(Reuters) – Streaming platform Netflix was offline for thousands of users in the United States late on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, just as viewers tuned in to watch a highly anticipated boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul.

The number of users reporting problems was 85,021 at 10:35 PM ET (03:35 GMT Saturday), according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from various sources.

Downdetector reported that the outage mainly affected users in major metropolitan areas, including New York, Seattle and Los Angeles, with scattered reports from other regions.

Netflix said it had no immediate comment to a Reuters request.

The platform has experienced outages in the past during live or highly anticipated events, with spikes in user traffic often being a contributing factor.

In April last year, it experienced a brief outage during a livestream of the dating reality show Love is Blind, prompting complaints from thousands of users.

(Reporting by Surbhi Misra in Bengaluru; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Stephen Coates)