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    Tyson vs. Paul fight plagued by technical glitches and glitches during livestream

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    (Updated with more details) Tonight’s much-hyped and much-delayed Netflix live fight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul is getting some hits even before the former heavyweight champion and YouTuber-turned-boxer have climbed into the ring.

    From almost the start of the undercard fights from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the streamer froze, lost sound and appeared to be slow to reload. Although it doesn’t completely crash like Netflix did back then Luke Cage launched on the streamer in October 2016, the audio on the feed kept getting cut and the quality of the image repeatedly reduced to smeared pixels.

    Across the country, fight fans have taken to social media to air their grievances – to put it politely.

    “This #Netflix livestream is terrible, @Cali_Baba wrote on X/Twitter early in the multi-fight. “Buffering on and off, grainy picture, muffled sound,” he said in complaints that were common Friday. “They wanted the big event, and they’re tinkering with it. If I had purchased a subscription for this event, I would immediately ask for my money back tomorrow.”

    Tonight’s fights were the most ambitious live sports event that Ted Sarandos and Greg Peter’s Netflix have ever undertaken. But despite all the issues customers faced, the streamer had no comment on the technical issues when contacted by Deadline.

    Yet Jerry Jones said it all for many when the Dallas Cowboys owner’s microphone broke down in the 80,000-plus crowd and online as he touted his partnership with Netflix. And soon the perennial home of WWE’s Monday Night Raw, Netflix will show live NFL games on Christmas Day.

    While #NetflixCrash and #unwatchable were trending online, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy went for less is more criticism.

    The feed from one of Barstool Sports’ hosts also summed up what many fight fans felt at home.

    Ahead of Tyson, 58, and Paul, 27, taking on their dukes in the former’s first professional fight in almost 20 years, Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano are battling for IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO titles. While Paul is seen as the favorite against the man known as Iron Mike, Serrano is seen as having the advantage over the Irish fighter in their rematch after the 2022 headliner at Madison Square Garden.

    In that sense, digital stumbling blocks and all that notwithstanding, tonight’s fight certainly felt like the classic Tyson bouts of the 1980s and 1990s – at least in format.

    Like HBO competitions in recent years, Netflix’s coverage of the competition featured a lot of self-promotion Squid game And Cobra Kai cameos and promos get airtime, and stars like Furoisa himself Charlize Theron, Joe Jonas, NBA legend Shaq O’Neil and NFL legend Rob Gronkowski are at ringside. The streamer really went old school and continued with locker room interviews with Paul and Tyson, including a lingering shot of the latter walking away with his butt in a jockstrap. We could have done without that butt shot,” he said Do the right thing star Rosie Perez, aka “First Lady of Boxing,” in her commentary alongside Cedric the Entertainer and others.

    For some, that image was frozen, on their screen and in their heads.

    Or as Flavor Flav from Public Enemy put it so perfectly:

    Glenn Garner contributed to this report

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