More than 60 million families worldwide joined the much-hyped program boxing match Between retired boxing legend Mike Tyson and social-media star Jack Paul To Netflix.
“It was a record-breaking night for Netflix,” with a peak of 65 million concurrent streams, Netflix said in a news release on Saturday.
On Friday night, the 27-year-old Paul's fight with a man more than twice his age ended without a defeat and the 58-year-old Tyson lost by unanimous decision.
Troubled by reports of problems with video quality or interruptions during undercard matches, the issues were monitored by the website downdetector.com That was until the main event, which began at approximately 11 p.m. local time in Texas.
This match held at AT&T Stadium allegedly collected About $40 million for Paul and $20 million for Tyson.
Netflix acknowledged complaints lodged on social media, with X users claiming to have posted heavily pixelated videos of the match.
“The boxing-mega event dominated social media, broke records and even put our buffering systems at risk,” the streaming service said. Posted X on Saturday.
The subscription streaming service also said that 50 million households watched Katie Taylor defeat Amanda Serrano, as Netflix said it was the most watched professional women's sporting event in US history.
Netflix is expanding further into sporting events, with the company streaming two National League football games on Christmas Day. company on sunday announced Beyoncé will be the halftime performer during the second game between the Houston Texans and the Baltimore Ravens.