Many viewers had their screens freeze or endlessly buffer, with some crashes reported as well. The 60 million who tuned in were an all-time high for the service. In a note to employees, Netflix Chief Technology Officer Elizabeth Stone admitted that there were problems.

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.