR4s
— Mike Tyson (@MikeTyson) November 16, 2024
The number of users indicating problems were 85,021, by 10:35 p.m. ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from various sources.
Downdetector reported that the outage primarily impacted users in major metropolitan areas, including New York, Seattle and Los Angeles, with scattered reports from other regions.
Netflix said it had no immediate comment in response to a request from Reuters.
The platform has faced outages during live or highly anticipated events in the past, with spikes in user traffic often being a contributing factor.
In April last year, it experienced a brief outage during a live stream of the dating reality show Love is Blind, drawing complaints from thousands of users.
All it takes is one punch #PaulTyson
Welcome to the biggest event in boxing history @MostVpromotions FREE for all 280 million Netflix subscribers globally pic.twitter.com/acCYKDdFm9
— Jake Paul (@jakepaul) October 15, 2024
Boxing-Paul beats Tyson by unanimous
Jake Paul beat boxing legend Mike Tyson by unanimous decision to win an intergenerational heavyweight battle in Texas on Friday that failed to live up to its enormous hype.
The bout between the 27-year-old social media influencer-turned-prizefighter Paul and the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion Tyson was streamed live on Netflix and played out in front of a sold-out crowd at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
