Tens of thousands of Netflix users reported that the service was not working for them ahead of a fight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul on Fridaylucky play168 or lp99, with many saying that the livestream was failing to load.

The keyword #NetflixCrash was trending on the social media platform X in the United States on Friday night as Downdetector, which tracks user reports of internet disruptions, received more than 500,000 reports that people were having problems streaming on Netflix.

Netflix declined to comment. The outage began around 8 p.m. and lasted until just before 2 a.m., according to Downdetector.

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.

Frustrated viewers posted videos showing the frozen stream on their monitors.

The live show, “Paul vs. Tyson,” was scheduled to stream for about four and a half hours globally. Netflix has 283 million subscribers in more than 190 countries.

“We crashed the site,” Paul said in an interview after defeating Tyson, though the exact cause of the problem was not immediately known.

“I’m in the classic torture chamber,” Dave Portnoy, the founder of the Barstool Sports media network and a social media personalty, said on X, “where I can’t tell if my internet keeps going out or whether #Netflix is just constantly buffering and unwatchable for everybody.”

The outage reports on Downdetector, which started to rise around when the livestream began for the Paul-Tyson fight, came from across the United States, according to a map provided by the tracking service.

Nicole Sperling contributed reporting.lucky play168 or lp99

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