Netflix has finally broken its silence on the Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson streaming issues amid a lawsuit.
The fight between the YouTuber and the forming boxing champion was streamed live to 65 million users.
80,000 fans saw the action in person as the match took place at the AT&T stadium in Arlington, Texas, last month.
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After Paul’s victory, many fans have spoken out about the connectivity issues of the stream.
In fact, one man decided to take matters into his own hands after filing a class-action lawsuit against the streaming service.
Ronald ‘Blue’ Denton, from Hillsborough County, Florida, is arguing that poor streaming quality affected his viewing of the fight, and according to TMZ, he is alleging that the streaming service is in breach of contract.
In the lawsuit, it states: “60 million Americans were hyped to see ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson, ‘The Baddest Man on the Planet’ versus Youtuber-turned-prizefighter Jake Paul. What they saw was ‘The Baddest Streaming on Planet’.”
Denton is seeking $50 million in damages.
Now, the streaming service has revealed its plans with WWE to debut Raw this week.
From January, Netflix will also live stream Monday Night Raw for its subscribers.
Addressing the technical issues faced during the stream of the Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight, Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria said: “Whenever we do live events, we want it to go smoothly for every single one of our members.
That’s really important—also, to put it in perspective, it was 65 million concurrent streams, right? It was a very successful night.
A lot of people [watched], the scale was very big, which is great. There’s a lot of interest in it.
“We expected a big number, for sure. It was a big number. But again, you don’t know, and you can’t learn these things until you do them so you take a big swing.
“Our teams and our engineers are amazing, moved super quickly, and stabilized it, and many of the members had it back up and running pretty quickly.
“But we learn from those things. And we’ve all obviously done a lot of stuff to learn and get ready for the NFL and Beyonce at halftime and so we’re totally ready and excited for WWE.”
Chief Content Officer for WWE, Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque added jokingly: “I’ll just say, if it blinks a couple of times and we do 60 million, I’m good with that.”
When asked about the decision to move to Netflix, he added: “There was no doubt in my mind. As soon as that conversation happened and the first time [streaming] was brought up, in my mind, I was like, ‘Oh, my God, that’s a game changer for us’.
“Not only because of the environment, like the reach and how much that can expand our base, but just look at the shows they do. [Look] at the things that they do and the freedom that they have within that. It’s a game changer for us.”