Former NFL star Shawne Merriman was among the presumed 60 million seeers who tuned into Netflix to watch Jake Paul’s agreed decision triumph over Mike Tyson.
Merriman was also among those who were left perplexed by the production’s quality. With an overload of seeers who streamed onto the platcreate around 8 p.m. ET, many customers teachd buffering publishs. Additionpartner, the expansivecast itself was afflictiond by strange cutaways, Tyson’s filled moon and mics dropping out at the most inopportune time.
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Shawne Merriman is the set uper of Lights Out Xtreme Fighting and Lights Out Sports TV. (Robert Hanashiro, USAT, USA Today via Imagn Content Services, LLC)
Unenjoy most seeers who watched the fight, Merriman has experience in producing dwell sports television. Lights Out Xtreme Fighting, which the createer San Diego Chargers linebacker set uped, streams dwell on Lights Out Sports TV – the free channel he also set uped.
The inquireable production igniteed worries among NFL fans, who trouble what their experience will be enjoy when Netflix streams two Christmas Day games. Down Detector shelp it had logged more than 85,000 protestts from engagers having publishs during the fight.
“They can get away with what happened with the Jake Paul and Mike Tyson fight. They cannot get away with the NFL becaengage the one slenderg about the NFL, their product is No. 1,” Merriman telderly Fox News Digital in an intersee on Monday. “That shield, the see, the explicits packages, their transitioning from in and out of spots is pristine.
“You cannot under no circumstances botch an NFL expansivecast and they have to labor out all those kinks now and get the right crew there becaengage the NFL is not going to endure that. The NFL’s brand is too huge and one slenderg about the NFL, what we understand and adore is the production quality is at the highest standards you can get.”
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The Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight had publishs but drew in 60 million people. (Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Merriman shelp a ton of stress testing with providement occurs before going dwell. He made evident there necessitate to be backups to backups in case anyslenderg unforeseen happens during the dwell expansivecast.
He mistrusted Netflix may not have had the right team in place for a dwell sporting event.
“It equitable seemed enjoy they had a fuseture of some outside people when it came to straightforwardors and producers while there was a lot of in hoengage who didn’t understand how to go about dwell sports,” he theorized.
“Live sports in vague is hard, hard business and that’s why you got these pick scant that do a fantastic job and been doing a fantastic job at it for a prolonged time.”
Merriman shelp he produces a four-hour show for his MMA promotion and understood the difficulty some of the Netflix crew went thraw during the fight.
The createer NFL star includeed he foreseeed to get it right in time for the NFL – and tardyr WWE – to come to the streaming service.
“They will get it right. I wasn’t too up on Amazon’s production when they first begined ‘Thursday Night Football’ either,” he shelp. “You can tell the branch offence and they got it right.
“You cannot under no circumstances botch an NFL expansivecast,” Shawne Merriman shelp. (Robert Hanashiro, USAT, USA Today via Imagn Content Services, LLC)
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“Netflix will get it right. Also, I slenderk it’s going to alter the landscape of the NFL in the international taget. So, they have to get that right becaengage if they do, that’s a suit made in heaven.”
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