Netflix peaked at “65 million concurrent streams” during the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul last night, according to Most Valuable Promotions, the promoter for the fight. Those streams went out to 60 million households globally, the group said in a press release shared with The Verge via email. That’s more than twice the traffic Netflix could see for its Christmas Day NFL stream this year, if everyone who watched last year streamed it.
That’s also just a massive number of people streaming a single live event at the same time.
The crush of people trying to watch the match seemed to be more than Netflix’s servers could easily handle, as the social web was awash with complaints about the quality of the stream, which many…