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.

Netflix's livestream of the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight wrestled the attention of 60 million households, peaking at 65 million concurrent streams.

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.