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Huge sports events are coming to streaming. Is the technology ready for prime time?
LOS ANGELES — The much-hyped Mike Tyson fight against YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul showed the potential power of Netflix to create live, global sports events on streaming video. For many people though, it also demonstrated the limitations of the technology.
Thousands of Netflix users reported technical difficulties while trying to watch ...Read more
Mac Engel: Jake Paul's PR statement denying fight with Mike Tyson was rigged misses the issue
Jake Paul wants “to set the record straight,” when no straightening is required.
If anyone would understand that we moved on from his “fight” against Mike Tyson, it should be Paul, who has made a fortune in the split-second entertainment world of social media.
Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions issued a statement on Monday to dispel the...Read more
Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul sets US record for biggest gate for bout outside of Las Vegas
LOS ANGELES — The Jake Paul-Mike Tyson bout that brought massive viewership numbers to Netflix last week also resulted in a record-setting gate.
Paul's unanimous-decision victory over Tyson at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Friday has netted a gate of $18,117,072, a number that Paul's Most Valuable Promotions says shatters the U.S. ...Read more
Tyson-Paul fight on Netflix watched by 60 million households despite technical glitches
LOS ANGELES — Netflix looked for the silver lining in the technically flawed live stream of the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight on Friday.
The Los Gatos, Calif.-based streaming giant said 60 million households watched the bout between Paul, a fighter who has established his fame through YouTube, and Tyson, the 58-year-old former heavyweight ...Read more
Adam Hill: Netflix, Jake Paul, Mike Tyson cash in on our societal stupidity
LAS VEGAS — It’s our fault.
Let’s get that out of the way before we take any kind of deep dive into the embarrassment of a travesty we participated in as a society Friday night.
We all decided that there was some sort of reason, ranging from boredom to genuine excitement to morbid curiosity, to log in to a streaming service and watch a ...Read more
Netflix's Tyson-Paul boxing bout gets 65 million viewers at peak
Netflix Inc.’s foray into live sports streaming with the historic boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul drew a massive global audience that peaked at 65 million viewers but resulted in thousands of complaints from viewers about connection problems and frozen screens.
“We crashed the site,” said Paul, 27, after claiming victory ...Read more
Mac Engel: Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson is a terrible, dangerous idea -- and there's a big market for it
IRVING, Texas — Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson is legalized human cock fighting, an event that needs the promotion line of, “Why Not? We’re All Gonna Die.”
Tyson should be dead already, so stepping back in to the ring to fight a YouTube influencer is free money in a life on extended time. Few athletes in the last 40 years have cheated death, ...Read more
Greg Cote: Tyson-Paul fight is ridiculous, a freak show. Elder abuse? But we're gonna watch.
MIAMI — You may have heard on account of the avalanche of hype and Netflix ads that boxing icon Mike Tyson is extracting himself from mothballs to enter the ring against YouTube-invented self promoter Jake Paul on Friday night in a sanctioned heavyweight fight in Arlington, Texas.
Which raises the question: Who is sanctioning fights out there...Read more
Sharp bettors, public on opposite sides of Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight
LAS VEGAS — Mike Tyson is 58 and his last professional fight was 19 years ago.
That hasn’t stopped bettors from backing “Iron Mike” in the former world heavyweight champion’s return to the ring Friday against 27-year-old YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul.
Paul is as low as a -240 favorite at Caesars Sportsbook, where 91% of the tickets...Read more
Jaron Ennis is returning to the Wells Fargo Center. 'Politics of boxing' keep it from being a bigger fight.
PHILADELPHIA — Eddie Hearn called Jaron Ennis last month, asking Philadelphia’s undefeated boxing star what he wanted to do. Ennis’ next fight, according to the International Boxing Federation, was to be a mandatory welterweight title defense against a challenger he easily outpointed less than two years ago in a dull bout not worthy of a ...Read more
LA district attorney wanted to hold Ryan Garcia accountable for $15,000 hotel vandalism damage. Judge dismissed case.
LOS ANGELES — Mercurial boxer Ryan Garcia caught a break Tuesday when a judge dismissed a misdemeanor vandalism charge against him over the objections of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
Judge James P. Cooper III granted a civil compromise at the Airport Courthouse in Los Angeles, noting that Garcia had paid restitution of ...Read more
Canelo Alvarez 'not overlooking' challenger Edgar Berlanga in Las Vegas title fight
LAS VEGAS — Canelo Alvarez has fought long enough to know never to take an opponent lightly.
It doesn’t matter to him if he’s fighting an established boxer like Floyd Mayweather or, like Saturday, facing an undefeated knockout specialist.
Alvarez, 34, understands there will be a weight on his shoulders every time he steps into the ring. ...Read more
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- Huge sports events are coming to streaming. Is the technology ready for prime time?
- Mac Engel: Jake Paul's PR statement denying fight with Mike Tyson was rigged misses the issue
- Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul sets US record for biggest gate for bout outside of Las Vegas
- Jaron Ennis is returning to the Wells Fargo Center. 'Politics of boxing' keep it from being a bigger fight.
- LA district attorney wanted to hold Ryan Garcia accountable for $15,000 hotel vandalism damage. Judge dismissed case.
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