Jake Paul-Mike Tyson Fight Fans Blast Netflix Exec’s Baffling Take on Buffering Issues

Andy Nesbitt | Nov 17, 2024

Jake Paul beat Mike Tyson via unanimous decision Friday night. / Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images

Jake Paul beat Mike Tyson in front of a huge crowd at AT&T Stadium on Friday in a fight that didn't come close to living up to the hype, as Tyson looked every bit of a 58-year-old fighter in what should be his last sanctioned boxing match.

While Paul got the win via unanimous decision, fans watching the Netflix broadcast of the event were dealt many losses throughout the night thanks to buffering issues that made it very hard to watch the action.

Netflix's Chief Technology Officer sent a memo to his staff, saying despite the streaming issues that were mocked by everyone on social media, the event was a "huge success" for the company.

Netflix CTO to employees on streaming issues:

“This unprecedented scale created many technical challenges, which the launch team tackled brilliantly by prioritizing stability of the stream for the majority of viewers.

I'm sure many of you have seen the chatter in the press and… https://t.co/j6NY5diBq6

— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) November 16, 2024

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“This unprecedented scale created many technical challenges, which the launch team tackled brilliantly by prioritizing stability of the stream for the majority of viewers.

"I'm sure many of you have seen the chatter in the press and on social media about the quality issues.

"We don't want to dismiss the poor experience of some members, and know we have room for improvement, but still consider this event a huge success.”

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Fans strongly disagreed with that statement:

This is gaslighting. And there are only two reason CTOs gaslight: 1) they’re non-technical and aren’t qualified for the role, 2) they’re lying and trying to hide something else.

There’s nothing “brilliant” about down sampling everyone to 480p, failing to have the Netflix… https://t.co/MDcgYOA8IJ

— Ed Gilmore (@elg) November 17, 2024

It was not a huge success.

If @amazon can do this for TNF every week - then people in the industry know what's needed to have a high def stream to tons of concurrent viewers.@peacock has done it too.@netflix should know what it takes, so last night was a failure https://t.co/psLMzD6r4G

— JetChipWasp in H-Town (@brcook99) November 16, 2024

Netflix has an $350B market cap and some of the best engineers in tech. There’s no excuse for this type of failure https://t.co/DLGnT7gKTv

— Jason Chukwuma (@kingchuk__) November 17, 2024

"This unprecedented scale created many technical challenges, which the launch team tackled brilliantly"

....wow. just wow. https://t.co/oUn8XXklMR

— Robert Joyner (@robnashville) November 17, 2024

They’re still gaslighting #netflix https://t.co/LcGd7Yhacs

— ren simmons (@Ren_Simmons) November 17, 2024

They had lots of time before the event that they could’ve improved before the live event happened, but they didn’t. And lots of people had issues streaming it, I hope they fix the issue before any more live event happening, like NFL in Christmas https://t.co/HTKWS1HVTf

— Vinny (@Vinny_1886) November 17, 2024

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