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Did you watch Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson this weekend?

Now, Netflix lucked out that there weren’t too many punches thrown during the fight Friday night.

NFL tight end Travis Kelce (87) of the Kansas City Chiefs looks on before kickoff against the Chicago Bears.

But Netflix will have no such luck this Christmas when it airs a pair of exclusiveNFL livestreams.

Chiefs vs. Steelers and Ravens vs. Texans will likely feature four playoff-boundNFLteams.

Especially if it’s trying to make live sports a major reason to sign up for thestreaming service.

A TV buffering Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson on Netflix

Just take a look at posts onX(Twitter).

I’m among that number.

By the time I got through server issues, Serrano was already giving her post-fight interview.

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4), huddled with his team, calls a play ahead of the Cowboys vs Lions live stream in NFL Week 6, 2024

For its part, Netflix has acknowledged things didn’t go off without a hitch.

Serrano vs. Taylor wasn’t far behind, with Netflix claiming nearly 50 million global households watched.

According to theNFL, its three Thanksgiving Day games averaged 34.1 million viewers in 2023.

Disney+

Peacock handles NFL games regularly, including exclusive games.

Prime Video also regularly provides live sports as well.

And that “minimal” there is important.

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Buffering sucks, but expecting zero households to have any buffering issues is a fool’s errand.

Technology is just never that perfect.

Basically, all of them can.

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Netflix is the newbie in this particular arena despite being the global streaming leader (not countingYouTube).

So Netflix too, will eventually get to the point where it handles live sports streaming with minimal issues.

The company has too many resources to fail where everyone else has succeeded.

"WWE Raw" live on Netflix

But nobody has really dealt with the scale of viewership that Netflix could be forced to handle.

And it probably will.

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