Jake Paul, Mike Tyson and Netflix
After streaming issues during the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight last month on Netflix prompted concerns about the company’s ability to handle large events, it has largely avoided problems during the first game of the day between Kansas City and Pittsburgh. The stream did not lag and came through sharp and in high quality.
WWE’s flagship television show, “Monday Night Raw,” moves over to Netflix on Monday. Here’s how to understand professional wrestling in 2025.
The flagship wrestling program adds to Netflix’s budding slate of live sports programming, which in recent weeks included the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight and the NFL Christmas Day games.
One month ago, Netflix was on most sports fans' minds when its glitchy, buffering mess of a stream marred the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson boxing match. It was a bad showing. Making it more ominous was that the streamer was set to air a pair of NFL games 40 days later.
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The internet has been set ablaze for the past two weeks over the rumor that Conor McGregor is set to face Logan Paul in 2025. McGregor took to X to reveal that he and the elder Paul brother are going to enter the boxing ring against one another.
In the UFC, they finally took live sport to the new Sphere in Las Vegas for UFC 306 as Sean O’Malley and Merab Dvalishvili went to war over five rounds. Jon Jones also returned for a crowing world title defense at Madison Square Garden, and Alex Pereira headlined the massive UFC 300 and 303 shows at T-Mobile.
Jake Paul beat Mike Tyson on points in Texas after their controversial fight finally went ahead with many describing the event as something of a very sad spectacle
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Netflix says it learned from livestreaming issues during the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight. It has a big test with a Beyoncé show and NFL games.
Massive streaming issues during the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight infuriated viewers. Did Netflix learn its lesson ahead of its NFL Christmas games?