A Florida man sues Netflix for how bad the Mike Tyson VS Jake Paul fight looked

As you well know, this weekend the YouTuber Jake Paul and the former boxing star Mike Tyson met in the ring to fight once again under the spotlight of Netflix, a company that paid them a few million euros to do so exclusively on the platform. The broadcast was a success in terms of audience with more than 100 million people watching it live.

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Well, it was as much a success in terms of audience as it was a technical disaster. Interruptions, insufficient quality, broadcast errors, signal drops… complaints were made worldwide. Now a man from Florida has decided to sue Netflix for it.

The fight, which took place at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington (Texas) on November 15, was broadcast live by Netflix, which had relentlessly promoted the event in the weeks prior.

A poor broadcast that ended with a lawsuit

Unfortunately, when the event took place, Netflix did not seem prepared to host it, as the night was plagued with countless reports of delays and service outages for thousands of users.

Well, there is someone who can’t take it anymore. Variety reports that a lawsuit filed in a Florida state court accuses the streaming giant of having imposed an “unwatchable” show on the American public.

The lawsuit further claims that “boxing fans, along with everyday Americans who wanted to see a legend in what was very likely to be his last fight, encountered legendary problems, including: lack of access, transmission failures, and buffering issues.”

The lawsuit, filed by a man named Ronald Blue Denton, accuses the streaming platform of breach of contract and unfair and deceptive actions.

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It is true that there were widespread outages during Netflix’s sporting event. Downdetector showed that, during the fight, there were more than 90,000 reports of issues with the streaming service. From there to suing the company seems like a step.