Netflix DOWN causing chaos for Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul viewers as streaming giant struggles to deal with insane demand
NETFLIX is down for thousands of viewers for the Mike Tyson against Jake Paul fight.
Users of the streaming service have flocked to social media to complain about the outage.
It is feared they are struggling to deal with the huge demands for fans to watch the bout.
Both Tyson and Paul are fighting each other at the AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas, on Friday night.
It is the first time Netflix have shown a major sporting event live, as they look to rival the huge TV broadcasters.
But they have had a difficult start, with viewers around the world struggling to get onto the service.
It is understood around 12,000-plus and counting are struggling in the United States alone.
One said: “Netflix doesn’t fix this buffering issue, this will go down as one of the biggest fails in all of tv/streaming history.”
Another added: “What is going on with Netflix?”
A third commented: “Looks like Netflix tapped out before Jake Paul or Mike Tyson could.
“Guess the servers weren’t ready to go 12 rounds tonight!”
And a fourth replied: “This Netflix broadcast is an incredible ad for Amazon Prime.”
Streaming giant Ninja tweeted: “Netflix live servers couldn’t even handle a love is blind live reunion tour, let’s trust Netflix to handle Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson!”
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The Netflix outage wasn’t the only issue the streaming service had on Friday night.
They also suffered huge technical difficulties throughout, with presenter Kate Abdo being forced to apologise.
The Sun has contacted Netflix for comment.