While some people experienced glitches during Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson, Netflix’s co-CEO has described the event as ‘Off the charts’.
In front of a packed house at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, USA, ‘The Problem Child’ and ‘Iron Mike’ traded blows, while 108 million people watched on at home.
Netflix CEO talks Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson streaming issues
On November 15, stars of two completely different generations went head-to-head, with Jake Paul claiming a unanimous decision victory over Mike Tyson.
Rightly or wrongly, the bout captured the attention of fans across the globe, with viewers heading to Netflix to watch the action.
However, while some had a smooth viewing experience, others struggled, suffering with extreme freezing issues.
Speaking at the UBS conference in New York on December 10, Ted Sarandos discussed the technical challenges of streaming to such a large audience.
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As per The Hollywood Reporter, he explained: “We were pushing the [internet service provider], every ISP in the world, right to the limits of their own capacity. We were stressing the limits of the internet itself that night.
“So, we had a control room up in Silicon Valley that was re-engineering the entire internet to keep it during this fight because of the unprecedented demand that was happening.”
He added: “It’s really phenomenal. It’s a Super Bowl-like audience that we were able to draw for this fight. This is a combination of our content team recognizing that this was going to be a thing, our marketing and publicity teams and our social media teams, and everybody making it a thing that you are not going to miss, no matter where you were in the world.
“A lot of records were set that night for a company that basically broke down during the ‘Love Is Blind’ reunion about a year and a half before that. So that’s a lot of positive trajectory in a very short amount of time.”
Boxing legend is livid Jake Paul is rated higher than him on Undisputed video game
Tyson isn’t the only legend of the sport Paul has been feuding with as of late, with another former world champion recently firing shots at the YouTuber.
Upon realizing that the 27-year-old was ranked higher than him on Undisputed, he was rendered nothing short of furious.
Consequently, he’s headed to social media to vent his frustrations.
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