The Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing event, which took place last Friday night (Nov. 15, 2024) at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, made sports history with over 108 million live global viewers on Netflix, which may or may not include the streamers around the world who got stuck with frozen, blacked out, or otherwise “unwatchable” feeds.
More on that streaming debacle right here.
In response to the “legendary problems” encountered on fight night, Florida man Ronald “Blue” Denton filed a class-action lawsuit against Netflix, citing breach of contract and unfair, deceptive actions. The complaint cited “no access, streaming glitches, and buffering issues,” for nearly a million frustrated fight fans, including Denton.
TMZ Sports first reported the lawsuit on Tuesday.
In addition to the streaming issues, fans were left feeling “conned” by the eight-round headliner; which at times, resembled a glorified sparring match. Paul, 27, was able to juke and jive his way to a decision against the 58 year-old Tyson. Sadly, the headlining snoozefest overshadowed an incredible championship co-main event.
The conspiracy theorists were out in force by the next morning.
“They had no intentions to really scrap at all,” three-time Super Bowl champion Michael Irvin said on It Is What It Is podcast. “If you look through that, I didn’t see one patented uppercut by Mike Tyson. What if Mike Tyson hit him with an uppercut? Then I heard some people talking about they put that in the contract. He couldn’t body and then uppercut. Like, how can you put that in a fight contract?”
On the plus side, blacked out viewers missed this.
“They had no intentions to really scrap at all,” three-time Super Bowl champion Michael Irvin said on It Is What It Is podcast. “If you look through that, I didn’t see one patented uppercut by Mike Tyson. What if Mike Tyson hit him with an uppercut? Then I heard some people talking about they put that in the contract. He couldn’t body and then uppercut. Like, how can you put that in a fight contract?”
On the plus side, blacked out viewers missed this.
I was waiting for this to happen, either because of the shitty streaming or the fact that the fight was a complete farce.
Not sure how far a class action suit is going to go. What damages did subscribers to Netflix have because of this? Anyone that signed up just for this fight could have probably been on a free trial. And anyone that signed up just for this could probably get their $10 back just for asking. They are going to have a hard time with this.
I don’t see this going anywhere. It’s not like someone is going to prove Netflix was behind some rigged fight.
Shit bag lawyers want money, more at 11.
Under the updated terms of service that I have had to confirm and hit update on a few times the past two years I am sure this is all covered including an arbitration clause. I mean shit that family from the Disney death couldn’t even get into court because of agreements in the Disney Hulu espn app agreement.
This goes nowhere.