(Reuters) – Netflix (NASDAQ:) mentioned on Saturday that 60 million households worldwide had tuned in for the extremely anticipated boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, and the occasion peaked at 65 million streams, in response to a press release.
The bout between the 27-year-old social media influencer-turned-prize fighter Paul and the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion Tyson, which Paul gained, was streamed reside on Netflix.
Almost 50 million households tuned in for the co-main occasion between Eire’s light-weight champion Katie Taylor and Puerto Rico’s featherweight champion Amanda Serrano, in response to Netflix.
“The bout is more likely to be probably the most watched skilled ladies’s sporting occasion in US historical past,” Netflix mentioned in its assertion.
There have been some hiccups through the live-stream of the match, with over 90,000 customers reporting issues on Netflix at its peak, in response to outage monitoring web site Downdetector.
Nonetheless, the streaming platform was again up on Saturday after the outage that lasted roughly 6 hours in the US.
(This story has been corrected to say 60 million, not 50 million, within the headline)
