If you happened to miss the boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, you probably can consider yourself lucky. Many people said that the fight was not only boring, it was one of the worst in history.
After live-streaming the event, Netflix has found themselves in a very difficult situation as well. Although they didn’t plan the fight or take part in it, they were the ones responsible for bringing it to the masses.
During that fight, which took place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Tyson would return to the ring. This was his first professional fight in 19 years and 72,000 people were on hand to watch it at the stadium.
According to Netflix, the average minute audience of 108 million live viewers peaked at 65 million concurrent streams. 38 million of those were from the US.
Many people were expecting to see quite a fight between Tyson and Paul, but they didn’t get what they came looking for. They were expecting Tyson to knock him out, but Paul was declared the winner after a unanimous decision following 8 two-minute rounds.
Many people vowed that they would cancel their Netflix subscriptions after they were unhappy with the fight. There was one fan who took things even further by suing Netflix.
A lawsuit has been filed against the streaming platform by Ronald “Blue” Denton from Hillsborough County, Florida. The reason why he sued them is because he thought that the event was an ‘unwatchable’ experience because of live streaming issues.
The lawsuit was filed on Monday in Florida and it seeks monetary damages. It also is open to a class-action status, just in case anybody else is unhappy with the results of the fight.
According to the documents, Netflix is guilty of a breach of contract and deceptive trade practices under Florida law. According to Denton, they were ‘woefully ill-prepared’ to handle the large number of streaming viewers.
The lawsuit states: “Instead of providing the programming its viewers pay for every month, Netflix was completely unprepared and unable to fix the issues.”
It went on to reference Netflix and their promotional items, saying: “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 the Planet.’”
Netflix has been in trouble before, especially after a live event was delayed by 19 hours because of streaming troubles. We don’t know if they have anything fixed as of yet, but they might want to consider fixing it now.
