Fans Rage at Netflix After Mike Tyson-Jake Paul Fight Live Stream Crashes

Getty and Heavy Netflix went down before the Jake Paul fight against Mike Tyson.

Users reported that Netflix was crashing and/or buffering during the live stream for the Mike Tyson fight against YouTuber Jake Paul.

Fans unloaded on X because they couldn’t watch the fight.

“Imagine if you could watch this on the stream service you pay for monthly, oh wait it’s too busy buffering or having no sound,” wrote one user.

“HUGE FAILURE! YOU ARE FIRED! REFUNDS!” wrote another user.

Down Detector reported that Netflix was experiencing outages that spiked around 9 p.m. on November 15. Sure enough, this author experienced a crashed page while trying to watch the live stream.

As of just before 10 p.m. central time, Paul and Tyson had not yet taken the year, but the streaming video went down. A screen appeared in place of the video that said, “Pardon the interruption. We’re having trouble playing Netflix.” It included an error code.

NetflixNetflix page for the Paul-Tyson fight.

Netflix had widely touted the bout on its X page, promising that it would start at 8 p.m. eastern time. However, other pregame fights were streaming when the site started to crash.

Fans Demanded That Netflix Fix the Live Stream Video

GettyMike Tyson, Nakisa Bidarian, and Jake Paul.

Some fans thought Netflix should find a creative solution. “Stream the fight on @X because @netflix is having an epic #Fail fix this 💩💩💩💩,” wrote one user on X.

Some fans unleashed expletives on X over the Netflix problems.

People also unloaded on Netflix on the Down Detector website. “Hopefully they learn their lesson after this,” wrote one person.

“Cancel. Period,” wrote another person.

“So Netflix can play the intro video but can’t load me into the stream??? I get buffered on the photo of 5 mins and then get the bad internet connection. This is my sign to move to hulu from now on,” wrote another person.