1 week Ago By Uncrowned
Jake Paul's boxing match against Mike Tyson was poised to be . It looks like the streamer is headed toward embarrassment instead. As the main card began at the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium, viewers across social media reported buffering issues that made the experience nearly unwatchable.
With an unprecedented amount of viewers (for Netflix, at least) tuning in, it appeared the servers just didn't have the bandwidth. Countless viewers, including this author, reported their streams repeatedly freezing and needing several seconds, if not minutes, to buffer. It was usually faster to just close out the stream and open it back up again.
The situation wasn't far off from . The low point might have been an interview with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, whose microphone cut out while he was in the process of praising the streamer. Pretty sure Jerry Jones will be hiring a new audio team after this🤣 — Jim Grimes (@jimgrimes) The replies to do a good job of reflecting the rage toward the streamer, but there was plenty of jokes and discourse on the rest of X.
Considering Netflix is planning to stream more live events, such as , the night was ominous as well as embarrassing. Anybody else's service crashing constantly during — Yared Vazquez, M.D.
(Octagon Doctor) (@dryared) Netflix servers — Mike - MBA with Blue Collar Tendencies (@RoughEdgedNerd) Biggest fight tonight isn’t It’s Everyone vs Netflix buffering — Kyle Taylor (@KyleTaylor416) Netflix is finding out in real time how hard it is to produce live TV. They need to get these Mic issues fixed before the NFL broadcast’s on Christmas. — Emmanuel Acho (@EmmanuelAcho) Anybody else's service crashing constantly during — Yared Vazquez, M.
D. (Octagon Doctor) (@dryared) no Michael Buffer tonight, but plenty of buffering — dave lane (@oldwaver) My Netflix buffering nonstop — Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) This fight will be on a tape in Blockbuster in a month, I’m not gonna sit around with all this buffering. — Bunkie Perkins (@BunkiePerkins) Netflix isn’t ready for this (which is a crazy statement to type) — Josh Norris (@JoshNorris) Netflix got millions of people to watch this thing and they have mics that don’t work, earpieces not functioning and connection issues.
— Russell Dorsey (@Russ_Dorsey1) If this is how WWE RAW is gonna be on netflix they are in deep poop, this is not a great experience — CJ Fogler 🫡 (@cjzero) Netflix servers right now 😂 — Jordan Payton (@LEGIQN) Netflix executives watching these streaming issues: — Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_).
