The fight attracted a huge amount of media coverage. Tyson is one of the most famous men on the planet, while Paul drew in a younger audience. According to Paul, 120 million viewers watched it live globally on Netflix. The tech firm has said it will reveal further viewing figures on Tuesday.

Many of the complaints about a Netflix outage on social media were centered on the eight-round heavyweight boxing match between Mr. Tyson, a former heavyweight world champion, and Mr. Paul, a YouTuber. The livestream for that fight began at 10 p.m. Eastern time, before the fight started.

The crush of people trying to watch Tyson vs. Paul seemed to be more than Netflix’s servers could easily handle, as the social web was awash with complaints about the quality of the stream, which many found to be muddy,