Triple H responds to Netflix streaming issues for Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

Paul “Triple H” Levesque doesn’t sound overly worried about the buffering issues Netflix experienced for its Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight.

Jake Paul defeated the 58-year-old Tyson in their boxing spectacle last Friday. The broadcast experienced significant buffering issues that frustrated viewers, but it was still a hugely successful night for Netflix. The streaming company has claimed a peak audience of more than 60 million households worldwide for the main event.

While appearing on New Hampshire’s Greg & The Morning Buzz radio show this week, Levesque reacted to the huge audience Netflix drew for the fight.

“You mentioned Netflix, like, that’s a game-changer,” Levesque said. “That Tyson fight this past week did 60-something million viewers live. What people don’t get — that’s households. Multiply that times three on average, that’s the amount of people that were watching.”

Netflix will become the new broadcast home of WWE Raw starting in January 2025. Greg & The Morning Buzz asked Levesque if the streaming issues for Paul vs. Tyson made him concerned for Raw’s premiere on the service.

“Look, I don’t want to flex about it, but it was buffering on my end because I was on a plane watching it. So the buffering was expected on my side,” WWE’s Chief Content Officer said. “We were flying back from TV watching the fight and the signal was a little wonky. And I thought, ‘Well, we’re 40,000 feet in the air, it should be.’ But then sort of seeing it online of everybody saying it was buffering. Look, you start putting 60 million households all at once on a streaming service. Put it this way, if our first night buffers and they come and say it was 60-70 million households watching, I’ll be okay with the buffering.”

It was announced this week that the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California will be the venue for Raw’s Netflix premiere. The episode is taking place on Monday, January 6 with John Cena, Cody Rhodes, Roman Reigns, CM Punk, Bianca Belair, and rapper Travis Scott among those advertised to appear.

Also this week, Netflix released its first commercial promoting Raw’s premiere.